Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

stone (cold) sobermod. absolutely sober.
I am stone cold sober, or I will be by morning anyway.
I found the secret to being st ...

storkedmod. pregnant.
She got herself good and storked. Now what?
I hear that Tracy is storked again. story stockn. shares in ...

punch line.
I need a straight man to pick up on all my jokes.
I’m tired of be- ing a straight man for a has-been comic. straig ...

street-castingn. selecting amateurs to be performers or models.
I do a lot of street-casting. Almost everybody can act a little ...

strippern. a striptease artist.
Tra c y worked for a while as a stripper.
Strip- pers from all over assembled here for their f ...

study animaln. someone who studies hard. (A play on party animal.)
All the geeks in the dorm were study animals. Dull, dull, du ...

to stymie the investigation.
The nose guard stymied the play all by himself. suave [swav] n. personal polish and smoothness.
M ...

sudden deathmod. having to do with something short, quick, and decisive.
The game ended in a sudden death play- off.
Okay, yo ...

tutors to help them pass their classes. 2. n. a very well-built man regardless of ath- letic ability.
My boyfriend is a super- ...

swap spitstv. to kiss with someone.
A couple of kids were in the car swapping spits.
Tiffany and Wilbur were off some- where s ...

place is sure swellelegant!
It is not swellelegant.
Her car is just swellelegant. swellheadn. a conceited person.
To m is get ...

chef swings into high gear around eight o’- clock in preparation for the theater crowd. swingmann. a drug seller; a drug connec- ...

better slow down, or you will turn into a swizzle-stick. swoozled and swozzled[“swuzld and “swazld] mod. alcohol intoxicated. ...

T.n. marijuana. (Drugs. From tea.)
Can’t you stay off that tea?
All she thinks about is smoking T. and where she’s gonna get m ...

is—tah-dah!—our ever-late and never- punished executive secretary. tail-endn. the back end of something or someone.
He was at t ...

take a gander (at someone or some- thing)tv. to look at someone or some- thing. (See also gander.)
Wow, take a gander at this c ...

five minutes, or else.
She told them to take five, but they turned the five into fifty. take ittv. to endure something, physica ...

Usually take-off.)
The comedian did a take-off on the wealthy senator.
The take-off on the dean didn’t go over well. n. a rob ...

take something outtv. to bomb or destroy something.
The enemy took out one of the tanks, but not the one carrying the medicine. ...

someone’s conceit.
I took the starch out of Kelly by telling him where he was headed if he didn’t change his ways.
That remar ...