Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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waa-zooedGo to whazood.


wackGo to whack.


wack offGo to beat off.


wackymod. loony; silly and giddy. Yo u
are about the wackiest guy I ever met. I
got a real kick out of that wacky movie we
saw last night.


wacky-tabbacky[“wAkit@”bAki] n. mari-
juana. (Collegiate.) You got any of that
wacky-tabbacky? He gets that silly look
in his eye from smoking wacky-tabbacky.


wad [wad] n. a bundle of money; a
bankroll. (Originally underworld. See
also tight wad.) I lost my wad on a rot-
ten horse in the seventh race. Yo u’d b e t -
ter not f lash a wad like that around here.
You won’t have it long.


waffle (around)in. to be indecisive. 
Don’t waff le around so long. Make up your
mind. She spent three days waff ling over
the color of the car and finally decided on
red.


wagonn. the police wagon. I called the
wagon. It’ll come and get these two thugs
in about fifteen minutes. Look out, you
guys, the wagon’s coming. Don’t let ’em see
you!


wag one’s chintv. to talk or jabber; to
chatter aimlessly. The two old buzzards
sat on the park bench wagging their chins
all afternoon. Stop wagging your chin
for a minute and listen up!


wailin. to be great. (See also wailing.) 
Things really started to wail about mid-
night when the band really got going. 
This pizza really wails.


wailing and whaling mod. excellent.
(Teens.) Man, that’s wailing! What a
whaling guitar!

wail on someonein. to beat someone.
(See also whale the tar out of some-
one.) Who are those two guys wailing
on Sam?

walk 1. n. something easy. (Always with a
in this sense. See also cakewalk; sleep-
walk.) That game was a walk! What
a walk! I’ve never had such an easy time
of it! 2. in. to walk out on someone. 
They had a big fight, and he walked. 
Much more of this and I’m going to walk.


  1. in. to walk away from something un-
    harmed. It couldn’t have been much of
    an accident. Both drivers walked. It was
    a horrible meeting, but when it was over
    I just walked. 4. in. to get out of prison;
    to get off from a criminal charge. (Un-
    derworld.) They thought they had
    Ziggy on a vice rap, but he walked. I
    showed them my license; then I walked.


walk heavyin. to be important. (Black.) 
Harry’s been walking heavy since he grad-
uated. Why have you been walking
heavy, man?

walk-in 1. mod. having to do with a cus-
tomer who just comes in off the street. 
Two walk-in customers wanted morning
papers but nothing more. We were hop-
ing for more walk-in trade. 2. n. a cus-
tomer who walks in off the street. We
had a couple of walk-ins this morning, but
none of the hotel residents came. We
have a new sign outside to attract walk-ins.

walking dandruff and galloping dan-
druffn. lice. (See also pants rabbits.) 
He’s hopping around like he’s got walking

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