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A
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| ACCOUNT (noun):
Because. E.g: I was feeling kind of down, on account that
tooth of mine was giving me the devil. |
| ACE (noun): A
dollar or a one-dollar bill. |
| AIN'T
(verb): Contracted
form of "are not", also used for "am not"
and "is not". E.g: you seem to have a good sister.
She ain't half bad. |
| ALEC (noun): A stupid
person. E.g: He looked such a big aleck, marching along
as though he'd won both wars single-handed. |
| ALL-RIGHT (adjetive):
Used to indicate approval. E.g: He seemed an all-right
bloke to me. |
| ALLEY (noun):
To be suited or congenial to a person; be up a person´s
street. E.g: Bridge will be in a cinch for you. It is
right up your alley. |
| AXEMAN
(noun): A
guitarist, esp. one who plays in a band. E.g: He learned
guitar from Fats Domino's axeman, Walter (Papoose) Nelson. |
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B
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| BEAT-UP (adjetive):
Worn out, shabby, showing signs of over-use. E.g. The
girl was sitting once more in the beat-up leather chair. |
| BELLY-LAUGH
(noun): A
deep unrestrained laugh. E.g: He laughed, deep belly-laughts |
| BOMBER (noun): Marijuana
cigarette. E.g: Victor proceeded to roll the biggest bomber
anybody ever saw. |
| BONKERS (adjective):
Mad, crazy. E.g: By half-past three he'll be raving bonkers. |
| BOSS
(adjective): Excellent,
wonderful. E.g: I have to tell you right off that Martina
Twains is a real boss chick by anyone's standards. |
| BOTTLER (noun and adjective):
(Something or someone) excellent. E.g: Congratulations
boy, a glorious try, a real bottler, you won the game. |
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C
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| CAFF (noun): A caffé.
E.g: The Sundays Times Magazine rab a fearful article
predicting the demise of the working man's caff. |
| CAULK (noun nautical):
A short sleep or nap. E.g: "Having a caulk"
where he sat and... he woke at eight. |
| CHANCER
(noun):
One
who takes chances or does risky things. Also, one who
trades on people's credulity. E.g: I don't think you're
a detective at all. You're just a chancer. |
| CHILL
(verb): Mainly
"to chill out". To become less tense, relax.
E.g:The fat one whistles, waves madly and rudely ignores
my fatherly admonitions to chill out. |
| CLEAN-UP
(noun): A
profit or a exceptional financial successd. E.g: She got
a good clean-up and she would be clear of debts |
| COOLER (noun): A
prison or prison cell. E.g: I am not at a time of life
when one enjoys being chucked in the cooler for telling. |
| COOTIE (noun):
A body louse. E.g: The Publicitor's cheap brand of lacquer.
Only stuck to some cooties and fleas. |
| CRIMPER (noun):
A
hairdresser. E.g: He'd open up as a crimper... decorating
the salon and supervising the work. |
| CURRY
(noun): To
make life difficult for someone. E.g: He used to play
football, until he was sent down for giving curry to the
ref. |
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D
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| DABS (noun pl):
Fingerprints. E.g: You'll get his photo and dabs by airmail
today. |
| DEAD
DUCK (noun): An
unsuccessful or useless person or thing. E.g: He is a
dead duck to the family |
| DIS (adjective):
Abbreviation of "disconnected". Hence, broken,
not working. E.g: The poor old chap's brain's going dis. |
| DOLL
(noun): A young woman,
esp. an attractive one. E.g. You don´t have to do
it, doll. |
| DOSE (noun):
(A bout of) a venereal infection. E.g: She's riddled with
pox. I know four blokes who´ve copped a dose from
her. |
| DREAMY
(adjective):
Delightful;
marvellous . E.g: She said she had a date with a dreamy
boy. |
| DUCK
SOUP (noun):
An
easy task. E.g: The number 307 comes out, in binary notation,
to be 100110011 wich would not have the convenience of
307 at the grocery store, but is duck soup for the computer. |
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E
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| EDGE (noun): The
condition of being drunk. E.g: How do you feel? Swell,
I've just got a good edge on. |
| EGO (pron): Used
in public schools in answer to the question quis? who?,
when claiming an object. |
| EX-CON (noun): Abbreviation
of "ex-convict". E.g: Better than fifty per
cent of Pinkertons are ex-cons. |
| EXES (noun): Abbreviation
of "expenses". E.g: Their ten thousands bucks
per year plus exes. |
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F
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| FAB (adjective):
Wonderful, marvellous. E.g: Most of Merseyside groups
produce sounds which are pretty fab. |
| FAG (noun): A cigarette.
