Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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drive. Glommed again! That’s the story
of my life.

gloomy Gusn. a sad or dismal person; a
pessimist. Don’t be such a gloomy Gus,
Wa lly. Well, gloomy Gus just came in
again.


glop[glap] 1. n. unappetizing food; gunk;
anything undesirable. Do we have the
same old glop again tonight? No, this is
different glop. 2. tv. to slop or plop some-
thing (onto something). She glopped
something horrible onto my plate. Don’t
glop any of that pink stuff anywhere near
me.


glorifiedmod. overblown; over-hyped;
phony. Why, this is just a glorified
potato chip! She’s just a glorified dance-
hall girl.


glown. a mild state of drug or alcohol in-
toxication. She had a nice glow, but was
by no means stewed. What was sup-
posed to be a nice glow turned out to be a
terrifying hallucination.


glow wormn. a drunkard; an alcoholic.
(From glow.) You are turning into a re-
gular glow worm. Gary came out of the
bar and tripped over a napping glow worm
near the entrance to the alley.


glued 1. mod. arrested. (Underworld.) 
Wally got glued for having over three hun-
dred parking tickets. Bart goes to great
extremes to keep from getting glued. 2.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. Fred is glued
and can’t stand up. About three more
beers and I’ll be glued.


glue factoryn. the place where old horses
are sent so their bones can be made into
glue; a similar, imaginary place for peo-
ple. I’m not as young as I used to be, but
I’m not ready for the glue factory yet. 
If you can’t keep up, we’ll send you to the
glue factory.


gluerGo to gluey.


gluey and gluern. a person, usually a
teenager, who sniffs glue. (Drugs.) 
Teddy is a gluey. That’s why he’s failing in
school. The gluers stand a chance of
having brain damage.


glug[gl@g] n. a gulp or shot of liquor. 
Have another glug of this moonshine. I
took one glug and spit it out.
glutz[gl@ts] n. a slut; a woman of low
morals. I didn’t say she is a glutz! 
Tracy knows some old dames she would
call glutzes.
G-man[“dZimAn] n. a government inves-
tigative agent; an FBI agent. The G-
men busted in and started shooting. 
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a G-man.
(g)narly[“narli] mod. excellent; great. (Cal-
ifornia.) This pizza is too gnarly for
words! Who is that narly guy in the
white sweater?
go 1. n. a try (at something). Let me have
a go at it this time. I’d like to have an-
other go at it, if I can. 2. in. to urinate.
I gotta go! Jimmy’s gonna go in his
pants! 3. tv. to say or utter something.
(Mostly teens. Used in writing only for
effect.) So I go, “Gross!” Then she
goes, “Like... ,” and just stops talking.
go-aheadn. permission to proceed; the
signal to go ahead. (See also say-so.) 
We’re ready to go as soon as we get the go-
ahead. I gave him the go-ahead, and the
tanks started moving in.
go all the wayin. to copulate; to carry
necking all the way to copulation. (Eu-
phemistic. Usually objectionable.) Did
they go all the way? He keeps wanting
me to go all the way.
go ape (over someone or something)in.
to become very excited over someone or
something. I just go ape over chocolate.
Sam went ape over Mary.
go apeshit over someone or something
in. to get very excited about someone or
something. (Usually objectionable.) 
She really went apeshit over the ice cream.
goatn. a fast and powerful car; a Pontiac
GTO. Hey, man, where’d you get that
goat? His goat conked out on him.
gob[gab] 1. n. a blob or mass of some-
thing. I’d like a big gob of mashed pota-
toes, please. Take that horrid gob of gum
out of your mouth! 2. n. a large amount
of something. (Often in the plural.) 

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