• ace
• He's an ace reporter. • MEANING: very good
• action
• Do you know where the action is in this town? • MEANING: excitement
• airhead
• My sister's boyfriend is a real airhead. • MEANING: stupid person
• all wet
• Your ideas about politics are all wet. • MEANING: completely wrong
• all-nighter
• I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter. • MEANING: after studying all night.
• ammo
• The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo. • MEANING: ammunition
• antifreeze
• I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this. • MEANING: liquor
• armpit
• This town is really an armpit. • MEANING: undesirable place
• awesome
• What an awesome sunset. • MEANING: great
• bad
• Wow, that was really a bad movie. • MEANING: intense
• barf
• He barfed all over the seat of the airplane. • MEANING: vomitted
• bashed
• The boat was bashed beyond recognition. • MEANING: crushed
• beat
• After working all day I am really beat. • MEANING: exhausted
• beemer
• He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in. • MEANING: B.M.W. car
• bench
• He was benched during the basketball playoffs. • MEANING: taken out of the game
• bent
• It's OK. Don't get so bent. • MEANING: angry
• bent out of shape
• Don't get so bent out of shape. • MEANING: become upset
• big gun
• The president brought two big guns to the meeting. • MEANING: powerful people
• big mouth
• Shut up! You really have a big mouth. • MEANING: talk too much
• big stink
• The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station. • MEANING: big issue
• blade
• He carried a ten inch blade with him. • MEANING: knife
• blimp
• I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel. • MEANING: very fat person
• blow
• I'm going to blow out of here now. • MEANING: leave
• blow
• He blew all his money gambling. • MEANING: lost
• blow a fuse
• Hey, don't blow a fuse. • MEANING: lose your temper.
• blow one's cool
• Calm down. Don't blow your cool. • MEANING: become angry
• blown away
• I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars. • MEANING: greatly impressed • bomb • The movie was a bomb. • MEANING: bad
• bombed
• The driver of the car was bombed. • MEANING: intoxicated
• bonkers
• I think I am going bonkers. • MEANING: crazy
• boo-boo
• If you make another boo-boo like that, you won't have a job. • MEANING: mistake
• booze
• I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party. • MEANING: alcohol
• bread
• I need some bread to pay for my car. • MEANING: money
• break
• A lucky break helped him get the job. • MEANING: opportunity
• break it up
• Break it up, or I will call the police. • MEANING: stop
• bring-down
• The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down. • MEANING: depressing
• buck
• Do you have a buck I can borrow? • MEANING: dollar
• bummed
• I was really bummed after I heard the news. • MEANING: depressed
• bummer
• My trip to New York was a bummer. • MEANING: bad experience
• bust
• The whole idea was a bust. • MEANING: failure
• buy it
• If you don't slow down, you're going to buy it in a car accident. • MEANING: die
• call
• The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come. • MEANING: prediction
• can
• Do you know where the can is? • MEANING: bathroom
• carb
• My motorcycle's carb is out of adjustment. • MEANING: carburetor
• catch some rays
• I'm going to lie on the beach and catch some rays. • MEANING: get some sunshine.
