the sawbones. This is an emergency. Is
there a sawbones in this town?sawbuckn. a ten-dollar bill. (From the
time when the 10 was indicated by the
Roman numeral X, which looks like the
crosspiece that supports wood that is be-
ing sawed.) It cost me a sawbuck to have
my car pulled out of the mud. Can I
borrow a sawbuck till payday?
sawedmod. alcohol intoxicated. (Perhaps
an elaboration ofcut.) I got sawed last
weekend, and I still have a headache.
She drank a lot, but never got sawed.
sawed-offmod. short of stature. Mike is
sawed-off. Tom called Mike a sawed-off
little runt. Well, Mike is a sawed-off
runt, isn’t he?
Say cheese! exclam. Please smile! (A
phrase said by a photographer who is try-
ing to get someone to smile for a photo-
graph.) Come on, now. Say cheese!
Say cheese for the camera, please.
Says me! and Sez me!exclam. a formu-
laic answer to Says who?TOM: Says
who? FRED: Says me, that’s who! TOM:
You? FRED: You got it, buster. Says me!
say-son. a command; an authorization.
I can’t do it just on your say-so. We can
begin as soon as we get the boss’s say-so.
Says who? and Sez who?interrog. a for-
mulaic challenge indicating disagreement
with someone who has said something.
(See also Says you!) TOM: Says who?
FRED: Says me, that’s who! She drew
herself up to her full height, looked him
straight in the eye, and said, “Says who?”
Says you!exclam. That’s just what you say!;
You don’t know what you are talking
about! FRED: You are fat and ugly.
TOM: Says you! MARY: People who go
around correcting other people were found
to be very annoying in a recent survey.
BILL: Says you!
say uncletv. to admit defeat; to give up.
He held me down until I said uncle.
I never say uncle. I just keep right on going.
Say what?interrog. What did you say?
Say what? I didn’t hear that. The old
man held his hand to his ear and said,
“Say what?”
scabbed[“skAbd] mod. cheated in a drug
deal; having been sold bogus or inferior
drugs. Bart got scabbed by a dealer who
got arrested the next day. This junk is
junk. I’ve been scabbed.
scads[skAdz] n. lots (of something). I
have just scads and scads of paper. Aunt
Mary has scads of money.
scagGo to skag.
scag jonesGo to skag jones.
scalen. the regular union rate of pay;
union wages. Even the big stars work for
scale. We pay scale and not a penny
more. I don’t care who you think you are!
scam[skAm] 1. n. a swindle; a hustle. I
lost a fortune in that railroad scam.
What a scam! I’m calling the cops. 2. tv. to
swindle someone; to deceive someone.
They were scammed by a sweet-talking
southern lady who took all their money.
She scammed them for every cent they
had. 3. in. to seek out and pick up young
women, said of males. (Collegiate.)
Bob was out scamming last night and ran
into Clare. Those guys are always scam-
ming around. 4. in. to copulate. All you
ever want to do is scam. I think those
people over there are scamming. 5. in. to
fool around and waste time. Quit
scamming and get busy. You’d get bet-
ter grades if you didn’t scam so much.
scammer[“skAm#] 1. n. a swindler; a hus-
tler. Max is a scammer if I ever saw one.
There are a couple of scammers on the
street corner. Watch out. 2. n. a lecher; a
fast worker with the opposite sex. Bob
thinks he’s a great scammer, but he’s just
a wimp. Do scammers have a great fu-
ture? What’s for an encore?
scammeredmod. alcohol intoxicated.
She is scammered out of her mind. Tw o
bottles of that stuff and she was scam-
mered.
scamp[skAmp] n. a small child. Come
here, you little scamp! There are three
little scamps at the door saying, “Trick or
treat!”sawbuck