gloss. He is a liar at heart. She doesn’t
mean it. Her words are just lip gloss.LIQn. a liquor store. (Initialism or acro-
nym.) Let’s stop at the LIQ and get some
berries. I got a headache already. I don’t
need anything from any LIQ to make it
worse.
liquefiedmod. alcohol intoxicated. Te n
beers and I am absolutely liquefied! She
is too liquefied to walk, let alone drive.
liquidate tv. to kill someone. (Under-
world.) The boss wants me to liquidate
Mr. Bruno. They used a machine gun to
liquidate a few troublesome characters.
liquid corkn. a medicine that stops diar-
rhea. This nasty tasting stuff is a good
liquid cork for what you have. This liq-
uid cork isn’t so bad if you get it good and
cold before you take it.
liquid laughn. vomit. If you drink much
more, you’re gonna come out with a liq-
uid laugh. There’s some liquid laugh on
your shoe.
listen upin. to listen carefully. (Usually a
command.) Now, listen up! This is im-
portant. Listen up, you guys!
lit 1. n. literature, as a school subject. I’m
f lunking English lit again. I hate lit.
Give me numbers any day. 2. and lit up
mod. drunk. She was always lit by bed-
time. Todd was lit up like a Christmas
tree at our office party.
little black bookn. a book containing the
names and addresses of acquaintances
who are potential dates, usually put to-
gether by men. I’ve got a nice collec-
tion in my little black book. Am I in
your little black book, or can you already
tell that I wouldn’t go out with you?
little boy bluen. a (male) police officer.
I hear that little boy blue is looking for you.
Little boy blue is coming this way, and
he’s mad.
little boys’ roomn. the boys’ restroom; the
men’s restroom. Can you tell me where
the little boys’ room is? Ted’s in the lit-
tle boys’ room. He’ll be right back.
little girls’ roomn. the girls’ restroom; the
women’s restroom. Can you please tell
me where the little girls’ room is? Is there
an attendant in the little girls’ room?
(little) pinkie and (little) pinkyn. the lit-
tlest finger on either hand. Ouch! I
smashed my pinky. My little pinkie
nearly froze because there’s a hole in my
glove.
little shitn. a stupid and insignificant per-
son. (Rude and derogatory. Usually refers
to a male.) What’s a little shit like him
doing running a big company like this one?
lit upGo to lit.
livemod. cool; great. Everything’s live!
No problem! It’s live and ice. No prob-
lem, man.
liveware[“laIvwEr] n. the human compo-
nent of computer use. (Patterned on soft-
ware and hardware.) The hardware is
okay. It’s the liveware that’s bad. If I
don’t get some sleep, you’re going to see a
liveware crash.
(live) wiren. an energetic and vivacious
person. Tracy is a real live wire. With
a wire like Tracy in charge, things will get
done, that’s for sure.
Living large.phr. Doing okay. (The re-
sponse to How ya living?) I’m living
large. How you doing? Living large. So,
how’s it with you?
load 1. n. as much liquor as one can hold.
(See also loaded.) Harry had quite a
load of booze. Mary is carrying a load.- n. a drink of liquor. Can I have a
load from your bottle? Help yourself to
a load. 3. n. a dose of drugs; an injection
of drugs. (See also loaded. Drugs.) She
shoots a load every day or two. He
scored enough for a load only yesterday. 4.
n. a drug supply; a stash. (Drugs.) My
load is up in the closet. If his load dwin-
dles, he gets more easily. 5. n. a large pur-
chase of heroin. (Drugs.) I’ve scored a
load that’ll last me a few days. That load
must be worth about $50,000. 6. n. an au-
tomobile. (See also heap.) Whose
junky old load is that parked in front of the
house? I’m saving money so I can re-
place this load with a new car.
load