· ace
· He's an ace reporter.
· MEANING: very good
· action
· Do you know where the action is in this town?
· MEANING: excitement
· airhead
· My sister's boyfriend is a real airhead.
· MEANING: stupid person
· all wet
· Your ideas about politics are all wet.
· MEANING: completely wrong
· all-nighter
· I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter.
· MEANING: after studying all night.
· ammo
· The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo.
· MEANING: ammunition
· antifreeze
· I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this.
· MEANING: liquor
· armpit
· This town is really an armpit.
· MEANING: undesirable place
· awesome
· What an awesome sunset.
· MEANING: great
· bad
· Wow, that was really a bad movie.
· MEANING: intense
· barf
· He barfed all over the seat of the airplane.
· MEANING: vomitted
· bashed
· The boat was bashed beyond recognition.
· MEANING: crushed
· beat
· After working all day I am really beat.
· MEANING: exhausted
· beemer
· He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in.
· MEANING: B.M.W. car
· bench
· He was benched during the basketball playoffs.
· MEANING: taken out of the game
· bent
· It's OK. Don't get so bent.
· MEANING: angry
· bent out of shape
· Don't get so bent out of shape.
· MEANING: become upset
· big gun
· The president brought two big guns to the meeting.
· MEANING: powerful people
· big mouth
· Shut up! You really have a big mouth.
· MEANING: talk too much
· big stink
· The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station.
· MEANING: big issue
· blade
· He carried a ten inch blade with him.
· MEANING: knife
· blimp
· I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel.
· MEANING: very fat person
· blow
· I'm going to blow out of here now.
· MEANING: leave
· blow
· He blew all his money gambling.
· MEANING: lost
· blow a fuse
· Hey, don't blow a fuse.
· MEANING: lose your temper.
· blow one's cool
· Calm down. Don't blow your cool.
· MEANING: become angry
· blown away
· I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars.
· MEANING: greatly impressed
· bomb
· The movie was a bomb.
· MEANING: bad
· bombed
· The driver of the car was bombed.
· MEANING: intoxicated
· bonkers
· I think I am going bonkers.
· MEANING: crazy
· boo-boo
· If you make another boo-boo like that, you won't have a job.
· MEANING: mistake
· booze
· I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party.
· MEANING: alcohol
· bread
· I need some bread to pay for my car.
· MEANING: money
· break
· A lucky break helped him get the job.
· MEANING: opportunity
· break it up
· Break it up, or I will call the police.
· MEANING: stop
· bring-down
· The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down.
· MEANING: depressing
· buck
· Do you have a buck I can borrow?
· MEANING: dollar
· bummed
· I was really bummed after I heard the news.
· MEANING: depressed
· bummer
· My trip to New York was a bummer.
· MEANING: bad experience
· bust
· The whole idea was a bust.
· MEANING: failure
· buy it
· If you don't slow down, you're going to buy it in a car accident.
· MEANING: die
· call
· The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come.
· MEANING: prediction
· can
· Do you know where the can is?
· MEANING: bathroom
· carb
· My motorcycle's carb is out of adjustment.
· MEANING: carburetor
· catch some rays
· I'm going to lie on the beach and catch some rays.
· MEANING: get some sunshine.
· catch some Z's
· I need to catch some Z's before I go on my trip.
· MEANING: get some sleep
· cheesy
· That is really a cheesy looking outfit.
· MEANING: cheap
· chicken
· Don't be a chicken.
· MEANING: coward
· chintzy
· That really was a chintzy present you got him.
· MEANING: cheap
· chow down
· I need to find a place to chow down.
· MEANING: eat a lot
· clip
· Watch out or they will clip you at that bar.
· MEANING: cheat
· clunker
· I can't go on a date in that clunker.
· MEANING: old car
· cold fish
· My date for the dance was a cold fish.
· MEANING: dull
· collar
· I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later.
· MEANING: arrest
· come up for air
· He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion.
· MEANING: take a break
· con
· Don't try to con me.
· MEANING: deceive
· cool
· This is a really cool place to work.
· MEANING: good
· cool down
· Things should cool down in a day or two.
