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Broad term for a man or woman, sometimes indicating "unusual," behavior e.g. "what a funny old bird" [8] biscuit Pettable flapper [31] bit Prison sentence [35] black hats Bad person, especially a villain or criminal in a movie, novel, or play; Heavy in a movie e.g. The Black hats show up at the mansion [36] blaah No good [8] blind 1.
Broad Group, a manufacturing company based in Changsha; Broad (British coin), an English gold coin minted under the Commonwealth; Broad Institute, a genomic research institute; an 18th-century slang term for a playing card; The Broad, a modern art museum in Los Angeles, California; The Broad (folk custom), a hooded-animal tradition in the ...
An item appearing in the Peninsula Enterprise newspaper about the "School of Hard Knocks" (1918). The School of Hard Knocks (also referred to as the University of Life or University of Hard Knocks) is an idiomatic phrase meaning the (sometimes painful) education one gets from life's usually negative experiences, often contrasted with formal education.
Origin: "Brain rot" dates back to the early aughts, first appearing on Twitter, now known as X, around 2007, according to Know Your Meme, a database for memes and internet slang.
The Oxford English Dictionary quotes 'dicky' as one of the alternative slang terms for an ass..) directly – "as soon as" or "immediately"), as in "Directly they got their money on Friday nights, the women would get the suits out of the pawn shop" [17] dodman – a term used to refer to a snail [3] dow – a pigeon [3] dwile – floorcloth [3]
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
A new language is a new life (Persian proverb) [5] A penny saved is a penny earned; A picture is worth a thousand words; A rising tide lifts all boats; A rolling stone gathers no moss; A ship in a harbour is safe, but that's not what a ship is for; A stitch in time (saves nine) A watched man never plays; A watched pot/kettle never boils
Nevertheless, for a slang term to become a slang term, people must use it, at some point in time, as a way to flout standard language. [13] Additionally, slang terms may be borrowed between groups, such as the term "gig" which was originally coined by jazz musicians in the 1930s and then borrowed into the same hippie slang of the 1960s. [13 ...