Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

even have glass glasses!
What time do we have to be at that shindig Saturday night? shinedmod. alcohol intoxicated, especially ...

Military. Usually objectionable.)
Oh, no, it’s shit on a shingle again tonight.
This shit on a shingle tastes like what it is ...

lush would be delighted to get some of your shoe polish. shoestringmod. low-cost; cheap. (See also on a shoestring.)
This is ju ...

afternoon just shooting the breeze.
It was good to shoot the breeze with you, Mary. shoot the bull and shoot the crap; shoot th ...

ing.
The shot was canceled because of the weather.
This shot, like the last, was a total failure. 4. n. a small or quickly dru ...

and tell.
I can’t take another show and tell session. show bizn. show business.
Well, that’s show biz for you.
Anybody who ca ...

shwench[SWEntS] n. a female freshman. (Collegiate.)
A couple of giggling shwenches showed up to cheer on the team.
There’s a ...

This is silo drippings.
The old-timer called his moonshine “silo drippings.” silvern. money.
What kind of silver is that going ...

sissified[“sIsifaId] mod. effeminate; sissy- style.
Don’t act so sissified.
I’m not comfortable in a sissified place like that ...

skag jones and scag jonesn. an addic- tion to heroin. (Drugs. Here jones is a “thing.”)
It’s the scag jones that’s got her down ...

Was my cooking so bad that everybody had to skin a goat? skin flickn. a movie featuring nudity. (See also nudie.)
We took in a ...

skunked them. They’ll never find me.
That fish skunked me. I thought I caught him for sure this time. skunk-drunkmod. alcohol ...

slap happymod. silly; giddy.
I get slap happy when I have to stay up this late.
She’s a little slap happy, but a tremendous d ...

It was no sleepwalk, but it didn’t make me slave away either. sleezGo to sleaze. slew 1. in. to drink to intoxication.
They mus ...

slip (up) 1. in. to make an error.
Don’t slip up and pay this bill twice, please.
I slipped and gave the guy a 35 percent tip. ...

slush fundn. a fund of money that can be used for various unofficial and discre- tionary purposes.
How much is left in the slus ...

me!
Mr. Atkins is going to get a repu- tation as a smart mouth. smartsn. intelligence.
She’s got plenty of smarts but no spunk ...

Smiley 1. n. a circular, smiling yellow face. (The face appears in many forms, stick- on labels, pin-on buttons, hand-drawn, etc ...

smoked in open defiance of the law.
My uncle was at a smoke-in. He says the reporters were getting kids to pose for shots.
Th ...

snakebite medicinen. inferior whiskey; strong whiskey; homemade whiskey.
That old-time snakebite medicine is good for what ail ...