Slang and uncoventional english part 46 docx

... of greed TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO , 2003 grab and snatch noun the Goods and Services Tax (GST) NEW ZEALAND , 1998 Grab and Steal Tax; Gouge and Screw Tax noun the Canadian Goods and Services Tax. ... 1915 grand bag noun in homosexual usage, a large scrotum US, 1981 grand canyon noun in homosexual usage, a loose anus and rectum US, 1981 grand charge noun an empty threat or boast TRINI...

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... activites US, 1974 B and E noun burglary. From the initials for ‘breaking and entering’ US, 1965 Band House nickname the Chicago House of Corrections US, 1 946 bandicoot noun < as a bandicoot completely ... to, and makes herself available to, musicians. An early term for what would come to be known as a ‘groupie’ US, 1961 B and D adjective b ad and dangerous US, 1993 B and D;...

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... biblical top tonight Lo and behold! And, yea, I can see the promised land. And, hallelujah! – there is milk and honey! One on each tap’ UK, 1984 bic verb to understand. Vietnam war usage; a ... cocaine and heroin. In memory of the SPEEDBALL mix that killed film actor John Belushi, 1949–82 US, 1998 Belyando spruce; Belyando sprue noun marijuana from the Belyando area of Queensland AU...

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... 1966 candy C; candy cee noun cocaine. An elaboration of CANDY (cocaine) by combination with C (cocaine) US, 1953 candycaine; candycane noun cocaine. Punning on the Christmas hard peppermint ‘candy ... AND TOBAGO , 1987 c and d noun cocaine and marijuana UK, 1997 C and E noun 1 a member of the church who only goes to services at Christmas and Easter UK, 1966. 2 in craps, a bet on any...

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... understand what is happening and what is being said US, 1962 clock and house verb to see and remember suspects’ faces, and then follow them to their home. From CLOCK (to see; to watch and follow) ... used with air brakes US, 1 946. 5 a watch. In conventional use from 1559, in slang use since late C19; noted by the Oxford English Dictionary as obsolete ‘except in modern slang UK...

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... US, 1991 cough and drag noun a cigarette. Rhyming slang for FAG (a ciga- rette), pitched somewhere between irony and black humour UK, 1992 cough and sneeze noun cheese. Rhyming slang, generally ... soldiers in Vietnam, and the writers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons US, 1955 cow and calf noun 1 half; thus, 50 pence (half £1). Rhyming slang. Variants are ‘cow...

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... Rhyming slang UK, 1992 fleapit noun a shabby cinema UK, 1937 flea powder noun weak and/ or diluted heroin US, 1956 fleas and itches noun motion pictures. Rhyming slang AU STRALIA, 1967 fleas and lice ... 1834 flummy dumm noun in Newfoundland, a hunters’ and trappers’ bread CANADA, 1988 flunk noun a locked and fortified compartment within a safe US, 1928 flunk verb to completely...

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... their pockets with the other hand TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1959 lock and load verb to prepare for an imminent confrontation. Originally military, and originally ‘load and lock’, then reversed for the ... rodding, a big and powerful engine that is noisy when it idles US, 1993 lopp noun a perpetually naive and ignorant person US, 1989 lord and master noun 1 the backside, the buttocks....

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... (1887) UK, 1844. 2 old. The first headword is, of course, standard English; the second and third variants are variously colloquial, informal and slang as circumstances dictate UK, 1844. 3 used as a ... benefit of a stimulant US, 1994 oats and barley; Oats noun Charley or Charlie. Rhyming slang. Ostensibly and rarely a man’s given name but usually in its older slang senses (a ni...

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... match. Rhyming slang, from Rolly Hatch, a prominent and popular horse racing figure in New Zealand and later Australia AUSTRALIA, 1989 roll-your-own noun a hand-rolled cigarette NEW ZEALAND, 2002 roly ... youth fashion and music genre identified as an exaggeration of hillbilly country and western style. An ellision of ROCK ’N’ ROLL and ‘hillbilly’ US, 1993 rock and boulder noun t...

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