Catching up with updates #22

Hello slang fans!

Continuing catching up with updates:

• April 5 (Judy, romcom, scouse...)
• April 6 (go sideways, mud duck...)
• April 7 (sled, thumper...)
• April 8 (fire, firewater, gotsta...)
• April 9 (ankle biter, off the clock, stumpy)
• April 10 (bodice-ripper, gobbling rods, grind...)

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Slang word of the day: DBI

Today's slang word of the day is DBI. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

DBI

noun

• acronym for "dirtbag index", an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003

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Catching up with updates #21

Hello slang fans!

Continuing catching up with updates!

• March 27 (ambo, fossbeard, hillbilly heroin...)
• March 29 (beer gut, beeswax, freshies...)
• March 30 (a world of hurt, bikeshed, beer gut, beeswax, freshies...)
• April 1 (dead tree, pip)
• April 2 (anti-Midas touch, bro, cager...)
• April 3 (cellar saver, come out, overshare...)

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Catching up with updates #20

Hello slang fans!

Continuing catching up with updates:

• March 20 (down, frog in pants, hit...)
• March 21 (vert...)
• March 22 (1080, high horse, M-Cat...)
• March 23 (ASLR, bake, brass clankers...)
• March 24 (a fine line, bank, Christmas creep...)
• March 26 (hold water, lift the fog, moo cow...)

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Slang word of the day: black gold

Today's slang word of the day is black gold. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

black gold

• oil.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "The race for 'Black Gold': Oil in a day's work", The Seattle Times, Frazier Moore, June 15 2008

• compost.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "Compost - Going Green With Black Gold", ways2gogreen.com, Clay Miller

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Slang word of the day: hinky

Today's slang word of the day is hinky. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

hinky

adjective

• suspicious (of something.)

  If the driver of the getaway car gets hinky, he'll honk the horn.

• suspicious.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "On the hunt for Arizona's illegal aliens with the Police Women of Maricopa County", Slate, Jessica Grose, April 30 2010

• strange.
• not quite right; non-standard.

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Catching up with updates #19

Hello slang fans!

Continuing catching up with updates:

• March 14 (ABC, bae, check...)
• March 15 (b school, chillbilly, KenTaco Hut...)
• March 16 (nakey, neckbeard)
• March 17 (pound sand, screw off)
• March 18 (GTK)
• March 19 (BC bud, catting, pony...)

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