fetch up. Somebody fetched up in here
and didn’t clean it up.fettien. money. I need some fettie to pay
the rent.
afew ticksn. a few minutes; a few seconds.
Just wait. I’ll be there in a few ticks.
fib[fIb] 1. n. a small lie. It was just a lit-
tle fib. I’m sorry. Is this another one of
your fibs? 2. in. to tell a small lie. Stop
fibbing and tell me the truth. Did you
fib to the teacher?
fibbern. a liar. Harry can be a fibber
sometimes. You got to watch him.
Jimmy is turning into a little fibber.
fiddle-fartGo to monkey-fart.
FIFO.phr. first in, first out, the first items
placed in the stack are the first items to
be retrieved. (Computers. Acronym. See
also GIGO; LIFO.) Of course the wrong
thing came out. That register is FIFO.
Oh, I thought this thing was FIFO, and I
put the stuff in the wrong order.
fifth wheeln. an extra and unneeded per-
son. I feel like such a fifth wheel around
here. Hank is just a fifth wheel. Send
him home.
fileGo to (pro)file.
file thirteenn. the wastebasket. (See also
circular file.) Please throw this in file
thirteen. I don’t need it anymore. I’m
afraid that the papers you want went into
file thirteen two days ago.
filling stationn. a liquor store. (From an
old name for an automobile service sta-
tion.) Please stop at the filling station
and get some suds on your way home.
The filling station on the corner does a big
business on Fridays.
fill-milln. a tavern. She stopped off at
the fill-mill again this evening. She
spends a lot of time at that fill-mill.
fill or kill and FOKphr. a broker’s notation
advising the stock exchange to fill a stock
order or kill it. (The abbreviation is an
initialism. Securities markets.) Get rid
of this order. It was fill or kill, and it should
have been killed yesterday. Where? I
don’t see that it’s marked FOK.
filthy lucre[...”luk#] n. money. I sure
could use a little of that filthy lucre.
I don’t want to touch any of your filthy
lucre.
filthy rich 1. mod. very wealthy. I
wouldn’t mind being filthy rich. There
are too many filthy rich people now. Ken
is filthy rich because of the money his un-
cle left him. 2. n. people who are very
wealthy. The filthy rich can afford that
kind of thing, but I can’t. I sort of feel
sorry for the filthy rich.
fin and finn[fIn] n. a five-dollar bill. (Ger-
manic via Yiddish.) Who says I owe you
a fin? I gave the old guy a finn, and he
nearly passed out.
finagle and fanigle[fI”negland f@”nIgl] 1.
in. to plot and plan; to conspire; to
arrange (something). He’s pretty good
at finagling. She’d rather fanigle than
ask outright. 2. tv. to acquire something
through conniving. She spent a lot of
time trying to finagle a ride to work.
Can I fanigle a buck from you?
financially embarrassedmod. broke.
I’m a bit financially embarrassed at the
moment. Gary found himself finan-
cially embarrassed when the time came to
pay the bill.
fine and dandymod. nice; good; well. (Of-
ten sarcastic.) Well, that’s just fine and
dandy. Couldn’t be better. I feel fine and
dandy, and I’m going to have a good time
here.
fine wolfn.a sexy or desirable man.
(Streets.) Who is that fine wolf I seen
you with last night? That Johnny, he’s
one fine wolf.
F-ingGo to effing.
F-ing aroundGo to effing around.
finger 1. tv. to point someone out; to iden-
tify someone (as having done something,
been somewhere, etc.). Pete f ingered
Marty as being the one who arrived first.
Nobody would dare finger Rocko as the
one who did it. 2. n. someone who iden-
tifies criminals for the police; a police in-
former. (Underworld.) Tracy has be-
come a finger for the cops. Yu p, s h efinger