打造外语区Ｓｌａｎｇ最强贴
• ace• He's an ace reporter.
• MEANING: very good
• action
• Do you know where the action is in this town?
• MEANING: excitement
• airhead
• My sister's boyfriend is a real airhead.
• MEANING: stupid person
• all wet
• Your ideas about politics are all wet.
• MEANING: completely wrong
• all-nighter
• I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter.
• MEANING: after studying all night.
• ammo
• The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo.
• MEANING: ammunition
• antifreeze
• I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this.
• MEANING: liquor
• armpit
• This town is really an armpit.
• MEANING: undesirable place
• awesome
• What an awesome sunset.
• MEANING: great
• bad
• Wow, that was really a bad movie.
• MEANING: intense
• barf
• He barfed all over the seat of the airplane.
• MEANING: vomitted
• bashed
• The boat was bashed beyond recognition.
• MEANING: crushed
• beat
• After working all day I am really beat.
• MEANING: exhausted
• beemer
• He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in.
• MEANING: B.M.W. car
• bench
• He was benched during the basketball playoffs.
• MEANING: taken out of the game
• bent
• It's OK. Don't get so bent.
• MEANING: angry
• bent out of shape
• Don't get so bent out of shape.
• MEANING: become upset
• big gun
• The president brought two big guns to the meeting.
• MEANING: powerful people
• big mouth
• Shut up! You really have a big mouth.
• MEANING: talk too much • big stink
• The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station.
• MEANING: big issue
• blade
• He carried a ten inch blade with him.
• MEANING: knife
• blimp
• I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel.
• MEANING: very fat person
• blow
• I'm going to blow out of here now.
• MEANING: leave
• blow
• He blew all his money gambling.
• MEANING: lost
• blow a fuse
• Hey, don't blow a fuse.
• MEANING: lose your temper.
• blow one's cool
• Calm down. Don't blow your cool.
• MEANING: become angry
• blown away
• I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars.
• MEANING: greatly impressed
• bomb
• The movie was a bomb.
• MEANING: bad
• bombed
• The driver of the car was bombed.
• MEANING: intoxicated
• bonkers
• I think I am going bonkers.
• MEANING: crazy
• boo-boo
• If you make another boo-boo like that, you won't have a job.
• MEANING: mistake
• booze
• I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party.
• MEANING: alcohol
• bread
• I need some bread to pay for my car.
• MEANING: money
• break
• A lucky break helped him get the job.
• MEANING: opportunity
• break it up
• Break it up, or I will call the police.
• MEANING: stop
• bring-down
• The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down.
• MEANING: depressing
• buck
• Do you have a buck I can borrow?
• MEANING: dollar
• bummed
• I was really bummed after I heard the news.
• MEANING: depressed • bummer
• My trip to New York was a bummer.
• MEANING: bad experience
• bust
• The whole idea was a bust.
• MEANING: failure
• buy it
• If you don't slow down, you're going to buy it in a car accident.
• MEANING: die
• call
• The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come.
• MEANING: prediction
• can
• Do you know where the can is?
• MEANING: bathroom
• carb
• My motorcycle's carb is out of adjustment.
• MEANING: carburetor
• catch some rays
• I'm going to lie on the beach and catch some rays.
• MEANING: get some sunshine.
• catch some Z's
• I need to catch some Z's before I go on my trip.
• MEANING: get some sleep
• cheesy
• That is really a cheesy looking outfit.
• MEANING: cheap
• chicken
• Don't be a chicken.
• MEANING: coward
• chintzy
• That really was a chintzy present you got him.
• MEANING: cheap
• chow down
• I need to find a place to chow down.
• MEANING: eat a lot
• clip
• Watch out or they will clip you at that bar.
• MEANING: cheat
• clunker
• I can't go on a date in that clunker.
• MEANING: old car
• cold fish
• My date for the dance was a cold fish.
• MEANING: dull
• collar
• I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later.
• MEANING: arrest
• come up for air
• He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion.
• MEANING: take a break
• con
• Don't try to con me.
• MEANING: deceive
• cool
• This is a really cool place to work.
• MEANING: good • cool down
• Things should cool down in a day or two.