E.g: Cobbers of the men in detention had hit upon an ingenious
method of smuggling fags to them. |
| FASH (noun): Abbreviation
of "fashion" or "fashionable". E.g:
Two heaps on the floor afforded a primer on kiddie fash
ins and outs. |
| FAT-MOUTH
(noun): Someone
who talks extravagantly. E.g: Okay, fatmouth, out of the
car |
| FORM (noun): A criminal
record. E.g: He has form for false pretences, mostly small
stuff. |
| FOUR - EYES (noun):
A
person who wears glasses; often as a term of address. |
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G
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| GAFFER (noun): A
foreman or boss. From earlier use as a term of respect;
prob. a contraction of godfather. |
| GASSER
(noun):
Something that gives enormous fun and excitement. E.g:
Ron's Friday night show ...was a gasser. |
| GOO-GOO (adj derog):
Of the eyes or glances: sentimentally, amorous. E.g: There
was so much spooning and goo-goo eyes. |
| GROUSE (adjective):
Excellent, very good. E.g: She's a grouse sort of a join,
this bloody Ceylon, do me.. |
| GUTTY (adjective):
Earthy, primitive. E.g: You feel it in a beat, in jazzy...
or a good gutty rock number. |
| GUTTED
(adjetive): Devastated,
shattered; utterly fed up. E.g: I've nothing for four
months. I'm gutted because i still love him. |
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H
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| HACK (noun): To
manage, cope with; to tolerate. E.g: I had proved to the
world during my four years in the Senate... that I can
hack it. |
| HATCH (noun): Down
the hatch (as a drinking toast). E.g: drink up, cheers! |
| HOLY
(adjetive): Used
in various trivial exclamations. E.g. holy cow!, holy
Moses!, holy Smoke! |
| HOOKER (noun):
A prostitute. E.g: Ain't you got the sense to tell a good
girl from a hooker? |
| HOOT
(noun): Anything
at all. E.g: Winston Churchill was idiosyncratic in that
he did not care a hoot about being thought a gentleman |
| HUM
(verb): (To make) a bad smell. E.g:
When the wind drops this stuff really hums |
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I
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| ICK
(noun): An exclamation of distaste, disgust, horror,
etc. E.g: Blood people leaking stuff out of their bodies
- ick. |
| IDIOT
BOX (noun): A television set. E.g: I thought you
spent all your time with the idiot box. |
| IFFY
(adjective): Uncertain, doubtful. E.g: We knew
this was rather an iffy tenant, morally speaking, before
we rented. |
| INFO
(noun): Abbreviation of "information".
E.g: Generating info for schools. |
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J
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| JAM (noun): Affected
manners; self-importance. E.g: Sadie put a bit of jam
on when she talked, but not too much. |
| JEEZ
(int):
A
mild expression of surprise, discover, annoyance, etc
(abbreviation of Jesus). E.g: Jeez, that's nice of you
to say so. |
| JIM (noun): A pound.
E.g: The racehorse they have just bought in Bourke for
fifty jim. |
| JIT (noun):
A black person. |
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K
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| KALE (noun): Money.
