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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "English-language slang" ... 23 skidoo (phrase) $100 hamburger; 187 (slang) A. Anorak (slang) B. Bachelor pad;
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... English-language slang (6 C, 47 P) W. English words (8 C, 213 P) Pages in category "English words and phrases"
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... American English regional vocabulary; List of Puerto Rican slang words and phrases; 0–9. 86 (term) A. Ain't;
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language ... ab abdominal muscle (slang) [1] abalone abscess (slang) [2 ...
Getty Images Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others.
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both. The word itself came ...