Anglish | sp | English |
Gallow-grass | n | Hemp for the hangman's rope. |
Gallowness | n | Mischief, perversity. |
Gallows | adv | Extremely, used as intensifier or emphasis. |
Gallows-apple | n | Candidate for the gallows |
Gallows-bird | n | A thief or pickpocket or one who associates with them. 2. the corpse of one who has been hanged. |
Gallows-good | adj | Anything considered so bad or useless as to be fit only for the gallows. |
Gallows-looking | adj | Fit for the gallows, having a run-down, hang-dog, shifty look. 2. a calling, piece of business, interest |
Gallstone | n | An irritating person. |
Game | n | A group of prostitutes, esp. in a brothel. 2. the world of prostitution, "on the game." |
Game | n | An amusing incident, piece of fun, a lark (what's your game). 2. benefits or gains what, while illegally obtained, are seen as worth the poor reputation such actions might engender, thus "have the game without the name." 4. a state, an affair. 5. any attempt to manipulate humanity for one own's ends, usually financial ones. |
Game | n | A fool, a simpleton, esp. a victim (fair game). |
Game | n | ("The Game"): an occupation, differing as from the group concerned, as lovers: sexual intercourse; for sportsman: cock-fighting; for criminals: robbery; sailors: slave-trading; and for prostitutes: commercial sex. |
Game | n | "The Game" - the sophisticates, street-wise person's lifestyle. 2. prostitution and or pimping. 3. deception, trickery. |
Game | vb | To manipulate humanity for one own ends, usually financial ones. |
Game | adj | Criminal or associated with the underworld, thus "a game woman" = promiscuous, shanky. 2. cunning, villainous. |
Game as a meat ant | phr | Very brave. 2. enthusiastic, keen. |
Gamecock | n | Womaniser, philanderer. |
Game on | excl | Exclamation of excitement or anticipation, usually about a possible sexual conquest or when a night out or a drinking session is arranged. 2. an exclamation of triumph as having sorted sorted out initial arrangements. |
Game room | n | In sadomasochistic sex, a torture chamber. |
Gander | n | A husband, a man or husband who is a way from home, a grass widow. 2. a dandy, fop. |
Gander | n | A gander: a glance, a look at, a close look or look intently, scrutiny. 2. a criminal look-out(his neck stretched out like a goose or gander.) |
Gander | vb | To take a look, survey. |
Gander-gut | n | One who is tall, thin and awkward. 2. scrawny. 3. gander-gutted. |
Gander-month | n | The period immediately following childbirth: during this time it was considered for the amn temporarily to abandon his domestic fidelity; thus "gander-mooner" - a man enjoying this privilege. |
Gander-neck | vb | To look, to look at, look intently at. |
Gander-shanks | adj | Referring to a thin awkward person |
Gang | n | A large amount of anything. 2. any social group (without criminal tones). |
Gang | vb | To attack or kill as part of a gang. 2. to gang up on someone. |
Gangbuster | n | An great, exciting, conspicuous and successful person, thing or event. |
Gangbusters | adj | Rousing, inspiring, conspicuous. 2. a great and conspicuous success. |
Gangbusters | vb | To be very successful, as " to go gangbusters" or "come on like gangbusters" |
Gangbusters | phr | "Like or Come on like Gangbusters" - very energetically and successfully. |
Gangbusting | n | State or condition of being energetic and successful. |
Gangster | n | A troublemaker, nuisance, stirrer. 2. a troublemaker, rebel, non-conformist. |
Gangster | vb | To kidnap, abduct, take forcibly. |
Gangster-doors | n | A four-door saloon, the car preferred by prominent ghetto criminals. |
Gangster-lean | n | The supposedly sophisticated style of driving a car, with one elbow out of the window and one's body leaning in the same direction; thus, fig., an attitude to life and lifestyle. |
Gangster-ride | n | A large, old-fashioned, usually black motorcar, favoured by gangster as there mode of transport. |
Gangster-stick | n | A marijuana cigarette. |
Gang up | phr | To gather for a purpose, esp. an evil purpose, as a physical attack and beating of someone |
Garbroth | n | Any poor or worthless person, as in the expression" mean as garbroth." (from garfish and broth.) |
Garlic-burner | n | Motorcyclists. 2. a motorcycle made in Italy. |
Garmouth | n | To boast, brag, make empty threats. (garfish, a fish considerd not worth eating, other than in direct extremity) |
Gate | n | The money collected from selling tickets to a sporting event or other entertainment event. 2. a swing, jazz musician; a gatemouth. 3. a music devotee or a cat (any man). 3. jazz talk or jive. |
Gate | sfx | An exposed affair or scandal, venality as sort indicated, as "Watergate". |
Gate-mouth | n | A person, a jazz, jive or swing musician. 2. a performing engagement a gossip, a chronic and active gossip, loudmouth. |
Gather-up | n | A Gather-up: a useless person, usually a rag-an-bone man. |
Gawdsaker | n | One, who in a state of panic, exclaims '... for God's sake let's do something now.' |
Geesefeathers | n | Snow. |
Get | vb | From Old Norse geta "to obtain, reach; to beget; to guess right". Old English, as well as Dutch and Frisian, had the root only in compounds (e.g. begietan "to beget," see beget; forgietan "to forget,". Vestiges of Old English cognate *gietan remain obliquely in past participle gotten and original past tense gat. 2. off-spring, progeny. |
Get | n | A swindle, a trick, a means of defrauding a victim. |
Get | n | The profit, the take, the proceeds of a robbery. |
Get | v | To understand, comprehend; seize mentally, as in 'I get it.' 2. to reach the point or stage where, 'I get (to) where I see it (or understand it.) 3. to take note of; pay attention. 5. to wreak or have vengenance on; to kill, esp. in revenge; retaliate destructively against. 6. to get the punishment one deserves. 7. to become rich; get one share of wordly goods and things. |
Get a belly | phr | To become pregnant. |
Get above oneself | phr | To act in an arrogant manner, to be self-satisfied. |
Get a dusty answer | phr | To receive an unpleasant, immoderate answer or response. |
Get a fair spin | phr | To receive an even-handed and reasonable go or opportunity |
Get a free ride | phr | To enjoy something without paying; get something gratis. |
Get a glow on | phr | To become drunk or intoxicated. (the reddish complexion often forming on the cheeks of a drinker) |
Get a handle on | phr | To understand, know how to; to gain control of a situation. 2. to work out or find a way of coping; discover how to proceed. |
Get a hard-on | phr | To have an erection. |
Get a life | phr | Dismissive exclamation used in any context where the speaker wishes to show disdain for the previous speaker and their ideas, beliefs, suggestions, opinions. |
Get a line on | phr | To get or acquire information concerning; to make a preliminary survey; to secure or acquire secret information. 2. to understand, to hand on or impart information to. |
Get a little on the side | phr | To be sexually unfaithful, cheat; betray a trust; to commit adultery . |
Get a load of | phr | To drink heavily; to be extremely intoxicated. 2. to be full or over-dosed on drugs. |
Get-along | n | A limp. |
Get along (on) | phr | To live with any great joy nor grief; pass through life more or less adequately; cope. 2. to be compatible, associate easily. 3. to grow older. |
Get (go) along (with you) | phr | Don't be silly - a response sometimes dismissive, often jocular. 2. in the case of flattery- don't be silly. |
Get among it | phr | To become rich, obtain wealth; make plenty of money |
Get a name for | phr | To get a reputation - usu. bad, for something. |
Get an earful | phr | To listen to, usu. in the context of a dressing-down, rebuke or scolding. |
Get an eyeful | phr | To have a good look at, to stare at. |
Get a rise out of (from) someone | phr | To make someone angry. 2. to get a response, esp. an angry one. |
Getaway | n | The very start. 2. a sudden dash esp. from a starting point in a game or sport. 3. a vehicle, esp. a car used to flee from a robbery or crime. 4. an escape, get out, excuse. 5. the act of fleeing from a scene of a crime. |
Get away with it (something) | phr | To succeed in, or carry of successfully, any undertaking, esp. one that is underhanded; as in "Get away with murder." 2. to get the better of, to beat. 3. to go uncaught and unpunished after doing something illegal or inappropriate. 4. to steal or runaway with something. |
Get away with murder | phr | To do something bad or illegal and not be punished. 2. to go unpunished or unharmed after some illegal, impudent or risky act. 3. |
Get away with you | phr | Don't try and pull the wool over my eyes; fool me, take me for a fool. |
Get back at | phr | To turn the tables on someone, to get revenge |
Get behind | phr | To make a commitment to an idea, a job, an idea. 2. to understand, to enjoy, appreciate, to put one's weight behind. 3. to enjoy something. 4. to get a pleasurable narcotic intoxication. |
