Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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jumper! My uncle has his own puddle
jumper.

puffin. to get drunk. Those guys go out
and puff every Friday night. I’ve been
puffing since dinnertime, and I’m done.


puffern. a cigar. Who’s smoking that foul
puffer? Can you imagine anyone smok-
ing a puffer like that in a restaurant?


puggled 1. mod. exhausted; bewildered. 
I have had a long day, and I’m really pug-
gled. Who is that puggled old man? 2.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. When he
started pouring his drink down his collar,
I knew he was puggled. The whole gang
got puggled last night.


pug-ugly 1. mod. having to do with a very
ugly person. He is so pug-ugly. What
a pug-ugly cat you have there! 2. n. a very
ugly person. (Also a rude term of ad-
dress.) Ask that pug-ugly to leave. He
will frighten the children. Hey, pug-
ugly, try plastic surgery!


Puh-leez![p@@ “liiiz] exclam. Please!; That
is enough! You can’t expect me to accept
that! (A long drawn-out way of saying
Please!The tone of voice shows exasper-
ation and disgust. The spelling is highly
variable.) I am the one who’s at fault?
Puuuleeeze! Puh-leez! Don’t try to make
me believe that!


puke 1. in. to vomit. I thought I would
puke when I smelled it. Who puked in
the john? 2. n. vomit. There’s puke on
the bathroom wall. Tod put a big hunk
of fake plastic puke on the teacher’s desk.



  1. n. a totally disgusting and obnoxious
    person. (Rude and derogatory.) God,
    I hate you, you puke! What an ugly
    puke. Make him leave! Make him hand-
    some!


puke hole[“pjuk...] 1. n. a tavern. Let’s
go in this puke hole and get a cold one. 
Carl spends almost every evening at the lo-
cal puke hole. 2. n. a toilet. Bart tried
to f lush the dope down the puke hole, but
the cops caught him. Who didn’t f lush
the puke hole? 3. n. a mouth. (Rude.) 
Shut your puke hole and listen to what I
am telling you! Do you want me to
punch you in the puke hole?


thepukesn. the feeling of nausea; the feel-
ing of impending vomiting. (Especially
with have, get.) Oh my God, I’ve got the
pukes. I hate having the pukes.

pukey and pukoidmod. disgusting; repel-
lent. Who is that pukey looking guy? 
Gosh, it’s pukoid! What a pukey day!

pukishmod. nauseated. (Folksy.) Oh, I
feel so pukish. That old pukish feeling
came over me, and I just let go.

pukoidGo to pukey.

pull 1. n. a drink; a swig;a drink from a
flask. He took another pull and kept on
talking. Can I have a pull? 2. tv. to take
a drink or a mouthful of liquor from
a bottle or other container. He pulled
a slug from the bottle. She pulled a
mouthful and then spat it out. 3. n.
a mouthful of smoke from a cigarette; a
drag on a cigarette. A couple of pulls
and she crushed out the cigarette. After
a big pull, she blew an enormous smoke
ring. 4. tv. to smoke a cigarette. He
pulled a long filter job and then went back
to work. He stopped for a minute and
pulled one. 5. in. to pull one’s punches.
(Martial arts.) See, he pulled just at the
last minute. If you pull during a fight,
you’re through as a fighter.

pull a bonertv. to make a silly error. 
That was dumb. You really pulled a boner.
Tom is always pulling boners.

pull a fast onetv. to outwit or outsmart
someone by a clever and timely maneu-
ver. Don’t try to pull a fast one on me.
So you think you can pull a fast one?

pull a jobtv. to carry out a crime, espe-
cially a robbery. (Police and underworld.
Note the variations in the examples.) 
Bart decided that it was not a good time to
pull a bank job. Ziggy and Bart left
town after they pulled the job.

pull an attitudetv. to be haughty; to put
on airs. Don’t pull an attitude with me,
chum! Mary pulled an attitude and sat
around pouting all evening.

pull chockstv. to depart. (Chocksare used
to block the wheels of a vehicle or a

puff

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