• MEANING: calm down
• cop
• How did you get the road sign? I copped it.
• MEANING: robbed
• cop
• The cop showed me his badge.
• MEANING: policeman
• couch potato
• He is a couch potato.
• MEANING: lazy person
• crack open a bottle
• Let's crack open a bottle for his birthday.
• MEANING: open
• cram
• I need more time to cram for the test.
• MEANING: study hard
• cream
• Our team creamed them badly.
• MEANING: beat
• croak
• I feel like I am going to croak.
• MEANING: die
• cruise
• The skier was cruising down the hill
• MEANING: going very fast
• cuffs
• He put the cuffs on the killer.
• MEANING: handcuffs
• cushy
• He has a really cushy job.
• MEANING: easy
• cut
• Could you cut my whiskey with a little water?
• MEANING: dilute
• cut out
• It is late. I have to cut out.
• MEANING: leave
• damage
• Lets get the bill and find out the damage.
• MEANING: cost
• dead
• This disco is really dead tonight.
• MEANING: quiet
• deck
• He was decked in the fight.
• MEANING: knocked down
• deep pockets
• Her boyfriend has deep pockets.
• MEANING: is a good source of money
• dicey
• Since the weather is a little dicey, I won't go today.
• MEANING: chancy
• dirty
• I hear that it's a dirty movie.
• MEANING: an obscene
• ditch • I'll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother.
• MEANING: leave
• do a snow job on
• Don't try to do a snow job on me.
• MEANING: deceive
• dope
• He is such a dope.
• MEANING: stupid person
• dope
• There are a lot of dope dealers around here.
• MEANING: drug
• dork
• He is such a dork.
• MEANING: strange person
• dough
• I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping.
• MEANING: money
• down
• Let's go to a bar and down a few beers.
• MEANING: drink quickly
• drag
• Doing homework on the weekend is a drag.
• MEANING: boring
• dynamite
• This drink is really dynamite.
• MEANING: powerful; great
• earful
• My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood.
• MEANING: a lot of gossip
• easy mark
• The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash.
• MEANING: likely victims
• eat
• The problem is really eating away at me.
• MEANING: bothering
• excellent
• That's excellent man.
• MEANING: fine
• face-off
• The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off.
• MEANING: confrontation
• far-out
• This music is really far-out.
• MEANING: great
• fix
• The addict needs another fix.
• MEANING: dose of drugs
• flaky
• He is too flaky to do the work.
• MEANING: unreliable
• flashback
• At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend.
• MEANING: remembered
• flick
• I haven't seen a flick in a long time.
• MEANING: movie • flip out
• He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed.
• MEANING: lost control
• flip side
• What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape?
• MEANING: other side
• fox
• His older sister is a fox.
• MEANING: very attractive
• foxy
• She is a foxy lady.
• MEANING: sexy
• freebie
• The pillow was a freebie
• MEANING: free
• get into something
• I got into gardening in high school.
• MEANING: became seriously interested in
• get it
• I listened to the joke twice, but I still don't get it.
• MEANING: understand
• get with it
• If you don't get with it, we will never finish this work.
• MEANING: hurry up
• gig
• I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00.
• MEANING: job
• glitch
• This computer program has a glitch.
• MEANING: defect
• glitzy
• This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in.
• MEANING: fashionable
• go
• Let me have a go at solving the problem.
• MEANING: try
• go bananas
• I am going to go bananas if I don't have a vacation soon.
• MEANING: go crazy
• go down
• What is going down?
• MEANING: happening
• goof
• I am really a goof at times.
• MEANING: fool
• goof up
• I really goofed up when I painted my room green.
• MEANING: made a serious mistake
• goofy
• You are always acting goofy these days.
• MEANING: silly
• gourd
• Use your gourd to figure out what is happening.
• MEANING: head • grand
• His salary is twenty grand.
• MEANING: thousand dollars
• grass
• Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory.
• MEANING: marijuana
• gravy
• This job is pure gravy.
• MEANING: easy money
• groovy
• This music is groovy.
• MEANING: pleasant
• gross
• Picking your nose is really a gross habit.
