Slang and uncoventional english part 91 pps

... Rhyming slang UK, 1857 steampigged adjective drunk UK, 2002 steam-powered adjective obsolete US, 1 991 steamroller noun 1 a thick hand-rolled cigarette NEW ZEALAND, 1953. 2 a bowler hat. Rhyming slang. ... comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy UK, 1998 stand verb in blackjack, to accept your hand without any further cards US, 1980. < stand for to endure or tolerate something US, 189...

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... i n formal and dignified writing and in professional speaking, a vivid and extensive slang is perhaps preferable to a jejune and meagre vocabulary of standard English; on the other hand, it will ... cliché’s and long-windedness. 7 To enrich the language. 8 To give solidity and concreteness to the abstract and the idealistic, and nearness to the Observations on slang and...

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... between one person and multiple partners, consensual or not, heterosexual or homosexual NEW ZEALAND, 1998 block-rockin’ adjective expressive of greatness with regard to hip-hop and club culture. ... arespiratorUS, 1994. 4 in a jazz band, a soloist US, 1960. 5 a handkerchief US, 1960. 6 a marijuana smoker US, 1949. 7 a party US, 2001. 8 a pistol US, 1976. 9 in hot rodding and drag racing...

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... to study US, 1968. 2 to realise; to see and understand UK, 1970. 3 to assume something UK, 1999. 4 to depart, usually hurriedly US, 1974. < book a party of two to arrange for oral sex to be performed ... meant, and we said it was Hawaiian and meant a joy cry. We stuck to this for several years until someone came along and pointed out to us that there was no B in the Hawaiian langua...

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... who carefully hone their craft US, 1945 cat and class noun cataloguing and classification. Librarians’ use UK, 1984 cat and mouse noun a house. Rhyming slang UK, 1857 catapult noun in the language ... TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1956. < catch no ball to fail to understand SINGAPORE, 2002. < catch on the flipper; catch on the (old) flip-flop to make contact on your return. Citizens’ b...

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... of a band TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1990. 3 the mid-boat rowers in an eight-person racing shell US, 1949 England noun < go to England to have a baby in secret TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO , 1960 English ... actual and unwanted physical contact INDIA, 1979 evil noun 1 a look of contempt or strong dislike UK, 2005. 2 a man with a body piercing through his penis. New Zealand prison slang NEW ZEAL...

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... (a horse) US, 1882 fork and knife noun 1 life. Rhyming slang, generally used in the phrases ‘not on your fork and knife’ and ‘never in your fork and knife’ UK, 1934. 2 a wife. Rhyming slang UK, 1937 forked ... on NEW ZEALAND, 1905. 2 to slaughter a horse for fox food CANADA, 1980 fox and badger noun the penis. Rhyming slang for TAD GER UK, 2003 fo x and hound noun a round of...

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... NEW ZEALAND, 1998. 2 expert AUSTRALIA, 1916 gun and bomb noun a condom. Rhyming slang; the plural is ‘guns and bombs’ UK, 2003 gun and rifle club noun an inner-city hospital’s casualty department US, ... part, the inner and real meaning UK, 1663. 3 the pulp and membrane inside a fruit TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1990. 4 the interior of a car US, 1975. 5 information AUSTRALIA, 1919 . 6...

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... heroin and cocaine UK, 2002 love and kisses noun a wife. Rhyming slang for MISSUS UK, 1992 love and marriage noun a carriage. Rhyming slang, possibly acquired from the 1955 song ‘Love and Marriage’, ... to seduce in fashionable bars and parties US, 1918 Lou Reed noun amphetamine. Rhyming slang for SPEED. Based, perhaps with more than a hint of irony, on rock singer and songw...

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... person. Rhyming slang for SNIDE, informed by rhyming slang JEKYLL AND HYDE (two- faced) and the character of Mr Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde UK, ... equally to actual dirt and notional obscenity UK: SCOTLAND , 1911 mockitness noun dirtiness. From MOCKIT (very dirty) UK: SCO TLAND, 1988 mockney noun an ersatz London accent and vocabu...

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