· MEANING: calm down
· cop
· How did you get the road sign? I copped it.
· MEANING: robbed
· cop
· The cop showed me his badge.
· MEANING: policeman
· couch potato
· He is a couch potato.
· MEANING: lazy person
· crack open a bottle
· Let's crack open a bottle for his birthday.
· MEANING: open
· cram
· I need more time to cram for the test.
· MEANING: study hard
· cream
· Our team creamed them badly.
· MEANING: beat
· croak
· I feel like I am going to croak.
· MEANING: die
· cruise
· The skier was cruising down the hill
· MEANING: going very fast
· cuffs
· He put the cuffs on the killer.
· MEANING: handcuffs
· cushy
· He has a really cushy job.
· MEANING: easy
· cut
· Could you cut my whiskey with a little water?
· MEANING: dilute
· cut out
· It is late. I have to cut out.
· MEANING: leave
· damage
· Lets get the bill and find out the damage.
· MEANING: cost
· dead
· This disco is really dead tonight.
· MEANING: quiet
· deck
· He was decked in the fight.
· MEANING: knocked down
· deep pockets
· Her boyfriend has deep pockets.
· MEANING: is a good source of money
· dicey
· Since the weather is a little dicey, I won't go today.
· MEANING: chancy
· dirty
· I hear that it's a dirty movie.
· MEANING: an obscene
· ditch
· I'll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother.
· MEANING: leave
· do a snow job on
· Don't try to do a snow job on me.
· MEANING: deceive
· dope
· He is such a dope.
· MEANING: stupid person
· dope
· There are a lot of dope dealers around here.
· MEANING: drug
· dork
· He is such a dork.
· MEANING: strange person
· dough
· I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping.
· MEANING: money
· down
· Let's go to a bar and down a few beers.
· MEANING: drink quickly
· drag
· Doing homework on the weekend is a drag.
· MEANING: boring
· dynamite
· This drink is really dynamite.
· MEANING: powerful; great
· earful
· My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood.
· MEANING: a lot of gossip
· easy mark
· The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash.
· MEANING: likely victims
· eat
· The problem is really eating away at me.
· MEANING: bothering
· excellent
· That's excellent man.
· MEANING: fine
· face-off
· The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off.
· MEANING: confrontation
· far-out
· This music is really far-out.
· MEANING: great
· fix
· The addict needs another fix.
· MEANING: dose of drugs
· flaky
· He is too flaky to do the work.
· MEANING: unreliable
· flashback
· At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend.
· MEANING: remembered
· flick
· I haven't seen a flick in a long time.
· MEANING: movie
· flip out
· He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed.
· MEANING: lost control
· flip side
· What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape?
· MEANING: other side
· fox
· His older sister is a fox.
· MEANING: very attractive
· foxy
· She is a foxy lady.
· MEANING: sexy
· freebie
· The pillow was a freebie
· MEANING: free
· get into something
· I got into gardening in high school.
· MEANING: became seriously interested in
· get it
· I listened to the joke twice, but I still don't get it.
· MEANING: understand
· get with it
· If you don't get with it, we will never finish this work.
· MEANING: hurry up
· gig
· I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00.
· MEANING: job
· glitch
· This computer program has a glitch.
· MEANING: defect
· glitzy
· This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in.
· MEANING: fashionable
· go
· Let me have a go at solving the problem.
· MEANING: try
· go bananas
· I am going to go bananas if I don't have a vacation soon.
· MEANING: go crazy
· go down
· What is going down?
· MEANING: happening
· goof
· I am really a goof at times.
· MEANING: fool
· goof up
· I really goofed up when I painted my room green.
· MEANING: made a serious mistake
· goofy
· You are always acting goofy these days.
· MEANING: silly
· gourd
· Use your gourd to figure out what is happening.
· MEANING: head
· grand
· His salary is twenty grand.
· MEANING: thousand dollars
· grass
· Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory.
· MEANING: marijuana
· gravy
· This job is pure gravy.
· MEANING: easy money
· groovy
· This music is groovy.
· MEANING: pleasant
· gross
· Picking your nose is really a gross habit.