• catch some Z's
• I need to catch some Z's before I go on my trip. • MEANING: get some sleep
• cheesy
• That is really a cheesy looking outfit. • MEANING: cheap
• chicken
• Don't be a chicken. • MEANING: coward
• chintzy
• That really was a chintzy present you got him. • MEANING: cheap
• chow down
• I need to find a place to chow down. • MEANING: eat a lot
• clip
• Watch out or they will clip you at that bar. • MEANING: cheat
• clunker
• I can't go on a date in that clunker. • MEANING: old car
• cold fish
• My date for the dance was a cold fish. • MEANING: dull
• collar
• I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later. • MEANING: arrest
• come up for air
• He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion. • MEANING: take a break
• con
• Don't try to con me. • MEANING: deceive
• cool
• This is a really cool place to work. • MEANING: good
• cool down
• Things should cool down in a day or two. • MEANING: calm down
• cop
• How did you get the road sign? I copped it. • MEANING: robbed
• cop
• The cop showed me his badge. • MEANING: policeman
• couch potato
• He is a couch potato. • MEANING: lazy person
• crack open a bottle
• Let's crack open a bottle for his birthday. • MEANING: open
• cram
• I need more time to cram for the test. • MEANING: study hard
• cream
• Our team creamed them badly. • MEANING: beat
• croak
• I feel like I am going to croak. • MEANING: die
• cruise
• The skier was cruising down the hill • MEANING: going very fast
• cuffs
• He put the cuffs on the killer. • MEANING: handcuffs
• cushy
• He has a really cushy job. • MEANING: easy
• cut
• Could you cut my whiskey with a little water? • MEANING: dilute
• cut out
• It is late. I have to cut out. • MEANING: leave
• damage
• Lets get the bill and find out the damage. • MEANING: cost
• dead
• This disco is really dead tonight. • MEANING: quiet
• deck
• He was decked in the fight. • MEANING: knocked down
• deep pockets
• Her boyfriend has deep pockets. • MEANING: is a good source of money
• dicey
• Since the weather is a little dicey, I won't go today. • MEANING: chancy
• dirty
• I hear that it's a dirty movie. • MEANING: an obscene
• ditch
• I'll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother. • MEANING: leave
• do a snow job on
• Don't try to do a snow job on me. • MEANING: deceive
• dope
• He is such a dope. • MEANING: stupid person
• dope
• There are a lot of dope dealers around here. • MEANING: drug
• dork
• He is such a dork. • MEANING: strange person
• dough
• I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping. • MEANING: money
• down
• Let's go to a bar and down a few beers. • MEANING: drink quickly
• drag
• Doing homework on the weekend is a drag. • MEANING: boring
• dynamite
• This drink is really dynamite. • MEANING: powerful; great
• earful
• My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood. • MEANING: a lot of gossip
• easy mark
• The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash. • MEANING: likely victims
• eat
• The problem is really eating away at me. • MEANING: bothering
• excellent
• That's excellent man. • MEANING: fine
• face-off
• The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off. • MEANING: confrontation
• far-out
• This music is really far-out. • MEANING: great
• fix
• The addict needs another fix. • MEANING: dose of drugs
• flaky
• He is too flaky to do the work. • MEANING: unreliable
• flashback
• At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend. • MEANING: remembered
• flick
• I haven't seen a flick in a long time. • MEANING: movie
• flip out
• He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed. • MEANING: lost control
• flip side
• What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape? • MEANING: other side
• fox
• His older sister is a fox. • MEANING: very attractive
• foxy
• She is a foxy lady. • MEANING: sexy
• freebie
• The pillow was a freebie • MEANING: free
• get into something
• I got into gardening in high school. • MEANING: became seriously interested in
• get it
• I listened to the joke twice, but I still don't get it. • MEANING: understand
• get with it
• If you don't get with it, we will never finish this work. • MEANING: hurry up
• gig
• I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00. • MEANING: job
• glitch
• This computer program has a glitch. • MEANING: defect
• glitzy
• This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in. • MEANING: fashionable
• go
• Let me have a go at solving the problem. • MEANING: try
• go bananas
• I am going to go bananas if I don't have a vacation soon. • MEANING: go crazy
• go down
• What is going down? • MEANING: happening
• goof
• I am really a goof at times. • MEANING: fool
• goof up
• I really goofed up when I painted my room green. • MEANING: made a serious mistake
• goofy
• You are always acting goofy these days. • MEANING: silly
• gourd
• Use your gourd to figure out what is happening. • MEANING: head
• grand
• His salary is twenty grand. • MEANING: thousand dollars
• grass
• Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory. • MEANING: marijuana
• gravy
• This job is pure gravy. • MEANING: easy money
• groovy
• This music is groovy. • MEANING: pleasant
• gross
• Picking your nose is really a gross habit. • MEANING: disgusting
• gross-out
• The party was a gross-out. • MEANING: digusting time
• grub
• Where is the best place to get some grub around here? • MEANING: food
• grubby
• Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party. • MEANING: unclean and untidy
• grungy
• That is a really grungy jacket. • MEANING: dirty
• gut
• He got shot in the gut. • MEANING: stomach.
