someone or something instantly. When
we learned of the conviction, we dropped
him like a hot potato. I dropped the idea
like a hot potato.drop someone some knowledgetv. to
give someone some information. Come
on, What’s the 411. Drop some knowledge
on me.
drop the balltv. to fail at something; to al-
low something to fail. I didn’t want to
be the one who dropped the ball, but I
knew that someone would f lub up. Sam
dropped the ball, and we lost the contract.
drubeGo to droob.
drug 1. in. to use drugs. (Drugs.) There
is no way that she will stop drugging by
herself. Why does she drug so heavily?
- and drug outmod. down; depressed.
Man, am I drug! We are all drug out
after that meeting.
druggie and druggyn. a drug addict or
user. That druggy loves to hang out
here. There are too many druggies in
this neighborhood.
drugheadn. a heavy drug user; an addict.
(Drugs.) They find a drughead in the
river about once a month. The drug-
heads are taking over this neighborhood.
drug lordn. a drug dealer high up in the
distribution chain. The drug lords like
Mr. Big seem never to get arrested.
Frank had always admired the sheer power
of the domestic drug lord.
drugola[dr@g”ol@] n. a bribe paid by drug
dealers to the police for protection. (Pat-
terned on payola.) Frank pays a little
drugola, but mostly the cops never come
into this area anyway. A lot of drugola
is simply paid in drugs.
drug outGo to drug.
drugstore cowboyn. a male who hangs
around drugstores and other public
places trying to impress women. Yo u
don’t see the old drugstore cowboys around
this part of town anymore. The drug-
store cowboys of years ago are all hidden
away shooting up something.
drunk backmod. alcohol intoxicated; very
drunk. The whole bunch was drunk
back by midnight. Larry was drunk
back and couldn’t drive us home.
drunk tankn. a jail cell where drunks are
kept. (See also junk tank.) A couple of
hours in the drunk tank really made me
think about alcohol. They hose down the
drunk tank every hour on Friday and Sat-
urday nights.
dry 1. mod. sober; no longer alcohol intox-
icated. Tracy’s dry, I hear. How long
will Ernie stay dry? 2. n. a prohibitionist;
an abstainer from alcohol. The drys are
in an increasing majority. Do you know
even one dry? 3. mod. having to do with
a region where alcoholic beverages can-
not be purchased. (Compare this with
wet.) Is Kansas still dry? I hate to
get stuck in a dry town. Some small
towns are dry, but not many.
dry-as-dustmod. dull; lifeless. I can’t
take another one of his dry-as-dust lec-
tures. All her ideas are dry-as-dust.
Some dry-as-dust old crock talked end-
lessly about old bones.
Dry up!exclam. Shut up!; Go away and
don’t bother me! Aw, dry up! I’ve heard
enough. Dry up and beat it!
dub[d@b] 1. tv. & in. to duplicate some-
thing; to copy something. Dub this and
keep a copy yourself. He’s busy dubbing
right now. 2. n. a duplicate; a copy. The
dub was so poor we couldn’t understand
the dialog. This is an almost perfect dub
of the original.
dubage and doobage[“dubIdZ] n. drugs;
marijuana. (See also doobie.) I detect
the smell of dubage in the hallway! Bill
kept his doobage in an old shoe in his
closet.
dub-dub-dub and dubya-dubya-dubya
n.double-u, double-u, double-u, the let-
ters WWW found in World Wide Web
addresses. (The second version is merely
a colloquial pronunciation of double-u,
and neither is commonly written or
printed.) Our address is dub-dub-dub
dot reindeer dot com. Look me up at
dubya-dubya-dubya dot wmu dot org.drop someone some knowledge