E.g: The Kale is cut up and the biggest corner goes to
the brains |
| KELCH (noun): A
white person. E.g: Then he met a high-yellah gal, three-quarter
keltz, from down Harlem way. |
| KEY (noun):
A kilogram of a drug. E.g: On her coffee table she had
at least half a key and that´s a pound of pot and
that´s trouble. |
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L
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| LAG (noun): A convict,
prisoner; an ex-convict or habitual convict. |
| LARK
(noun): A type of activity, affair,
etc. E.g: I am up to my ears in this bloody diesel lark. |
| LEMONY (adjective):
Irritated, angry. E.g: Oh, blimey, they went real lemony
on'im. |
| LOO (noun): A lavatory.
E.g: the loo's on the landing, if you want to spend a
penny. |
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M
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| MEMBER (noun): A
black person. E.g: Three more, one of´em a member,
sailed over. |
| METER (noun): Twenty-five
cents, a quarter. |
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MIVVY
(noun): A person
who is adept at something. E.g. He's a mivvy with anything
like that.
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MITT
CAMP (noun):
A palmist's or fortuneteller's establishment. Also mitt
joint.
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N
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| NAH (adverb): Representing
a colloquial or vulgar pronunciaton of now. E.g: Na Davey,
what can I say to you? |
| NOB (noun): A person
of wealth or high social position. |
| NONG (noun): A fool,
a stupid person. E.g: Rod Cavalier has...turned himself
into a ridiculous nong. |
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O
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| OBBO (noun): Abbreviation
of "observation". E.g: Now I got a fix on the
place I got to do some obbo first. |
| OLD BEAN (noun):
A familiar form of address. E.g: Old bean, let's stick
together. |
| OP
(noun): Abbreviation of "operation",
"operator". A private detective. |
| OZONE
(adjective): A drive-in cinema. |
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P
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| PADDY (noun): A
nickname for an irishman. E.g: Paddy yourself! how dar
you to call me paddy?. |
| PIG - OUT (noun):
A bout of excessive eating; a binge, feast. E.g: Favorite
pigout food: Turkey. In fact, I love the whole Thanksgiving
dinner. |
| PIKEY
(noun also dialect): |
| POGUE
(noun): A
bag of purse, a wallet, also, money. E.g: It was the stickman's
job to take the pogue once Teddy had snaffled it. |
| POOH
(noun): In
a difficult situation, in trouble. E.g: But what... if
someone... gave him the money and support he needed? "We
might be right in the pooh". |
| POW
(int orig): Representing
the sound of a punch, blow, shot, etc.; also used to the
impact of an emotion or idea. E.g: Perhaps they will not
fall in love at all once but feel a tenderness growing
untill one day pow! that amazing kiss. |
| PRETZEL (noun):
A French horn. E.g: Pretzel knot-shaped savoury biscuit. |
| PUG (noun): Abbreviation
of "pugilist", a boxer or prize-fighter. E.g:
I wondered at Medina's choice, for a pug is not the kind
of servant I would choose myself. |
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Q
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| Q.T. (noun): Abbreviation
of "quiet"; secret, confidential. E.g: This
is strictly q.t.! Nobody Knows a word about it. |
| QUACK (noun): A
doctor, a medical officer. E.g: get the quack at the Bush
Hospital to have a look at it in the morning. |
| QUAIL (noun): A
young woman or girl. |
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R
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| RAD (adjective):
Admirably up to date, fantastic, "cool". E.g:
I jam on the taboos, but my sister was rad. |
| RAIN
CLOSET (noun): Shower.