Get by | phr | To earn a bare living; to pass, to manage, scrape by, to be accepted or acceptable; to have one's efforts approved. 2. to survive without working or much effort; to do just enough closely or barely well; neither succeed or fail. 3. to pass inspection; stand up to scrutiny, to avoid, evade; to get away with. |
Get down | phr | To concentrate on; attend to the task. 2. to commit oneself to; make an effort. 3. to do something especially well. 4. to fight. 5. to have sexual intercourse. 6. to dance, to have a good time; enjoy oneself, have fun; to let oneself be natural and unrestrained. |
Get down heavy | phr | To enjoy oneself, to participate wholeheartedly in the spirit of things. |
Get down on | phr | To develop a dislike, grudge against, to be hostile to. |
Get down to it | phr | To commit oneself earnestly and seriously to a task. 2. to start talking about the gravamen or crux of a matter or topic. |
Get even with | phr | To take revenge; pay back; get one's own back. |
Get ghost | vb | To go about things quietly and inconspicuously. |
Get-go | n | From the get-go: the start, beginning. |
Get going | vb | To drive someone into a temper; to make one lose control through teasing. 2. to excite someone sexually. |
Get going | vb | To leave depart. 2. to commence a job or task. |
Get good to someone | phr | To be carried away by one's enthusiasms whilst performing a task. |
Get hard-nosed | phr | To get angry, to get stubborn, to be obstinate |
Get high | vb | To be "high" on drugs. |
Get high behind | vb | To hurry up; to help get to their workplace on time. 3. to become impatient, to get angry or mad. |
Get hold of the right end of the stick | phr | To get it right, to understand the situation correctly; grasp an understanding or essential meaning. |
Get hold of the wrong end of the stick | phr | To have the facts wrong or incorrect; interpret a situation incorrectly. |
Get home | vb | Make an impression on, in a sporting event. 2. make emotional impression on. |
Get home with the milk | phr | To stay out all night; get home only at daybreak. |
Get hot on | phr | To put in an enthusiastic effort. 2. be enthusiastic about. |
Get in | vb | Strike a blow (lit and fig.) 2. a telling remark. 3. to put on one's clothes |
Get in a gar hole | phr | To have a bit of bad luck. Garfish swims above and around the holes of other better fish and often takes the bait meant for other fish. |
Get in deep | phr | To become deeply in love with. 2. to become heavily involved in criminal activities. |
Get in line | phr | To conform, fall in behind or with. |
Get in one's eye | phr | To beat up. 2. to crowd, to encroach or get to near to one's personal space. 3. to shout at someone from nearby. 4. to hit or punch one in the face or eye. |
Get in one's hair | phr | Annoy or irritate. |
Get into | vb | To attack physically. 2. to criticize severely. 3. to put on clothes, dress oneself. |
Get it | vb | To be shot, wounded or killed. 2. understand. |
Get it in the neck | phr | To be punished, to fail, to lose |
Get it in every way | phr | To do well, irrespective of the circumstances. 2. to fully understand or comprehend something. |
Get it in for | phr | To bear a grudge, as 'have/had it in for.' |
Get it in the neck | phr | To be severely punished or injured. |
Get it off one's chest | phr | To confess, unburden oneself. |
Get it on | phr | To enjoy something greatly; having a good time. |
Get it on the whisper | phr | To buy on hire purchase. (the shame of living on the never-never, and the desire to keep it quiet.) |
Get it (all) together | vb | To start a sexual relationship. 2. to make a decision, to take action. 3. to compose oneself, and take a firm stand. 3. to arrange one's life and affairs properly integrated and focused. |
Get left | vb | To be abandoned, left behind esp. when in a difficult situation. |
Get lost | vb | To leave, depart (usually an exasperated command). |
Get next to | vb | To become lovers. 2. to feel friendly towards, get near to. 3. to embarrass, to annoy, to anger. |
Get off | vb | To avoid the consequences. |
Get off one's arse | phr | To stop being idle, lazy and inert. |
Get off one's back | phr | To leave one alone, stop niggling and nagging. |
Get off one's high horse | phr | To stop being high and haughty, superior to others. 2. |
Get nowhere (fast) | vb | To falter and fail, despite one's best efforts and endeavours. 2. get no satisfaction from something or someone. 3. to make no progress (very quickly). |
Get off on the wrong foot | phr | To make a poor initial impression; to make a poor start |
Get off one's hands | phr | To rid yourself of a burden or responsibility, esp in regards to another, such as unmarried daughter, an adult child who refuses to leave home, or a worker who is not pulling his weight. |
Get off the ground | phr | To make a successful start. 2. to succeed with a project, esp. initially. |
Get off the hook | phr | To help, aid someone to evade responsibility or punishment. |
Get on | phr | Succeed, prosper, fare well. 2. to relate to another person either well or not so well, 'get on well with' 3. to grow older or be of advanced years. 4. to depart, leave, as 'get on one's way.' 5. tto put a bet on a horse, etc. |
Get on one's goat | phr | To annoy, irritate, upset. |
Get on one's high horse | phr | To become dignified and formal; assume a haughty and arrogant mien. |
Get one down | vb | To make gloomy, or cause another to be depressed. |
Get one going | vb | To cause another to be agitated, excited or angry. |
Get one in | vb | To fool, trick, deceive. |
Get (have) one on a string | phr | To control and deceive another over a long period of time. |
Get one's bitter | phr | To get one just deserts. |
Get one's eyes together | phr | Too have a nap, doze off, kip. |
Get one's feet wet | phr | To initiate oneself or be initiated into something. 2. to have a first and testing experience of something. |
Get one's finger out | phr | To stop idling about, procrastinating, and beginning to something. |
Get one hackles up | phr | To become angry, infuriated, furious, lose one's temper. |
Get one's head down | phr | To have some sleep.. 2. tp plead guilty in court. |
Get one's head straight | phr | To think clearly. 2. 'get one's head together.' |
Get one's head together | phr | To sort oneself out, regain calmness and composure. 2. 'get one's head straight.' |
Get one's hooks into | phr | To grasp, grab. obtain, esp. when the thing or object most desired is held by a rival. |
Get one's mind right | phr | To think clearly. |
Get one's nose to | phr | To have another person utterly dependent on oneself, typically in a one-sided love relationship. |
Get one's soul in soak | phr | To become intoxicated. |
Get one's tail down | phr | To act and look in a despondent or dejected manner. 2. to lose heart, become somewhat depressed. |
Get one's tail-feathers up | phr | To be annoyed, irritated, furious, maddened. |
Get on one's wick | phr | To irritate, annoy, hamper. |
Get one wrong | vb | To misunderstand an other meaning or intention. |
Get on someone's goat | phr | To annoy, irritate, harass. |
Get on the home stretch | phr | To be near achieving one's aims, as a journey, a work task. |
Get on to | phr | To become aware of what is going on; to realise, to understand. |
Get out from under | phr | To extricate from troubles, as financial problems; delicate personal problems. |
Get out of bed on the wrong side | phr | To be in an irritable, irascible, ill-tempered mood. |
Get out of here | excl | General exclamation of total disbelief and dismissal. 2. you're joking, rubbish, your mad. |
Get out of it | ecxl | Exclamation of dismissal. 2. Go away! don't be stupid; don't be silly. 3. don't make laugh (mocking) |
Get over | phr | To take advantage, get around. 2. to intimidate, frighten. 3. to get to understand. |
Get over | phr | To make oneself understood; to gain favour; to succeed. 3. to become well again physically, emotionally or mentally. 3. to make a favourable impression. 4. to recover or bounce back from a problem, etc. 3. be restored to the norm. |
Get shafted | vb | To be treated harshly, severely and unfairly. |
Get sloughed up | vb | To move from the general prison population into protective confinement. |
Get smart | vb | Command to become wisely aware of one's situation, options, possibilities. |
Get someone's back | phr | To look after somebody, lit. to see that they are not attacked from behind. 2. to protect the interests of another, |
Get someone's back up | phr | To annoy, anger, infuriated someone by words or deeds. 2. to become angry or make someone angry; esp. in a way to cause someone to resist. |
Get someone down | vb | To depress, disillusion, give the blues. |
Get something on someone | phr | To find out something incriminating or negative about some and use it to one's own advantage. |
Get something over with | phr | To finish, end, conclude something. 2. come to a stopping point or mark. |
