Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

(Amelia) #1
an undesirable person; a scraggly person.
And this scuzz comes up to me and asks
me to dance, and I’m like, “What?” I
told the scuz, like, I was feeling sick, so I
couldn’t dance with anybody.

scuzzbag and scuzzbucketn. a despica-
ble person. (Rude and derogatory.) 
Who is that scuzzbag who just came in? 
Look, scuzzbucket, we don’t want your
kind around here.


scuzzbucketGo to scuzzbag.


scuzzon. a repellent person. There’s the
scuzzo who thinks I like him. How do
you get rid of a scuzzo like that?


scuzz someone outtv. to nauseate some-
one. He had this unreal face that almost
scuzzed me out!TIt’s not nice to scuzz out
people like that, especially when you hardly
know them.


scuzzy[“sk@zi] 1. mod. repellent; unkempt.
His clothes are always so scuzzy. He
probably keeps them in a pile in his room.
Whose scuzzy car is that in the drive-
way? 2. Go to SCSI.


sean. cocaine. (Drugs. A spelling-out of
C.) There is a bunch using sea over at
Fred’s place. I never used sea before. I
hear there’s nothing like it.


sealed (up)mod. settled; secured; cinched.
The matter was sealed by Monday
morning. The contract was sealed up
just in time.


sealed with a kiss and SWAKmod. writ-
ten and sent with love and care. (The ini-
tialism is sometimes written on love let-
ters. Also an acronym.) All her letters
come SWAK. I know they are sealed
with a kiss, because she says so.


seam-squirrelsn. lice. (See also pants rab-
bits.) I got an itch. Must be seam-
squirrels. Where would you get seam-
squirrels?


Search me.sent. I don’t know. (There is a
heavy stress on both words.) TOM:
How do crickets make that chirping noise?
BILL: Search me. You can search me.
How should I know?


seatn. the buttocks. Bob fell down on his
seat. I was so angry. I wanted to kick
him in the seat as he left.

sec[sEk] 1. n. a second. (See also tick.) 
I’ll be with you in a sec. Keep your pants
on! Just a sec. I’m on the phone. 2. and
secsn. a Seconal™ barbiturate capsule.
(Drugs.) Max likes amies better than
secs. I started taking sec in the hospital
and just couldn’t stop.

second fiddlen. a person in a secondary
role; the second best. (Frequently with
play.) I won’t stay around here playing
second fiddle for someone half my age and
ability! There are worse things than be-
ing second fiddle.

second sackern. the second baseman in
baseball. The second sacker missed the
throw, and the runner went on home. 
The shortstop and the second sacker
crashed into one another trying to catch a
ball.

secsGo to sec.

seetv. to equal or raise someone’s bet in
poker. I see your five and raise you ten.
Well, can you see me or not?

see a man about a dogtv. to leave a place
for a mysterious reason, usually to go to
the toilet. I gotta see a man about a dog.
Fred went to see a man about a dog. I
hope he remembers to put the seat down.

see eye to eyein. [for two or more peo-
ple] to agree on something or view some-
thing the same way. We never seem to
see eye to eye. Gary and Walter see eye
to eye on this question.

seegar[“sigar] n. a cigar. (Folksy. The stress
is on the first syllable.) This dude came
into this hamburger joint with a big seegar
in his mouth, and the manager called the
cops. There’s nothing like a fine seegar
after a nice bowl of hot chili.

seeing pink elephants and seeing pink
spiders; seeing snakestv. alcohol in-
toxicated; recovering from a drinking
bout; having the delirium tremens. 
When I got to the point of seeing pink ele-
phants, I knew that something had to be

scuzzbag

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