Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

(Amelia) #1

sissified[“sIsifaId] mod. effeminate; sissy-
style. Don’t act so sissified. I’m not
comfortable in a sissified place like that.


sister 1. n. a (female) friend. (Originally
underworld. Sometimes a term of ad-
dress.) Hi, sister! How ya doing? 
Come here, sister. I gotta have a word with
you. 2. n. a fellow sorority member. 
One of my sisters let me borrow her car.
The junior sisters are putting on a skit.



  1. n. a fellow feminist. We can do this
    thing, sisters, we can do it! The sisters
    will be discussing it at tonight’s meeting. 4.
    Go to (soul) sister.


sitcom[“sItkam] n. a situation comedy as
found on television. (See also kid-vid.) 
These sitcoms are made for juvenile minds.
Sitcoms can be fun.


sitting duckn. someone who waits unsus-
pectingly for doom or destiny; an easy
target for something bad. Get out of the
way! You’re a sitting duck. The guy was
a sitting duck for a mugging.


sitting prettymod. doing very nicely; in a
very pleasant and secure position. If I
get the job, I’ll be sitting pretty for a long
time. She married a millionaire, and
now she’s sitting pretty.


six-bitsn. seventy-five cents. (A bit is equal
to twelve and one-half U.S. cents.) Yo u
got six-bits I can borrow? Just try one
of these things. It’s only six-bits.


sixern. a six-pack beverage container.
(Usually refers to beer.) To m s h o w e d
up with three sixers and a bushel of pret-
zels, and we all watched the game together.
Please stop by the store and pick up a
sixer.


six feet undermod. dead and buried. 
Fred died and is six feet under. They put
him six feet under two days after he died.


six-pack 1. in. to while away a specified pe-
riod of time drinking a six-pack of beer.
(See also Joe Six-pack.) He sat in front
of the television and six-packed the entire
afternoon. He’s in the back—six-pack-
ing, as usual. 2. n. a well-muscled ab-
domen. Tom’s gut is a real six-pack. He
must work out every day. What do you


do with a six-pack like that? Walk around
with your shirt open?
thesixty-four-dollar questionn. the most
important question; the question that
everyone wants to know the answer to. 
When? Now, that is the sixty-four-dollar
question. Now for the sixty-four-dollar
question. What’s the stock market going to
do this year?

sixty-ninen. an act of mutual oral sex.
(Based on the interlocking numerals in
69.Usually objectionable.) The old lady
caught them in the bushes doing a sixty-
nine. He prefers 69. She prefers booze.

sizzledmod. alcohol intoxicated. (See also
fried.) I’d like to go out tonight and get
sizzled—maybe that would help me forget
Tiffany. Harold got himself sizzled and
couldn’t drive to the dance.
sizzlern. a very hot day. To d a y w i l l b e
another sizzler. A low pressure center over
Alabama is pumping hot and humid air
into the area. What a sizzler! I’m sweat-
ing like a horse.

skag and scag[skAg] 1. n. a rotten thing
or person. Don’t be such a skag. Who
do you think you are? Gary has become
more of a scag than I can stand. 2. n. a
very ugly woman. (Collegiate.) What a
skag! I wouldn’t be seen with her. She
looks like a scag without makeup. 3. n. a
tobacco cigarette; a tobacco cigarette
butt. (Military.) Can I bum a scag off
you? Here, have a scag on me. 4. in. to
smoke (a tobacco cigarette).  He
stopped scagging for about a week. I’ll
scag till I die. 5. n. heroin, especially poor
quality heroin; any powerful drug.
(Drugs.) Just lay off the skag—if you
can. Scag has sent a lot of my friends
to the bone orchard. 6. n. hard liquor. 
No beer for me. Tonight it’s scag. The
two of them put away a quart of my finest
skag.

skagged outmod. drug intoxicated; very
high. (Drugs. See also skag.) Bart was
rocking back and forth on the top step—
skagged out, as usual. He got to the
point where being skagged out was more
important than eating.

sissified

Free download pdf