• MEANING: disgusting
• gross-out
• The party was a gross-out.
• MEANING: digusting time
• grub
• Where is the best place to get some grub around here?
• MEANING: food
• grubby
• Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party.
• MEANING: unclean and untidy
• grungy
• That is a really grungy jacket.
• MEANING: dirty
• gut
• He got shot in the gut.
• MEANING: stomach.
• gut
• The gut issue is about what we are going to do now.
• MEANING: basic
• guts
• It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion.
• MEANING: courage
• hairy
• That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over.
• MEANING: dangerous
• hammer
• Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding.
• MEANING: accelerator
• hang it up
• I have decided to hang up my teaching job.
• MEANING: quit
• hang loose
• Just hang loose for another few days.
• MEANING: relax
• hang tough
• We need to hang tough on our decision.
• MEANING: stick with
• hardware
• The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had.
• MEANING: weapons
• have a buzz on
• I had a buzz on after the third martini.
• MEANING: was slightly intoxicated • have good vibes
• I have good vibes about our new secretary.
• MEANING: feel good about
• have it all together
• Recently I don't have it all together.
• MEANING: feel mentally all there.
• heave
• I heaved up on the floor.
• MEANING: vomited
• high
• The teenagers look high to me.
• MEANING: intoxicated on drugs or alcohol
• hip-shooter
• He is such a hip-shooter.
• MEANING: always talking without thinking
• history
• I don't have any idea where my old boyfriend is. He's history.
• MEANING: something in the past
• hit
• Your proposal was a hit with the boss.
• MEANING: successful
• hole up
• I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me.
• MEANING: hide
• honcho
• The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation.
• MEANING: boss
• hooker
• Her clothes make her look like a hooker.
• MEANING: prostitute
• hot
• The police stopped them because they though the car was hot.
• MEANING: stolen
• huffy
• I will do it soon so please don't get huffy.
• MEANING: angry
• hungry
• If you are not hungry, you won't get ahead in the business.
• MEANING: eager to make money
• hustle
• If you don't hustle, we will be late again.
• MEANING: hurry up
• hyped
• The fans were all hyped up for the football game.
• MEANING: excited
• hyper
• Don't get hyper about what she told you. You know it isn't true.
• MEANING: over excited
• I.D.
• Can you show me some I.D. please?
• MEANING: identification
• in
• The tie you are wearing is really in.
• MEANING: fashionable
• in deep
• They are really in deep with each other.
• MEANING: deeply involved
• in the bag
• Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about.
• MEANING: settled
• intense
• This is a very intense situation we are discussing.
• MEANING: serious
• jam
• I am glad you got yourself out of that jam.
• MEANING: trouble
• jerk someone around
• Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around.
• MEANING: wasting my time and causing me trouble
• jock
• My roommate is a jock for the basketball team.
• MEANING: an athlete
• john
• The john really smells.
• MEANING: bathroom
• joint
• Where is the closest joint to here.
• MEANING: cheap bar
• joint
• He is good at rolling joints.
• MEANING: marijuana cigarettes
• junkie
• Sam is a junkie.
• MEANING: rug addict
• just off the boat
• He acts like he is just off the boat.
• MEANING: naive
• keep one's cool
• He kept his cool when his house burned down.
• MEANING: remained calm
• kegger
• I hear there is a kegger at John's house tonight.
• MEANING: beer party
• kick
• I get a kick out of watching him paint.
• MEANING: enjoy
• klutz
• He is a real klutz.
• MEANING: stupid and clumsy person
• knock
• Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
• MEANING: criticize
• knocked up
• My dog gets knocked up once a year.
• MEANING: pregnant • knockout
• Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday?
• MEANING: stunning person
• knuckle sandwich
• Shut up or I'll give you a knuckle sandwich.
• MEANING: punch in the mouth
• kook
• Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood.
• MEANING: strange people
• laid-back
• You need to be more laid-back.
• MEANING: calm and relaxed
• lame
• That is really a lame excuse.
• MEANING: an inadequate
• line
• I have heard that line a million times.
• MEANING: story
• loser
• John is a loser.
• MEANING: annoying and useless
• love handles
• I exercise every day, but I can't get rid of these love handles.
