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Smoke of opium [287] lay out 1. Defeat or overcome i.e. to lay out someone [287] 2. Knock someone out in a fight [287] 3. Kill someone [287] lead Term used for bullets e.g. Fill ya full of lead [288] lead cocktail. Main article: bullet. To be shot; Bullets, specifically when embedded in the victim's body; also poisoning [288] lead poisoning
The Dictionary of American Slang is an English slang dictionary. The first edition was edited by Stuart Flexner and Harold Wentworth and published in 1960 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company . [ 1 ] After Wentworth's death in 1965, [ 2 ] Flexner wrote a supplemented edition which was published in 1967. [ 3 ]
Smoke, slang for a cigarette; Smoke, historic derogatory slang for Negro; Smoke, slang verb meaning "to murder" or "to beat" in a competition; Smoke Squadron, popular name of the Brazilian Air Force's air demonstration squadron; Smoke, a fur color for cats; Smoke (donkey), a mascot and therapy animal for the United States Marine Corps during ...
The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."
(slang) sleep. kirby grip hair grip. (US: bobby pin) kitchen roll paper towels knackered (slang) exhausted, broken; the term may derive from either of two meanings of the noun knacker (see knacker's yard and knackers below), thus to slaughter or castrate [104] knacker's yard premises where superannuated livestock are sent for rendering, etc. by ...
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 ...
A study from 1993 reported a short-term improvement in spatial reasoning. [195] [196] However, the weight of subsequent evidence supports either a null effect or short-term effects related to increases in mood and arousal, with mixed results published after the initial report in Nature. [197] [198] [199] [200
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