wanna stayin the cage of anger for the rest
of your life? If not, chill, chill, chill.cagey[“kedZi] mod. sneaky; shrewd. John
is pretty cagey. You have to keep an eye on
him. He’s too cagey for me. I don’t trust
him at all.
cake 1. n. money. (From bread, dough.)
I can’t scrape together enough cake to do
the job. I don’t have cake in my pocket,
in the bank, or under my mattress. What
am I going to do? 2. Go to cakes.
cake holeGo to word hole.
cakesthe buttocks. (Like buns.) Yo u b e -
have yourself or I’ll blister your cakes.
She fell down and bruised her cakes.
cakewalkn. something very easy. (See also
sleepwalk.) Nothing to it. It’s a cake-
walk. The game was a cakewalk from
beginning to end.
calaboose[“kAl@bus] n. jail. (From a Span-
ish word.) One night in the calaboose
is enough. Are we going to tell what hap-
pened, or are we going to spend the night
in the calaboose?
calendarn. a month. Okay, man. I’ll see
you in one calendar. One more calen-
dar, then you get your jack.
call 1. n. a decision; a prediction. That
was a good call, Mike. The market be-
haved just as you said it would. Good call.
- tv. to challenge someone. I called
him, but he ignored me. Are you the guy
who called me? Who do you think you are? - n. the early effects of a drug; the be-
ginning of a rush; a rush. (Drugs.) Yo u
may not get the call on this stuff for twenty
minutes or more. A guy like this is only
happy when he senses the call.
call (all) the shotstv. to decide on the
course of action; to be in charge. Why
do you have to call all the shots? Do
what you’re told. I’ll call the shots.
call earlGo to call hughie.
call-girln. a woman who is on callas a
prostitute. (Possibly refers to a prostitute
who can be contacted by a telephone
call.) The cops dragged in a whole f lock
of call-girls after the convention.
call hogstv.to snore really loudly. Mike
was calling hogs all night long and I got
hardly a wink of sleep. Wake up! Wake
up! You’re calling hogs again!
call housen. a brothel. The cops busted
a call house on Fourth Street last week.
The madame of the call house certainly
looked like a lady to me.call hughie and call earl[...”hyui and
...”#l] tv. to vomit. (Onomatopoetic from
the sound of retching.) Fred spent an
hour in the john calling hughie. Yuck! I
have to go call earl.
Call my service.sent. Please call me
through my answering service. (Not a
friendly or encouraging invitation.)
Good to talk to ya, babe. Call my service.
Love ya! I can’t talk now. Call my ser-
vice.
call of natureGo to nature’s call.call ralphGo to cry ruth.
call ruthGo to cry ruth.call shotgunphr. to call out and claim the
seat beside the driver in an automobile.
Bob called shotgun so he could sit next
to the driver.
call someone outtv. to challenge some-
one to a fight. Max wanted to call him
out, but thought better of it. Did you call
me out? What are you going to do about it?
Cambodian red and cam (red)n. a red-
dish brown marijuana grown in Cambo-
dia. (Drugs.) Where did you get cam
red?camp 1. n. something cute and out-of-fash-
ion; something of such an anachronistic
style as to be intriguing. Camp is dull
and was never interesting. My brother
thinks camp is just a joke. Nobody really
knows what style camp really is, and very
few even care. 2. and campymod. over-
done; out-of-fashion and intriguing.
Most camp entertainment is pretentious
and overdrawn. Who needs camp
movies? 3. mod. having to do with homo-
sexual persons and matters. What a
camp way of walking! She is so camp, I
could scream!camp