English > vernacular: 3 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves). |
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| Synonyms | slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois |
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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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