· MEANING: disgusting
· gross-out
· The party was a gross-out.
· MEANING: digusting time
· grub
· Where is the best place to get some grub around here?
· MEANING: food
· grubby
· Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party.
· MEANING: unclean and untidy
· grungy
· That is a really grungy jacket.
· MEANING: dirty
· gut
· He got shot in the gut.
· MEANING: stomach.
· gut
· The gut issue is about what we are going to do now.
· MEANING: basic
· guts
· It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion.
· MEANING: courage
· hairy
· That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over.
· MEANING: dangerous
· hammer
· Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding.
· MEANING: accelerator
· hang it up
· I have decided to hang up my teaching job.
· MEANING: quit
· hang loose
· Just hang loose for another few days.
· MEANING: relax
· hang tough
· We need to hang tough on our decision.
· MEANING: stick with
· hardware
· The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had.
· MEANING: weapons
· have a buzz on
· I had a buzz on after the third martini.
· MEANING: was slightly intoxicated
· have good vibes
· I have good vibes about our new secretary.
· MEANING: feel good about
· have it all together
· Recently I don't have it all together.
· MEANING: feel mentally all there.
· heave
· I heaved up on the floor.
· MEANING: vomited
· high
· The teenagers look high to me.
· MEANING: intoxicated on drugs or alcohol
· hip-shooter
· He is such a hip-shooter.
· MEANING: always talking without thinking
· history
· I don't have any idea where my old boyfriend is. He's history.
· MEANING: something in the past
· hit
· Your proposal was a hit with the boss.
· MEANING: successful
· hole up
· I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me.
· MEANING: hide
· honcho
· The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation.
· MEANING: boss
· hooker
· Her clothes make her look like a hooker.
· MEANING: prostitute
· hot
· The police stopped them because they though the car was hot.
· MEANING: stolen
· huffy
· I will do it soon so please don't get huffy.
· MEANING: angry
· hungry
· If you are not hungry, you won't get ahead in the business.
· MEANING: eager to make money
· hustle
· If you don't hustle, we will be late again.
· MEANING: hurry up
· hyped
· The fans were all hyped up for the football game.
· MEANING: excited
· hyper
· Don't get hyper about what she told you. You know it isn't true.
· MEANING: over excited
· I.D.
· Can you show me some I.D. please?
· MEANING: identification
· in
· The tie you are wearing is really in.
· MEANING: fashionable
· in deep
· They are really in deep with each other.
· MEANING: deeply involved
· in the bag
· Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about.
· MEANING: settled
· intense
· This is a very intense situation we are discussing.
· MEANING: serious
· jam
· I am glad you got yourself out of that jam.
· MEANING: trouble
· jerk someone around
· Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around.
· MEANING: wasting my time and causing me trouble
· jock
· My roommate is a jock for the basketball team.
· MEANING: an athlete
· john
· The john really smells.
· MEANING: bathroom
· joint
· Where is the closest joint to here.
· MEANING: cheap bar
· joint
· He is good at rolling joints.
· MEANING: marijuana cigarettes
· junkie
· Sam is a junkie.
· MEANING: rug addict
· just off the boat
· He acts like he is just off the boat.
· MEANING: naive
· keep one's cool
· He kept his cool when his house burned down.
· MEANING: remained calm
· kegger
· I hear there is a kegger at John's house tonight.
· MEANING: beer party
· kick
· I get a kick out of watching him paint.
· MEANING: enjoy
· klutz
· He is a real klutz.
· MEANING: stupid and clumsy person
· knock
· Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
· MEANING: criticize
· knocked up
· My dog gets knocked up once a year.
· MEANING: pregnant
· knockout
· Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday?
· MEANING: stunning person
· knuckle sandwich
· Shut up or I'll give you a knuckle sandwich.
· MEANING: punch in the mouth
· kook
· Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood.
· MEANING: strange people
· laid-back
· You need to be more laid-back.
· MEANING: calm and relaxed
· lame
· That is really a lame excuse.
· MEANING: an inadequate
· line
· I have heard that line a million times.
· MEANING: story
· loser
· John is a loser.
· MEANING: annoying and useless
· love handles
· I exercise every day, but I can't get rid of these love handles.
