Slang and uncoventional english part 70 docx

... (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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... a radio call for a ‘band-aid’ was a call for a medic US, 1991 B and B gang noun on the railways, a building and bridge crew US, 1977 band box noun a county jail US, 1992 band chick noun a woman ... 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; B/D noun bond...

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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 ... coated metallic red paint US, 1963 candy-armed adjective injured. Used for describing pitchers in the game of baseball US, 1953 candy-ass noun a weak person US, 1 970 candy-ass; candy-assed adj...

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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) ... 1559, in slang use since late C19; noted by the Oxford English Dictionary as obsolete ‘except in modern slang UK, 1961. 6 the face UK, 1918. 7 a punch to the face. From the verb NE...

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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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... 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. ... TOBAGO, 1973 grand dad noun a grandfather UK, 1819 grand duchess noun a heterosexual woman who enjoys the company of homosexual men US, 1 970 grandfather clock noun the penis. Rhyming sl...

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... Sometimes expanded to ‘loop-de-loop’ UK: SCOTL AND, 1996. < in the loop to be part of an inner-circle that receives restricted information UK, 1 970. < out of the loop not part of a process ... 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 rev...

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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 ... fashion; a late 1970s British youth fashion and music genre identified as an exaggeration of hillbilly country and western style. An ellision of ROCK ’N’ ROLL and ‘hillbilly’ US,...

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