jumper! My uncle has his own puddle
jumper.puffin. to get drunk. Those guys go out
and puff every Friday night. I’ve been
puffing since dinnertime, and I’m done.
puffern. a cigar. Who’s smoking that foul
puffer? Can you imagine anyone smok-
ing a puffer like that in a restaurant?
puggled 1. mod. exhausted; bewildered.
I have had a long day, and I’m really pug-
gled. Who is that puggled old man? 2.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. When he
started pouring his drink down his collar,
I knew he was puggled. The whole gang
got puggled last night.
pug-ugly 1. mod. having to do with a very
ugly person. He is so pug-ugly. What
a pug-ugly cat you have there! 2. n. a very
ugly person. (Also a rude term of ad-
dress.) Ask that pug-ugly to leave. He
will frighten the children. Hey, pug-
ugly, try plastic surgery!
Puh-leez![p@@ “liiiz] exclam. Please!; That
is enough! You can’t expect me to accept
that! (A long drawn-out way of saying
Please!The tone of voice shows exasper-
ation and disgust. The spelling is highly
variable.) I am the one who’s at fault?
Puuuleeeze! Puh-leez! Don’t try to make
me believe that!
puke 1. in. to vomit. I thought I would
puke when I smelled it. Who puked in
the john? 2. n. vomit. There’s puke on
the bathroom wall. Tod put a big hunk
of fake plastic puke on the teacher’s desk.
- n. a totally disgusting and obnoxious
person. (Rude and derogatory.) God,
I hate you, you puke! What an ugly
puke. Make him leave! Make him hand-
some!
puke hole[“pjuk...] 1. n. a tavern. Let’s
go in this puke hole and get a cold one.
Carl spends almost every evening at the lo-
cal puke hole. 2. n. a toilet. Bart tried
to f lush the dope down the puke hole, but
the cops caught him. Who didn’t f lush
the puke hole? 3. n. a mouth. (Rude.)
Shut your puke hole and listen to what I
am telling you! Do you want me to
punch you in the puke hole?
thepukesn. the feeling of nausea; the feel-
ing of impending vomiting. (Especially
with have, get.) Oh my God, I’ve got the
pukes. I hate having the pukes.pukey and pukoidmod. disgusting; repel-
lent. Who is that pukey looking guy?
Gosh, it’s pukoid! What a pukey day!pukishmod. nauseated. (Folksy.) Oh, I
feel so pukish. That old pukish feeling
came over me, and I just let go.pukoidGo to pukey.pull 1. n. a drink; a swig;a drink from a
flask. He took another pull and kept on
talking. Can I have a pull? 2. tv. to take
a drink or a mouthful of liquor from
a bottle or other container. He pulled
a slug from the bottle. She pulled a
mouthful and then spat it out. 3. n.
a mouthful of smoke from a cigarette; a
drag on a cigarette. A couple of pulls
and she crushed out the cigarette. After
a big pull, she blew an enormous smoke
ring. 4. tv. to smoke a cigarette. He
pulled a long filter job and then went back
to work. He stopped for a minute and
pulled one. 5. in. to pull one’s punches.
(Martial arts.) See, he pulled just at the
last minute. If you pull during a fight,
you’re through as a fighter.pull a bonertv. to make a silly error.
That was dumb. You really pulled a boner.
Tom is always pulling boners.pull a fast onetv. to outwit or outsmart
someone by a clever and timely maneu-
ver. Don’t try to pull a fast one on me.
So you think you can pull a fast one?pull a jobtv. to carry out a crime, espe-
cially a robbery. (Police and underworld.
Note the variations in the examples.)
Bart decided that it was not a good time to
pull a bank job. Ziggy and Bart left
town after they pulled the job.pull an attitudetv. to be haughty; to put
on airs. Don’t pull an attitude with me,
chum! Mary pulled an attitude and sat
around pouting all evening.pull chockstv. to depart. (Chocksare used
to block the wheels of a vehicle or apuff