· MEANING: rolls of fat around my stomach
· make waves
· Try not to make waves around the office.
· MEANING: cause trouble
· maxed out
· I am maxed out at my work and need to rest.
· MEANING: exhausted
· mean
· He plays a mean violin.
· MEANING: performs well on
· mega
· I have mega amounts of tomatoes in my garden this summer.
· MEANING: large
· megabucks
· He made megabucks when he sold his company.
· MEANING: a lot of money
· knock
· Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
· MEANING: criticize
· mellow
· You need to mellow out and enjoy life.
· MEANING: calm down and relax
· meltdown
· There has been a meltdown in the relationship between my parents and I.
· MEANING: total collapse
· mickey mouse
· The homework the teacher gave us was mickey mouse.
· MEANING: nonsense and a waste of time
· move on someone
· I am going to try to move on Sarah next Saturday.
· MEANING: pick up and seduce
· mush
· That is total mush and you know it.
· MEANING: nonesense
· nark
· Watch out for the narks in the airport.
· MEANING: drug police
· neat
· That was a neat idea that you had.
· MEANING: good
· negative
· There are too many negatives about the company merger.
· MEANING: bad things
· nick
· The police nicked the shoplifter as he was leaving the store.
· MEANING: arrested
· nip
· He took a nip out of the bottle.
· MEANING: a quick drink
· no sweat
· It's no sweat to have the report in to you by Monday.
· MEANING: no problem
· nuke
· I'll nuke our dinner in a few minutes.
· MEANING: heat up in the microwave
· nuke
· Does that attack plane have any nukes?
· MEANING: nuclear weapons
· nut
· I think that he is a nut.
· MEANING: crazy person
· nuts
· You are completely nuts if you think I will go with you.
· MEANING: crazy
· pad
· Have you found a pad yet?
· MEANING: a place to live
· pain in the neck
· My wife's best friend is a pain in the neck.
· MEANING: annoying
· paper-pusher
· My office is filled with paper-pushers.
· MEANING: bureaucratic office workers
· party animal
· You're too old to be a party animal.
· MEANING: love parties
· party-hearty
· We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary.
· MEANING: celebrate
· paw
· Get your paws off of my body.
· MEANING: hands
· peanuts
· I am not going to work for peanuts.
· MEANING: practically no money
· pickled
· He gets pickled after only one beer.
· MEANING: intoxicated
· piece of cake
· Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake.
· MEANING: easy to do
· pig
· He is a pig at parties.
· MEANING: eats too much
· pig out
· Let's go to the restaurant and pig out.
· MEANING: eat a lot or overeat
· pit stop
· Let's make a pit stop at the next rest area.
· MEANING: stop and go to the bathroom
· plastered
· He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend.
· MEANING: intoxicated
· pooped out
· He pooped out after we started to do the hard work.
· MEANING: quit
· pop
· Shut up or I will pop you.
· MEANING: hit
· pop for something
· It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts.
· MEANING: buy
· pro
· He is really a pro at his work.
· MEANING: professional
· prod
· Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won't forget?
· MEANING: reminder
· psyched up
· The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday.
· MEANING: mentally ready
· psycho
· She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital.
· MEANING: mentally ill
· puke
· I feel like I am going to puke.
· MEANING: vomit
· push off
· I am going to push off now.
· MEANING: leave
· put the moves on
· You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married.
· MEANING: seduce
· put-on
· It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed.
· MEANING: deception
· quarterback
· Who is going to quarterback the meeting?
· MEANING: lead
· quick buck
· I need to make a quick buck.
· MEANING: some easy money
· rack
· I have to hit the rack by ten or I'll be tired in the morning.
· MEANING: bed
· rack out
· I am going to rack out for two hours.
· MEANING: sleep
· racket
· There sure was a lot of racket outside last night.
· MEANING: noise
· rag
· I can't believe we still get this same old rag.
· MEANING: newspaper
· rap
· We need to sit down and rap about a few things.
· MEANING: talk about
· rathole
· When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole.
· MEANING: run down place
· raw
· The raw office workers were not getting much done.
