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