Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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


Earth to someone.phr. Hello someone, are
you listening? (A means of getting the at-
tention of someone who is ignoring you
or who is daydreaming. As if one were on
the earth, trying to contact someone in
a spaceship. The implication is that the
person being addressed is spacy.) 
Earth to Mom! Earth to Mom! What’s for
dinner? Earth to Fred! Are you asleep?
Say something, Fred!


easymod. easy to please; flexible. Don’t
worry about me. I’m easy. Fred’s easy.
He’ll eat anything.


Easy does it. 1. phr. Calm down.; Relax. 
Chill, man, easy does it. Easy does it!
Relax and go slow! 2. phr. Be gentle.; Han-
dle with care. Easy does it. Go slow, and
you won’t dent anything. Easy does it.
Two people can handle this heavy old thing
if they go slow.


easy maken. someone who can be copu-
lated with without much trouble. She’s
got a reputation as an easy make.


easy markn. a likely victim. Martin
looks like an easy mark, but he’s really
quite savvy. Mary is an easy mark be-
cause she is so unsuspecting.


easy moneyn. money earned or gained
with little or no difficulty. You know
where I can get some easy money? All
you guys want easy money. Don’t you want
to work for it?


easy streetn. a place or position in life
where living is easy. (See also fat city; on
easy street.) Easy street is no place for
an active guy like Sam. Easy street is ex-
actly what I want out of life.


eat 1. tv. [for something] to bother or
worry someone. What’s eating you,
Bill? Nothing’s eating me. I’m just the
nervous type. 2. tv. to absorb the cost or
expense of something. It was our mis-
take, and we’ll have to eat it. We’ll eat
the costs on this one. It’s the least we can
do. 3. tv. to perform oral sex on someone.


(Usually objectionable.) She said she
wanted to eat me!
eat at the Yin. to perform oral sex on a
woman. (Usually objectionable.) Hey,
sailor, you wanna eat at the Y?
eat crowtv. to display total humility, es-
pecially when shown to be wrong. 
Well, it looks like I was wrong, and I’m go-
ing to have to eat crow. I’ll be eating
crow if I’m not shown to be right.
eat facetv. to kiss deeply. (See also suck
face.) There were some kids eating face
over in the corner. Tim and Karen were
in the backseat eating face.
Eat me! tv. <an expression meaning
roughly suck my genitals.> (Usually ob-
jectionable.) Eat me, you creep!
eat nailstv. to look and act really tough or
angry. Sam looked mad enough to eat
nails. They were all eating nails by the
time the IRS got the mess straightened out.
eat one’s hattv. to do something extraor-
dinary. If she wins, I’ll eat my hat. 
I’ll eat my hat if our advertisement actu-
ally brings us a president.
eat one’s heart out 1. tv. to suffer from
sorrow or grief. She has been eating her
heart out over that jerk ever since he ran
away with Tracy. Don’t eat your heart
out. You really didn’t like him that much,
did you? 2. tv. to suffer from envy or jeal-
ousy. (Usually a command.) Yeah, this
one’s all mine. Eat your heart out! Eat
your heart out! I won it fair and square.
Eat shit!tv. Drop dead! (Usually objec-
tionable.) Eat shit, mother-fucker!
eat someone’s lunchtv.to best someone;
to defeat, outwit, or win against some-
one. (In the way that a school bully takes
away children’s lunches and eats them at
recess.) The upstart ABC Computer
Company is eating IBM’s lunch.
eat something up 1. tv. to consume some-
thing rapidly, such as food or money. 
Running this household eats my income
up. TThe car really eats up gas. 2. tv. to
believe something. Those people really
eat that stuff up about tax reduction. T
They’ll eat up almost anything you tell

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