hairy-ass(ed) 1. mod. wild; exciting. We
had a real hairy-ass time on the roller
coaster. The last part of the climb was
really hairy-assed. 2. mod. strong and vir-
ile. (Usually objectionable.) This big
hairy-ass guy started to push us around.
Stop acting like a hairy-assed jerk.
half a bubble off plumbphr. giddy; crazy.
She is acting about half a bubble off
plumb. What is wrong with her? To m
is just half a bubble off plumb, but he is
all heart.
half-ass(ed)mod. clumsy; awkward and
ineffectual. (Usually objectionable.)
She only made a half-ass try at passing the
test.
half-baked 1. mod. badly thought out.
That was a half-baked scheme. Was that
the best you could do? It would have
been approved if it weren’t so half-baked.
- mod. alcohol intoxicated. We’re g e t -
ting half-baked, come hell or high water.
Fred got himself sort of half-baked every
Saturday night.
half-blindmod. alcohol intoxicated. Fred
got himself half-blind in no time at all.
Get that half-blind jerk out of here! Four
cans of beer and she was half-blind.
half-canned mod. alcohol intoxicated;
tipsy. He’s half-canned and will be no
help at all. Old Don is half-canned and
can’t drive home.
half-cocked 1. mod. unprepared. (See also
go off half-cocked.) So he’s half-
cocked. So what? You’re half-cocked for
everything you do. 2. mod. alcohol intox-
icated. He just sat there, half-cocked and
singing. Old Jed got himself half-cocked
at the reception.
half-crockedmod. alcohol intoxicated.
Sam and John set out to get half-crocked.
They came home half-crocked at mid-
night.
half in the bagmod. alcohol intoxicated.
Jerry was half in the bag when we found
him. They were all half in the bag by
midnight.
half-litmod. alcohol intoxicated. John
was half-lit in no time at all. Harry was
half-lit by noon.
half-sprungmod. tipsy; alcohol intoxi-
cated. Ted was half-sprung and could
hardly stand up. They were half-sprung
by noon.
half-stewedmod. tipsy; alcohol intoxi-
cated. Poor Fred was half-stewed and
still had to give a speech. We were half-
stewed and had a lot of drinking yet to do.
half-under 1. mod. semi-conscious. I
was half-under and could hear what the
doctor was saying. I was afraid they
would start cutting while I was only half-
under. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated; tipsy.
He was half-under and could barely
stand up. Only four beers and she was
half-under.
half up the polemod. alcohol intoxicated;
tipsy. She drank till she was half up the
pole. Don was half up the pole when we
picked him up to come here.
halvsies[“hAvziz] mod. with each (of two)
paying half. (See also go Dutch.) Let’s
do it halvsies. Let’s make it halvsies, and
I pay for the parking, too.
ham 1. n. an actor; a bad actor. (See also
hams.) What a ham! A real showoff.
The cast was an assemblage of hams. 2. n.
an amateur radio operator. My brother
is a ham, and he helped a lot during
the emergency. The hams helped by
providing communication to the outside
world.
hamburg n. a hamburger. (See also
burger.) I’d like a couple of hamburgs
and a shake. This hamburg is as greasy
as they come.
hamburgern. a stupid and worthless per-
son—meat. The guy is just hamburger.
You can’t teach him anything. There is
a lot of hamburger around here. Who
hired them?
hamburgersn. shares in the McDonald’s
corporation. (Securities markets. New
York Stock Exchange jargon.) I want
400 shares of hamburgers. Hamburgers
just dropped a point.hamburgers