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1. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) (noun.communication)
hypernym | : | non-standard speech, non-standard speech, |
definition | : | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community (noun.communication) |
2. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) (noun.communication)
hyponym | : | street name, |
definition | : | slang for something (especially for an illegal drug) (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | rhyming slang, |
definition | : | slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component (noun.communication) |
domain member usage | : | bite, |
definition | : | a portion removed from the whole (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | swiz, |
definition | : | British slang for a swindle (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | heist, rip-off, |
definition | : | the act of stealing (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | shakedown, |
definition | : | extortion of money (as by blackmail) (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | power trip, |
definition | : | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup, |
definition | : | slang for sexual intercourse (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | dekko, |
definition | : | British slang for a look (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | square-bashing, |
definition | : | drill on a barracks square (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | shakedown, |
definition | : | a very thorough search of a person or a place (noun.act) |
domain member usage | : | caff, |
definition | : | informal British term for a cafe (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | deck, |
definition | : | street name for a packet of illegal drugs (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | gat, rod, |
definition | : | a gangster's pistol (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | mickey finn, |
definition | : | slang term for knockout drops (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | nick, |
definition | : | (British slang) a prison (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | dreck, schlock, shlock, |
definition | : | merchandise that is shoddy or inferior (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | cert, |
definition | : | an absolute certainty (noun.attribute) |
domain member usage | : | legs, |
definition | : | staying power (noun.attribute) |
domain member usage | : | niff, pong, |
definition | : | an unpleasant smell (noun.cognition) |
domain member usage | : | corker, |
definition | : | (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person (noun.communication) |
domain member usage | : | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, |
definition | : | pretentious or silly talk or writing (noun.communication) |
domain member usage | : | skin flick, |
definition | : | a pornographic movie (noun.communication) |
domain member usage | : | dibs, |
definition | : | a claim of rights (noun.communication) |
domain member usage | : | bun-fight, bunfight, |
definition | : | (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion (noun.event) |
domain member usage | : | burnup, |
definition | : | a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road (noun.event) |
domain member usage | : | nosh-up, |
definition | : | a large satisfying meal (noun.food) |
domain member usage | : | hood, |
definition | : | (slang) a neighborhood (noun.group) |
domain member usage | : | 'hood, |
definition | : | (slang) a neighborhood (noun.location) |
domain member usage | : | paleface, |
definition | : | (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians) (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | poor white trash, white trash, |
definition | : | (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | honkey, honkie, honky, whitey, |
definition | : | (slang) offensive names for a White man (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | gook, slant-eye, |
definition | : | (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War) (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | injun, red man, redskin, |
definition | : | (slang) offensive term for Native Americans (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | hymie, kike, sheeny, yid, |
definition | : | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | chinaman, chink, |
definition | : | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | dago, ginzo, greaseball, guinea, wop, |
definition | : | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | jap, nip, |
definition | : | (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | spic, spick, spik, |
definition | : | (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | airhead, |
definition | : | a flighty scatterbrained simpleton (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | babe, baby, sister, |
definition | : | (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | bad egg, |
definition | : | (old-fashioned slang) a bad person (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | boffin, |
definition | : | (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | butch, dike, dyke, |
definition | : | (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | good egg, |
definition | : | (old-fashioned slang) a good person (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | guvnor, |
definition | : | (British slang) boss (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | old man, |
definition | : | (slang) boss (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | out-and-outer, |
definition | : | someone who is excellent at something (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | schlockmeister, shlockmeister, |
definition | : | (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | squeeze, |
definition | : | (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | suit, |
definition | : | (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | tripper, |
definition | : | (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | wog, |
definition | : | (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia (noun.person) |
domain member usage | : | juice, |
definition | : | electric current (noun.phenomenon) |
domain member usage | : | key, |
definition | : | a kilogram of a narcotic drug (noun.quantity) |
domain member usage | : | skinful, |
definition | : | a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk (noun.quantity) |
domain member usage | : | juice, |
definition | : | energetic vitality (noun.state) |
domain member usage | : | the shits, the trots, |
definition | : | obscene terms for diarrhea (noun.state) |
domain member usage | : | bitch, |
definition | : | an unpleasant difficulty (noun.state) |
domain member usage | : | give, |
definition | : | occur (verb.change) |
domain member usage | : | buy it, pip out, |
definition | : | be killed or die (verb.change) |
domain member usage | : | feel, |
definition | : | pass one's hands over the sexual organs of (verb.contact) |
domain member usage | : | hoof, |
definition | : | dance in a professional capacity (verb.creation) |
domain member usage | : | chuck, ditch, |
definition | : | throw away (verb.possession) |
domain member usage | : | bunk off, play hooky, |
definition | : | play truant from work or school (verb.stative) |
domain member usage | : | square, straight, |
definition | : | rigidly conventional or old-fashioned (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, |
definition | : | very drunk (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | can-do, |
definition | : | marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | freaky, |
definition | : | strange and somewhat frightening (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | uncool, |
definition | : | (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | butch, |
definition | : | (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | grotty, |
definition | : | very unpleasant or offensive (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | some, |
definition | : | remarkable (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | mean, |
definition | : | excellent (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | bolshy, stroppy, |
definition | : | obstreperous (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | slam-bang, |
definition | : | violent and sudden and noisy (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | clean, plum, plumb, |
definition | : | completely; used as intensifiers (adv.all) |
domain member usage | : | drop-dead, |
definition | : | extremely (adv.all) |
3. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (adj.all)
similar | : | informal, |
definition | : | used of spoken and written language (adj.all) |
4. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) (noun.communication)
derivation | : | common, vernacular, vulgar, |
definition | : | being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (adj.all) |
5. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) (noun.communication)
derivation | : | slang, |
definition | : | use slang or vulgar language (verb.communication) |
derivation | : | slangy, |
definition | : | constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | bennie, benzedrine, |
definition | : | a form of amphetamine (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | cat, caterpillar, |
definition | : | a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | baddie, villain, |
definition | : | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction (noun.person) |
6. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (adj.all)
derivation | : | vernacular, |
definition | : | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) (noun.communication) |
7. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) (noun.communication)
derivation | : | common, vernacular, vulgar, |
definition | : | being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (adj.all) |
8. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) (noun.communication)
derivation | : | slang, |
definition | : | use slang or vulgar language (verb.communication) |
derivation | : | slangy, |
definition | : | constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang (adj.all) |
domain member usage | : | bennie, benzedrine, |
definition | : | a form of amphetamine (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | cat, caterpillar, |
definition | : | a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work (noun.artifact) |
domain member usage | : | baddie, villain, |
definition | : | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction (noun.person) |
9. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (adj.all)
derivation | : | vernacular, |
definition | : | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) (noun.communication) |
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