American Slang Collection
Slang is not so safe to use, but you''d better understand it.
· airhead: stupid person.
· "Believe it or not, he is really an airhead!"
· amigo: friend (from Spanish).
· "I met many amigos tonight."
· ammunition: toilet paper.
· "Help! We''re completely out of ammunition!"
· antifreeze: alcohol.
· "I''m going to need a lot of antifreeze tonight!"
· armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
· "This cheap motel is an absolute armpit!"
· ass [offensive] (1): backside.
· "I fell on my ass on the ski slopes."
· ass (2): an unworthy and hated person.
· "I cannot be friends when you act like an ass."
· awesome: great and impressive.
· "It is truly awesome here!"
· baby boomer: a person born from the end of the Second World War until the early 1960s.
· "Bill Clinton was born in 1961, so he''s considered a baby boomer."
· ball (1): a fun time.
· "I really had a ball in the party last night."
· ball [offensive] (2): a testicle.
· "After getting kicked in the balls, his voice seemed much higher."
· bang (1): a very powerful thing.
· "Disneyland is really a bang!"
· bang (2): a powerful effect.
· "Japanese sake really has a bang!"
· barf (1): vomit.
· "My dog barfed all over the carpet."
· barf (2): vomit.
· "Don''t step on the barf!"
· barf-out: a displeasing person or affair.
· "That restaurant was a real barf-out."
· bazillion: an infinite number of something.
· "Has Dennis really taught a bazillion students?"
· B-ball: basketball.
· "Do you wanna play b-ball with me?"
· beans: money.
· "I''ve worked for this company for ten years, but I still don''t have beans."
· beat: tired.
· "I''m really beat because I was awake all night."
· beemer: a BMW.
· "He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money."
· biggie: something important.
· "I was hoping to get my homework completed, but it''s no biggie. "
· biker: a motorcycle rider.
· "Mike used to be a biker until he got into a serious motorcycle accident."
· ***** [offensive] (1): a very unpleasant woman.
· "My boss can be such a ***** sometimes."
· ***** [offensive] (2): complain.
· "Stop *****ing and finish your homework!"
· *****y [offensive]: moody.
· "I like him, even though he can be really *****y."
· bod: body.
· "Stalone has a great bod!"
· bonkers; go bonkers: crazy.
· "If you works too hard, you must go bonkers!"
· booboo: a mistake.
· "I made a booboo on the last question of the exam."
· boob tube: television.
· "Benjamin is always in front of the boob tube."
· booze: alcohol.
· "The party was fun, even though there wasn''t any booze."
· boss: excellent; great.
· "He''s always totally boss!"
· bread: money.
· "Can I borrow some bread?"
· brew (1): coffee.
· "Every morning I need a fresh cup of brew."
· brew (2): beer.
· "Do you want another brew, dude?"
· brewski: beer.
· "I love drinking brewskies!"
· B.S.: bullshit; lies.
· "I''m tired of listening to your B.S."
· bull: bullshit; lie.
· "That''s a bunch of bull!"
· bullshit [offensive]: lie; dishonesty.
· "I don''t like people that bullshit me"
· buns [possibly offensive]: the rear end; buttocks.
· "Don''t stare at my buns!"
· bushed: extremely tired.
· "I''m completely bushed."
· butt: the buttocks.
· "Stop sitting on your butt and help me wash the dishes!"
· catch some rays: get some sunshine.
· "Let''s go to the beach and catch some rays."
· cheesy: cheap; outmoded.
· "Why are you wearing such cheesy clothes?"
· chicken: coward.
· "Don''t be such a chicken!"
· cool: excellent; superb.
· "He is no cool!"
· cooler, the: jail.
· "If you drink and drive, you''ll end up spending time in the cooler."
· couch potato: a person who watches too much television.
· "Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?"
· crap [offensive] (1): something worthless.
· "My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap."
· crap [offensive] (2): excrement.
· "Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!"
· crap [offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies.
· "I''ve had enough of your crap."
· deck: to hit someone.
· "His wife almost decked him when he returned home with lipstick on his shirt."
· dicey: unpredictable; risky.
· "Gambling is a dicey occupation."
· dinero: money (from Spanish).
· "I wish I had more dinero!"
· dirt: extremely bad person.
· "My ex-boyfriend was dirt."
· dirty: offensive; pornographic.
· "Stop looking at the pictures in that dirty magazine!"
· dorky: strange; peculiar.
· "If you keep acting so dorky, you''ll never get a girlfriend!"
· dude: a male.
· "That''s really cool, dude!"
· dynamite: powerful; excellent.
· "The speaker gave a dynamite presentation."
· dinosaur: something old fashioned or out of date.
· "I''d love to surf the Net, but unfortunately my computer is a dinosaur."
· el cheapo: something cheap.
· "Since I don''t make much money, I always purchase the el cheapo brand."
· evil: great; excellent.
· "Your car is really evil!"
· eyeball: to stare long and hard at someone or something.
· "Bartlett eyeballed his daughter''s new boyfriend."
· eyepopper: something or someone visibly astounding.
· "Wow, that girl is truly an eyepopper!"
· fab: fabulous.
· "His claim is really fab!"
· face-off: confrontation.
· "I think it''s time we had a face-off."
· fart [offensive]: to expel intestinal gas.
· "It''s embarrassing to fart on the first date."
· fender-bender: small accident.
· "This morning I had a fender-bender on the Ventura Freeway."
· flaky: unpredictable.