• gut
• The gut issue is about what we are going to do now. • MEANING: basic
• guts
• It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion. • MEANING: courage
• hairy
• That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over. • MEANING: dangerous
• hammer
• Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding. • MEANING: accelerator
• hang it up
• I have decided to hang up my teaching job. • MEANING: quit
• hang loose
• Just hang loose for another few days. • MEANING: relax
• hang tough
• We need to hang tough on our decision. • MEANING: stick with
• hardware
• The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had. • MEANING: weapons
• have a buzz on
• I had a buzz on after the third martini. • MEANING: was slightly intoxicated
• have good vibes
• I have good vibes about our new secretary. • MEANING: feel good about
• have it all together
• Recently I don't have it all together. • MEANING: feel mentally all there.
• heave
• I heaved up on the floor. • MEANING: vomited
• high
• The teenagers look high to me. • MEANING: intoxicated on drugs or alcohol
• hip-shooter
• He is such a hip-shooter. • MEANING: always talking without thinking
• history
• I don't have any idea where my old boyfriend is. He's history. • MEANING: something in the past
• hit
• Your proposal was a hit with the boss. • MEANING: successful
• hole up
• I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me. • MEANING: hide
• honcho
• The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation. • MEANING: boss
• hooker
• Her clothes make her look like a hooker. • MEANING: prostitute
• hot
• The police stopped them because they though the car was hot. • MEANING: stolen
• huffy
• I will do it soon so please don't get huffy. • MEANING: angry
• hungry
• If you are not hungry, you won't get ahead in the business. • MEANING: eager to make money
• hustle
• If you don't hustle, we will be late again. • MEANING: hurry up
• hyped
• The fans were all hyped up for the football game. • MEANING: excited
• hyper
• Don't get hyper about what she told you. You know it isn't true. • MEANING: over excited
• I.D.
• Can you show me some I.D. please? • MEANING: identification
• in
• The tie you are wearing is really in. • MEANING: fashionable
• in deep
• They are really in deep with each other. • MEANING: deeply involved
• in the bag
• Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about. • MEANING: settled
• intense
• This is a very intense situation we are discussing. • MEANING: serious
• jam
• I am glad you got yourself out of that jam. • MEANING: trouble
• jerk someone around
• Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around. • MEANING: wasting my time and causing me trouble
• jock
• My roommate is a jock for the basketball team. • MEANING: an athlete
• john
• The john really smells. • MEANING: bathroom
• joint
• Where is the closest joint to here. • MEANING: cheap bar
• joint
• He is good at rolling joints. • MEANING: marijuana cigarettes
• junkie
• Sam is a junkie. • MEANING: rug addict
• just off the boat
• He acts like he is just off the boat. • MEANING: naive
• keep one's cool
• He kept his cool when his house burned down. • MEANING: remained calm
• kegger
• I hear there is a kegger at John's house tonight. • MEANING: beer party
• kick
• I get a kick out of watching him paint. • MEANING: enjoy
• klutz
• He is a real klutz. • MEANING: stupid and clumsy person
• knock
• Don't knock it if you can't do it any better. • MEANING: criticize
• knocked up
• My dog gets knocked up once a year. • MEANING: pregnant
• knockout
• Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday? • MEANING: stunning person
• knuckle sandwich
• Shut up or I'll give you a knuckle sandwich. • MEANING: punch in the mouth
• kook
• Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood. • MEANING: strange people
• laid-back
• You need to be more laid-back. • MEANING: calm and relaxed
• lame
• That is really a lame excuse. • MEANING: an inadequate
• line
• I have heard that line a million times. • MEANING: story
• loser
• John is a loser. • MEANING: annoying and useless
• love handles
• I exercise every day, but I can't get rid of these love handles. • MEANING: rolls of fat around my stomach
• make waves
