Slang and uncoventional english part 83 doc

... US, 1972 Scotland the brave; scotland verb to shave. Rhyming slang UK, 1998 Scotland the brave; scotland noun a wave. Glasgow rhyming slang UK: SCOTLAND, 1988 Scotsman’s grandstand noun a vantage ... for cheating by a minute sanding of the edges US, 1962 sandpaper verb < sandpaper the anchor to perform a job that need not and, in fact, cannot be performed US, 1975 sandwich noun 1 sex...

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... PREFACE Eric Partridge made a deep and enduring contribution to the study and understanding of slang. In the eight editions of The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English published between 1937 and ... 1984, Partridge recorded and defined the slang and unconventional English of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent her dominions, fr om the 1600s to the 1970s. For...

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... given to a department of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party respon- sible for agitation and propaganda on behalf of communist ideals; aconflationofagitatsiya and propaganda UK, ... vaginal intercourse, the woman on hands and knees and the man entering her from behind. An allusion to the mating of cattle and the French bo euf TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1980 Aladdin’s ca...

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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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... 1991 boat and oar noun a whore. Rhyming slang UK, 2003 boat girl noun a prostitute plying her trade on the docks NEW ZEALAND , 1978 boatie noun the operator of a small motorboat NEW ZEALAND, 1972 boat ... slang for PRICK (the penis) UK, 1974 Bob and Dick; Bob, Harry and Dick adjective sick. Rhyming slang; from the people who brought you TOM AND DICK; TOM, HARRY AND DICK UK , 1...

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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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... greeting and as a farewell. A variation of CIAO. Recorded in this spelling in a 1961 letter to Partridge from Nicholas Bentley noting its popularity as a form of both salutation and goodbye, and particularly ... crucial moment US, 1943 chips and peas; chips noun the knees. Rhyming slang UK, 1998 chips and salsa noun a computer’s hardware US, 1997 chips and whetstones noun odds...

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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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