• MEANING: rolls of fat around my stomach
• make waves
• Try not to make waves around the office.
• MEANING: cause trouble
• maxed out
• I am maxed out at my work and need to rest.
• MEANING: exhausted
• mean
• He plays a mean violin.
• MEANING: performs well on
• mega
• I have mega amounts of tomatoes in my garden this summer.
• MEANING: large
• megabucks
• He made megabucks when he sold his company.
• MEANING: a lot of money
• knock
• Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
• MEANING: criticize
• mellow
• You need to mellow out and enjoy life.
• MEANING: calm down and relax
• meltdown
• There has been a meltdown in the relationship between my parents and I.
• MEANING: total collapse
• mickey mouse
• The homework the teacher gave us was mickey mouse.
• MEANING: nonsense and a waste of time
• move on someone
• I am going to try to move on Sarah next Saturday. • MEANING: pick up and seduce
• mush
• That is total mush and you know it.
• MEANING: nonesense
• nark
• Watch out for the narks in the airport.
• MEANING: drug police
• neat
• That was a neat idea that you had.
• MEANING: good
• negative
• There are too many negatives about the company merger.
• MEANING: bad things
• nick
• The police nicked the shoplifter as he was leaving the store.
• MEANING: arrested
• nip
• He took a nip out of the bottle.
• MEANING: a quick drink
• no sweat
• It's no sweat to have the report in to you by Monday.
• MEANING: no problem
• nuke
• I'll nuke our dinner in a few minutes.
• MEANING: heat up in the microwave
• nuke
• Does that attack plane have any nukes?
• MEANING: nuclear weapons
• nut
• I think that he is a nut.
• MEANING: crazy person
• nuts
• You are completely nuts if you think I will go with you.
• MEANING: crazy
• pad
• Have you found a pad yet?
• MEANING: a place to live
• pain in the neck
• My wife's best friend is a pain in the neck.
• MEANING: annoying
• paper-pusher
• My office is filled with paper-pushers.
• MEANING: bureaucratic office workers
• party animal
• You're too old to be a party animal.
• MEANING: love parties
• party-hearty
• We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary.
• MEANING: celebrate
• paw
• Get your paws off of my body.
• MEANING: hands
• peanuts
• I am not going to work for peanuts.
• MEANING: practically no money
• pickled
• He gets pickled after only one beer.
• MEANING: intoxicated • piece of cake
• Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake.
• MEANING: easy to do
• pig
• He is a pig at parties.
• MEANING: eats too much
• pig out
• Let's go to the restaurant and pig out.
• MEANING: eat a lot or overeat
• pit stop
• Let's make a pit stop at the next rest area.
• MEANING: stop and go to the bathroom
• plastered
• He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend.
• MEANING: intoxicated
• pooped out
• He pooped out after we started to do the hard work.
• MEANING: quit
• pop
• Shut up or I will pop you.
• MEANING: hit
• pop for something
• It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts.
• MEANING: buy
• pro
• He is really a pro at his work.
• MEANING: professional
• prod
• Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won't forget?
• MEANING: reminder
• psyched up
• The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday.
• MEANING: mentally ready
• psycho
• She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital.
• MEANING: mentally ill
• puke
• I feel like I am going to puke.
• MEANING: vomit
• push off
• I am going to push off now.
• MEANING: leave
• put the moves on
• You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married.
• MEANING: seduce
• put-on
• It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed.
• MEANING: deception
• quarterback
• Who is going to quarterback the meeting?
• MEANING: lead
• quick buck
• I need to make a quick buck.
• MEANING: some easy money • rack
• I have to hit the rack by ten or I'll be tired in the morning.
• MEANING: bed
• rack out
• I am going to rack out for two hours.
• MEANING: sleep
• racket
• There sure was a lot of racket outside last night.
• MEANING: noise
• rag
• I can't believe we still get this same old rag.
• MEANING: newspaper
• rap
• We need to sit down and rap about a few things.
• MEANING: talk about
• rathole
• When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole.
• MEANING: run down place
• raw
• The raw office workers were not getting much done.
