skunked them. They’ll never find me.
That fish skunked me. I thought I caught
him for sure this time.skunk-drunkmod. alcohol intoxicated.
He was skunk-drunk and didn’t want to be
bothered. Some skunk-drunk character
came in and started talking big.
skunked 1. mod. alcohol intoxicated.
Kelly got skunked on suds—very unusual
for him. He was so skunked he couldn’t
find his house. 2. mod. outwitted; out-
scored; defeated. The home team
skunked the visitors for the third year in a
row. I was skunked on this year’s fish-
ing trip. Not even a bite.
skurf[sk#f] in. to skateboard. (From the
words skate and surf.) He skurfed from
city hall to the post office. My mom
won’t let me skurf anymore.
skyin. to travel (to somewhere) in an air-
plane. I decided to sky down to Orlando
for the weekend. Let’s sky to New York
and then go on to London.
sky hookn. an imaginary tool. I can’t get
this thing outa here without a sky hook.
Go get me a sky hook, would ya?
sky-pilotn. a chaplain. The sky-pilot says
we can park in the church’s lot, if we don’t
mess anything up or make too much noise.
The sky-pilot’s a good guy.
sky rugn. a toupee; a man’s wig. I think
he is wearing a sky rug. He looks better
in his sky rug, but that’s not necessarily
good.
thesky’s the limitphr. there is no upper
limit. I can afford it. The sky’s the limit.
You can do anything you set your mind
to, Billy. The sky’s the limit.
slackern.someone who is lazy or who
never completes a task or who fails at a
task. (Standard English, but currently
used as if it were recently invented.)
Micky is a slacker and a real jerk. Don’t
be such a big-ass slacker!
slackmastern. someone who slacks off a
lot; someone who doesn’t work hard
enough or at all. He never does his
share. Nothing but a slackmaster!
slam 1. tv. to criticize someone or some-
thing. Please don’t slam my car. It’s the
best I can do. The secretary was slam-
ming the boss in one room, and the boss
was slamming the secretary in another. 2.
n. a criticism. Harry took another slam
at the sales record the sales force had pro-
duced for the meeting. I don’t want to
hear another nasty and hateful slam at my
sister. Is that clear? 3. tv. to drink some-
thing quickly. Bart slammed a couple of
beers and left. Don’t slam your coffee.
You’ll burn yourself.slam a beerGo to pound a beer.slam-bangmod. wild; exciting. It was a
slam-bang weekend, and I loved every
minute of it. Wow, did we ever have a
slam-bang time!slam dunk 1. tv. & in. to force a basket-
ball into the basket from above. (See also
jam.) Wilbur slam dunked another one,
raising the score from 108 to 110.
Wilbur slam dunked his way to fame and
riches. 2. n. an act of making a basket as
in sense 1. Another slam dunk and
Wilbur ties the score again! The rim will
probably not withstand another slam
dunk.slammer 1. n. a jail. I got out of the slam-
mer on Monday and was back in by
Wednesday. The slammer in this town
is like a hotel. 2. n. a slam dunk. He
really has that slammer perfected! It’s
another slammer for Wilbur!slam some beersGo to pound a beer.slantn. a biased view; a unique perception.
You can probably give us yet another
slant on this problem. You provided us
with a fresh slant on this question.slap-dabmod. directly. (See also smack
(dab) in the middle.) We put it slap-
dab on his head. I found this pop bot-
tle slap-dab on top of the car! How’d it get
there?slap-dashmod. fast and careless. I wish
you hadn’t done it in such a slap-dash
fashion. This is a very slap-dash way to
do something.slap-dash