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.
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