• MEANING: new
• ream someone out
• The boss really reamed him out for his bad report.
• MEANING: got angry with him
• red hot
• Your idea is really red hot.
• MEANING: important
• repo
• Hey, don't repo my car. I will pay next week.
• MEANING: repossess
• rinky-dink
• The circus was really rinky-dink.
• MEANING: inferior
• riot
• The comedy program was a real riot.
• MEANING: funny
• road hog
• That driver is a road hog.
• MEANING: takes up too much of the road
• rocks
• Would you like your whiskey on the rocks?
• MEANING: with ice
• rough time
• We have had a rough time this winter.
• MEANING: hard time
• rug
• Is that a rug on his head?
• MEANING: wig
• rug rat
• My sister has three rug rats.
• MEANING: children
• rule
• My wife rules the house.
• MEANING: dominates
• run off at the mouth
• He is always running off at the mouth.
• MEANING: talking too much • run out of gas
• The politician ran out of gas during the campaign.
• MEANING: lost interest or momentum
• sack
• When did you hit the sack last night?
• MEANING: go to bed
• scam
• Don't lose your money in some kind of scam.
• MEANING: swindle
• scarf
• Since he hadn't eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate.
• MEANING: ate quickly
• schmuck
• What a stupid schmuck.
• MEANING: jerk
• screw around
• If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again.
• MEANING: waste time
• screw up
• If you screw up one more time, I will fire you.
• MEANING: make a mistake
• sharp
• He is very sharp with numbers
• MEANING: intelligent
• shot
• I'll give the puzzle another shot.
• MEANING: try
• shot down
• Everyone shot down my idea at first, but later agreed that it was a good idea.
• MEANING:
• disagreed with
• slammer
• The police threw them both in the slammer.
• MEANING: jail
• smashed
• Try not to get smashed at the beer party.
• MEANING: intoxicated
• smoke eater
• My father is a smoke eater.
• MEANING: fireman
• split
• It is time to split and go see the movie.
• MEANING: leave
• spook
• The cows were spooked by the howling of the wolves.
• MEANING: frightened
• spud
• Do you want rice or spuds for dinner?
• MEANING: potatoes
• square
• My father looks square in his jacket.
• MEANING: old-fashioned
• steamed up
• Don't get so steamed up over the issue.
• MEANING: angry • stink
• This whole operation stinks.
• MEANING: is repulsive
• straight
• I want you to give me a straight answer.
• MEANING: honest
• stressed
• I am really stressed by all the recent world events.
• MEANING: upset
• sucker
• Don't be a sucker.
• MEANING: be deceived
• take a hike
• I am tired of all your complaining. Take a hike.
• MEANING:
• leave
• taken
• He was taken for all his money at the casino.
• MEANING:
• cheated out of
• taking care of business
• I have been taking care of business.
• MEANING: doing what I have to do
• threads
• Those look like expensive threads he is wearing.
• MEANING: clothes
• tool around
• I don't want to tool around all night. It is time to go home.
• MEANING: drive around
• totaled
• My car was totaled in the accident with the garbage truck.
• MEANING: completely wrecked
• up
• He has been up ever since he met his new girlfriend.
• MEANING: happy and cheerful
• up for grabs
• This is a sale. Everything is up for grabs.
• MEANING: available.
• veg out
• I want to veg out in front of the television this evening.
• MEANING: relax and do nothing
• vibes
• He really gives off good vibes.
• MEANING: feelings
• wad
• You don't want to carry a wad like that with you in the big city.
• MEANING: bundle of money
• waste
• After you waste him, throw the body in the river.
• MEANING: kill
• wheels
• If you let me borrow your wheels, I'll go out and buy a pizza.
• MEANING: car
• whiz
• He is a whiz at the computer.
• MEANING: talented person
• wired
• I am really wired after drinking five cups of coffee.
• MEANING: alert
• wussy
• Don't be such a wussy all the time. Say what you are thinking.
• MEANING: weak person
• yukky
• This food tastes yukky
• MEANING: bad
• zapped
• I am too zapped to help you right now.
• MEANING: exhausted
• zip
• He knew zip about running the company.
• MEANING: Nothing
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