English > jargon: 3 senses > noun 1, communicationMeaning | A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves). |
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Synonyms | slang, cant, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular |
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Narrower | rhyming slang | slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component |
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street name | slang for something (especially for an illegal drug) |
Broader | non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual / usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
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Usage | 'hood | (slang) a neighborhood |
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Jap, Nip | (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent |
Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun | Offensive term for a person of German descent |
Mickey Finn | slang term for knockout drops |
Redskin, Injun, red man | (slang) offensive term for Native Americans |
airhead | A flighty scatterbrained / scatterbrained simpleton |
arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole | Vulgar slang for anus |
bad egg | (old-fashioned slang) a bad person |
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | pretentious or silly talk or writing |
besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet | Very drunk |
bitch | An unpleasant difficulty |
bite | A portion removed from the whole |
boffin | (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research |
bolshy, stroppy | obstreperous |
bunfight, bun-fight | (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion |
bunk off, play hooky | Play truant from work or school |
burnup | A high-speed motorcycle race on a public road |
butch | (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance |
butch, dike, dyke | (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine |
buy it, pip out | Be killed / killed or die |
caff | informal British term for a cafe |
can-do | marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done |
cert | An absolute certainty |
chink, Chinaman | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent |
chuck, ditch | throw away |
clean, plumb, plum | Completely |
cock sucking, blowjob | slang for fellatio |
corker | (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person |
deck | street name for a packet of illegal drugs |
dekko | British slang for a look |
dibs | A claim of rights |
drop-dead | Extremely |
feel | pass one's hands over the sexual organs of |
folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop | Nonsensical talk or writing |
freaky | strange and somewhat frightening |
fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup | slang for sexual intercourse |
gat, rod | A gangster's pistol |
give | Occur |
good egg | (old-fashioned slang) a good person |
grotty | Very unpleasant or offensive |
guvnor | (British slang) boss |
heist, rip-off | The act of stealing |
hood | (slang) a neighborhood |
hoof | dance in a professional capacity |
jacking off, jerking off, hand job, wank | slang for masturbation |
jitters, heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies | extreme / extreme nervousness |
juice | electric current |
juice | energetic / energetic vitality |
key | A kilogram of a narcotic drug |
kike, hymie, sheeny, yid | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew |
legs | staying power |
mean | excellent |
nick | (British slang) a prison |
niff, pong | An unpleasant smell |
nosh-up | A large satisfying meal |
old man | (slang) boss |
out-and-outer | someone who is excellent at something |
pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money | A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) |
pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off | Well below average height |
pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy | slang for a paunch |
power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
schlock, shlock, dreck | merchandise that is shoddy or inferior / inferior |
schlockmeister, shlockmeister | (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior / inferior merchandise |
shakedown | extortion of money (as by blackmail) |
shakedown | A very thorough search of a person or a place |
skin flick | A pornographic movie |
skinful | A quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk |
slam-bang | Violent and sudden and noisy |
some | remarkable |
soup-strainer, toothbrush | slang for a mustache |
spic, spik, spick | (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent |
square, straight | rigidly conventional or old-fashioned |
square-bashing | Drill on a barracks square |
squeeze | (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend |
stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock | Senseless talk |
suit | (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit |
swiz | British slang for a swindle |
the shits, the trots | obscene terms for diarrhea |
tripper | (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations |
uncool | (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring |
white trash, poor white trash | (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished |
whitey, honky, honkey, honkie | (slang) offensive names for a White man |
wog | (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia |
wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea, greaseball | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent |
Spanish | argot, dialecto, jerga, jerigonza, lengua vernácula, lunfardo, patois |
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Catalan | argot, cant, llengua vernacla |
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