美国俚语（英文字母顺序）

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· ace
·i.e.He's an ace reporter.
· MEANING: very good

· action
·i.e.Do you know where the action is in this town?
· MEANING: excitement

· airhead
·i.e.My sister's boyfriend is a real airhead.
· MEANING: stupid person

· all wet
·i.e.Your ideas about politics are all wet.
· MEANING: completely wrong

· all-nighter
·i.e.I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter.
· MEANING: after studying all night.

· ammo
·i.e.The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo.
· MEANING: ammunition

· antifreeze
·i.e.I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this.
· MEANING: liquor

· armpit
·i.e.This town is really an armpit.
· MEANING: undesirable place

· awesome
·i.e.What an awesome sunset.
· MEANING: great

· bad
·i.e.Wow, that was really a bad movie.
· MEANING: intense

· barf
·i.e.He barfed all over the seat of the airplane.
· MEANING: vomitted

· bashed
·i.e.The boat was bashed beyond recognition.
· MEANING: crushed

· beat
·i.e.After working all day I am really beat.
· MEANING: exhausted

· beemer
·i.e.He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in.
· MEANING: B.M.W. car

· bench
·i.e.He was benched during the basketball playoffs.
· MEANING: taken out of the game

· bent
·i.e.It's OK. Don't get so bent.
· MEANING: angry

· bent out of shape
·i.e.Don't get so bent out of shape.
· MEANING: become upset

· big gun
·i.e.The president brought two big guns to the meeting.
· MEANING: powerful people

· big mouth
·i.e.Shut up! You really have a big mouth.
· MEANING: talk too much

· big stink
·i.e.The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station.
· MEANING: big issue

· blade
·i.e.He carried a ten inch blade with him.
· MEANING: knife

· blimp
·i.e.I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel.
· MEANING: very fat person

· blow
·i.e.I'm going to blow out of here now.
· MEANING: leave

· blow
·i.e.He blew all his money gambling.
· MEANING: lost

· blow a fuse
·i.e.Hey, don't blow a fuse.
· MEANING: lose your temper.

· blow one's cool
·i.e.Calm down. Don't blow your cool.
· MEANING: become angry

· blown away
·i.e.I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars.
· MEANING: greatly impressed

· bomb
·i.e.The movie was a bomb.
· MEANING: bad

· bombed
·i.e.The driver of the car was bombed.
· MEANING: intoxicated

· bonkers
·i.e.I think I am going bonkers.
· MEANING: crazy

· boo-boo
·i.e.If you make another boo-boo like that, you won't have a job.
· MEANING: mistake

· booze
·i.e.I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party.
· MEANING: alcohol

· bread
·i.e.I need some bread to pay for my car.
· MEANING: money

· break
·i.e.A lucky break helped him get the job.
· MEANING: opportunity

· break it up
·i.e.Break it up, or I will call the police.
· MEANING: stop

· bring-down
·i.e.The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down.
· MEANING: depressing

· buck
·i.e.Do you have a buck I can borrow?
· MEANING: dollar

· bummed
·i.e.I was really bummed after I heard the news.
· MEANING: depressed

· bummer
·i.e.My trip to New York was a bummer.
· MEANING: bad experience

· bust
·i.e.The whole idea was a bust.
· MEANING: failure

· buy it
·i.e.If you don't slow down, you're going to buy it in a car accident.
· MEANING: die

· call
·i.e.The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come.
· MEANING: prediction

· can
·i.e.Do you know where the can is?
· MEANING: bathroom

· carb
·i.e.My motorcycle's carb is out of adjustment.
· MEANING: carburetor

· catch some rays
·i.e.I'm going to lie on the beach and catch some rays.
· MEANING: get some sunshine.

· catch some Z's
·i.e.I need to catch some Z's before I go on my trip.
· MEANING: get some sleep

· cheesy
·i.e.That is really a cheesy looking outfit.
· MEANING: cheap

· chicken
·i.e.Don't be a chicken.
· MEANING: coward

· chintzy
·i.e.That really was a chintzy present you got him.
· MEANING: cheap

· chow down
·i.e.I need to find a place to chow down.
· MEANING: eat a lot

· clip
·i.e.Watch out or they will clip you at that bar.
· MEANING: cheat

· clunker
·i.e.I can't go on a date in that clunker.
· MEANING: old car

· cold fish
·i.e.My date for the dance was a cold fish.
· MEANING: dull

· collar
·i.e.I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later.
· MEANING: arrest

