#8226; 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.
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