Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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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.


euchre[“juk#] tv. to cheat or deceive some-
one. Those guys’ll try to euchre you, so
watch out. I think the clerk euchred me.


evened outmod. back to normal; restored
to sanity. When things are evened out
after the holidays, we can settle down. 
Finally, at about age thirty, you could say
that Sam was evened out.


even-Steven 1. mod. evenly divided. He
made the two piles of diamonds even-
Steven and then let me chose which one I
wanted. The cake is not exactly cut
even-Steven. 2. mod. even; balanced. 
Now we’re even-Steven. Now that we’ve
given each other black eyes, are we even-
Steven?


everything from soup to nutsn. every-
thing imaginable. It looks like she
brought everything from soup to nuts. 
I have everything from soup to nuts in my
briefcase.


evidencen. liquor. (Usually with the. In-
corporated into a suggestion that the ev-
idence be destroyed by drinking it.) 
There is only one thing to do with evidence
like this, and that’s drink it. They
knocked back all the evidence very quickly.


evilmod. excellent. (See also wicked.) 
This wine is really evil! Man, what evil
fronts!


ex[Eks] n. a former spouse or lover. My
ex is in town, but we don’t talk much any-
more. Her ex remarried.


Excellent!exclam. Fine! (Like awesome,
this expression is a standard word used
frequently in slang contexts.) A new
stereo? Excellent! Excellent! Way rad!


Excuse me for breathing!Go to (Well,)
pardon me for living!


Excuse me for living!Go to (Well,) par-
don me for living!


Excuse my French.Go to Pardon my
French.
exec[Eg”zEk] n. an executive. The execs
are well-treated around here. They are
even firing the execs now.
expensen.a baby; a child. The little ex-
pense just cries, craps, and chows. How
many expenses you got in your crib?
eyeballtv. to look hard at someone or
something. I eyeballed the contract and
saw the figures. The two eyeballed each
other and walked on.
eyeball to eyeballmod. face to face. 
They approached each other eyeball to eye-
ball and frowned. Let’s talk more when
we are eyeball to eyeball.
eyefuln. the sight of something that one
was not meant to see. I got an eyeful
of that contract. Yikes! What a giveaway!
She really gave us an eyeful. Shame.
eye-in-the-skyn. an overhead surveillance
camera, usually in a dome; a traffic po-
lice helicopter. The cops used an eye-in-
the-sky to get the evidence and make the
arrest.
eye-opener 1. n. a real surprise. Her
confession was a real eye-opener. This
day has been an eye-opener for me. 2. n.
a wake-up drink of liquor; a strong drink
any time. He knocked back a quick eye-
opener and finished dressing. One eye-
opener led to another.
eye-popper 1. n. something astonishing.
The description of the theft was a real
eye-popper. What an eye-popper of a
story! 2. n. a very good-looking woman
or girl. Isn’t that foxy lady an eye-pop-
per? I may not be an eye-popper, but my
virtue is exemplary.
eyewash 1. n. nonsense; deception. Aw,
that’s just a lot of eyewash! It’s not eye-
wash! It’s true! 2. n. liquor. How about
some of that nice eyewash? You’ve been
putting away a lot of that eyewash, haven’t
you?

eyewash
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