· come up for air
·i.e.He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion.
· MEANING: take a break

· con
·i.e.Don't try to con me.
· MEANING: deceive

· cool
·i.e.This is a really cool place to work.
· MEANING: good

· cool down
·i.e.Things should cool down in a day or two.
· MEANING: calm down

· cop
·①i.e.How did you get the road sign? I copped it.
· MEANING: robbed
·②i.e.The cop showed me his badge.
· MEANING: policeman

· couch potato
·i.e.He is a couch potato.
· MEANING: lazy person

· crack open a bottle
·i.e.Let's crack open a bottle for his birthday.
· MEANING: open

· cram
·i.e.I need more time to cram for the test.
· MEANING: study hard

·i.e.cream
· Our team creamed them badly.
· MEANING: beat

· croak
·i.e.I feel like I am going to croak.
· MEANING: die

·i.e.cruise
· The skier was cruising down the hill
· MEANING: going very fast

· cuffs
·i.e.He put the cuffs on the killer.
· MEANING: handcuffs

· cushy
·i.e.He has a really cushy job.
· MEANING: easy

· cut
·i.e.Could you cut my whiskey with a little water?
· MEANING: dilute

· cut out
·i.e.It is late. I have to cut out.
· MEANING: leave

· damage
·i.e.Lets get the bill and find out the damage.
· MEANING: cost

· dead
·i.e.This disco is really dead tonight.
· MEANING: quiet

· deck
·i.e.He was decked in the fight.
· MEANING: knocked down

· deep pockets
·i.e.Her boyfriend has deep pockets.
· MEANING: is a good source of money

· dicey
·i.e.Since the weather is a little dicey, I won't go today.
· MEANING: chancy

· dirty
·i.e.I hear that it's a dirty movie.
· MEANING: an obscene

· ditch
·i.e.I'll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother.
· MEANING: leave

· do a snow job on
·i.e.Don't try to do a snow job on me.
· MEANING: deceive

· dope
·i.e.He is such a dope.
· MEANING: stupid person

· dope
·i.e.There are a lot of dope dealers around here.
· MEANING: drug

· dork
·i.e.He is such a dork.
· MEANING: strange person

· dough
·i.e.I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping.
· MEANING: money

· down
·i.e.Let's go to a bar and down a few beers.
· MEANING: drink quickly

· drag
·i.e.Doing homework on the weekend is a drag.
· MEANING: boring

· dynamite
·i.e.This drink is really dynamite.
· MEANING: powerful; great

· earful
·i.e.My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood.
· MEANING: a lot of gossip

· easy mark
·i.e.The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash.
· MEANING: likely victims

· eat
·i.e.The problem is really eating away at me.
· MEANING: bothering

· excellent
·i.e.That's excellent man.
· MEANING: fine

· face-off
·i.e.The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off.
· MEANING: confrontation

· far-out
·i.e.This music is really far-out.
· MEANING: great

· fix
·i.e.The addict needs another fix.
· MEANING: dose of drugs

· flaky
·i.e.He is too flaky to do the work.
· MEANING: unreliable

· flashback
·i.e.At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend.
· MEANING: remembered

· flick
·i.e.I haven't seen a flick in a long time.
· MEANING: movie

· flip out
·i.e.He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed.
· MEANING: lost control

· flip side
·i.e.What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape?
· MEANING: other side

· fox
·i.e.His older sister is a fox.
· MEANING: very attractive

· foxy
·i.e.She is a foxy lady.
· MEANING: sexy

· freebie
·i.e.The pillow was a freebie
· MEANING: free

· get into something
·i.e.I got into gardening in high school.
· MEANING: became seriously interested in

· get it
·i.e.I listened to the joke twice, but I still don't get it.
· MEANING: understand

· get with it
·i.e.If you don't get with it, we will never finish this work.
· MEANING: hurry up

· gig
·i.e.I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00.
· MEANING: job

· glitch
·i.e.This computer program has a glitch.
· MEANING: defect

· glitzy
·i.e.This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in.
· MEANING: fashionable

· go
·i.e.Let me have a go at solving the problem.
· MEANING: try

· go bananas
·i.e.I am going to go bananas if I don't have a vacation soon.
· MEANING: go crazy

· go down
·i.e.What is going down?
· MEANING: happening

· goof
·i.e.I am really a goof at times.
· MEANING: fool

· goof up
·i.e.I really goofed up when I painted my room green.
· MEANING: made a serious mistake

