I am? 3. n. a person of either sex consid-
ered sexually. If she doesn’t manage to
wrap her legs around that big hunk of
meat within the next twenty minutes, I’d
lose my bet.meatheadn. a stupid oaf. Don’t call him
a meathead. He does his best. Is this
meathead bothering you, miss?
meatheadedmod. stupid; simple-minded.
Of all the meatheaded ideas. This one
takes the cake! How meatheaded!
When someone conducts a meatheaded op-
eration like this, we tend to lose faith in the
whole system.
meathooksn. the hands. (See also hooks.)
Get your meathooks off my car! If
your meathooks so much as brush by my
jacket again, you are finished!
meat wagonn. an ambulance. The meat
wagon showed up just as they were pulling
what was left of Marty out of what was left
of her car. When the meat wagon stops
at all the traffic lights on the way to the
hospital, you know somebody’s pifted.
medico[“mEdIko] n. a doctor. (From Span-
ish.) The medico says I should lose some
weight. It’s hard to take it seriously
when a fat medico tells you to shed a few
pounds.
meetn. a meeting or an appointment.
(Mostly underworld.) If this meet
works out, we could score a cool million.
What time is the meet?
meeting of the mindsn. a consensus; an
agreement. At last we’ve reached a
meeting of the minds. This meeting of
the minds is nothing more than a truce.
mega[“mEg@] mod. large; serious. Some
mega beast boogied down to the front of
the auditorium and started screaming.
You see I have this, like, mega problem, ya
know.
megabitchn. a truly obnoxious bitch.
Bob, you are such a megabitch! Anne
called herself a megabitch and said she
didn’t care what people thought of her.
megabucksn. a lot of money; big bucks.
(See also kilobucks.) A stereo that size
must cost megabucks. Mr. Wilson has
megabucks in pharmaceutical stocks.
megadork[“mEg@dork] n. a very stupid
person. (See also dork.) What a wimpy
megadork! Tiffany, you are, like, such
a megadork!
megillah[m@”gIl@] n. a long and compli-
cated story. (From Hebrew megillah via
Yiddish.) He struggled through this
megillah and nobody believed him. Here
you come in here with this megillah about
a f lat tire and how your brother-in-law
stole your jack and how your arthritis is
kicking up—what do you think I am, some
sort of shoulder to cry on?
mell of a hessn. hell of a mess.(A de-
liberate spoonerism.) What a mell of
a hess you’ve gotten us into this time.
Have you ever seen such a mell of a hess?
mellow 1. mod. relaxed; untroubled; laid
back. Being mellow is my only goal in
life. She is the mellowest fox I know. 2.
mod. slightly alcohol or drug intoxicated.
I got mellow and stopped drinking right
there. I’m only mellow, but you drive
anyway.
mellow out 1. in. to calm down; to get less
angry. When you mellow out, maybe we
can talk. Come on, man, mellow out!- in. to become generally more relaxed;
to grow less contentious. Gary was
nearly forty before he started to mellow out
a little and take life less seriously. After
his illness, he mellowed out and seemed
more glad to be alive.
melonsn. large breasts. (Usually objec-
tionable.) Look at the melons on that
babe!
meltdownn. a total collapse of anything.
(From the term used to describe the self-
destruction of a nuclear reactor.) There
seems to have been a meltdown in the
computer center, and all our records were
lost. The meltdown in the securities
markets was caused by a combination of
things.
melvin[“mElv@n] 1. n. a studious or unat-
tractive male. (Teens and collegiate.)
Gary is such a melvin! Do you think I
would go out with that melvin? 2. n. a sit-
melvin