• Try not to make waves around the office. • MEANING: cause trouble
• maxed out
• I am maxed out at my work and need to rest. • MEANING: exhausted
• mean
• He plays a mean violin. • MEANING: performs well on
• mega
• I have mega amounts of tomatoes in my garden this summer. • MEANING: large
• megabucks
• He made megabucks when he sold his company. • MEANING: a lot of money
• knock
• Don't knock it if you can't do it any better. • MEANING: criticize
• mellow
• You need to mellow out and enjoy life. • MEANING: calm down and relax
• meltdown
• There has been a meltdown in the relationship between my parents and I. • MEANING: total collapse
• mickey mouse
• The homework the teacher gave us was mickey mouse. • MEANING: nonsense and a waste of time
• move on someone
• I am going to try to move on Sarah next Saturday. • MEANING: pick up and seduce
• mush
• That is total mush and you know it. • MEANING: nonesense
• nark
• Watch out for the narks in the airport. • MEANING: drug police
• neat
• That was a neat idea that you had. • MEANING: good
• negative
• There are too many negatives about the company merger. • MEANING: bad things
• nick
• The police nicked the shoplifter as he was leaving the store. • MEANING: arrested
• nip
• He took a nip out of the bottle. • MEANING: a quick drink
• no sweat
• It's no sweat to have the report in to you by Monday. • MEANING: no problem
• nuke
• I'll nuke our dinner in a few minutes. • MEANING: heat up in the microwave
• nuke
• Does that attack plane have any nukes? • MEANING: nuclear weapons
• nut
• I think that he is a nut. • MEANING: crazy person
• nuts
• You are completely nuts if you think I will go with you. • MEANING: crazy
• pad
• Have you found a pad yet? • MEANING: a place to live
• pain in the neck
• My wife's best friend is a pain in the neck. • MEANING: annoying
• paper-pusher
• My office is filled with paper-pushers. • MEANING: bureaucratic office workers
• party animal
• You're too old to be a party animal. • MEANING: love parties
• party-hearty
• We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary. • MEANING: celebrate
• paw
• Get your paws off of my body. • MEANING: hands
• peanuts
• I am not going to work for peanuts. • MEANING: practically no money
• pickled
• He gets pickled after only one beer. • MEANING: intoxicated
• piece of cake
• Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake. • MEANING: easy to do
• pig
• He is a pig at parties. • MEANING: eats too much
• pig out
• Let's go to the restaurant and pig out. • MEANING: eat a lot or overeat
• pit stop
• Let's make a pit stop at the next rest area. • MEANING: stop and go to the bathroom
• plastered
• He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend. • MEANING: intoxicated
• pooped out
• He pooped out after we started to do the hard work. • MEANING: quit
• pop
• Shut up or I will pop you. • MEANING: hit
• pop for something
• It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts. • MEANING: buy
• pro
• He is really a pro at his work. • MEANING: professional
• prod
• Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won't forget? • MEANING: reminder
• psyched up
• The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday. • MEANING: mentally ready
• psycho
• She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital. • MEANING: mentally ill
• puke
• I feel like I am going to puke. • MEANING: vomit
• push off
• I am going to push off now. • MEANING: leave
• put the moves on
• You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married. • MEANING: seduce
• put-on
• It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed. • MEANING: deception
• quarterback
• Who is going to quarterback the meeting? • MEANING: lead
• quick buck
• I need to make a quick buck. • MEANING: some easy money
• rack
• I have to hit the rack by ten or I'll be tired in the morning. • MEANING: bed
• rack out
• I am going to rack out for two hours. • MEANING: sleep
• racket
• There sure was a lot of racket outside last night. • MEANING: noise
• rag
• I can't believe we still get this same old rag. • MEANING: newspaper
• rap
• We need to sit down and rap about a few things. • MEANING: talk about
• rathole
• When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole. • MEANING: run down place
