Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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sewermouthn. someone who uses vile
language constantly. (Also a rude term of
address.) If you’re going to be a sewer-
mouth, I wish you would leave. Who’s
the sewermouth in the plaid jacket?


sew something uptv. to finalize some-
thing; to conclude something. (See also
sewed up.) Let’s sew this up and get out
of here. TI’m about ready to sew up this
matter.


sex goddessn. a sexy looking female
movie or television star. I wonder what
these sex goddesses look like when they get
up in the morning. Sex goddesses get up
in the afternoon.


sex kittenn. a woman with enormous sex-
ual potential. He thought he was get-
ting a sex kitten, but she turned out to be
just a plain cat. Clare does everything
she can to look like a sex kitten.


sex-machinen. a sexually promising per-
son; a person obsessed with sex. Heidi
looks like such a sex-machine, but she is a
real wallf lower. John thinks of himself
as a sex-machine, but no one else does.


sex potn. one who flaunts one’s sexuality,
usually a woman. Tiffany is such a
sex pot. About 20,000 young sex pots
hit Hollywood every year hoping to be
discovered.


sexy 1. mod. having great sex appeal. 
What a sexy chick! He’s not what I
would call sexy, but I suppose it’s a mat-
ter of taste. 2. mod. neat; exciting. 
That’s a sexy set of wheels. Yo u p l a y
really sexy music. Your idea is real sexy.


Sez me!Go to Says me!


Sez who?Go to Says who?


SFmod. alcohol intoxicated. (Initialism.
From shit-faced.) Fred was really SF
last night. How can that guy get so SF?


sgoGo to sko.


shack up (with someone) 1. in. to have
a one-night stand with someone; to cop-
ulate [with] someone. Those two just
wanted to shack up for a while. He only
wanted to shack up with me. 2. in. to
move in with someone temporarily, pre-


sumably for sexual purposes. They
shacked up for over a year until her par-
ents found out and stopped sending her
money. They decided to shack up.

shadesn. dark glasses. (See also sun-
shades.) Where are my shades? The sun
is too bright. The guy stood there—
wearing shades and carrying a violin case.
Barlowe grimaced.

shaft 1. n. a bad deal; unfair treatment. 
He really gave me the shaft. It’s the shaft
whenever you go into that place. 2. tv. to
do wrong to someone. (See also shafted.)
The jerk shafted me, but good. We a re
going to shaft this guy in a way that he will
remember.
shaftedmod. beaten; bested; cheated. I
really got shafted in that deal. I’ve been
shafted!

shag ass (out of some place)Go to bag
ass (out of some place).

shaggedmod. alcohol intoxicated. She is
mucho shagged! Nobody is not too
shagged to drive—or something like that.

shagged outmod. exhausted. What a
day! I’m shagged out! You guys look sort
of shagged out.

shag-nastymod. nasty. What a shag-
nasty jerk! I want out of this shag-nasty
mess.
shag (off)in. to depart. I gotta shag. It’s
late. Go on! Shag off! I gotta shag.
Somebody’s calling my name.

shaken. a milkshake. I’d like a choco-
late shake, please. A shake only costs
sixty cents.

shake a leg 1. tv. to hurry; to move faster.
(Often as a command.) Let’s shake a
leg, you guys. We gotta be there in twenty
minutes. She told me to shake a leg, so
I hurried the best I could. 2. tv. to dance.
Let’s shake a leg. The music’s great. 
Hey, Tracy! You wanna shake a leg with
me?

shakedownn. an act of extortion. (Un-
derworld.) Mary was giving Bruno the
shakedown, so he tried to put her out of the

shakedown
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