Get somewhere | vb | To succeed, to realize one's desire. |
Get stoned | vb | To be intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. 2. to be high. |
Get stuck into | vb | To start a fight. 2. to start, with enthusiasm, any sort of activity. 3. to attack verbally. |
Get the bird | phr | To be jeered, mocked, hissed, esp. during a theatrical show. |
Get the book | phr | To become religious, often during imprisonment. |
Get the breaks | phr | To have a stroke of good luck or success; to profit by a fortunate occurrence. |
Get the drift | phr | Understand what one is implying, hinting at, etc. |
Get the drop on | phr | To obtain or get someone in an inferior position, or have threatening advantage over someone. |
Get the elbow | phr | To be dismissed, rejected, dispensed with. |
Get the eye | phr | To be look at in an insinuating, seductive way. |
Get the go-head | phr | Take the lead in a competition, election contest etc. |
Get the goods on | phr | To find out negative facts about; to find or collect desired information about. 2. to find some facts or knowledge about someone and use it to one's advantage. |
Get the hang off something | phr | To understand, have the know-how and master a particular skill. |
Get the hell out of | phr | To leave, depart quickly to avoid harm. |
Get the hot end of | phr | To be victimized, to be given a hard time. |
Get-there | n | Ambition, energy. |
Get there on two feet | phr | To do something very well, to succeed in a notable way. |
Get the sads | phr | To be depressed. |
Get the shaft | phr | See shaft. 2. to be ill-treated, abuse; esp. by cruel deception. |
Get the shove | phr | To be dismissed from employment. 2. to be rejected by a spouse, partner or lover. |
Get the show on the road | n | To start, begin, to get going. |
Get the wind up | phr | To frighten, make fearful, nervous or anxious. |
Get the wrong bull by the horns | phr | To make a mistake; act or do something in error. |
Get this | Imp | Listen to this; hear me. |
Get through (to) | phr | To make oneself understood; esp. by someone who is dilatory or slow on the uptake. |
Get to | vb | To start doing something, commence 2. to attack bodily. 3. to corrupt, taint, influence negatively or bribe. 4. to effect or influence emotionally, to angst, worry, mae nervous |
Get-together | n | A meeting or gathering, often social. |
Get together | vb | To act in concert, to help one another. 2. to have a sexual relationship. |
Get to someone | phr | To disturb or anger. 2. to affect, make an impression on. |
Get tough with | phr | Often, of criminals, or police, to act inan aggressive, harsh manner towards someone or something. |
Get-up | n | One's dress or attire, esp. best or most fashionable. |
Get-up | n | Ambition, energy; spirit; aggressiveness |
Get up | vb | Inspire, energise, galvanise, esp. for a sporting event, examination etc. |
Get-up | n | The date of one's release from prison set by the authorities. |
Get-up | n | A ruse, scam, fraud, subterfuge. |
Get up and dust off | phr | To depart or run off quickly. |
Get up and get | phr | To leave in a hurry. 2. to move quickly. 3. to act or do something with energy. |
Get-up-and-go | phr | Energy, ambition, drive, initiative.. |
Get up and go | vb | To move fast, get moving. |
Get up early in the morning | phr | To be clever, be aware, mentally alert, undumb and unslow. |
Get up off | vb | To go through or feel the effects of a drug(s). 2. to resist a way of doing things. 3. to give up or away something one values or thinks is important. |
Get up off the shoulder | phr | To fight with one's fist. |
Get up on | vb | To get excited by, to become interested in. |
Get up someone's nose | phr | To annoy, irritate; provoke hostility. |
Get up steam | phr | To act energetically, to become interested in. |
Get up there | vb | To grow older |
Get up to | phr | To do something or an action, usu. mischievous or possibility illegal. |
Get up with | vb | To have a romantic meeting or encounter. 2. to meeting with. |
Get weaving | vb | To get on with things that need to be done. 2. to do something in a hurry. |
Get wet | vb | To murder, kill, get wounded. 2. to spill another blood; to have blood on (wet) your hands. |
Get wise | phr | Be aware, to learn about, get a warning to be careful. 2. become aware, esp. in matters of survival and advancement. 3. to look after one's own interest. |
Get wise with yourself | phr | Often an exhortation to be alert, look after one's interests, put yourself first. 3. to become impudent or defiant. |
Get with | vb | To come to know, realize, understand. 2. to join in or with; to follow and accept the party line. 3. get beside, get behind, become amongst the ranks of. 2. to have a romantic relationship with. |
Get with it | excl | Stop being or acting foolishly. 2. pay attention to what's happening, going on or needs to be done. |
Ghastly | adj | Of persons, things, objects, events, circumstances, horrible, shocking, unpleasant, distasteful. |
Ghost | n | A photograph. 2. a person who does the work on behalf of the person who is publicly credited for it (a ghost-writer). 3. a white person. 4. a fictitious name created for a fraudulent person. 5. a creditor (they give bad debtors an unpleasant fright when they appear.) 6. a hundred dollar bill ($100): they say they exist but few people have claimed to have seen them. |
Ghost | n | An absentee, someone who has opted out of normal social life. |
Ghost | vb | To follow, shadow, to follow surreptitiously. |
Ghost | vb | To write a book or article for someone else who takes the credit. 2. to share a hotel or other kinds of lodgings with someone unbeknown to the owner. |
Ghost | vb | To move a prisoner from one prison to another during the night, without other prisoner knowing of the departure. |
Ghostbuster | n | A person who exposes spiritualistic mediums |
Ghosting | n | The moving of a prisoner from one prison to another during the night, without the other prisoners knowing that the departutre has taken place. |
Ghost milk | n | Cultural ooze that major projects exude: all those delivery documents, those primary strategic objectives, those maquettes and futuramas of the world-to-be. |
Ghost walks | phr | "The Ghost Walks" - implies that the pay or salaries is at hand or about to be giving out. |
Ghosts | n | White particles that look like, but are not, crack cocaine. |
Ghost town | n | An abandoned town, often one that has flourished for a time |
Ghost turds | n | Fluff that collects under beds and furniture. 2. house moss. |
Gilded moonshine | n | Worthless IOUs or other credit documents that have no genuine financial backing. |
Gilt | n | Money, currency, coins. |
Gilt-edged | adj | First-rate. 2. dependable |
Ginger | n | A red-haired or ginger-hackled person. |
Ginger | vb | The act of robbing a prostitute client. 2. a brothel where robbing clients of their money or valuables is commonplace. |
Gingerer | n | A prostitute who robs clients of their money or valuables. |
Git-down time | n | The start of a prostitutes "get-down time" or working time. |
Gitlet | n | A getlet; an illegitimate child, a bastard. |
Give | vb | To allow someone a certain or limited period of time, "I give you ten minutes." |
Give | vb | To convey, in a skeptical or dismissive manner, information or knowledge, 'have you got anything to give me.' 2. used as an angry or very annoyed answer, to show displeasure at a previous statement or comment, 'I'll give you, love.' |
Give a dusty answer | phr | To give an unpleasant, intolerant answer. |
Give a fair spin | phr | Treat with fairness; give another a fair go. |
Give and take | n | To act in a fair and even handed manner. 2. to be tolerant. 3. to listen to and respect another opinions and beliefs. |
Give a tumble | phr | To try out, to experiment. 2. to have intercourse. 3. to recognize, acknowledge. |
Give-away | n | Betrayal of a secret. 2. something that is obvious; a no-brainer. 3. anything that reveals something concealed; a clue. |
Give-away | n | A free sample, or prize. |
Give away | vb | To betray another (s); forsake, abandon, give up. |
Give cold pig | phr | A prank played on a tardy riser, with the bed clothes being pulled back and cold water tipped over the sleeper. |
Give good | vb | To rebuke, chide, scold severely. 2. to tell off. |
Give green rats | phr | To criticize, slander someone in their absence, to backbite. (green: with envy, jealousy.) |
Give hell | vb | To scold, berate severely. 2. give someone a hard time. 3. fig.punish, hurt. |
Give it a go | phr | To make an attempt; give it a try. |
Give it away | phr | To stop, give up abandon. |
Give it the boot | phr | To accelerate, put your foot down on the accelerator. 2. to get rid of, to dispense with; oust. |
Give it to someone | phr | To beat, punish, rebuke . |
Give me five | vb | To slap hands (five fingers) with another in celebration of victory, success or a greeting of friendship. |
Give me strength | excl | Uttered on hearing something stupid. |
Give one the lowdown | phr | To communicate to one inside information; to tell the true facts; to relate gossip or scandal |
Give or take | phr | Implying an estimation, usu. of time or number, as ' give or take five minutes. |
Give out | vb | To talk emotionally, to talk with feeling. 2. to collapse, cease to function. |
Give some flesh | phr | The slapping of hands or palms, usu. with ritual meaning between Black folk. |
Give someone a break | phr | To give someone an opportunity; chance. 2. let off, pardon, excuse, as exclamation 'give him a break.' |
Give someone a go | phr | To give someone an opportunity, try-out, a chance. |
Give someone a miss | phr | To avoid seeing someone or doing something. 2. not opt for. 3. give someone the go-by. |
Give someone a ring | phr | To call some on the telephone. |
Give someone grief | phr | To make life difficult for; hassle, harass. |
Give someone heat | phr | To criticise. |
Give someone hell | phr | To rebuke, scold, punish someone severely. |
Give someone lip | phr | To speak to someone in a rude, offensive, impertinent manner. |
Give someone that | phr | To acknowledge the other point, as 'I give you that.' |
Give someone the blacks | phr | To ignore, esp. when snubbing a former friend. |
Give someone the boot | phr | "Give someone the boot or the foot" - to throw out, reject, oust. 2. dismiss, sack, kick out. |
Give someone the business | phr | To kill. 2. beat, assault, treat roughly. 3. to tease, taunt, deride. 4. put at a disadvantage by own's own actions. 5. to deceive, bamboozle in business. |
Give someone the deep six | phr | To kill, murder, to do in. |
Give someone the dust off | phr | To ignore, snub, reject. |
Give someone the eye | phr | To look at with insinuating and seductive manner. |
Give someone the finger | phr | To raise the middle finger as an act or to imply derision and disdain. 2. to show contempt and defiance by holding up the middle finger towards someone. |
Give someone the freedom of the world | phr | To dismiss from the job; 'to be liberated', as put by Tony Abbott, the Australian Prime Minister, upon hearing that more than 3000 workers were about to lose their job in the car-making industry. 2. give the shove to. 3. give someone the boot. |
Give someone the glad eye | phr | Show an amorous or sexual interest in someone. 2. give the come-on or eye to. 3. to look or glance at invitingly; gaze enticingly at. |
Give someone the glad hand | phr | To welcome enthusiastically to the point of insincere excess, as often the wont of politicians. 2.to greet or welcome effusively |
Give someone the go-by | phr | To avoid, disregard deliberately. 2. to allow, to turn a blind eye. 3. to dismiss, to get rid; give the shove to. |
Give someone the length of one's tongue | phr | To verbally attack, lambaste. |
Give someone the needle | phr | To nag at, criticize regularly, and smartingly. |
Give someone the shaft | phr | To swindle, maltreat, or otherwise treat wrongly. |
Give someone the shake | phr | To rid oneself of; get away from. |
Give someone the time of day | phr | Usu. negative: 'not give someone the time of day.' - not do the slightest favour for; not greet or speak to; have contempt for. |
Give (someone) the works (to) | phr | To put in one's all effort in communicating something, esp. a sermon or speech. 2. to give someone a thorough beating; to mistreat or thrash severely; to kill or murder someone. |
Give someone what for | phr | To reprimand severely, to inflict severe pain on. 2. to beat or punish severely, 3. chastise, lambaste, chide. 4. drub, either physically or verbally. |
Give the bird to | phr | Express one's disapproval by hissing, jeering. |
Give the come-on to | phr | To entice, to lure, to stare amorously at. 2. give the (glad) eye to. |
Give the elbow to | phr | To dismiss, reject, sack. 2. give the shove to. |
Give the fish-eye to | phr | To stare menacingly at. 2. to look or stare at in a cold contemptuous, or menacingly way. 3. to threaten by hostile look. |
Give the green light to | phr | Give approval or go-ahead to someone. |
Give the once over | phr | To examine, closely, scrutinize, esp. with a view to evaluation or identification. |
Give the shove to | phr | To sack or dismiss from a job. |
Give the shirt off one's back | phr | To be very generous and kind. |
Give the show away | phr | To reveal a secret, your own or another's. 2. to betray a confidence, as a plan or commitment. |
Give the thumbs up | phr | To approve, to answer positively. |
Give-up | n | A surrender, submission. |
Give up | vb | To betray, reveal another's whereabouts, to inform. |
Give up on | vb | To lose faith in, trust or belief in. |
Give up the ship | phr | To perish, die. 2. to abandon. |
Give with the eyes | phr | To look at, glance. |
Glad | adj | Tipsy, drunkish. |
Glad eye | n | A glance of sexual interest. |
Glad eye | phr | "Give Someone the Glad Eye" - show an amorous or sexual interest in someone. |
Glad hand | n | Welcome, effusively and warmly; cordially. |
Glad hand | phr | "To Give Someone the Glad Hand" - to give someone a warm, welcoming handshake (often insincerely, or by politician and other "charmers" for their own gain.) |
Glad hander | n | An enthusiastic, friendly but totally insincere person. |
Glad-handing | n | The act of warmly welcoming (often without sincerity) as, 'after glad-handing the parishioners of Methurst, the reverend headed for the strip-club.' |
Glad rags | n | One best and often showiest clothes. 2. party clothes. 3. formal evening wear. |
Glad weeds | n | Formal dress attire. |
Glass | n | In prison slang: diamonds, often of the highest quality. |
Glass | adj | In boxing parlance any part of the body that is weak or vulnerable, as "a glass jaw." |
Glass | vb | To slash another's face or body with a piece of broken glass. |
Glassed | adj | Cut in the face or other part of the body by a slash with a broken bottle. |
Glassen | adj | Made of glass (<ME glasen) |
Glass eyes | n | One who wears glasses or spectacles. 2. a drug taker. |
Glass house | n | A place where crack cocaine can be sold or smoked. |
Glassy eye | adj | A cold, disdainful stare, like that of a dead fish. |
Glided moonshine | n | Worthless IOUs or other credit documents that have no genuine financial backing. |
Glisten | n | A collective term for diamonds. |
Glister | n | A drinking glass, a tumbler. |
Glom | vb | To acquire, obtain, have. |
Glowing stick | n | A cigarette. |
Gnat's eyebrow | phr | Something very small or in very fine detail, hair splitting, as in "Down to a Gnat's Eyebrow." |
Gnawer | n | A rodent. 2. 'The Gnawer" - cancer. |
Go | n | "The Go" - the height of fashion or the "thing" to be doing; trend. 2. a dandy, a fashionable man. |
Go | n | Energy, spirit, spunk. 2. get-up and go |
Go | n | An event, circumstance. 2. matter, affair. 3. an attempt, try. |
Go | n | An argument, row, fight, a real barney. 2. to attack verbally or physically. |
Go | vb | To die, pass away, perish, expire. 2. to relieve oneself. 3. happen, transpire. |
Go | vb | Supporting, backing, standing for, as "Go Obama" |
Go | adj | To function properly, be copasetic, going as planned, "all thing are go."2. appropriate, fitting, suitable. |
Go abroad | vb | To be transported as a convict. |
Goad | n | A decoy at a horse fair. 2. one who falsely and lavishly praises a product or service to entice buyers. 3. one who makes fake bids at auctions |
Go-ahead | n | Progress, ambition, energy. 2. a command or permission to do something, as in "Give Someone the Go Ahead" 3. the lead in a contest, event, competition. |
Go-ahead | adj | Progressive, ambitious to do something, as "good-ahead plans for the company" |
Go-ahead | phr | "Give Someone the Go-ahead" - permit or command someone to do something. 2. permission, or the word. |
Go-ahead | phr | "Go ahead like a Whale" - to tackle something with total energy and wholeheartedly. |
Go all out | phr | -To do something unreservedly. 2. to do one most or best. |
Go all out on | phr | To trust fully and completely. |
Go all the way | phr | To do one's uttermost; make an extra effort. |
Go-alone | adj | To do something independently. |
Go alone | vb | To be vary, careful, cautious. 2. to be experienced. |
Go-along | n | A fool, simpleton, a mentally unalerter, who will go along or agree to anything. 2. a go-alonger. |
Go along for the ride | phr | To do something or be part of something in passive, half-hearted manner. |
Go along with | phr | To agree with someone view, proposal, suggestion opinion, beliefs. 2. to acquiesce. |
Go ape | vb | To behave stupidly, without reason, angrily or with violent. |
Goat | n | A womanizer, lecher. 2. a catholic priest. 3. an offensive old man. 4. a car with an especially powerful engine; an old car. 5. a very junior officer in an army unit. |
Goat Hill | n | Area of town where a certain class live, usu. the poorer folk but, sometimes, after gentrification the better-off folk. 2. Goat town: Goat wood. |
Goat house | n | A brothel. |
Goat-rider | n | A member of a masonic lodge, |
Goat roper | n | A peasant, rural person, an unsophisticated person. |
Goat's nest | n | An untidy, unkempt place. |
Go at something bald-headed | phr | - Put all one's effort into something, to commit oneself wholly - and disregard the possible |
Goaty | adj | Sexually frustrated. 2. irritated. |
Go-away | n | Tram, train, bus. 2. the outfit in which the bride departs from her reception to begin her honeymoon. |
Go back from | phr | To retreat, withdraw from, back down. |
Go back on | phr | To reverse one's position on; to break a promise. |
Go bark at the moon | phr | Go away, get lost; to complain uselessly, make a pointless bother. |
Go belly up | phr | To go bankrupt. 2. to die, collapse, cease to operate. 3. image of a dead fish, floating belly up. |
Go bent | vb | For a witness to retract previous statement helpful to the prosecution. 2. to turn to criminal activity and ways. 3. of a prisoner, whose girlfriend takes up with another. |
Go-between | n | An intermediary. |
Go beyond | vb | To be sentenced to transportation (to go beyond the world one knows) |
Go broke | vb | To go bankrupt or insolvent, become moneyless, go bust. |
Go by | n | An evasion; a slight; a slight, as to give one the go by. |
Go-by-the-ground | n | A very short person. |
Go cold at | vb | To scold, blame, reprimand. |
Go cold on | vb | To lose initial enthusiasm for a proposal, activity. |
God | n | An exceptionally attractive male. |
God-bird | n | The much loved and petted baby. 2. the youngest bird in a nestful. |
God-box | n | A church. 2. an organ. |
Goddening | n | The spread of faith and religion to individuals, groups or nations. |
Goddess | n | An ambitious, successful woman. |
Godfather | n | The chief, highest authority, as 'the godfather of the silver screen' . 2. one who pays the bill after a meal or a drinking session. |
Godfather-in-law | n | A member of a jury. |
God-hopper | n | An evangelist or very religious person. |
Go dog on | vb | To let down. 2. betray. 3. to inform against. |
Go-down | n | A basement room, flat or apartment. 2. a shop or cinema located in a basement. 3. a human dweller or visitor to an a go-down. |
Go down | vb | To be sent to prison. 2. to be committed to a mental institution. 3. to happen, take place, often a dramatic encounter, such as a fight or brawl. 4. to become inoperative, (stop functioning) as a computer. |
Go down in food | vb | To eat ravenously. |
Go down like flies | phr | To collapse in the face of weapons, disease or adversity. |
Go down on | vb | To harm someone, cause trouble for someone. |
Gods for Clods | n | Comparative religion for dummies. |
God's Heater | n | The sun. |
God's house | n | A church |
God's time | n | Time as measured before the introduction of daylight savings. |
God whisperer | n | A member of the clergy, priest, pastor, reverend. |
Goer | n | A success, a victory. 2. anything that is dependable and can be counted on to work or succeed. 3. a promiscuous, sexually available woman. 4. an enthusiastic if not always competent amateur. |
Goers | n | Feet. |
Goes | phr | "What I Say Goes" - accepted, comes into being, is brought into effect; to have authority or effectiveness; to accept without question. |
Goey | adj | Enthusiastic. |
Go-fast | n | An amphetamine or any central nervous system stimulant. |
Go fishing | vb | To undertake a search for facts; to drill down, dive deep. |
Go-for | n | An employee who is expected to serve and cater to others; low ranking subordinate; a gopher, as in "a general go-for" |
Go for | n | To favor, advocate or take to; to attack, assault or go after. |
Go for | vb | To be really attracted to, 'I could go for her.' |
Go for broke | phr | To make a maximum effort, put or stake everything you have on a hope or try. 2. to commit oneself unreservedly, esp. in a gambling or betting situation |
Go for it | phr | (exclamation) - an exhortation to make an effort. 2. to overcome one's fears. 3. to get on energetically. 4. a general exhortation to others to have fun. |
Go for one's life | phr | To engage in activity with vigour and enthusiasm. |
Go for soul | phr | To be deeply moved. |
Go gandering | phr | To look for something or someone |
Go-getter | n | A vigorous and effective person. |
Go-go | n | Disco music and dance style. |
Go-go | adj | fashionable, modish, modern and trendy. 2. having and displaying vitality and drive. esp. in business and commence, urgent and energetic. 3. 'go-go' living in genetrified inner suburbia.' |
Go Greek | vb | To engage in sodomy. |
Go halves | vb | To share equally, divide into equal shares. 2. to get or be given an equal share. 3. go halfies. |
Go hammer and tongs | phr | To approach an activity with maximum effort and energy; modern use refers to sexual intercourse (image of smith using a hammer to strike a piece of metal.) |
Go hard at | phr | To proceed at a furious rate, to act in an unwise and wild manner |
Go haywire | phr | To lose one's senses. 2. to lose control, go mad, crazy, become confused and disoriented. 3. to become inoperative, break down suddenly and unexpectedly. |
Go hog-wild | vb | To act audaciously and unrestrainedly. |
Go in blind | phr | To guess; to act somewhat recklessly |
Going | n | "The Going" - situation, as 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going.' |
Going dark | phr | A military lingo for the sudden termination of communication. The term used to describe a scenario in which communication appears to have ceased, but in reality has just moved from a public communication channel, where it could be monitored, to a private communication channel that prevents eavesdropping. 2. deciding or declaring that from the next number of hours, days, weeks, etc., one is going to be unavailable through all social media, and any other forms of electronic connection. |
Going over | n | A scolding, a telling off. 2. an inspection. 3. a thrashing, beating, trouncing, a going-over. |
Go it alone | phr | To act by oneself without support or assistance. |
Gold | n | Money. 2. narcotics, of a high quality. |
Gold dig? | vb | Usu. of an older woman, to obtain money and other gifts in exchange for sexual favours. |
Gold digger? | n | A female, who uses her charms and favors, to lure and defraud, or extorts money from men.(the cat is known as gold digging) 2. One who forms relationships or marries another for purely monetary reasons. 3. a young woman orig. typically from the chorus line, who swaps sexual favors for the monetary and material gifts of a usually older lover. |
Gold-dropper | n | A rogue who specializes in dropping something supposedly valuable where it will be found by a potential victim, who is either lured into a game or persuaded to buy the "valuable." 2. a scam by a catfish who meets potential victim on-line and persuades them to send them money to him or her facilitate the release of a valuable article held in a foreign country. |
Gold dust | n | Cocaine. 2. heroin. 3. high quality drugs. |
Gold-end man | n | An itinerant sellers of jewelry. 2. a buyer of broken piece of gold and silver. |
Golden fire | n | Cider |
Goldfire | n | To mean (colloquially) something which is delivered rapidly. |
Golden handshake | n | A bonus given as compensation for dismissal or compensation. |
Golden leaf | n | High quality marijuana. |
Golden oldie | n | Anything vintage but still valuable. 2. a musical recording still considered good enough, to be played years after it's first release. 3. a senior citizen, geriatric. |
Gold finder | n | A jocular name for one who cleans toilets. |
Goldfish | n | A beating of a prisoner (the prisoner is the isolated goldfish, the beaters surrounding the bowl) to extract confession, also a rubber hose used in such a beating. 2. a married woman esp. one ripe for seduction. |
Gold star | n | Cocaine. 2. marijuana. |
Go like a bird | phr | Of a vehicle, go fast and smooth mechanically. |
Go-long | n | Consequences, inevitable developments, circumstances. 2. "lost in a go-long" - to be a victim of circumstances. 3. a police patrol van in which prisoners are transported to the police station or court; paddy wagon, black maria: (you must go-along.) |
Gone | adj | Considered a lost cause, a hopeless case. 2. a person or animal, dead or doomed. |
Gone | adj | Crazy, bizarre, insane. 2. intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. 3. as a general intensifier both positive and negative, extraordinary or thoroughly. 4. weird and wonderful. lost in drink, drunk or music. |
Gone | phr | "Gone to the Dogs" - in decline, rundown, degenerative. 2. on skid row, decline, dirty, become a hobo or street-dweller. |
Gone | phr | "Gone with the Wind" - vanished, esp. of persons and money. |
Good | adj | Solvent, able to pay for or lend. |
Good | phr | "Good a Maid as Her Mother" - a recently deflowered or "cropped" woman. |
Good | phr | "Good as all Get-out" - excellent, wonderful, first-rate. |
Good | phr | "Good Night All" - a phrase used to change the subject of conversation. |
Good | phr | "Good on the Fang" - a hearty eater; somewhat of a glutton. |
Good | phr | "Good on the Tooth" - a hearty eater, good on the fang. |
Good | phr | "Good on You" - a general expression of approbation. |
Good deal | n | A pleasant and favourable situation, life, employment. |
Goodie | n | A religious hypocrite. 2. a person of virtue and decency. 3. a good, decent, trustworthy person, esp, in a movie or story. |
Goodie | n | A special treat, something nice to eat. 2. something nice, a pleasant feature, something very desirable. |
Goodie-goodie | n | One who tries to live his or her life by a strict moral code. 2. one too good or overly moral. 2. a prim and outwardly virtuous person. |
Good looker | n | An attractive woman. |
Goodman | n | "The Goodman" - the Devil, Satan, Old Sooty, |
Goodman | n | A favourite companion, a roisterer. 2. a goaler. |
Good nose | n | Something that smells very pleasant. |
Good-off | adj | Comfortably financially, secure moneywise. |
Good old | adj | A general term of approval and affection, as "good old dad" 2. a term often heard in Australia and Ireland, possibly from the Irish: "rinne se mhaith orm" - he did go on me. |
Goods | n | Got the goods: has the ability. |
Goods | n | "The Goods" - the real thing, the ideal thing or person, come up to hope and expectations, as in "deliver the goods." 2. someone or something of excellent and outstanding quality. 3. information, evidence, usu. of a negative nature, neede to arrest and convict a malefactor, ("get the goods on"; negative facts about someone. 4. stolen goods, contraband - 'catch with the goods' |
Good shot | n | A good try even though one may have failed. |
Good show | excl | A general exclamation of approval or pleasure. |
Good thing | n | One who can be easily duped; a sucker. 2. an advantageous position, esp in business dealings. |
Good time | n | Time off for good behavior. |
Good time | n | An especially acceptable, likeable person. |
Good woolled | adj | Used of a plucky, spirited person (said of a sheep that has a good fleece) |
Goody two-shoes | n | A self-righteous person. 2. an innocent and virtuous young woman. 3. |
Goody two-shoes | adj | A self-righteous, do-gooder image and attitude to life. |
Go-off | n | Starting time; cf: "get go" |
Go off | vb | To dispose of at a sale. 2. to die. 3. of a woman about to be married. 4. to be sent to prison. |
Go off | vb | To lose emotional control, as "to go off at or go off one's brain". 2. to do something foolish or simply. 4. to act intensely. 5. to move from one topic to another. |
Go off | vb | To lose freshness, to become rotten, of food and milk. |
Go off at | phr | To lose one's temper; to attack verbally, and, at length. |
Go off one's head (brain) | phr | To loose one's temper completely; go off one's brain; go off at. |
Go off song | phr | Of a usually pleasant or friendly person, to become suddenly hostile. |
Go off the deep end | phr | To go into a violent, uncontrolled rage. 2. to have an emotional and mental breakdown. |
Go on | vb | To talk continuously and repetitively and often tediously, go on and on, nag. |
Go on | vb | To use as grounds for or a basis for one opinions. |
Go on | excl | Exclamation to imply incredulity. |
Go on the town | phr | To go out merrymaking; to have a good time. 2. |
Go one better | phr | To outdo. |
Go one-to-one | vb | To have an in your face confrontation with another person. |
Goose | vb | To scold, reprimand, hiss. 2. make a goose of. |
Goose-drown(d)er | n | Very heavy rain; a downpour, cloudburst. |
Goose-head | n | An idiot, fool, simpleton. |
Go out | vb | To lose consciousness, faint, go out to it. |
Go out like a light | phr | To faint, lose consciousness, swoon. |
Go out on a limb | phr | To put oneself in a vulnerable position. 2. to take a risk. |
Go out the back door | phr | To back down under pressure or threat (prison slang). |
Go out to it | phr | To faint, lose consciousness, swoon. 2. go out like a light. |
Go over | vb | Be accepted, as the decision will never go over with the man in the street.' |
Go over | vb | Of a man, to become homosexual - to go over to the other side. |
Go overboard | vb | To lose control and behave excessively or perilously, to overdo. 2. to utterly commit oneself to something or someone. (go overboard for). 3. to be smitten by love or helpless love. |
Go over the highside | phr | To lose control of one's composure. 2. to skite, show off |
Go over the hill | phr | To get married. 2. to go insane or crazy. 3. to escape from prison or go over the wall. |
Go over the top | phr | To do something dangerous, although often brave and remarkable. |
Go over the wall | phr | To escape from goal. 2. to leave a religious order. 3. to defect to another country. 4. to go crazy, insane, mad. |
Go pear-shaped | adj | Of plans, schemes and dreams to falter, fail, die, collapse. |
Go pound sand | phr | Dismissive direction telling another to be accursed, confounded, humiliated. |
Gore | n | Spicy gossip, juicy scandal. |
Go shank's mare | phr | To walk, go on foot, be a pedestrian. |
Go soak your Head | phr | An aggressive, abusive jibe. (in other words, drown yourself). |
Go south | phr | To disappear, fail to appear, vanish. 2. |
Gospel bird | n | A chicken (iterant preachers were usually rewarded by parisher with a meal of chicken). |
Gospel-grinder | n | A preacher, clergyman. 2. an evangelistic missionary, tract-distributor, colporteur. |
Gospel-mill | n | A church; a gospel-shop, |
Gospel-pipe | n | The penis, the grinding tool. |
Gospel shop | n. | A church |
Gospel shooter | n | A preacher, reverend. |
Go steady | vb | To have a constant only boyfriend or girlfriend. |
Go the full yard | phr | Do one's utmost; make an out-and-out effort. 2. follow something through to its limit. 3. go the whole nine yards. |
Go the whole hog | phr | To do a thing thoroughly, to stay with a task until it is completed. 2. do one's utmost, not slacken off, pursue to the end. |
Go through the mill | phr | To have trying experience. 2. to have practical experience of something. |
Go to bed with someone | phr | To have sexual intercourse with someone. |
Go toe to toe | phr | To fight with vigour and energy. |
Go to grass With one's teeth upwards | phr | To be buried. 2. die |
Go to heaven in a string | phr | To be hanged; thus feel like going to heaven on a string to be deliriously happy as not to mind even the possibility of imminent death. (orig. applied to Jesuits in C16th, whose faith could bring them judicisl death) |
Go to heaven in a wheelbarrow | phr | To go to hell (picture the devil taking away a scold in a barrow.) |
Go-to-hell | adj | Outrageous, extreme. 2. to deteriorate, be ruined. 3. may you be accursed, confounded, humiliated. |
Go to one's digs | phr | To go home or to one's home. |
Go to pot | phr | To worsen, fare much less well, deteriorate. |
Go to seed | phr | To become overweight; become worthless or obsolete. |
Go to the dogs | phr | To fail in one's efforts as a whole. 2. become of little worth, from the notion that something is unfit for human consumption would be given to dogs, such as horse killed for sale as dog food. |
Go to the wall | phr | To be ruined and destitute, collapse, go under. 2. to do the utmost for others in various situations. (consider the plight of someone standing against wall about to be shot. |
Go to the wire | phr | To be close in competition to the very end. |
Go to town | phr | To make a big fuss over or about; concentrate on. 2. to enjoy greatly, succeed impressively. 3. enjoy greatly, loosen or throw off restraint, let go . |
Got to give | phr | "Something got to give" - a resolution is necessary and is need now. 2. the situation is perilous and distressing. |
Go under | vb | To fail, become bankrupt, to be overcome, to die |
Go underground | vb | To take up hiding or concealment. 2. go into hiding, take up a life of concealment. 3. as a musician, to make a mistake in playing. 4. of an actor, to forget or badly misspeak one's lines during a play or performance. |
Go under the knife | phr | To submit to a surgical operation. |
Go-up | n | An upstairs apartment, unit or flat. 2. opposite of Go-down. |
Go up | vb | To die early, be hanged, be done in or for. 2. to be sent to jail. financially, to be ruined, destroyed, bankruptcted. |
Go up against | phr | To confront, face, challenge; take on. |
Go up in smoke | phr | To be ruined, destroyed. |
Go upstairs | phr | To die, pass away. 2. to be hanged, executed. |
Go up the ladder to bed | phr | To be executed, hanged. |
Go up the wall | phr | Climb the wall, drive up the wall - to become frantic, esp. from frustration and anxiety. |
Go wenching | vb | To have sexual intercourse. 2. to associate with common women. |
Go west | vb | To die, to collapse, end. (the setting sun in the west). |
Go with | vb | To accept and act upon a plan or suggestion. 2. to have an affair or relationship with someone to have sexual intercourse. |
Go with a swing | phr | Of a party, show, or entertainment, to pass off highly, successfully and enjoyable. |
Go with the flow | phr | To consign oneself to the order and pace of things; be passive. |
Grass | n | Green vegetables, esp asparagus, lettuce or other salad food. 2. narcotics, marijuana. |
Grass | n | Hair, pubic hair. 2. straight hair typical of caucasians. |
Grass | n | An informer; a grasser, snitch. |
Grass | vb | To inform on, betray, tell on or tell tales. 2. to kill, slay, put under the grass. 3. to knock down, defeat, overcome. |
Grass-eater | n | A policeman who accepts graft money or small bribes, but does demand them. |
Grass-fighter | n | A bare knuckle fighter. 2. a public brawler. |
Grass-head | n | A heavy smoker of marijuana. |
Grass-hopper | n | A waiter. 2. a thief. 3. a policeman. 4. an informer. 5. a marijuana smoker or user. 6. a tourist, who swarm in like grasshoppers. |
Grass widow | n | A woman who is alone because of divorce, separation, rejection( discarded mistress.) 2. In India during the British occupation a mistress who is enjoyed on a temporary straw mattress or actually in or on the grass, rather than a soft, comfortable matrimonial bed; widow is used ironically denoting that her "husband" is no longer with her. 3. a woman whose husband is temporary absent. 4. opposite to a grave-yard widow whose husband is actually dead. |
Grave-rat | n | A medical student: the stealing of bodies from graves for dissection. |
Graves | n | Long, dirty finger-nails: they are filled with dirt. |
Gravestones | n | The teeth, grinders. |
Graveyard | n | The mouth. 2. prominent front teeth. 3. false teeth, (all resemblance to tombstones). |
Graveyard shift | n | A working hift that begins at midnight or 2am. |
Graveyard watch | n | The period from midnight to 4am or 8am in the morning |
Graveyard widow | n | An actual wodow whose husband is dead. See "Grass widow" |
Gray | n | A white person, esp. a racist. |
Grayback | n | A professed Christian. 2. a confederate soldier (because of his uniform) in the U.S. civil war. |
Graybeard | n | A very senior pilot or anybody in a very senior position that takes years of experience to attain to. |
Gray locks | n | Worry, anxiety. 2. a worrier. |
Great | adj | Wonderful, excellent. |
Great | adj | Close, very friendly: thus "great with" ; close to, esp. of lovers. |
Great | excl | An excl of approval. |
Great I Am | n | Used of a self-important person. Guy Ballard, a US confidence trickster, set up a cult with the title "The Great I Am" which fleece the gullible of hundreds of thousands of dollars of "love gifts" during the 1930s. |
Great on | phr | Expert in knowing a great deal about. |
Great shakes | n | Very good, great, outstanding, usu in the negative phr "No Great Shakes" |
Great shot | n | An important person, a big shot. |
Great Smoke | n | "The Great Smoke" - London. |
Great unwashed | n | University students, protesters, beatniks, the common people. |
Great White Father | n | An ironic description of any White authority-figure, esp. the US. president. 2. a White man esp. in Africa, who controls and protects the black people |
Great White Way | n | Broadway. |
Greedhead | n | An avaricious person. |
Greedmonger | n | One whose chief interest in life is to acquire wealth and preserve it, sharing it with no others. |
Greedy | adj | Bisexual- "wants it all." |
Greedy-guts | n | A glutton, a selfish person. |
Greek | n | A cunning, sly individual. esp. one who is gambler or swindler. 2. a derog. term for an Irish immigrant to the US. or UK. (use of "Greek" as a generic term for a foreigner; and, of course, a suspect figure.) |
Greek | n | |
Greek | n | Unintelligible language, esp. cant and slang, esp. in phrase" - "Its all Greek to me." 2. swahili. |
Greek | adj | Irish. |
Greek back | n | A supposedly faked illness..... |
Greek lightning | n | Deliberate arson in order to gain insurance on an otherwise unprofitable business. |
Greek love | n | Pederasty. |
Greek's | n | "The Greeks" - in Australia, a generic term for any small café almost always run by Greeks. |
Greek shop | n | A local corner shop, often owned by Greek immigrant family. |
Greek side | n | The buttocks |
Green | adj | Unsophisticated, naïve person. |
Green | n | Money, dollar bills, esp. ready cash. |
Green | phr | "Green as Duckweed" - very naïve, innocent, foolish. |
Green | phr | "Green as Grass" - ignorant, inexperienced, gullible, immature |
Green | vb | To hoax, defraud, swindle, render gullible. |
Green and Yellow fellow | n | A male homosexual: the Aesthetic Movement whose preferred colors were green and yellow. |
Green apple | n | A naive person. |
Green-apple quickstep | n | Diarrhea |
Greenback | n | Frog. |
Greenback | n | Money, esp. a dollar bill. |
Greenback | vb | To pay, esp. a bribe. |
Green belly | n | A novice, an unsophisticated person, esp. a new arrival in the city from the country. 2. a greenhorn. |
Green cart | n | A green cart, actual or metaphorically, in which people are taken to a mental hospital or institution. |
Green cloth | n | A billiard/ snooker table (its green baize top) |
Green door | n | The door of the execution chamber in New York state prisons. |
Green dragons | n | Barbiturates, amphetamines, a type of LSD marked with a green dragon on blotter distribuant. |
Greener | n | A novice, an innocent one who has newly arrived. 2. an inexperienced workman who is often used as a strike breaker. |
Green goddess | n | The Green Goddess" - marijuana (because of the color and pleasure it gives) |
Green gold | n | Cocaine: high quality cocaine sparkles. 2. an alloy of gold and silver. |
Green goods | n | Counterfeit banknotes. 2. paper currency. |
Green goose | n | A young, innocent girl, soon to be made intoa prostitute. 2. a young goose, a simpleton. |
Green handshake | n | A bribe, a tip, bonus (green with envy) |
Greenhorn | n | A novice, an unsophiscated person, esp. a new immigrant or a new arrival in a city from the country. 2. a newcomer, inexperienced person, neophyte. 3. a green apple, a green belly, a greenie. |
Green hornet | n | Amphetamine. |
Green house | n | A place known for selling drugs, esp. marijuana. |
Greenie | n | An environmentalist, a conservationist, member of the Green party, "The Greenies." |
Greenies | n | Vegetables; greens. |
Greening | n | An obsession, as in "to have a greening for." - to have ann obsession for. |
Greenland | n | Ireland. 2. "from Greenland, used of an unsophisticated, ignorant, gullible person. 3. fig. world of innocence; thus a Greenlander. |
Green light | vb | "Give the Green Light to"- to give permission, to allow. (traffic light). 2. permission, esp. a superior approval to proceed. |
Green meadow | n | The vagina. |
Green thumb | n | One with a special talent for gardening. 2. one who can or has the knack to make money, or be successful in business. (play on more usual gardner's green thumb or green fingers, like a flourishing plants.) |
Greeny | n | A novice, unsophisticated, greenhorn. |
Green wedge | n | Non-urban land that surrounds development in the outer areas |
Green whistle | n | The pain-relieving drug Penthrox (commonly known as the green whistle). Penthrox is an analgesic used by medical practitioners, the defence forces, ambulance paramedics, sports clubs and surf lifesavers to administer emergency pain relief. |
Grey | adj | A dull, boring, earnest, esp. in university use. |
Grey ghost | n | A parking officer or policeman. |
Greyhound | n | A white lover or sexual partner. |
Grey mare | n | A wife, esp if she is the dominant partner in the marriage. |
Greys | n | "The greys" : a it of yawning, a feeling of lassitude, laziness. |
Grind | n | Hard, continuous, wearing work, such as academic work. 2. any very difficult and trying task, esp. one that lasts a long time and is slowly and painfully done. 3. highly diligent student; a student who studies constantly 4. a private tutor; a demanding instructor. 5. an obnoxious or annoying person, jerk, pain in the neck. 6. striptease; exotic dancing; burlesque. |
Grind | n | A swindle. 2. a satirist. 3. a joke, usually personal and ridiculing. |
Grind | vb | To have sexual intercourse. 2. to rotate the hips in a sensous manner while dancing. |
Grind | vb | Ridicule, satirize. |
Grind | vb | To work hard, esp. at something unrewarding, but necessary or even essential. 2. to tire, exhaust. 3. to cause someone to work hard. 4. to devote an unreasonable amount of time and effort to one's studies.; to study diligently. |
Grinder | n | A striptease artist or dancer; a burlesque artist. |
Grinder | n | A highly diligent student. 2. a private tutor. 3. an old car, esp. a broken down, ramshackled one. 3. a parade ground, a drill field. |
Grinders | n | Teeth, gravestones. |
Grind-house | n | A cinema, picture-theatre; 'a flea house' showing second-rate or B' grade films. 2. a brothel; bordello, whorehouse. |
