Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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and derogatory.) Why doesn’t that stu-
pid cocksucker talk straight. He’s always
trying to butter somebody up.

cocksucking mod. despicable; con-
temptible. (Usually objectionable.) Get
your goddamn cocksucking foot outa my
doorway!


coed[“koEd] n. a female college student.
(From coeducational.) Some of these
coeds are pretty strong-minded. My
daughter is a coed at Midwest University.


coffee andn. coffee and a doughnut or a
pastry. I’ll have coffee and. We
stopped at a little shop for coffee and.


coffin-dodger[“kOfndadZ#] n. a heavy
smoker. I just hate these damn coffin-
dodgers who light up a cigarette in a
restaurant!  Coffin-dodgers, chain-
smokers—who cares? Let ’em commit sui-
cide—in the privacy of their own homes,
of course.


coffin nail 1. and coffin tackn. a ciga-
rette. (Old.) No more coffin nails for
me. Every coffin tack you smoke takes
a little off the end of your life. 2. n. a drink
of liquor. How about another coffin
nail? Coffin nail sounds bad. Drink
sounds good.


coffin tackGo to coffin nail.


coffin varnishn. inferior liquor. Yo u
want some more of this coffin varnish? 
Do you see what that coffin varnish you
serve here has done to some of those guys?


coinn. money. (See also hard coin; do
some fine coin.) I’m sort of short of
coin right now. Can it wait? He made
a lot of coin on the last picture.


cojonesn. the testicles. (Spanish. Usually
objectionable.) He kicked that old cat
right in the cojones and sent it f lying.


cokeaholic[kok@”halIk] n. a cocaine ad-
dict. (Drugs.) It’s hard to get a coke-
aholic to get treatment. When I real-
ized I was a cokeaholic, I decided to stop,
but I couldn’t.


cokeheadn. a heavy cocaine user; a co-
caine addict. (Drugs.) We get a few de-
pressed cokeheads in the emergency room


who have tried suicide. As a banker, I
see two or three cokeheads file for bank-
ruptcy each year.

coke partyn. a gathering where cocaine is
consumed. (Drugs.) There’s a coke
party in the warehouse after closing
tonight. Tom’s hosting a coke party for
his yuppie friends.

cokespoon and (flake) spoonn. a small
spoon used to carry powdered cocaine to
a nostril. (Drugs.) Wally wears a coke-
spoon around his neck. The principal
wrote a letter to Mrs. Simpson telling her
that Jimmy had brought a f lake spoon to
school.

cold 1. mod. [stopping something] sud-
denly and totally. I stopped cold—
afraid to move further. That remark
stopped her cold. 2. mod. dead. This
parrot is cold—pifted! When I’m cold
and buried, I hope people will think of me
fondly. 3. mod. not good. That new CD
is real cold. The sound is bad and the per-
formance is too. The lecture was cold
and dull. 4. mod. excellent. (Very cool.)
That last pitch was cold, man. Hey,
G! That’s a cold ride.

cold blood and cold coffeen. beer. 
How would you like a little cold blood to
start things off? A nice big cold coffee
would do me fine.

cold calltv. to call a sales prospect from a
list of persons one has never met. The
broker cold called a number of people each
evening for two months. Things have to
be pretty bad when the senior brokers at
a major house have to cold call people to
get business.

coldcocktv. to knock someone out. The
guy who called Max out wanted to cold-
cock him for shorting him, but got cold-
cocked himself. The clerk coldcocked the
would-be robber with a champagne bottle.

cold coffeeGo to cold blood.

cold feetn. a wave of timidity or fearful-
ness. Suddenly I had cold feet and
couldn’t sing a note. You sort of expect
a candy-ass like that to have cold feet.

cold feet
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