Today's slang word of the day is small fry. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Ron: Where's small fry?
-- "Sally Teel", Sons of Tucson (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 12
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is jam up. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Ron: Plus, I already paid for the tickets, so you'd be kinda jamming me up if you didn't go. Monetarily speaking.
-- "Glenn's Birthday", Sons Of Tucson (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 11
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is splash out. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
A joiner who was forced to give up work 15 years ago because of a knee injury is to splash out on private surgery - after winning 11m pounds on the lottery.
-- "Knee surgery for Stockport's 11m lottery winner", BBC, 6 August 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is shake and bake. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Dubbed "shake and bake" or "one pot," the method requires nothing more than a handful of ingredients and a container like a plastic soda bottle in which to mix them.
-- "Lazy man's way of making meth' surges across Missouri", Kentucky Lexington Herald-Leader, Tony Rizzo, Jul 27, 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is 19th hole. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
[President Obama] usually tees off shortly after noon, but aides said he never drops by the '19th hole' for refreshment. Instead he returns to the White House by early evening to have dinner - with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia.
-- "Obama swings it to play even more golf than Bush (and all in less than a year in office)", The Daily Mail (UK), Paul Thompson, 27 October 2009
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is rub up against. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
However subtle these background influences are, they all rub up against a stark fact: Our rejection radar is just not adapted to a world in which we're thrown against new and often strange situations daily.
-- "Dumped, But Not Down", Psychology Today, Carlin Flora, July 01 2007
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Today's slang word of the day is departure lounge. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Citation: "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is mom jeans. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Let's inventory the outfits we were wearing, so you can see what I mean.
Mine: comfortable but hardly form-fitting jeans (I suppose a crueler person, or a less self-deceiving one, would call them "mom jeans")...
-- "Mom genes? No way.", The Boston Globe, Louise Kennedy, May 28 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
Today's slang word of the day is uni. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Gemma: I can't go to uni. I'm allergic.
-- The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
