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2011年1月13日星期四

AMERICAN SLANG

amigo: friend (from Spanish).
bang: loud hit or knock; a very powerful thing.
butt: the buttocks. Butt out: To leave someone alone.
To leave; depart.
couch potato: a person who watches too much
television.
fab: fabulous; wonderful.
goof off: waste time. One who shirks work or
responsibility.
hickey: a love bite on the skin.
in: fashionable.
K (k): a thousand.
kook: A person regarded as peculiar, strange,
eccentric, or crazy.
loser: a bungling and worthless person.
okay: Approval; decent.
peanuts: very little money
pee: to urinate.
quick and dirty: done fast, but not well.
rat: To betray one's associates by giving information;
To work as a scab laborer. A despicable person.
riot, a : something or someone very funny.
scum: impurities, dirt; a despicable individual.
solid: Firm, hard; really good; cool.
ticker: A watch; the heart. A telegraphic instrument
that receives news reports and prints them on paper
tape.
threads: clothing.
to the max: maximum.
turn-off: something that repulses a person.
Turn-offs: Things or events that decrease a person's
sexual arousal.
upchuck: vomit or experience vomiting..
whitebread: bread made with bleached or
unbleached wheat flour; plain; boring.
wrongo: wrong.

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