• raw
• The raw office workers were not getting much done. • MEANING: new
• ream someone out
• The boss really reamed him out for his bad report. • MEANING: got angry with him
• red hot
• Your idea is really red hot. • MEANING: important
• repo
• Hey, don't repo my car. I will pay next week. • MEANING: repossess
• rinky-dink
• The circus was really rinky-dink. • MEANING: inferior
• riot
• The comedy program was a real riot. • MEANING: funny
• road hog
• That driver is a road hog. • MEANING: takes up too much of the road
• rocks
• Would you like your whiskey on the rocks? • MEANING: with ice
• rough time
• We have had a rough time this winter. • MEANING: hard time
• rug
• Is that a rug on his head? • MEANING: wig
• rug rat
• My sister has three rug rats. • MEANING: children
• rule
• My wife rules the house. • MEANING: dominates
• run off at the mouth
• He is always running off at the mouth. • MEANING: talking too much
• run out of gas
• The politician ran out of gas during the campaign. • MEANING: lost interest or momentum
• sack
• When did you hit the sack last night? • MEANING: go to bed
• scam
• Don't lose your money in some kind of scam. • MEANING: swindle
• scarf
• Since he hadn't eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate. • MEANING: ate quickly
• schmuck
• What a stupid schmuck. • MEANING: jerk
• screw around
• If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again. • MEANING: waste time
• screw up
• If you screw up one more time, I will fire you. • MEANING: make a mistake
• sharp
• He is very sharp with numbers • MEANING: intelligent
• shot
• I'll give the puzzle another shot. • MEANING: try
• shot down
• Everyone shot down my idea at first, but later agreed that it was a good idea. • MEANING: disagreed with
• slammer
• The police threw them both in the slammer. • MEANING: jail
• smashed
• Try not to get smashed at the beer party. • MEANING: intoxicated
• smoke eater
• My father is a smoke eater. • MEANING: fireman
• split
• It is time to split and go see the movie. • MEANING: leave
• spook
• The cows were spooked by the howling of the wolves. • MEANING: frightened
• spud
• Do you want rice or spuds for dinner? • MEANING: potatoes
• square
• My father looks square in his jacket. • MEANING: old-fashioned
• steamed up
• Don't get so steamed up over the issue. • MEANING: angry
• stink
• This whole operation stinks. • MEANING: is repulsive
• straight
• I want you to give me a straight answer. • MEANING: honest
• stressed
• I am really stressed by all the recent world events. • MEANING: upset
• sucker
• Don't be a sucker. • MEANING: be deceived
• take a hike
• I am tired of all your complaining. Take a hike. • MEANING: • leave
• taken
• He was taken for all his money at the casino. • MEANING: • cheated out of
• taking care of business
• I have been taking care of business. • MEANING: doing what I have to do
• threads
• Those look like expensive threads he is wearing. • MEANING: clothes
• tool around
• I don't want to tool around all night. It is time to go home. • MEANING: drive around
• totaled
• My car was totaled in the accident with the garbage truck. • MEANING: completely wrecked
• up
• He has been up ever since he met his new girlfriend. • MEANING: happy and cheerful
• up for grabs
• This is a sale. Everything is up for grabs. • MEANING: available.
• veg out
• I want to veg out in front of the television this evening. • MEANING: relax and do nothing
• vibes
• He really gives off good vibes. • MEANING: feelings
• wad
• You don't want to carry a wad like that with you in the big city. • MEANING: bundle of money
• waste
• After you waste him, throw the body in the river. • MEANING: kill
• wheels
• If you let me borrow your wheels, I'll go out and buy a pizza. • MEANING: car
• whiz
• He is a whiz at the computer. • MEANING: talented person
• wired
• I am really wired after drinking five cups of coffee. • MEANING: alert
• wussy
• Don't be such a wussy all the time. Say what you are thinking. • MEANING: weak person
• yukky
• This food tastes yukky • MEANING: bad
• zapped
• I am too zapped to help you right now. • MEANING: exhausted
• zip
• He knew zip about running the company. • MEANING: Nothing
