Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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flopper-stoppern. a brassiere. Hey,
Jimmy, does your sister wear a f lopper-
stopper yet? She’s very shy. She won’t
even hang her f lopper-stoppers out on the
line to dry.


flub something uptv. to do something in-
correctly; to mess up a procedure. 
Now don’t f lub this up. TI never f lub up
anything.


flub the dubtv. to fail to do the right
thing. Martin is f lubbing the dub with
the fund-raising campaign. Please don’t
f lub the dub this time.


flub (up) 1. and flub-upn. an error; a
blunder. I tried not to make a f lub, but
I did. Who is responsible for this f lub-
up? 2. in. to mess up;to foul up. Yo u
are f lubbing up again, aren’t you? I do
my best to keep from f lubbing.


fluff[fl@f] 1. n. nonsense; irrelevant stuff;
hype.This is just a lot of f luff. Noth-
ing substantial at all. Cut out the f luff
and talk straight. 2. tv. & in. to make an
error; to do something incorrectly. 
Todd f luffs his lines in the same place every
night. Don’t f luff again, please.


fluff-stuffn. snow. There is supposed
to be an inch of f luff-stuff tonight. 
Fluff-stuff looks pretty, but it’s no fun to
shovel it.


flunk[fl@Nk] 1. tv. & in. to earn a failing
grade in a course. I’m f lunking in En-
glish lit. Wilbur is f lunking everything.



  1. tv. to assign someone a failing grade.
    Good grief! She f lunked me! I’m
    sorry, but I am going to have to f lunk half
    the class.


flunk out (of something)in. to leave
school or a course because of failure. 
Fred f lunked out of school and never tried
to go back. That’s it. All F’s. I’ve f lunked
out.


flushmod. wealthy; with plenty of money.
Today I am f lush. By tomorrow, I’ll be
broke. I’m not exactly f lush, but I can
pay the bills.


flushern. a toilet. (Folksy. Compared to an
outhouse.) I hear they put in a f lusher


over at the Babbits’. That’s silly. They’ve
always had a f lusher.
fly 1. mod. knowledgeable; alert and in the
know. This dude is f ly; there’s no ques-
tion about it. We don’t need any more
f ly birds around here. 2. mod. nice-look-
ing; stylish. I like your f ly shoes, Sam.
She drives a f ly crutch.
flyboyn. a pilot. (Military.) Rocko was
a f lyboy in Korea. Those f lyboys have
it easy.
fly-by-nightmod. undependable; dishon-
est. Sam seems like such a f ly-by-night
character. He’s not f ly-by-night at all.
Don’t do business with f ly-by-night
people.
flying-fuck 1. n. a real or imaginary act of
copulation where the male leaps or dives
onto and into the female. (Usually ob-
jectionable.) The movie showed some
jerk allegedly performing a f lying-fuck, just
for laughs. 2. and French-fried-fuckn.
something totally worthless. (Usually ob-
jectionable.) This thing isn’t worth a
f lying-fuck!  I wouldn’t give you a
French-fried-fuck for all the crummy cars
like that in the world.
fly kitestv. to distribute or pass bad
checks. (Underworld. See also kite.) 
Marty was picked up for f lying kites in
three different cities. She got caught f ly-
ing kites in Philadelphia.
fly lightin. to skip a meal or eating. 
Nothing for me, thanks. I’m f lying light to-
day. I f ly light until about dinnertime.
fly minkn.a fine woman; a sexually at-
tractive woman. (Streets. See also mink.)
That Veronica is one f ly mink, man. 
Who was that f ly mink I saw you with last
night?
fly the cooptv. to escape from somewhere;
to get away. I was afraid he would f ly
the coop if I didn’t tie him up. I f lew
the coop before my dad got home.
fly trapn. the mouth. Close your f ly trap.
You talk too much. Don’t talk with your
f ly trap full.
foamn. beer. How about some more
foam? All the guy thinks about is foam.

flopper-stopper

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