coming home for a few days was the icing
on the cake.ick[Ik] 1. n. any nasty substance. What
is this ick on my shoe? That’s not ick;
it’s good clean mud. 2. exclam. Nasty!
(Usually Ick!) Oh, ick! What now?
Ick! I’m late! 3. n. a disliked person.
Tell that ick to leave. He’s polluting the
place. Oh, Todd, don’t be an ick.
icky[“Iki] mod. distasteful; nasty. What
is this icky old stuff? This is icky. This
was an icky day.
icky-poo[“Ikipu] 1. mod. disgusting. I
don’t like all this icky-poo talk. What is
that icky-poo stuff in the soup bowl? 2. ex-
clam. Nasty! (Usually Icky-poo!) Icky-
poo! What a mess! Oh, icky-poo! I
missed my bus!
I could(n’t) care less.sent. I don’t care!
(The affirmative version does not make
sense, but is widely used, nonetheless.)
So you’re late. I couldn’t care less. I could
care less if you fell off a cliff.
ID 1. n. some kind of identification card.
(Initialism.) Can you show me an ID?
I don’t have any ID on me. 2. tv. to de-
termine the identity of someone; to check
someone for a valid identification card.
They IDed us at the door. I hate be-
ing IDed. The cops IDed the driver in
less than thirty minutes.
idea boxn.the head; the brain. You talk
so fast you make my idea box ache. Yo u
got a good solution up there in your idea
box by any chance?
idiot boxn. a television set. You spend
too much time watching the idiot box.
What’s on the idiot box tonight?
idiot cardn. a large card that shows peo-
ple on television what to say. The f loor
director held up an idiot card so I could
read out the telephone number. I
couldn’t read the number off the idiot card.
idioticGo to idiot juice.
idiot juice and idiotic[“Idi@t dZus and
Idi”adIk] n. a mixture of ground nutmeg
and water. (Prisons.) Somehow a bunch
of these guys got hold of some idiot juice.
He drank about a gallon of idiotic to get
the kick of one beer.idiot lightn. a light (instead of a meter) on
a car’s dashboard that indicates the state
of various things concerning the opera-
tion of the car. I don’t want idiot lights.
I want meters! The idiot light went on,
and I knew I was in some sort of trouble.idiot oiln. alcohol. She drinks too much
of that idiot oil. Idiot oil can wreck you
as much as smack does.idiot pillsn. barbiturates. (Drugs.) Lay
off those idiot pills, why don’t you? She
takes idiot pills every night.I don’t believe this!exclam. What is hap-
pening right now is unbelievable!
Gross! I don’t believe this! I don’t believe
this! It can’t be happening.I don’t know.sent. I disagree. I don’t
know. I like it. What’s wrong with it? I
don’t know. It looks good to me.I don’t mean maybe!exclam. I am not
kidding! You get over here right now,
and I don’t mean maybe! I will spank
you if you ever do that again, and I don’t
mean maybe.iffy[“Ifi] mod. marginally uncertain.
Things are still sort of iffy, but we’ll know
for sure in a few days. It’s sort of an iffy
matter, but things will get straightened
out.if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a
thousand timesphr. I know I have told
you many, many times. If I’ve told you
once, I’ve told you a thousand times, don’t
lean back in that chair. If I’ve told you
once, I’ve told you a thousand times, wipe
your feet!if one knows what’s good for onephr.
one had better do what is expected of
one. You’d better be on time if you know
what’s good for you. If you know what’s
good for you, you’ll call and apologize.if one’s a dayphr. <a phrase attached to
an expression of someone’s age.> She’s
fifty if she’s a day! I’m sure he’s forty-
five if he’s a day.ick