Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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crater-face and pizza-face; pizza-puss;
zit-facen. a person with acne or many
acne scars. (Intended as jocular. Rude
and derogatory.) I gotta get some kind
of medicine for these pimples. I’m getting
to be a regular crater-face.


crawling with someone or something
mod. covered with someone or some-
thing; alive with someone or something.
The place was crawling with police and
FBI agents. The room was just crawl-
ing with ants.


crazy 1. n. a crazy person. The guy’s a
crazy, and he keeps coming in here asking
for money. I think the crazies are tak-
ing over the world. 2. mod. cool. This
stuff is really crazy, man. I love it! 
What a crazy dress. It makes you look like
a million.


crazy bonen. the elbow. Ouch! I hit my
crazy bone! Ken hit his crazy bone as he
went into church, and was yelling “Oh!
Oh! Oh!” as if the Spirit had got into him
or something.


cream 1. tv. to beat someone; to outscore
someone. The other team creamed us,
but we had better team spirit. We’ ll
cream ’em next week. 2. semen. (Usually
objectionable.) His father found some
cream in the john and went into a purple
rage. Some of them swallow the cream,
they say. 3. vaginal secretions. Now,
that ought to bring on the cream! 4. to
copulate [with] someone, usually a fe-
male. (Usually objectionable.) He acted
like he wanted to cream her. She went
out and got herself creamed.


creamed 1. mod. beaten; outscored. We
were really creamed in that last game, and
the coach is steamed. Midwest U. got
creamed again today by the Podunk Bad-
gers. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Man,
Tony is totally creamed! I got myself
creamed last night, didn’t I?


creamed foreskinsn. creamed chipped
beef on toast. (Military. Usually objec-
tionable.) Oh, boy! It’s creamed fore-
skins again tonight!


cream (in) one’s pants and cream one’s
jeansin. [for a male] to ejaculate in his


pants from excessive sexual excitement.
(Usually objectionable.) God, when I
saw her I nearly creamed in my pants. 
The kid creamed his jeans in that movie.

cream one’s jeansGo to cream (in) one’s
pants.

cream puff 1. n. a weakling; a wimp. 
Don’t be a cream puff all your life! Join a
health club! We’re having a cream puff
special this week for you clowns who can’t
climb stairs without panting. 2. n. a used
car that is in very good condition. This
one is a real cream puff. Only driven to
church by a little old lady. This cream
puff is loaded, air and everything.

creasedmod. exhausted. What a day. I
am totally creased. Here is one creased
football player. Let him hit the rack.

creepn. a weird person; an eerie person. 
Charlie is such a creep when he’s stoned.
I thought Charlie was a creep no mat-
ter what.

creep diveGo to creep joint.

creeping-crud 1. n. any unidentified dis-
ease. There is some kind of creeping-
crud between my toes. I got the creep-
ing-crud growing in my armpit. 2. n. a
repellent person. Wally has become
such a creeping-crud since he inherited all
that money. Don’t be a creeping-crud.
Just go back to being a plain crud. 3. n. any
nasty, slimy substance. You got creep-
ing-crud all over my pants leg. That’s
not creeping-crud! That’s my pecan pie!

creep joint and creep diven. an un-
pleasant place populated by creeps. Yo u
shouldn’t go into a creep joint like that
alone. Why would anyone want to work
in a creep dive like that?

thecreepsn. the jitters; a case of nerves. 
These movies always give me the creeps. 
The creeps always make me have to go to
the john.

creepymod. eerie; frightening. I have
this creepy feeling that someone is just this
very moment reading something that I
wrote. This is the creepiest old house I
have ever been in.

crater-face

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