rabbit foodn. lettuce; salad greens.
I
think I need a little more rabbit food in my
diet.
Rabbit food tends to have a lot of
vitamin C.

rabbit punchn. a quick little punch. (Box-
ing and general slang.)
That couldn’t
have hurt you! It was just a little rabbit
punch.
She battered him with about
forty rabbit punches on the arm. Boy, is
he ever sore!

rack 1. n. a bed.
I need some more time
in the rack.
You don’t get to see the rack
very much in the army. 2. Go to rack
(out). 3. n. a pair of [female] breasts.
(Usually objectionable.)
Look at the
rack on that dame! How can she stand up-
right?

rack dutyGo to rack time.

rackedmod. struck in the testicles. (Usu-
ally objectionable.)
The quarterback
got racked and didn’t play the rest of the
quarter.

racked (up)mod. alcohol or drug intoxi-
cated. (See also rack up.)
They drank
till they were good and racked.
Man, are
you racked. What did you drink? A gallon?

They all got racked up last weekend.

racket 1. n. noise.
Cut out that racket!
Shut up!
Who’s making all that racket?

2. n. a deception; a scam.
   He operated
   a racket that robbed old ladies of their sav-
   ings.
   This is not a service station; it’s a
   real racket! 3. n. any job.
   I’ve been in
   this racket for twenty years and never
   made any money.
   I’m a stockbroker.
   What’s your racket?

rack facen.one’s face after sleeping in a
bed or “rack.”

rack (out)in. to go to sleep or to bed. (See

also rack.) 
What time do you rack out?


I’ve got to rack out or drop from ex-

haustion. 
If I don’t rack by midnight,

I’m dead the next day.

rack something up 1. tv. to accumulate

something; to collect or acquire some-

thing. 
They all racked a lot of profits up.

TWe racked up twenty points in the game

last Saturday. 2. tv. to wreck something.


Fred racked his new car up.THe racked

up his arm in the football game.

rack time and rack dutyn. time spent in

bed. (Military.) 
I need more rack time

than I’m getting. 
I was on rack duty for

my entire leave.

rack upin. to become alcohol intoxicated.

(See also racked (up).) 
Let’s go down

to the tavern and rack up. 
I think I’ll

rack up.

rad[rAd] 1. n. a radical person. (Califor-

nia.) 
He’s such a rad! For sure! 
My

brother is a rad, but he’s a good guy. 2.

mod. great; wonderful; excellent; exciting.

(California. From radical.) 
Oh my

God, that’s, like, really rad! 
What a rad

swimsuit!

radicalmod. great; excellent. (California.)


It’s so, like, radical! 
My boyfriend,

he’s, like, so radical!

radiolandn. an imaginary place where ra-

dio listeners dwell. 
Hello out there in

radioland. This is Martin Jones speaking.


All you folks in radioland who enjoy

country music will like this next one.

rag 1. n. a newspaper. 
I’m tired of read-

ing this rag day after day. Can’t we get

a different paper? 
What a rag! It’s

only good for putting in the bottom of

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