Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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ble at all! No trouble at all. Forget it!
Forget it! It was my pleasure.

Forget you!exclam. Drop dead!; Beat it! 
Oh, yeah! Forget you! Forget you! Get
a life!


for keepsmod. forever. Does that mean
I’m going to have this scar for keeps? 
This is yours for keeps. Enjoy it.


for kicksmod. for fun; for a thrill. We
just did it for kicks. We didn’t mean to hurt
anyone. Let’s drive over to Wally’s place,
just for kicks.


fork something overtv. to hand some-
thing over (to someone). Okay, fork it
over. It’s mine! TOkay, fork over the
dough and be quick about it!


Fork you!exclam. Fuck you!(A partial dis-
guise. Rude and derogatory.) Fork you,
you stupid twit!


for peanuts and for chicken feedmod.
for practically no money at all. (See also
chicken feed.) I won’t work for pea-
nuts. You surely don’t expect me to do
this for chicken feed, do you?


For Pete’s sake! and For pity’s sake!; For
the love of Mike!exclam. Good grief! 
For Pete’s sake! How’ve ya been? For
pity’s sake! Ask the man in out of the cold!


For pity’s sake!Go to For Pete’s sake!


for realmod. genuine; not imaginary. 
Ken is really strange. Is he for real? This
whole day just isn’t for real.


for surephr. absolutely. (The same as fer
shur.) I’ll be there, for sure. Am I
happy? For sure!


for the birdsmod. undesirable. This
pizza is for the birds. I don’t like this
kind of life. It’s for the birds.


for the devil of it and for the heck of
it; for the hell of itmod. because it is
slightly evil; for no good reason. (Use
caution with hell.) The kids broke the
window just for the devil of it. We jus t
drove over for the heck of it.


for the heck of itGo to for the devil of
it.


for the hell of itGo to for the devil of it.


For the love of Mike!Go to For Pete’s
sake!
forty winksn. a nap; sleep. (Usually with
a quantifier. Either forty or some, a few,
a bunch of, etc.) I could use forty winks
before I have to get to work. I need forty
winks before I get started again.
foshomod. for sure. I’ll be there on time
fosho.
fossil 1. n. an old-fashioned person. 
Some old fossil called the police about the
noise. Oh, Tad, you are such a fossil. 2.
n. a parent. My fossils would never agree
to anything like that. Would your fos-
sils permit that?
fouled upmod. messed up; ruined; tangled
up. This is sure a fouled up mess. Yo u
sure are fouled up, you know.
foul mouthn. a person who uses obscene
language habitually. Terry, don’t be
such a foul mouth. Sally is turning into
a real foul mouth.
foul up 1. in. to blunder; to mess up. 
Please don’t foul up this time. The quar-
terback fouled up in the first quarter, and
that lost us the game. 2. n. a blunder; an
error. (Usually foul-up.) That was a
fine foul-up! Is that your specialty? I can
produce a serious foul up with both hands
tied behind me.
four-baggern. a home run in baseball. 
Wilbur hit his third four-bagger of the sea-
son. Another four-bagger for Wilbur!
four-bitsn. fifty cents. (A bit is equal to
twelve and one-half cents.) Yo u g o t
four-bits I can borrow? Here’s four-bits.
Keep the change.
four-eyesn. someone who wears glasses.
(Also a rude term of address.) We ll ,
I’ve got to the age where I’m a four-eyes.
Hey, four-eyes, betcha you can’t see this!
four-flushern. a cheater. Bruno is a
lousy four-f lusher, among other unpleas-
ant things. You dirty four-f lusher!
four-oh-four and 404 phr. the answer to
your question is unknown; the location
you seek is unknown. (From the Internet
message: Error - 404that is received

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