· 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
