Anglish Slang Wordbook/L

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Anglish	sp.	English
Ladder-lane	n	The gallows; walk up ladder lane and down hemp street
Lady bird	n	A kept mistress
Lady fingers	n	Fists
Lady right	n	The perfect girlfrien or partner
Lady's-man	n	A man who pursues and otherwise devotes himself to women, a lady's man, to an unusual degree.
Lady snow	n	Cocaine
Lady ware	n	The penis
Lamb	n	A gullible victim.
Lame brain	phr	A dull or stupid person
Lame duck	phr	A politician in office ho has been defeated for re-election. 2. on the Stock Exchange a person who is unable to fulfill his own engagements. 3. In business a person whose credit is no good. 4. A vulnerable person in general
Land	vb	To get, secure or obtain a contract, job, position; to succeed in general.
Landslide	n	An overwhelming victory or defeat, esp. in apolitical election
Land broker	n	A funeral undertaker, raven.
Landlookers	n	Pioneer settlers
Land yard	n	Cemetery, graveyard.
Last brightening	phr	Yesterday morning
Last heartbeat	n	A lover, sweetheart.
Last farewell	n	Death.
Late black	n	A very dark night.
Later for that	phr	I can be bothered.
Latest hot drop	phr	Lastest fashion or fad.
Lather	n	Angry mood; indignation
Lay off	phr	Cease to; to keep quiet; to dismiss or let go
Lay out	phr	To knock unconscious
Lead-in man	n	Initiator, one who commences or starts up something.
Lead spitter	n	A revolver, a gun
Leaf	n	Autumn
Leafless tree	n	The gallows.
Learn and churn	phr	A systematic reduction of shifts for workers as they grow older in a bid to cut costs by hiring younger workers at a lower rate of pay.
Learn the ropes	phr	To become informed concerning the proper procedures
Leatherhead	n	A stupid person
Leatherneck	n	An uncouth person
Leave it up to	phr	Turn it over to; make another person responsible, as in "I leave that up to you."
Led by the nose	phr	Influenced to one's own disadvantage; controlled by another; subject or subordinate to another.
Leekshire	n	Wales.
Left-handed thinker	phr	A person who has peculiar ideas; one who is mentally unbalanced. NB: the bias against lefthanders during the 1930s when this term was coined.
Left-handed wife	phr	A concubine
Left-minded	adj	Peculiar; odd; queer
Left-winger	n	A person who has liberal or radical views
Let him down	phr	To take the conceit out of a person.
Let on	phr	To divulge; reveal, disclose, leak
Let one's hair down	phr	To party and celebrate boisterously.
Let slide	phr	To cease caring.
Lick finger	n	A cook, chef.
Licking	n	A defeat
Lie low	phr	To be intentionally inconspicuous; to avoid exposing oneself to attack.
Lift	vb	To plagiarize
Lightweight	n	A person of mediocre ability.
Likes of	phr	Such (a person) as, often used in a pejorative context, e.g.," Why should he suffer for the likes of you."
Limber up	phr	To indulge in a little exercise preliminary to a game or contest
Line the inside	phr	To eat
Lip	n	Talk, especially or unpleasant talk; to talk in such a manner. 2. a lawyer
Lispers	n	The teeth
Little shot	n	An unimportant person.
Live stock	n	Prostitutes
Live wire	phr	An active and aggressive person.
Loaded for bear	phr	Well supplied with facts; well qualified; indignant
Lock horns	phr	To engage in a contest; to debate; to disagree
London ivy	n	A thick smog often experienced in London.
Long goodbye	phr	Alzheimer's Disease is often called "The "Long Goodbye", so powerful is the displacement of the victim from normal life.
Long shot	phr	A horse, athlete or participant who chances of winning are remote
Long timer	n	A prisoner who has a long time to serve
Looksee	n	A view, glimpse
Lord Nightsorrow	n	One who fears the night and night time; noctophobiac.
Lose by a whisker	phr	To be defeated by a narrow margin
Losing-streak	n	Menstruation.
Love-glove	n	A condom.
Love lockdown	n	Keeping control over your love even though you don't love each other you cant get out of it
Love nest	n	The home of a newly married couple; a place (usu. an apartment) used for amorous and often illicit rendezvous, often by a man and his mistress
Lowbrow	n	An unintelligent person; an uneducated person; a vulgar person; a person from a lower socioeconomic position
Lowdown	n	True facts; the truth; correct information. 2. the emotional excitement simulated by blues songs.