· MEANING: new
· ream someone out
· The boss really reamed him out for his bad report.
· MEANING: got angry with him
· red hot
· Your idea is really red hot.
· MEANING: important
· repo
· Hey, don't repo my car. I will pay next week.
· MEANING: repossess
· rinky-dink
· The circus was really rinky-dink.
· MEANING: inferior
· riot
· The comedy program was a real riot.
· MEANING: funny
· road hog
· That driver is a road hog.
· MEANING: takes up too much of the road
· rocks
· Would you like your whiskey on the rocks?
· MEANING: with ice
· rough time
· We have had a rough time this winter.
· MEANING: hard time
· rug
· Is that a rug on his head?
· MEANING: wig
· rug rat
· My sister has three rug rats.
· MEANING: children
· rule
· My wife rules the house.
· MEANING: dominates
· run off at the mouth
· He is always running off at the mouth.
· MEANING: talking too much
· run out of gas
· The politician ran out of gas during the campaign.
· MEANING: lost interest or momentum
· sack
· When did you hit the sack last night?
· MEANING: go to bed
· scam
· Don't lose your money in some kind of scam.
· MEANING: swindle
· scarf
· Since he hadn't eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate.
· MEANING: ate quickly
· schmuck
· What a stupid schmuck.
· MEANING: jerk
· screw around
· If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again.
· MEANING: waste time
· screw up
· If you screw up one more time, I will fire you.
· MEANING: make a mistake
· sharp
· He is very sharp with numbers
· MEANING: intelligent
· shot
· I'll give the puzzle another shot.
· MEANING: try
· shot down
· Everyone shot down my idea at first, but later agreed that it was a good idea.
· MEANING:
· disagreed with
· slammer
· The police threw them both in the slammer.
· MEANING: jail
· smashed
· Try not to get smashed at the beer party.
· MEANING: intoxicated
· smoke eater
· My father is a smoke eater.
· MEANING: fireman
· split
· It is time to split and go see the movie.
· MEANING: leave
· spook
· The cows were spooked by the howling of the wolves.
· MEANING: frightened
· spud
· Do you want rice or spuds for dinner?
· MEANING: potatoes
· square
· My father looks square in his jacket.
· MEANING: old-fashioned
· steamed up
· Don't get so steamed up over the issue.
· MEANING: angry
· stink
· This whole operation stinks.
· MEANING: is repulsive
· straight
· I want you to give me a straight answer.
· MEANING: honest
· stressed
· I am really stressed by all the recent world events.
· MEANING: upset
· sucker
· Don't be a sucker.
· MEANING: be deceived
· take a hike
· I am tired of all your complaining. Take a hike.
· MEANING:
· leave
· taken
· He was taken for all his money at the casino.
· MEANING:
· cheated out of
· taking care of business
· I have been taking care of business.
· MEANING: doing what I have to do
· threads
· Those look like expensive threads he is wearing.
· MEANING: clothes
· tool around
· I don't want to tool around all night. It is time to go home.
· MEANING: drive around
· totaled
· My car was totaled in the accident with the garbage truck.
· MEANING: completely wrecked
· up
· He has been up ever since he met his new girlfriend.
· MEANING: happy and cheerful
· up for grabs
· This is a sale. Everything is up for grabs.
· MEANING: available.
· veg out
· I want to veg out in front of the television this evening.
· MEANING: relax and do nothing
· vibes
· He really gives off good vibes.
· MEANING: feelings
· wad
· You don't want to carry a wad like that with you in the big city.
· MEANING: bundle of money
· waste
· After you waste him, throw the body in the river.
· MEANING: kill
· wheels
· If you let me borrow your wheels, I'll go out and buy a pizza.
· MEANING: car
· whiz
· He is a whiz at the computer.
· MEANING: talented person
· wired
· I am really wired after drinking five cups of coffee.
· MEANING: alert
· wussy
· Don't be such a wussy all the time. Say what you are thinking.
· MEANING: weak person
· yukky
· This food tastes yukky
· MEANING: bad
· zapped
· I am too zapped to help you right now.
· MEANING: exhausted
· zip
· He knew zip about running the company.
· MEANING: Nothing