Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

dull roarn. a relatively quiet degree of nois- iness.
Hey, simmer down to a dull roar!
Try to keep it at a dull roar if you ca ...

dump all over someone or something Go to do a dump on someone or some- thing. dumped on 1. mod. maligned; abused.
I really fee ...

courage, as he calls it.
To o m u c h D u t c h courage and you’re in permanent trouble. Dutch cureGo to Dutch act. Dutch treat ...

eager-beavern. a person who is very ea- ger to do something.
Rocko is an eager- beaver when it comes to collecting money for Mr ...

earth padsn.shoes. (Streets.)
Where are your earth pads, girlfriend? You can’t go to town with nekkid feet!
Where’d you get th ...

them. 3. tv. to appreciate something.
The audience really ate it up. TThe stuff about the federal budget went over well. They ...

el cheapo[El “tSipo] 1. n. the cheap one; the cheapest one. (Mock Spanish.)
I don’t want one of those el cheapos.
I can only a ...

eternity-boxn. a coffin.
When I’m in my eternity-box, then you can have my stereo.
I have my eternity-box all picked out. euch ...

fab[fAb] mod. fabulous.
Man, what a fab stereo!
Your pad is not what I’d call fab. Just okay. face cardn. an important person; ...

fag-busting and fag-bashingn. doing vi- olence to homosexuals. (Usually objec- tionable.)
Those bums get some kind of pleasure ...

fall off the wagonin. to resume drinking after having stopped.
Poor Jed fell off the wagon again.
It looks to me like he wante ...

Who made that smelly fart? 3. n. a stu- pid, despicable, and annoying person. (Usually objectionable.)
The guy’s nothing but a ...

fed 1. and thefedsn. a federal agent con- cerned with narcotics, tax collection, cus- toms, etc.
Some fed was prowling around a ...

fetch up.
Somebody fetched up in here and didn’t clean it up. fettien. money.
I need some fettie to pay the rent. afew ticksn. ...

turned finger after her last vacation. 3. n. an amount of liquor poured into a glass equal to the width of a finger.
Tra c y sa ...

fish-kiss right on her lips and frightened her. Fish or cut bait.sent. Do something or get out of the way.
Fish or cut bait, Ch ...

in. to fail; to peter out.
The whole plan fizzled, and we had to start over.
The play began to fizzle in the second act. flabb ...

flamdoodleGo to flapdoodle. flamein. to write an excited and angry note in a computer forum or news group.
Barb is f laming ag ...

Some of the air force pilots were f lat-hat- ting over the desert when one of them crashed. flatheadn. a stupid person.
Carl, d ...

cide.
Well, you just f lip-f lop all you want. I know what I want. flip one’s lidGo to flip one’s wig. flip one’s wig and flip ...