· "I waited four hours for my flaky friend to show up."
· flashback: sudden memory.
· "In Little Tokyo I had a flashback to my days living in Japan."
· flick: movie.
· "Let''s go out tonight and watch a flick."
· fox: attractive, alluring person.
· "Is it true that Marian is a fox?"
· freebie: something that does not cost money.
· "My trip to New York was a freebie."
· French kiss [possibly offensive]: kissing with the tongue.
· "Berea''s dog is always trying to French kiss her!"
· geek: someone who works too hard, is more intelligent than usual, and is slightly unattractive.
· "Bill Gates is kind of a geek."
· get it: to understand something.
· "Sorry, but I just don''t get it."
· get naked [possibly offensive]: to completely relax and have a good time.
· "Let''s get naked tonight!"
· glitch: flaw.
· "There must be a glitch in this softwware."
· go bananas: go slightly mad.
· "This project is causing me to go bananas!"
· gomer: a dumb person.
· "Stop acting like a gomer!"
· goof (1): a silly and foolish person.
· "What a goof you are!"
· goof (2): make a mistake.
· I really goofed on the test today."
· goof off (1): waste time.
· "Stop goofing off and help me clean the house!"
· goof-off (2): someone who wastes time and isn''t serious.
· "A goof-off never does well in school"
· goof up: make a mistake.
· "Oh no! I really goofed up!"
· goofy: silly.
· "Kids always make me feel goofy!"
· grabbers: hands.
· "Have you washed your grabbers, Benjamin?"
· grand: one thousand dollars.
· "He''s making over a hundred grand a year!"
· grass: marijuana.
· "Have you ever smoked grass?"
· grub: food.
· "Where''s the grub?!"
· grubby: not clean.
· "I always feel grubby in the morning."
· grungy: unclean and stinky.
· "He''s always grungy!"
· gut: a person''s stomach; belly.
· "Look at him, he must be getting a big gut!"
· guts (1): courage.
· "It took a lot of guts to ask his boss for a raise."
· guts (2): the nature of something.
· "Let''s get to the guts of the program!"
· hairy: difficult; dangerous.
· "The steep and windy road was really hairy."
· hang a left: make a left turn.
· "Hang a left at the next corner."
· hang a right: make a right turn.
· "Hang a right at the next corner."
· head: toilet.
· "I really need to use the head!"
· hep: sensible; informed.
· "He is really the heppest man in this town."
· hickey: a love bite on the skin.
· "Wow! Is that a hickey on your neck?"
· hip: sensible; informed.
· "He really tries hard to be hip."
· hooker [possibly offensive]: prostitute.
· "You''ll find a lot of hookers in the red light district."
· horny [possibly offensive]: sexually stimulated; in the mood for sex.
· "Red wine seems to make my boyfriend horny. "
· hot (1): popular.
· "Brad Pitt is really hot now."
· hot (2): sexy.
· "Wow! Cindy Crawford is really hot!"
· humungous: really big.
· "American supermarkets are humungous."
· hungries, to have: be hungry.
· "I don''t know about you, but I''ve got the hungries."
· hyper: overly excited.
· "Children often get hyper when they are tired."
· icky: unpleasant.
· "The food is really icky in the school cafeteria."
· I.D.: identification.
· "If you want to order a beer, you''ll need your I.D."
· I''m outta here: I''m leaving; I''m departing.
· "Sorry, but I''m outta here, dude."
· in: fashionable.
· "Ray-Ban sunglasses are really in now."
· ivories: teeth.
· "Tom Cruise has really beautiful ivories."
· jack around [possibly offensive]: waste time.
· "Will you please stop jacking around?"
· jam, in a (1): trouble.
· "If you''re in a jam, I promise to help you."
· jam (2): improvise (musically).
· "I''d love to jam with Bon Jovi!"
· jamming, to be : going well.
· "The party is really jamming!"
· jerk: stupid or annoying person.
· "How could you go out with such a jerk?"
· jillion: an immense number.
· "Do you really have a jillion problems?"
· jock: someone good at sports.
· "I''ve never been much of a jock."
· john: toilet.
· "Where''s the john?"
· K (k): a thousand.
· "I could retire with 100 K (k)!"
· kick back: relax and enjoy.
· "I wish I could kick back at the beach today."
· kick off: die.
· "My dog finally kicked off."
· killer: something exceptional or great.
· "Wow, your boyfriend is killer!"
· knock: condemn.
· "Don''t knock it unless you''ve tried it."
· knockout: beautiful woman; handsome man.
· "Benjamin is already a knockout!"
· kook: peculiar person.
· "Stop acting like a kook!"
· laid back: relaxed; calm.
· "I always feel laid back at the beach."
· lame: incompetent.
· "He is totally lame in the bed."
· lip: cheeky talk.
· "My students are always giving me lip!"
· loser: a bungling and worthless person.
· "Why are you dating such a loser?"
· love handles: excess fat around the waist.
· "Is it possible for Marple to lose his love handles?"
· luck out: to be lucky or fortunate.
· "You really luck out by visiting Tom''s home!"
· make waves: cause problems.
· "Teachers don''t like students to make waves."
· max, to the : maximum.
· "I''m happy to the max."
· mega: big.
· "American restaurants serve mega portions of food."
· megabucks: a large amount of money.
· "It takes megabucks to live in Japan."
· mellow: relaxed.
· "I''m feeling very mellow this evening."
· mickey-mouse: unimportant; time-wasting.
· "I''m sick of this mickey-mouse job."
