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Slang heard in US. 278 words and meanings, most familiar first.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| headlight | A woman's breast. |
| hunky | All right; in good condition. |
| hajji | A Muslim or Arab. |
| poon | Poontang, the vagina, or, intercourse with a woman. |
| toke | A gratuity. |
| purdy | Pretty. |
| campo | A police officer assigned to a university campus. |
| limey | An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant. |
| rager | A boisterous and out of control party. |
| burnout | A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out. |
| mooch | A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job. |
| whitewash | In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk. |
| crump | (of one's health) to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash). |
| jigger | A drink of whisky. |
| bodacious | Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary. |
| crackerjack | Referring to clothing items (pants, jersey, collar) that constitute the traditional blue uniform of the enlisted men of the US Navy. |
| flatfoot | A sailor. |
| highball | To move quickly; to hightail. |
| grift | A confidence game or swindle. |
| rockfish | A black person who does not know how to swim. |
| whooped | Flawless. |
| shamus | A private detective; originally, a policeman or police detective. |
| sheepdog | A police officer. |
| cathouse | A brothel. |
| pigskin | A football. |
| wickedly | Very |
| hippodrome | A fraudulent sporting contest with a predetermined winner. |
| flophouse | A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms. |
| heckler | An aircraft flying attack missions at night. |
| copacetic | Fine, excellent, OK, in excellent order. |
| ashcan | A kind of large firecracker. |
| bindle | A bundle carried by a hobo (usually containing his possessions), often on a stick slung over the shoulder; a blanket roll. |
| buckeye | A native or resident of the American state of Ohio. |
| bunco | A swindle or confidence trick. |
| cadge | To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. |
| canner | Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling. |
| chigger | An East Asian person who behaves in ways similar to a stereotypical urban African American. |
| colonizer | A white person. |
| corncob | To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat. |
| flunkey | One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. |
| gangbang | The act of a street gang committing crimes as a group, such as attacking random people on the streets. |
| greaseball | A person of Italian descent especially, but also used pejoratively to refer to people of Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, other Mediterranean, or Latin American descent. |
| groover | A small portable toilet often used on multiday river trips in protected wilderness areas, so named because the original versions were metal boxes whose rims left a groove in the skin of the user. |
| lugger | A conman. |
| nard | A testicle. |
| ossified | Drunk. |
| pleb | A freshman cadet at a military academy. |
| prang | Crack cocaine. |
| puncher | A cowpuncher; a cowboy. |
| rooter | One who roots for, or applauds, something. |
| schoolmarm | A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict. |
| smush | To engage in intimate contact, especially sexual relations. |
| sorehead | A politician who is dissatisfied through failure, lack of recognition, etc. |
| squeezer | A hand job, an instance of male masturbation, or manual sex performed on a man. |
| stang | Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company. |
| sweatbox | A jail cell. |
| unleaded | Decaffeinated. |
| whang | To whack or beat. |
| momo | A moron. |
| injun | A Native American. |
| za | Pizza. |
| clobbered | Drunk. |
| heinie | The buttocks. |
| butted | Having a butt or backside (of a specified kind). |
| boonies | Boondocks |
| swatting | The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location. |
| adrip | Intoxicated with alcohol. |
| anywheres | Anywhere |
| bazoo | A person's mouth. |
| beefhead | A Texan. |
| bughouse | A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc. |
| bumbershoot | An umbrella. |
| busher | A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league. |
| busthead | Moonshine (strong home-brewed alcoholic drink) |
| catskinner | One who drives (or operates) a tracked vehicle. |
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chippie | An officer of the California Highway Patrol. See CHiP |
| chud | A gross, physically unappealing person. |
| clacker | A testicle. |
| cohog | A co-ed. |
| cowpoke | A cowhand (one who tends free-range cattle) |
| crunk | Crazy and intoxicated. |
| deadfall | A cheap, rough bar or saloon. |
| ducat | A ticket. |
| dynamiter | A high-pressure salesman. |
| feeb | Someone who is feeble-minded; an idiot. |
| flopper | A person who deliberately falls down on a slippery floor or in front of an automobile etc. so as to claim compensation. |
| frogskin | A greenback, a United States dollar. |
| gaper | An inexperienced skier. |
| gedunk | A snack; a junk food item. |
| handshaker | A deceitful person, a swindler. |
| hoofer | A professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues. |
| hoosegow | A jail. |
| hophead | A drug addict. |
| hotcha | Flashy, vivacious; attractive, desirable. |
| husker | A fan or supporter of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the sports teams of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
| jawsmith | An orator, especially a demagogue. |
| jaygee | Lieutenant junior grade |
| jockette | The female equivalent of a jock. |
| kegler | A ten-pin bowling player or enthusiast. |
| leppy | A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned. |
| looey | Lieutenant |
| mazuma | Cash, money. |
| mazumas | Mazuma; money |
| mugwumpish | Resembling or characteristic of a mugwump. |
| nep | One who engages in nepotism, usually to the one who benefits from it. |
| ofay | A white person. |
| overslaugh | To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or impediment. |
| plebe | A freshman cadet at a military academy. |
| prex | A president, especially of a university. |
| railbird | A gambler; originally specifically a horseracing enthusiast |
| ricer | An automobile, especially one imported from an Oriental country, deemed inferior or cheap, that has been modified with after-market parts in order to appear more powerful or sporty. |
| sandhog | A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water. |
| sawbuck | A ten-dollar bill. |
| scoots | Diarrhea |
| simoleon | A dollar. |
| skeezicks | A rascal, rogue. |
| skell | A homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway. |
| socko | Superb, excellent, stunning. |
| stewbum | A homeless alcoholic. |
| swagman | A middleman who buys and sells stolen goods; a fence. |
| swisher | The wrapping paper of a cigar for use in making a blunt to smoke marijuana |
| tarnal | Damned (as an intensifier) |
| teener | A sixteenth of an ounce of a drug. |
| vibist | A vibraphone player; someone that plays the vibraphone. |
| wampus | Lout; yokel |
| whiteboy | A Caucasian male. |
| windjammer | A windbag, a loquacious person. |
| zowie | An indication of astonishment or admiration. |
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources