Anglish | sp | English |
Hack | n | An attempt, try, endeavor. OE: to chop, cut or cut into or through crudely. |
Hack | vb | To annoy, irritate. |
Hack | vb | To tinker with a computer system for pleasure and proof of one's expertise. 2. to gain unauthorized access to a computer system usually for illegal purposes. |
Hacker | n | An enthusiast for using computers as an end in itself. 2. one who uses their computer skills to try to gain unauthorized access to computer systems |
Hacking | n | The use of computers for pleasure. 2. the unauthorized access of computer systems. |
Hack it | vb | To manage, to tolerate, to bear or cut through a difficulty, solve or work out a problem. |
Hack it out | phr | To work out a problem, devise a plan. |
Hackle | n | Courage, pluck, bravery; show a hackle: be willing to stand and fight. |
Hackles | n | Whiskers. |
Had | adj | Tricked, hoaxed, deceived. 2. seduced. |
Hadland | n | One who has lost land they once possessed. |
Hail-fellow-all-wet | n | A jocular reference to a drunkard. Based on 'hail-fellow-well-meet,' where 'hail' means 'healthy.' |
Hair in the butter | phr | A delicate situation. |
Hair of the Dog/Wolf | phr | A hangover cure that consists of drinking more alcohol that created the hangover. |
Haired-up | adj | Annoyed, furious, upset. |
Hair-head | n | A long Haired man; a hippie. |
Hair-hopper | n | A woman who frequently changes her hair style. |
Hair-monger | n | A womaniser. |
Hair to sell | phr | Use of a woman prepared to prostitute herself. |
Hairy | adj | Difficult, bad, unsatisfactory. 2. excellent, outstanding; stylish. 3.strange, weird, complicated. 4. dangerous. 5. sexy. |
Hairy-heeled | adj | Socially inferior. |
Hairy wheel | n | Pudendum. 2. male genitals. |
Half | phr | "In Half a Shake" - in a moment. |
Half | phr | "To Half Step" - to make a feeble effort. 2. to act in an ineffectual manner. 3. to looaf, idle. |
Half-a-foot | n | A person with a prosthetic leg. |
Half and between | phr | Of a person slightly, eccentric or mad. |
Half a stretch away | phr | Half a block away; near or close by. 2. a stone throw away. |
Half-away | adj | Not all there, mad, insane; half-there. |
Half-baked | adj | Hastily prepared, inadequate, incomplete, inchoate |
Half-blind | adj | Intoxicated with alcohol. |
Half-canned | adj | Slightly intoxicated. |
Half-cocked | adj | Second-rate, not fully capable, unfinished. 2. to start something without proper preparation. 3. to turn out wrongly or messed up. |
Half-gone | adj | Simple, stupid |
Half-hard | adj | Not very intelligent. |
Half inch | vb | To approach slowly |
Half-shake | n | A moment, second, heart beat |
Half smart | adj | Silly, stupid, unpredictable or reckless |
Half step | vb | To make a feeble effort. 2. to loaf, idle. |
Half-stepper | n | One who cannot be depended upon. |
Half-strain | adj | A mongrel |
Half-there | adj | Simple, stupid, not all there. |
Half-way house | n | A boarding house or place offering, short-term accommodation. |
Half-way strainer | n | A social climber |
Half-wide | adj | Immoral. 2. reasonably intelligent, aware what goes on and so, in certain circumstances, corruptible. |
Halter | n | A hangman's noose. |
Halter-broke | adj | Timid, submissive, unadventurous, (as a horse, used to the halter) |
Halvies | n | Equal shares. |
Halvers | n | "Go Halvers" |
Hammer | n | The accelerator of a car. 2. a heavy puncher. 3. unfair and ongoing criticism |
Hammer | vb | To hurt physically; beat up. 2. to drive at a maximum speed. 3. to solicit money. |
Hammer and nail | phr | To beat up severely, hammer |
Hammered | adj | Drunk. 2. intoxicated by drugs. 3. to subject to carping and constant criticism. |
Hammered down | phr | Of little worth or note, insignificant. 2. short, squat and stunted. |
Hammer-head | n | Someone not very intelligent or mentally alert. |
Hammer into | phr | Attack, beat up. |
Hammerish | adj | Very well aware. |
Hammer lane | n | Overtaking traffic lane. |
Hammer man | n | An authoritarian. |
Hammer on | phr | To reiterate, nag |
Hand | n | A person, as a cool hand or loose hand. 2. an expert, usually, combining with a defining adjective. |
Hand | vb | Tell with an intent to deceive |
Hand and fist | phr | never truncated. |
Handcuff | n | An engagement ring |
Handful | n | A difficult person or child. |
Hand in one's chips | phr | To die, pass away. |
Hand it to Someone | phr | Acknowledge someone's ability or superiority; admit defeat> |
Hand it To | phr | Accept someone else's achievements (particularly whwn one has little respect for the one concerned). 2. see "got to hand to" |
Handle | n | A name; one's name. 2. a nickname. 3. nose. |
Handle | vb | |
Handle like a foot | phr | Clumsy, badly-shaped handwriting. |
Handles | n | The fat around one's waist. |
Hand-me-downs | n. | Second hand clothing. |
Hand-me-down shop | n | A shop that sells second-hand goods and items at a low cost. |
Hands off | excl | Leave it alone |
Hand-out | n | Food or money given to beggars. |
Hand out | vb | Food or money given to the needy. |
Hand out a line | phr | To deceive through a cunning story or excessive charm. |
Hand over fist | phr | Rapidly, readily, 2. large quantities, usually of making money. |
Hand-picked | adj | First-class, choice, select |
Handshake | n | Tip or bribe, given surreptitiously; as a golden handshake, green handshake |
Handshaker | n | An insincere person; a swindler. |
Hands off | phr | A way of doing things that distance the performer from the subject of the action. |
Handsome | excl | A general term of approval, wonderful. |
Hand someone the cold and frosty | phr | Reject, reject. |
Handstaff | n | The handle of a flail. |
Hand to fist | phr | One after the other |
Handy | adj | Useful |
Handy for | phr | Near to, close at hand, convenient to |
Hang | n | + |
Hang | vb | |
Hang by one's eyebrows/eyelids | phr | To maintain a position with great difficulty. 2. hang by the skin of one's teet |
Hang-down | n | The flaccid state of the penis. |
Hanger | n | Wallet hanging from a pocket, thus ready for pickpocketing |
Hangers | n | Gloves |
Hang-in | n | Influence |
Hanging-bee ? | n | Public execution |
Hang in the bell ropes | phr | To postpone a marriage even after the banns have been read in the church. |
Hang in the hedge | phr | Be undecided, fence sit |
Hang in there | phr | To maintain a position, usually with implications of surrender. |
Hang it all on one's back | phr | Of a woman who display wealth by wearing extravagant dress and jewellry |
Hang it on | phr | To tease, rib, criticise someone |
hang (it) out | phr | Endure |
Hang it up | phr | To give up, accept defeat. 2. accept that what one hoped to achieve will not be realised. |
Hang one on | phr | Hit or punch someone. |
Hang oneself out | phr | Take a risk |
Hang one's hat up | phr | Retire from one's place of employment. |
Hang one's lip | phr | Have a bad temper, sulk, become morose |
Hangout | n | A crooks' rendezvous or hideout. 2. a dwelling place, a home. |
Hang out | vb | To live, exist, be found or situate at, endure. 2. to meet at a place on a regular basis. 3. to idle away time with others. |
Hang out cool | phr | Take things in life casually. |
Hangover | n | The after-effects of alcohol |
Hang the moon | phr | To be very important. 2. to be conceited, think highly of oneself. |
Hang tough | n | A rough and tough person. |
Hang tough | vb | To be aggressive, confrontational, |
Hang tough | adj | Very aggressive, stubborn, obstinate. |
Hang-up | n | An emotional concern or problem. 2. neurosis, obsession. |
Hang up | vb | To end a telephone call |
Hang up one's fiddle | phr | To stop what one is doing. 2. to retire. |
Hang up one's gloves | phr | |
Hang up one's harness | phr | To retire, die, pass away |
Hang up one's hat | phr | To reire, to die. |
Hang up one's ladle | phr | To get married: the bride brings kitchen implements to hang up in her new home. |
Hang with | vb | Associate or spend time. |
Hard-back | n | Approaching middle age or older. 2. used of one who should know better (the onset of back problems with middle age. |
Hard-baked | adj | Strong, resistant, unrelenting. |
Hard-body | n | A physically, sexually attractive male. |
Hard-doer | n | An eccentric character who never gives up despite an circumstances. 2. an amusing fellow a good sport. |
Hard down | adj | Truthful, genuine, dependable. |
Hard down | adv | Truly, really, genuinely. |
Hard-ears | n | Disobedience; one who refuses to listen. 2. obstinate, stubborn. |
Hard-eyes | adj | Unpleasant look, disapproving state. |
Hard-nosed | adj | Stubborn |
Hard hat | n | A construction worker. |
Hard hitting | adj | Smart, fashionable |
Hard lines | n | Bad luck, misfortune. |
Hard-mouth | vb | Slander, attack verbally. |
Hard man | n | A thug, a professionally violent person. 2. one who hads high opinion of his own powers, usually physical. |
Hard neck | n | Cheek; impudence, thus a person who displays such chaaracteristics. |
Hard-nosed | adj | Uncompromising, unyielding, extreme. 2. common-sensible, practical, pragmatic |
Hard nut | n | A tough person, a dangerous enemy; anything difficult to achieve - as a hard nut to crack |
Hard pan | n | Fundamental, conservative, as get down to hard pan get down to basics, come down to fundamentals. |
Hard put | phr | In financial difficulties. |
Hard rock | n | A physically tough person. 2. an emotionally tough person. 3. crack cocaine. |
Hard run | n | A poor financial position. |
Hard shell | n | Uncomprimising fundamental,unswerving conservative, a set-in-stone thinker. |
Hard tail | phr | A mule |
Hard talk | n | To employ pressure tactics in a marketing or sales pitch. 2. deep and persistent questioning during interview or press conference. |
Hard time | n | A long and severe prison sentence. |
Hard time | vb | To harass: to hard time, as 'give a hard time' |
Hard-timer | n | One serving a long and severe sentence. 2. some one who wears worn out clothes. |
Hard up | adj | Poor and impoverished. 2. unableto attract a partner. 3. a cigarette made from the discarded ends of others. |
Hard up for | phr | Badly at a loss for |
Hardupness | n | Poverty, impoverishment. |
Hard walk | n | A swagger |
Hardware | n | Weapons, firearms |
Hardword | n | To make demands, (especially financial or sexual )of someone. |
Harkers | n | The ears |
Has-been | n | One once successful, but now waning in skills and ability |
Hat-time | n | The end of a day's work |
Hat up | vb | To exit, leave (put on one's hat). |
Hatched-up | phr | Invented, concoct or devise, but often not factual |
Have | n | A swindle, hoax, confidence trick. |
Have | vb | Deceive, trick, cheat. 2. to seduce |
Have a bellyful | phr | |
Have a bit of Rough | phr | Have sexual intercourse |
Have a bit on | phr | Have a wager |
Have a busy foot | phr | Of a horse, to be a fast mover. 2. to be a quick mover. |
Have a catfish's death | phr | Drown oneself |
Have a chip on one's shoulder | phr | |
Have a crack | phr | To attempt, try at. |
Have a downer on | phr | To bear a grudge |
Have a down on | phr | To be hostile towards, to be prejudiced against. |
Have a field day | phr | To have a task or problem turn out to be quite simple. 2. to have a great and unopposed success. |
Have a few | phr | To a drink one too many. |
Have a field day | phr | To have a task or problem turn out to be infinitely simple. 2. to have a great and unopposed success. |
Have a flea in one's ear | phr | To be reprimanded. 2. to be angry. 3. to fail in one's intentions. |
Have a fly at | phr | |
Have a foot in the dish | phr | Get a share in. 2. become involved in |
Have a good innings" | phr | To live a long life. |
Have a fishy eye" | phr | To have a glazed eye. 2. to look at suspiciously. |
Have a go | phr | To try, endeavour, attempt. |
Have a go at | phr | To attack verbally and physically. |
Have a go | phr | To take a turn, have a spell at. |
Have a go at someone | phr | To confront, criticise, insult. |
Have a good innings | phr | To live a good innings |
Have a gut like a crane | phr | To be very thirsty |
Have a hate on | phr | To dislike greatly, loathe. |
Have a heart | phr | Don't be cruel. 2 have pity on |
Have a hit on | phr | Of one or of an undertaking :make an impact on. |
Have a lark | phr | Have a lot of fun, especially at the expense of another. |
Have a laugh of | phr | To outwit, get the better of. |
Have a line on | phr | |
Have a Loan of | phr | Treat like a fool. + |
Have an axe to grind | phr | |
Have an egg in the nest | phr | To be pregnant |
Have an in | phr | To have special contacts. |
Have an itch in the Belly | phr | |
Have an oar in everyman's boat | phr | To interfere in other people's life and affairs |
Have a put-in | phr | |
Have a ring through one's nose | phr | |
Have a see | phr | Take a look at, glance |
Have a sheet short | phr | To be mentally unstable or deficient |
Have a short at | phr | |
Have a shy at | phr | Throw or take an aim at. |
Have a spark in on's throat | phr | To be thirsty |
Have a swollen head | phr | To be arrogant, conceited. |
Have a thing with | phr | Have a love affair with |
Have a tin ear | phr | To be musically or tone deaf |
Have a tongue in one's head | phr | Ready to speak one's mind. 2.to be sarcastic. |
Have a tongue to long for one's mouth | phr | To be outspoken, to be indiscreet |
Have a wet arse and no fish | phr | To have been on a worthless endeavour |
Have a wink in one's eyes | phr | To be sleepy, drowsy, nodding off |
Have been (standing)in the sun too long | phr | |
Have by the toes | phr | To hold securely |
Have cobwebs | phr | To have lived a life of celibacy (for a long time) |
Have cobwebs in one's throat | phr | Cobweb throat: the dryness in the throat after over consumption of alcohol. |
Have cold feet | phr | |
Have down cold | phr | Know something thoroughly. |
Have ears | phr | Listen |
Have eyes for | phr | To desire, wish for, usually sexually |
Have fireworks in the brain | phr | To be emotionally disturbed |
Have five minds | phr | |
Have got knocked in the cradle | phr | To be born stupid; to be a fool |
Have got something on somebody | phr | |
Have got something on the winkle | phr | |
Have got the game by the throat | phr | |
Have got them all on | phr | Be very well dressed |
Have guts in one's brain | phr | |
Have had enough | phr | To have over-consumed alcohol; to be drunk |
Have had it | phr | |
Have had it up to here | phr | Exasperated, lost patience with |
Have had it with | phr | To be annoyed, lost patience with |
Have hairs on | phr | Out of date, dated, no longer thought to be funny |
Have it | phr | |
Have it away with | phr | |
Have it coming | phr | |
Have it in for | phr | To bear a grudge, to feel hostile towards |
Have it knocked | phr | |
Have it made in the shade | phr | |
Have it out | phr | |
Have it so good | phr | |
Have it till hell ... | phr | |
Have it out of somebody | phr | |
Have it out with | phr | |
Have mind to | phr | Be determined to do something. 2. have courage or be brave |
Have more guts than brains | phr | |
Have no head | phr | To be reckless, irresponsible, hare-brained |
Have no life | phr | |
Have-not | n | |
Have no time for | phr | |
Have-on | n | Swindle, scam, hoax |
Have one beat | phr | |
Have one foot in the grave ? | phr | |
Have one's foot on the road | phr | Often traveling or being away from home |
Have one in the box | phr | Be pregnant |
Have one in the oven | phr | |
Have one more time | phr | |
Have one mother too many | phr | Illegimate |
Have one's brains on ice | phr | |
Have one's ducks under | phr | Have one's life in order |
Have one's eyes opened | phr | |
Have one's fighting clothes on | phr | Be spoiling for a fight. |
Have one's glasses on | phr | To look like an intellectual. |
Have one's hand out | phr | |
Have one's head wedged | phr | To be stupid. |
Have one's heart on one's halfpenny | phr | |
Have one's nose open | phr | |
Have one's shutters up | phr | |
Have one's sitting breeches? on | phr | |
Have one's tail out | phr | Show anger (cat has its tail out when angry). |
Have one's teeth underwater | phr | |
Have one's tongue hanging out | phr | To wait in eager expectation |
Have one's wool shorn | phr | |
Have shut up the shop windows | phr | To be bankrupt |
Have someone cold | phr | To have at one's mercy.2. to have at a disadvantage. |
Have someone for breakfast | phr | Defeat a rival. 2. overwhelm. |
Have someone in | phr | To swindle, con, scam, hoax, cheat. |
Have someone on | phr | To hoax, swindle, scam, con, cheat. 2. be prepared to fight or accept a challenge. 3. attack (physically) |
Have someone on a string | phr | To hoax, swindle, scam, con. |
Have someone waxed up | phr | Have someone at a disadvantage |
Have something | phr | A valid point or opinion |
Have something above the ears | phr | To be intelligent: have a 'working' brain' |
Have something down | phr | To be aware of th situation. 2. know what's going on. |
Have something going | phr | To be in a close relationship, usual sexual. |
Have something going for oneself | phr | To be in a good situation or circumstances working well for oneself. |
Have something on someone | phr | Have someone at a disadvantage, usually negative or incriminating information |
Have something on one's brain | phr | To be or become obsessed |
Have the dead needle | phr | To be very angry |
Have the drop on | phr | To have an advantage over another person |
Have the edge on | phr | To be superior or to be rated superior |
Have the fiddle but not the stick | phr | Have the ability to do something, but still lack the intelligence to do it properly. |
Have the game by the throat | phr | |
Have the game sewn? up | phr | |
Have the goods | phr | To be well qualified or competent; to have the ability. |
Have the goods on | phr | To be in possession of incriminating evidence |
Have the grindstone on one's back | phr | |
Have the hots for | phr | |
Have the raws | phr | |
Have the slows | phr | To suffer some form of imaginary to which onee attributes lassitude, inactivity and so on. |
Have the woefuls | phr | Be miserable or depressed. |
Have the wood on | phr | To have the upper hand over. 2. to hold at a disadvantage |
Have the worse end of the staff | phr | |
Have the wrong end of the stick | phr | To have the facts wrong. 2. interpret the information incorrectly |
Have-to | n | Anything inescapable , esp. something that is forced upon one by a social occasion, as a have-to wedding, a wedding that is arranged after the putative bride is found to be pregnant. |
Have two left feet | phr | |
Have under one's belt | phr | |
Have what it takes | phr | |
Have whiskers on it | phr | |
Have windmills in the head | phr | |
Hawk | n | + |
Hawk | vb | ++ |
Hawk-eye | n | |
Hawk it | phr | |
Hawk one's fork | phr | |
Hawk one's meat | n | |
Hawkshaw ? | n | A detective. |
Hay | n | A bed+ |
Hayburner | n | A horse; a marijuana smoker from the nickname for a horse. 2. a pipe-smoker |
Hayfoot | n | A farmer. |
Hayfooted | adj | Rustic, unsophisticated |
Hayhooks | n | Fists |
Haymaker | n | A knockout punch. 2. the Old Haymaker: (the sun whose rays are beneficial to crop growth). |
Hayseed | n | A farmer; a simple peasant or rustic |
Hayshaker | n | A farmer |
Haywire | v | To go haywire: to be botched, inefficient, impaired. |
Head | n | |
Head | n | |
Head | sfx | Many combinations, usually meaning foolish or idiotic, as: applehead, beanhead, bonehead, bowhead, boxhead |
Headache | n | |
Headache stick | n | |
Headbeater | n | A brutal police officer. |
Head bin | n | |
Headbuster | n | A brutal police officer. |
Headbone | n | |
Head-candler | n | A psychotherapist, head-feeling, heaad-shrinker |
Head-candling | n | Psychotherapy, head-feeling. |
Head-devil | n | The boss |
Header | n | A psychotic, unstable person. |
Head-feeler | n | Headshrinker, psychiatrist, psychologist. |
Head game | n | |
Head-hen | n | A landlady. |
Head hunt | n | Look for trouble, start a fight |
Head-hunter | n | An aggressive selfish and single-minded individual. |
Head into | phr | Begin, commence, start, undertake |
Head is not sweet | phr | Of old people suffering from dizzyness. 2. young people who are mentally unstable. |
Head-knocker | n | A policeman |
Headlights | n | The eyes. 2. spectacles, glasses, esp. tinted or dark glasses. 3. the breasts |
Headliner | n | A prominent person, a celebrity, a leading event |
Head shop | n | A retail outlet specialising in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis and tobacco and items related to cannabis culture and related countercultures. |
Headshrinker | n | A psychiatrist, psychologist. |
Head stick | n | Wooden-grave markers |
Head-to-head | adj | At close quarters |
Head-topper | n | A wig. |
Heads-up | adj | Alert and skilful, especially in sport. |
Head up and tail up | phr | Brash. |
Heady | adj | Intoxicated, drunk. 2. ingenuous, shrewd |
Heap | n | A large amount, often money. 2. a derogation, as a lazy heap. 3. an unreliable car; an old aeroplane. |
Heap | adj | Very much; a largish quantity |
Heaps | n | A large amount, an abundance. |
Hear a bird sing | phr | Discover a secret |
Hear it on the streets | phr | Gossip |
Hear of it | phr | |
Hear someone's horn | phr | To acknowledge the importance of someone's opinion or point of view. |
Hear-tell | n | Gossip, hearsay, chatter. |
Heart | adj | Brave, courageous, guts. |
Heart-beat | n | A split second, moment, as 'in a heartbeat' |
Heart-knifer | n | A person who refuses to accept proffered affection. |
Hearthstone | n | Butter spread liberally on a thick slice of bread |
Heart-starter | n | The first alcoholic drink of the day. |
Heart-to-heart | n | An intimate talk or chat. |
Heat | n | Trouble; near to trouble. |
Heat | vb | |
Heater | n | An overcoat. 2. pistol, small gun, revolver. |
Heathenish | adj | Abominable, offensive, disgusting. |
Heather | n | A pretty, but unintelligent young woman. |
Heave | n | |
Heave | vb | |
Heave into sight | phr | To appear |
Heaven-born | n | "The Heaven-born" - the rulers and leaders of the Indian civil service during British rule. |
Heavenly | adj | Wonderful, splendid |
Heaven-reacher | n | Preacher; evangelist, reverend, priest. |
Heaven's dust | n | Cocaine |
Heave up | vb | To be extremely sick, vomit. |
Heavies | n | Threats |
Heavy | n | |
Heavy | vb | To threaten, to menace |
Heavy | adj | |
Heavy-arsed | adj | Apathetic lazy. |
Heavy-foot | n | A plain-clothed detective or policeman. |
Heavy heat stretch | n | The summer |
Heavy-hitter | n | |
Heavy soul | n | Heroin (and the dangers of its long term use) |
Heavyweight | n | An important person, an able person |
Heavy wet | n | A downpour, deluge, torrent |
He-blooded | adj | Strong; robust; virile |
Hedge | n | |
Hedge | sfx | In compounds as, hedge-bird, creeper, whore etec |
Hedge bird | n | |
Hedge-bit | n | |
Hedge creeper | n | |
Hedge hopping | n | |
Hedger | n | |
Heifer dust | n | Nonsense, rubbish |
He would worry the dog | phr | Said of someone whose mien, appearance and behaviour would frighten even the most vicious guard dog. |
Heel | n | A person who informs against another or betrays him; a lag; a grass; also a petty thief |
Heel | vb | |
Heel-and-toe | vb | |
Heel-beater | n | A dancer |
Heeled | adj | |
Heeler | n | |
Heel-licker | n | A sycophant. |
Heel-thief | n | A petty criminal of the 'snatch and run' type |
Hefty | adj | Weighty, strong, powerful, heavy or muscular person. |
Hell (Sell) to a Bishop | phr | Be very persuasive (with the gift of the gab). |
Hell-bender | n | A drunken spree. |
Hell-bent | adj | Determined, insistent, set, as in "He is hellbent on finishing first." 2. Direct and rapidly, as in "He is hell-bent for Melbourne." |
Hell-broth | n | Inferior whisky; cheap and nasty liquor,firewater. |
Hellcat | n | A wild, devil-may-care person. 2. a witch. |
Hell-dust | n | Any of the powdered narcotics. 2. heroin. |
Hell-in-all | n | Absolutely none, nothing at all. |
Hell-and-gone | adj | faraway, godforsaken. |
Hell-bender | n | A formidable, outrageous thing or individual. |
Hell-bending | adj | Arduous, hellish. 2. hellfire evangelistic preaching |
Hell-bent | adj | Determined, stubborn. |
Hell-broth | n | |
Hell-buster | n | An amazing, riotous or violent thing or person. |
Hell-cart | n | A vehicle that gives a rough and uncomfortable ride to its occupant. |
Hell-cat | n | A rake, a himbo. |
Hell-driver | n | A reckless, dangerous motor car driver |
Heller | n | One who lives an undiscplined, unfettered and adventuresome life. 2. a difficult, formidable or exciting thing or person. |
Hell-fire | adv | An general intensifier. |
Hell for | adv | Intent on, insistent on. |
Hell for leather | phr | Very fast, at top speed, rip-roaring. |
Hell-in | adj | Furious, angry. |
Hellish | adv | An intensifier, as in 'hellish cold' |
Hellishly | adv | An intensifier, as in 'hellishly cold' |
Hell master | n | An overbearing, bullying individual. |
Hell on wheels | phr | Anyone or anything regarded as the equivalent of hell, usually referring to character, speed or enthusiasm |
Hells half acre | n | Any disreputable area or no-go place, esp a slum of a town. 2. hell's hollow, hell's bottom. |
Hell's hollow | n | A disreputable, out of the way town or area. 2. hells half acre. |
Hell's kitchen | n | Any generic term for any slum. |
Hell sticks | n | Matches |
Hell wind | n | A tornado |
Hell with the lid off | phr | Something extremely difficult or hard to endure. |
Helmet | n | A condom. 2. the glans penis |
Helpers | n | Amphetamines. |
He-man | n | A well-built man with plenty of sex appeal; virile and strong |
Hemp | n | Marijuana. |
Hempy | adj | A rogue suitable for hanging or the gallow. |
Henberry | n | An egg, hen-apple. |
Hen-headed | adj | Brainless, stupid, half-wittish |
Hen-house | n | A women's prison. |
Hen-hussy | n | A man over-involved in domestic duties. |
Herder | n | A prison guard |
Here goes | phr | |
Here we go again | phr | |
Herring-gutted | adj | |
Herring pond ? | n | |
Het up | phr | Angry, annoyed |
He says, she says | phr | |
He went mad and they shot him | phr | A vague answer to a question. |
He-whore | n | A male sex-worker. |
He would | Excl | That is just like him; that is the kind of person he is. Expresses disgust |
Hide | n | The human skin, thus one's life. 2. a horse. 3. drums |
Hide | n | Impudence, as "what a hide" |
Hideaways | n | Pockets |
Hide-beater | n | Drummers. |
Hide out | n | A place of hiding |
Hide out on one | phr | To keep a secret from someone |
Hidey-hole | n | A retreat or refuge. 2. a small hiding place. |
Hiding | n | A defeat; a great defeat. 2. a thrashing |
Hidings | n | Secrets |
High | n | |
High | vb | |
High | adj | Under the influence of drugs |
High and dry | phr | |
High and goodbye | n | An unreliable son. |
High as fiddler's fist | phr | |
High beams | n | Car headlights whe not dipped. 2. the wide eye expression of someone on heavy drugs. |
Highbrow | n | An aristocrat; a learned person; a person who thinks he is superior to his fellows or gives the impression he thinks so. |
Higher up | phr | An official; an officer; any superior in an organisation. |
High-bellied | adj | One in the final stages of pregnancy. |
High-end | adj | Expensive and first class |
High five | vb | |
High flyer | n | |
High-flying | adj | Pretentious; arrogant |
High-go | n | Frolic, spree |
High-hatted | adj | |
High headed | adj | |
High-heeled time | n | |
High horse | n | Conceit, arrogance, formality |
High in the instep | phr | |
High in tooth | phr | arrogant, boastful |
High-line | adj | High priced merchandise |
High-nosed | adj | Arrogant, conceited, snobbish, supercilious |
High-on | adj | Enthusiastic |
High on oneself | phr | Conceited. |
High-stepper | n | A proud person; a person who lives extravagantly; a dissapator |
High-strikes | n | Hysterics |
High up on the stick | phr | The level (high) to which to person has reached in their profession. |
High, wide and handsome | n | Happy, carefree, pleasant, performing easily |
High water mark | n | A dirty mark showing the limits to which a person has washed |
Hinder-end | n | The buttocks |
Hinders | n | The buttocks |
Hind shifters | n | Buttocks |
Hindside | n | The buttocks |
Hinges | n | The joints of the human body. |
Hinterland | n | The buttocks. |
Hipped | adj | Carrying a gun. |
His hair grows through his hood | n | Said of someone who 'on the road to ruin' (of a unkempt appearance) |
His highness | n | Sarcastic term used by a wife to describe her husband. |
His wife keeps the keys | phr | |
Hit | n | + |
Hit | vb | |
Hit a home run | n | |
Hit-and-get | n | |
Hit and run | phr | |
Hit for six | phr | |
Hit gut | vb | |
Hit her up | phr | |
Hit his stride | phr | To play well; to improve as the game progresses |
Hit it off | phr | To agree; to get along well together. |
Hit it with | phr | |
Hit lady | n | |
Hit list | n | ? |
Hit man | n | |
Hit on | phr | To make a pass at someone. 2. to make a sexual invitation to someone. 3. to swindle, deceive. |
Hit skins | vb | |
Hit someone up | phr | |
Hit someone with the book | phr | |
Hitter | n | |
Hit the books | phr | To study |
Hit the deep six | phr | Die, pass away |
Hit the hay | phr | To go to bed; go to sleep |
Hit the grit | phr | To go on foot, leave, get moving, travel rapidly. |
Hit the high spots | phr | ?. |
Hit the hot spots | phr | To play in the large cities |
Hit the ground | phr | + |
Hit the ground running | phr | |
Hit the hay | phr | |
Hit the road | phr | |
Hit the headlines | phr | |
Hit the high lonesome | phr | |
Hit the mainline | phr | |
Hit the needle | phr | |
Hit the pot? | phr | |
Hit the raod | phr | |
Hit the roof | phr | |
Hit the sack | phr | |
Hit the sheets | phr | |
Hit the sidewalk | phr | |
Hit the steel | phr | |
Hit the street | phr | |
Hit the toe | phr | |
Hit the wind | phr | |
Hitting it up | phr | |
Hit up | vb | |
Hit woman | n | |
Hive | n | |
Hive off | vb | |
Hiver | n | |
Hoary-eyed | aj | Intoxicated, drunk |
Hog | n | |
Hog | vb | + |
Hog-caller | n | ? |
Hog down | vb | |
Hog-fat | n | |
Hog feed | n | |
Hogger | ||
Hoggish | adj | |
Hoggy | adj | |
Hog heaven | n | |
Hog town | n | |
Hogwash | n | Swill and garbage to be fed to pigs. 2. nonsense, |
Hold a candle to the devil | phr | |
Hold by the toe | phr | |
Hold down | phr | To keep a job for a sometime |
Hold everything | phr | To refrain; to wait a minute |
Hold foot | phr | Keep up with, sustain. |
Hold hard on | phr | |
Holding | adj | Well off financially |
Holding the folding | phr | Have a supply of cash on person. |
Hold light | vb | |
Hold one's guts | phr | Keep or remain silent |
Hold one's horses | phr | |
Hold out at | phr | To live, reside, |
Hold out | phr | To with hold loot or information; money withheld in the division of loot; a gambler device for cheating |
Hold out on | phr | |
Hold over somebody | phr | |
Hold someone's hand | phr | |
Hold someone's hind leg | phr | To act as best man at a wedding. |
Hold to | vb | |
Hold-up | n | |
Hold up | vb | |
Hold with | phr | to agree with |
Hold your horses | phr | Do not be impatient; do not act hastily; restrain yourself |
Hold your mouth | phr | Keep silence or quiet |
Hold your shirt | phr | Be calm. |
Hole | n | A cell |
Hole | n | A difficult situation, "in a hole" |
Hole | n | "The Hole" : hell. |
Hole in one's head | phr | Lacking in common sense |
Hole in the road | phr | A village, townlet, stopover |
Hole in thw Wall | phr | |
Hole out in one | phr | |
Holes and poles | phr | Sex education |
Hole time | n | Time spent in solitary confinement etc. |
Hollow | n | |
Hollow | adv | |
Hollow head | n | An idiot |
Hollyweird | n | Negative view of Hollywood. |
Holy bedlock | n | An extralegal sexual union between committed partners (based on holy wedlock). |
Holy cow | excl | A sacrosanct condition |
Holy deadlock | n | An unhappy marriage; a marriage wherein the battles between partners are hopelessly stagnated (based on holy wedlock). |
Holy ghost shop | n | A church |
Holy ground | n | A red light district. 2. a ghetto or slum, where villains and the poor were out of the reach of law enforcement. 3. an area under church jurisdiction, where criminals and the persecuted often had some refuge. |
Holy show | n | A scandal, especially an embarrassing one, "to make a holy show" |
Holy smoke | n | Exclamation of amazement. |
Holy weed | n | Marijuana |
Home | n | |
Home and dry | phr | |
Homebird | n | |
Home brew | n | Liquor distilled at home. 2. semen. |
Home cooking ? | n | |
Home folks | n | |
Home for lost frogs | phr | England |
Homeland | n | |
Home run | n | |
Homestone | n | |
Home stretch | n | The last part of the task; the final period of time. |
Home sweet Home | phr | |
Homework | n | |
Homey | n | |
Honey | n | A honey is a sweet and lovable girl; also an very attractive one. |
Honey | n | |
Honey | n | |
Honey | n | |
Honey | n | |
Honey cart | n | |
Honey-cooler | n | |
Honey dew | n | |
Honey dip | n | ???? |
Honey-fall | n | A piece of good luck. |
Honey hill | n | The poor area of a town |
Honey house | n | Outside alavtory or toilet |
Honey pot | n | |
Honey up | phr | Flatter, cajole, |
Honeyman | n | A man kept by a woman |
Honey moon | n | |
Honey-thighs | n | |
Hood | n | A criminal. 2. the area in which one lives. 3. (in prison) a fellow inmate who comes from the same neighbourhood. |
Hoodie | n | Hooded sweatshirt, worn by many young people, especially those involved in rap music, as somewhat of a unifrm. |
Hoodrat | n | A sexually promiscuous girl. |
Hoof | n | The human foot. |
Hoofer | n | A dancer, chorus girl. |
Hoofing | n | Travelling by foot |
Hoof it | phr | To walk, go on foot. 2. to kick. 3. to run. 4. to dance |
Hoof out | phr | Throw out, expelled |
Hook | n | The fingers |
Hook | n | |
Hook | n | |
Hook | vb | |
Hook down | phr | To swallow |
Hooked | adj | |
Hooked up | phr | Dating, going steady |
Hooker | n | A prostitute, street-walker, sex worker, strumpet |
Hook line and sinker | phr | |
Hook onto | phr | |
Hooks | n | Fingers and hands |
Hooks and crooks | n | The leters of the alphabet |
House-house | n | a brothel |
Hook-up | n | The ability to get proper connections with certain people and things. 2. a connection, especially political one. 3. a romantic or sexual relationship or the person with whom one has relationship |
Hook up with | phr | Become friendly with; become romantically attached to. 2. to marry |
Hoops | n | The game of basketball |
Hoops | phr | "Put Someone through their hoops" - |
Hoop stick | n | The arm |
Hop | n | A dance. 2. an organised dance held at a dance-hall and frequented by younger people. |
Hopeful | n | An optimist. 2. neophyte, beginner (frequently used ironically). |
Hope to hell | phr | To wish for intensely. |
Hope to tell you | phr | A strong exclamation used to underline a speaker statement |
Hop in | phr | To arrive, turn up. |
Hop into | phr | Fight, attack. 2. start, begin something. |
Hop into bed with | phr | To have casual sex relations with. |
Hop off | phr | Leave, go away, die. |
Hop one's frame to | phr | Travel unexpectedly to |
Hopperclod | n | A clumsy, awkward person; a clodhopper |
Hopping mad | adj | Furious, extremely angry. |
Hoppy | n | A dance teacher, a lame person. |
Hoppy | adj | Limpy, lame |
Horn | n | |
Horn with | phr | |
Horn child | n | |
Horn-dog | n | |
Horned-up | adj | |
Horner man | n | |
Horn-grower | n | |
Hornies | n | |
Horn in | phr | To crowd in where one is not wanted; to interfere in the affairs of others. |
Horning | n | |
Horn-mad | adj | Extremel jealous, especailly as victim of cuckoldry. 2. extremely lecherous, mad with lust. 3. lustful |
Horns | n | |
Horn sticks | n | Celery (the belief that celery is an aphrodisiac). |
Horn thumb | n | A cutpurse. |
Horn work | n | |
Horny | n | A cow, bullock, ox. |
Horny-steerer | n | A bullock driver |
Horny | adj | Sexually aroused especially after a long period of abstinence. 2. pertaining to a person with a lecherous nature. 3. virile. |
Horse | n | |
Horse | vb | |
Horse apples | n | Nonsense. 2. horse droppings. |
Horsefeathers | n | Nonsense; buncombe, idiotic talk. |
Horse flesh | n | |
Horse heavy | adj | Fat, obese. |
Horse it | phr | |
Horse kiss | n | A rough, loud smacking kiss. |
Horse-leech | n | A quack doctor. 2. a prostitute. |
Horseman | n | |
Horse meat | n | |
Horse-nails | n | Money. |
Horse's hangdown | n | A fool, idiot |
Horse's meal | n | A meal without a drink. |
Hose | n | The penis. 2. a prostitute's pimp. 3. a boyfriend. |
Hot | adj | As in she's "hot" meaning attractive and very sexy |
Hot and strong | phr | Severe and intense. 2. to deliver or receive severe punishment |
Hot as a Strippers Last Grind | phr | Very hot, erotic, |
Hot bed | n | A bed in a cheap rooming house. 2. a cheap rooming house (the bed is continuing occupied) |
Hot book | n | Pornagraphic magazine, book, publication. |
Hot box | n | Hot box or sweat box, is a method of solitary confinement used in humid and arid regions as a method of punishment. Anyone placed in one would experience extreme heat, dehydration, heat exhaustion, even death, depending on when and how long one was kept in the box. |
Hot dog | n | A sausage with sauce in a roll. 2. One who is particularly successful at an occupation. |
Hot dog | vb | To chase or harass |
Hot-dogger | n | Boaster, shoe-off, braggart. |
Hotfoot it | phr | Walk or travel rapidly; to hasten; leave in a hurry |
Hot goods | n | Stolen goods |
Hot-house | n | A brothel, bordello, naughty house. |
Hot lips | n | Nickname for someone who has a reputation for passionate kissing. |
Hot-milk | n | Semen. |
Hot-rod | phr | The penis. |
Hot sheet | n | Said of a motel or hotel that rents rooms for sexual liaisons for cash,without registering the names of guests using the rooms. |
Hot-shot | n | A very important person (or one who believes they are). |
Hot shot | n | Cyanide or another toxic substitute, injected by an addict, causing instant death and showing no trace. |
Hot shot | adj | Conceited, self-opinionated, ostentatious. |
Hot slough | n | A residence where people are at home. |
Hot-stepper | n | One who escapes from prison (i.e. runs as if he-she feet are on fire) |
Hot stick | n | A cigarette containing mostly marijuana. |
Hot stool | n | The electric chair. |
Hot-tail | n | A very lecherous, lascivious person. |
Hot-tailed | adj | Infected with venereal disease. 2. lecherous, lascivious. |
Hot up | phr | To heat or warm up. 2. of situations, events, to become more dramatic thabn before. |
Hottie | n | A good looking member of the opposite sex. 2. a very unlikely story. |
Hotting | n | Joy-riding. |
Hot-tongue | n | A passionate female. |
Hot-tongue | vb | To kiss passionately. |
Hot water | n | Trouble, difficulty, |
Hot wheels | n | A stolen car |
Hot wife | n | A married female swinger who has sexual intercourse with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval. |
Hot wire | n | Good news; late information |
Hot wire | v | To start a car by crossing the wires |
Hound | n | As a suffix: an enthusiast, as smoke-hound, |
Hound dog | n | Someone who hounds around when they are not wanted. |
Houndish | adj | Shamelessly gluttonous. |
House ape | n | A small child. |
House bit | n | A servant who doubles as a lover. 2. a housekeeper |
House keeper | n | A servant who doubles as a lover. 2. a house bit |
House for sale | n | A brothel. |
House of Dark Shadows | phr | Any building that is occupied, or thought to be occupied by enemy combatants, esp during the war in Vietnam. |
House of Intake | n | A restaurant. |
House of Lewdness | n | A brothel. |
House of lords | phr | Toilet, lavatory. |
House of many doors | n | A prison. |
House mother | n | A madame in the sex industry |
House plant | n | An indolent person who does nothing but sits around |
How are you going | phr | A general phrase of greeting (Australia) |
How come | phr | Why |
How does that hang | phr | What do you think? |
Howish | adj | Somewhat out of sorts, not really well. |
How's things | phr | How are you? |
How is your father | phr | Nonsense, rubbish. 2. sexual intercourse |
How will you have it | phr | General invitation to ave a drink. |
Hue | vb | To beat (causing change in ones skin color). |
Hung to | adj | Obseessed with. |
Hunger street | n | Hungry street, hungry-hill: a neighbourhood or suburb of a town where there is rampant poverty. |
Hungries | n | An appetite, have the hungries. |
Hungry-belly | adj | Especially, of children, starving, malnourished |
Hungry-hill | n | The poor area of a town, hunger street, hungry hollow, hungry ridge. |
Hungry hollow | n | The poor area of a town, hunger street, hungry-hill, hungry ridge. |
Hung for | adj | In need of, lacking |
Hung for bread | adj | Impoverished, out of money |
Hung to | adj | Obsessed with |
Hung up | adj | self-obsessed, snobbish. 2. delayed or hindered. 3. desperate, poor, in trouble. 4. depressed, unhappy, neurotic, anxious. 5. obsessed, infatuted |
Hung up on | phr | Obsessed with, esp. in love with someone. |
Hunt one's hole | phr | To run away, seek refuge |
Hunting | n | Searching for a victim whether for a theft or confidence trick. |
Hurdle | n | A difficulty, an obstacle |
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