Grinding | n | Slow, sexy dancing |
Grinding-house | n | A house of correction; prison, jail. (with reference to the monotonous work done as part of one's punishment). 3. a striptease club. |
Grinding-house | n | A brothel |
Grinding mill | n | The vagina. |
Grinding tool | n | The penis |
Grinds | n | Prison or campus food: same old thing day after day. |
Grind show | n | An entertainment show that runs continuously. 2. a striptease show. |
Grind something out | phr | To produce or make something, esp. with uninspired precision or long and painful effort. |
Grindstone | n | Work, esp. hard work. NB. "grindstoned" make to work hard. |
Grinning bear | n | The vulva. |
Grinny bin | n | A psychiatric institution, an insane asylum, a hospital for the mentally insane etc. (the inmates fixed grins or "smiles" often fail to reflect their inner turmoil. |
Grip | n | A steady job, regular employment. 2. a stagehand or carpenter. 3. a travelling bag: a gripsack. |
Grip | n | Mental alert, grasp and awareness. 2. nous, intelligence, smarts. 3. |
Grip | vb | To curry favour with others. 2. to curry favour or advantage with more powerful fellow prisoners or inmates. |
Gripe | vb | To complain, make a great fuss. |
Gripe | phr | "To Gripe One's Soul" - to anger or greatly disgust, |
Griper | n | A miser, usurer, bank-manager. 2. an annoyer, complainer |
Gripe-fist | n | A money-lender, a miser. |
Gripes | n | A stomach ache or pains. |
Gripple(s) | n | The anus. OE: gripple: a ditch, trench, burrow, sewer. |
Gripsack | n | A hold-all, a handbag, a travelling-bag.. |
Grisly | adj | Awful, disgusting, generally distasteful. |
Gristle | n | The penis. 2.any part of the with gristle or cartilage. |
Gristle-bone | n | The penis |
Gristle-gripper | n | The vagina |
Grit | n | Solidity or strength of character, spirit, pluck, stamina |
Grit | n | Land, property, real estate. |
Grit | n | A white person, esp. a southerner, sometimes a redneck. 2. a working class white student. |
Grit | n | Crack cocaine. |
Grit | phr | "Be the Grit" - to be the right sort or genuine article. |
Gritch | vb | To nag, complain. (gripe & bitch) |
Gritchy | adj | Irritable, grouchy, |
Grits | n | Food, in general. 2. money. 3. one's business or livelihood. |
Grit-sucker | n | A poor White. 2. a term for a poor, nutrition-less diet, including some individual who actually eat dirt and grit. 3. clay-eaters, clover-eaters. |
Gritty | adj | Determined, plucky, firm. 2. needy, indigent, poor, poverty-stricken. |
Gritty-whiskers | n | Stubble or whiskers on an unshaven face. |
Groan-box | n | A musical instrument, esp. an accordion, radio, or juke box. |
Grof | adv | Flat on one's face (<ME) |
Grope | vb | To fondle, feel or handle the breasts, buttocks or genitals of someone. 2. to kiss passionately. 3. to touch, feel, caress, fondle etc.with seeming or actual sexual intent. |
Grope | n | A welcome or unwelcome fondling or handling of the buttocks, breasts or genitals. |
Groper | n | A blindman, also a blind beggar. 2. a midwife. 3. a West Australian, known a sand-groper: one who gropes his way across desert regions of the state. |
Gropers | n | The hands. |
Groping | n | Sexual stimulation, often unwanted. |
Ground | n | One's home - W.I English. |
Ground apple | n | A rock, a stone. 2. ground-nut; ground-seed. |
Grounded | phr | "Be Grounded" - to be suspended from work. 2. to be stopped from enjoying some normal right or pleasure, the sufferer is usually confined to their home. |
Grounder | n | A knock-down punch or blow. 2. a cigarette or cigarette butt that is picked up from the ground to be smoked. |
Ground-hog | n | Any worker whose job keeps them on the ground. 2. a meteorologist, weatherman, weather-forecaster. |
Groundhog Day | n | An annual festival held in USA, (among the Pennsylvania Dutch), Canada (but with similar festivals in Germany and other parts of Europe) in which the arrival time of the spring is predicted by whether or not a certain groundhog can cast its shadow or not. 2. in popular culture the phrase has come to represent a phenomen over and over until one spiritually transcends it. 2. a situation in which events are or appear to be continually repeated. According to an old English song: "If Candlemas be fair and bright, Come, Winter, have another flight; If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, Go Winter, and come not again." |
Ground-pounder | n | An infantry soldier. |
Grounds | n | Residue, dregs, |
Ground-sweat | n | A grave; thus take a ground sweat- to be buried. |
Grouty | adj | Grumpy, irritable, ill-tempered. |
Grow horns | vb | To become angry. |
Grow up | excl | Use contemptuously to an adult or child, who is behaving immaturely. |
Grub | n | Food: goods which can be exchanged at the kitchen door for grub. |
Grub | n | A hard worker, one who works to the exclusion of other interests. 2. one who study hard. |
Grub | vb | To study hard, as a student. 2. eat with us, as 'come over and grub with us.' |
Grubstake | n | Food for provided for miners and prospectors who would go out to dig for (grub): useful ore. 2. money needed for a new enterprise, new start. |
Grubstruck | adj | Exhausted by hunger |
Grundly | adv | Thoroughly, heartily (<ME grundlych) |
Grunt | n | An ill-tempered, constantly complaining person. |
Grunt | n | A combat soldier, a marine soldier, infantry soldier or non-flying Airforce officer. 2. a locomotive engineer. 3. any person doing menial work; any low-ranking person. 3. a stupid or unpleasant person. |
Grunt | n | An unattractive woman; a pig. 2. pork or ham; pigmeat. 3. a bill for food or drink; the tab. 4. a diligent student. 5. wrestling as a sport and entertainment. 6. a wrestler, esp. an inferior one: 'a grunt and groaner' |
Grunt and groaner | vb | A wrestling. |
Grunt horn | n | A tuba. |
Grunter | n | A policeman. 2. an old person out of sympathy with current youth enthusiasm. 3. a wrestler. |
Grunt show | n | TV wrestling. |
Grunt work | n | Menial work, drudgery. 2. hard and tedious toil. |
Gum | n | Impertinence, abusive talk, chatter. 2. trick or deception or hoodwink. 3. to cheat, humbug, delude. |
Gum-beat | vb | Frivolous, tedious chatter, complaining. |
Gum-beater | n | A chatterer, complainer. |
Gum-beating | n | Conversation; chat, talk. 2. incessant, frivolous chatter; vain and exaggerated talk.. |
Gum-brain | n | A fool, idiot, simpleton. |
Gum-digger | n | A dentist, fang-farrier. |
Gum-digging | n | Dentistry, gum-work. |
Gummer | n | An old, toothless pit-bull or fighting dog. |
Gummer | n | An old person or geriatric, as old people tend to lose their teeth. |
Gut | n | Stomach, abdomen, paunch, belly. |
Gut | adj | The use of instincts and feeling rather than that of the brain in performing tasks, taking action, making assessment and decision. 2. fundamental importance - "to know in one's gut" 3. basic, essential, most immediate, as in 'gut issues'. 4. deep and not essential rational, visceral, intuitive. |
Gut | vb | To empty a house of its furnishings. 2. to remove any unessentials; strip down. |
Gut | phr | "My Gut Feeling" - 'my instinct tell me that..' |
Gut | phr | "To Gut a House" - to empty a house of its furnishings. |
Gut | phr | "To Know in One's Gut(s)" - 'my instinct tells me that...' |
Gutbucket | n | A very basic, unsophisticated form of jazz. 2. a strongly rhythmic emotionally, evocative uninhibited style of jazz. 3. a low place or dive. 3. a jazz musician who plays in low dives. 4. a bucket used to carry food and drink, thus inferior liquor and food. 6. a pompous fat person. 7. the belly, paunch. |
Gut-buster | n | A very steep hill. 2. a very funny joke causing side-splitting laughter. 3. a diet aimed to reduce the size of one stomach. |
Gutful | n | A sufficiency, quite as much of anything as one wants or cares to take. |
Gut it out | phr | To be strong and resistant, be sturdily, stoic, persist. 2. tough it out. |
Gutless | adj | Lacking in courage or power. 2. gut-less : cowardly, as in a gutless wonder. |
Gut-less wonder | n | Coward, poltroon. |
Gut-monger | n | A sodomite. |
Gut-less wonder | n | Coward, poltroon. |
Gutrot | n | A cheap wine or spirits. 2. unpalatable food. |
Guts | n | Courage; impudence, insolence |
Guts | n | The stomach. 2. the insides of a person, machine, an issue; viscera, innards. 3. the most essential part or material; the essence. nerve, stomach, intestinal fortitude. |
Guts of Grunts | phr | Unpleasant person (Australia) |
Gutsiness | n | Toughness, hardness, spiritness. 2. hungry, greedy. |
Guts out | vb | To endure courageously. 2. hungry, greedy |
Gutsy | adj | Tough, spirited, brave. 2. energetic and tough. |
Gut through | vb | To endure courageously. |
Gutted | adj | Deeply disappointed, sick and tired, fed up, utterly depressed. |
Gutty | n | A very fat person. |
Gutty | adj | Tough, spirited, brave. 2. forceful and assertive, gutsy. 3. of a hot rod: capable of high speed; having a powerful engine. |
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