E.g: I’ve got to use the rain closet before I go
to work. |
| RAP (noun): A small
amount, the least bit. E.g: not to care a rap. |
| READY-UP
(noun): A conspiracy or swindel; a fake. E.g. I
don´t accept all the pretences and ready-ups you
people put out. |
| REFFO
(noun Austral): A
European refugee, one who left Germany or Germany-occupied
country before World War II. |
| RUG
- RAT (noun):
A
child . E.g: Tom, please, remove this rug - rat from the
carpet. |
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S
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| SAC (noun): A tablet
of saccharine, used as an artificial sweetener. |
| SALVO
(noun): A
member of the Salvation Army. E.g. When workers everywhere
got their notices and the slump showed every sign of lasting,
the Salvos decided to open a doss house. |
| SAND-GROPER (noun):
A non-Aboriginal person, native to or resident in Western
Australia. |
| SHUNT
(noun):: A
road accident, esp. a collision of vehicles travelling
one close behind another. E.g: "Another bloody shunt",
Yardley groaned. |
| SKI BUM (noun):
A skiing enthusiast who works casually at a resort in
order to ski. |
| SLIDE
(verb intr.):
To
go away, esp. hurriedly. E.g: There's only word that any
sensible man can read in this situation, and that word
is ...slide! |
| SLOB (noun):
A stupid, careless, coarse, or fat person. E.g I think
you´re an irresponsible slob! |
| SPAZ (noun): Abbreviation
of spastic (incompetent). E.g: Come on, bag your face,
you geek, you grody totally shanky spaz. |
| SPROUT (noun): A
young person, a child. E.g: The young sprouts and broths
of lads who feel their oats and are full of beans. |
| SQUAT (noun): Nothing
at all; anything. E.g: It´ll be another forecast-of-Armageddon
cover that won´t amount to squat. |
| STARRER
(noun):A
film or play with a leading star in a principal role.
E.g: A Kellino starrer would get the studio's two million
back. |
| SWAK
(orig forces):Abbreviation
of "sealed with a kiss".(Used in envelopes).
E.g: I posted him a long letter with SWAK on it to make
him laugh. |
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T
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| TIN - ARSED (adjective):
Austral and NZ, Very Lucky. |
| TITTER (noun): A
young woman or girl. E.g: Boys, she's a larky little titter. |
| TRANK (noun):
Abbreviation of "tranquillizer". E.g We'll have
to go back to slipping tranks into his coffee. |
| TREE (noun):
Irrational
mad. E.g: You're out of your tree. |
| TROLLEY (noun):
Off one's trolley. E.g: If you suspect Patty, you´re
off your trolley!. |
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U
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| UMBRELLA (noun):
A parachute. E.g: It takes ages to come down on an umbrella...Then
you have to get rid of the chute. |
| UNI (noun mainly):
abbreviation of "university". E.g: Unis looks
to industry for more funds. |
| UPYA
(noun): Expressing contemptuous rejection. E.g:
No, he said, I won´t truckle to you. Upya for the
rent. |
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V
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| VET (noun): A medical
doctor. E.g: Saw my vet the last week. Said he'd never
inspected a fitter man of my age. |
| VELVET (noun): Gain,
profits, winnings. E.g: I have been taking in plenty of
velvet these days working the Fair. |
| VENT (noun): Abbreviation
of "ventriloquist", E.g: We've got magicians
here... we've got jugglers, mentalists and vents. |
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W
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| WACKY (adjective):
Crazy, odd, eccentric. E.g: She plays the wacky mother
of Debra Winger. |
| WALLOP (noun): Beer
or other alcoholic drink. E.g: Mrs. Tyler could do nothing
to improve the wallop she served at the Hurdlemakers. |
| WHACKO: Expressing
delight or enjoyment. E.g: After all it was only two days
to -whacko!- Monday. |
| WINGER
(noun): A
steward. A comrade or friend. E.g: He had seen his "winger",
his best friend, decapitated. |
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Y
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| YARD (noun):
One hundred dollars; one thousand dollars. E.g: You throw
a hundred to the guywho makes the loan...He writes the
loan for thirteen hundred, you take twelve, and a yard
goes south to him. |
| YELL
(noun): Someone or
something extremely funny; a scream. E.g: What a yell. |
| YO: An exclamation
used as a greeting, to express excitement, to attract
attention, or as a general sign of familiarity. |
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Z
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| ZA (noun): Abbreviation
of "pizza". E.g: One of the boys called up and
asked the parlor to bag the za. |
| ZIT (noun): A pimple,
an acne spot. E.g: You know playing with teenagers will
give you zits. |
| ZOOTY
(adjective): fashionable, sharp. E.g: Her lover,
too, with long jaws and zooty sideburns. |
