Slang and uncoventional english part 89 docx

... short but intense period of kissing and cuddling UK, 1959 snog verb to kiss and cuddle UK, 1945 snog and fuck noun a public house called the ‘Dog and Duck’. Rhyming slang UK, 1992 snogger noun someone ... benefits UK, 1996. < the Social the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS), reformed as the Department of Social Security (DSS). In 2001 the Department for Work and...

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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 ... 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) ... 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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... somewhere between irony and black humour UK, 1992 cough and sneeze noun cheese. Rhyming slang, generally thought to date from late C19 UK, 1961 cough and splutter noun butter. Rhyming slang UK, 1978 cough ... 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. Variant...

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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. ... Rhyming slang for ‘goose and duck’, FUCK UK, 1893 . 5 in television and film-making, the truck carrying the cameras and sound equipment US, 1990. 6 a girlfriend, a woman. From an e...

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... rodding, a big and powerful engine that is noisy when it idles US, 1993 lopp noun a perpetually naive and ignorant person US, 1 989 lord and master noun 1 the backside, the buttocks. Rhyming slang, extending ... 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...

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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 ... your food UK, 1890 . < on his oats (used of a racehorse) racing without the benefit of a stimulant US, 1994 oats and barley; Oats noun Charley or Charlie. Rhyming slang. Ostensibl...

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