· goofy
·i.e.You are always acting goofy these days.
· MEANING: silly

· gourd
·i.e.Use your gourd to figure out what is happening.
· MEANING: head

· grand
·i.e.His salary is twenty grand.
· MEANING: thousand dollars

· grass
·i.e.Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory.
· MEANING: marijuana

· gravy
·i.e.This job is pure gravy.
· MEANING: easy money

· groovy
·i.e.This music is groovy.
· MEANING: pleasant

· gross
·i.e.Picking your nose is really a gross habit.
· MEANING: disgusting

· gross-out
·i.e.The party was a gross-out.
· MEANING: digusting time

· grub
·i.e.Where is the best place to get some grub around here?
· MEANING: food

· grubby
·i.e.Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party.
· MEANING: unclean and untidy

· grungy
·i.e.That is a really grungy jacket.
· MEANING: dirty

· gut
·①i.e.He got shot in the gut.
· MEANING: stomach.
·②i.e.The gut issue is about what we are going to do now.
· MEANING: basic

· guts
·i.e.It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion.
· MEANING: courage

· hairy
·i.e.That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over.
· MEANING: dangerous

· hammer
·i.e.Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding.
· MEANING: accelerator

· hang it up
i.e.· I have decided to hang up my teaching job.
· MEANING: quit

· hang loose
·i.e.Just hang loose for another few days.
· MEANING: relax

· hang tough
·i.e.We need to hang tough on our decision.
· MEANING: stick with

· hardware
·i.e.The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had.
· MEANING: weapons

· have a buzz on
·i.e.I had a buzz on after the third martini.
· MEANING: was slightly intoxicated

· have good vibes
i.e.· I have good vibes about our new secretary.
· MEANING: feel good about

· have it all together
·i.e.Recently I don't have it all together.
· MEANING: feel mentally all there.

· heave
·i.e.I heaved up on the floor.
· MEANING: vomited

· high
·i.e.The teenagers look high to me.
· MEANING: intoxicated on drugs or alcohol

· hip-shooter
·i.e.He is such a hip-shooter.
· MEANING: always talking without thinking

· history
i.e.· I don't have any idea where my old boyfriend is. He's history.
· MEANING: something in the past

· hit
·i.e.Your proposal was a hit with the boss.
· MEANING: successful

· hole up
·i.e.I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me.
· MEANING: hide

· honcho
·i.e.The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation.
· MEANING: boss

· hooker
·i.e.Her clothes make her look like a hooker.
· MEANING: prostitute

· hot
·i.e.The police stopped them because they though the car was hot.
· MEANING: stolen

· huffy
i.e.· I will do it soon so please don't get huffy.
· MEANING: angry

· hungry
·i.e.If you are not hungry, you won't get ahead in the business.
· MEANING: eager to make money

· hustle
·i.e.If you don't hustle, we will be late again.
· MEANING: hurry up

· hyped
·i.e.The fans were all hyped up for the football game.
· MEANING: excited

· hyper
·i.e.Don't get hyper about what she told you. You know it isn't true.
· MEANING: over excited

· I.D.
·i.e.Can you show me some I.D. please?
· MEANING: identification

· in
·i.e.The tie you are wearing is really in.
· MEANING: fashionable

· in deep
·i.e.They are really in deep with each other.
· MEANING: deeply involved

· in the bag
·i.e.Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about.
· MEANING: settled

· intense
·i.e.This is a very intense situation we are discussing.
· MEANING: serious

· jam
·i.e.I am glad you got yourself out of that jam.
· MEANING: trouble

· jerk someone around
·i.e.Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around.
· MEANING: wasting my time and causing me trouble

· jock
·i.e.My roommate is a jock for the basketball team.
· MEANING: an athlete

· john
·i.e.The john really smells.
· MEANING: bathroom

· joint
·①i.e.Where is the closest joint to here.
· MEANING: cheap bar
·②i.e.He is good at rolling joints.
· MEANING: marijuana cigarettes

· junkie
·i.e.Sam is a junkie.
· MEANING: rug addict

· just off the boat
·i.e.He acts like he is just off the boat.
· MEANING: naive

· keep one's cool
·i.e.He kept his cool when his house burned down.
· MEANING: remained calm

· kegger
i.e.· I hear there is a kegger at John's house tonight.
· MEANING: beer party

· kick
·i.e.I get a kick out of watching him paint.
· MEANING: enjoy

· klutz
·i.e.He is a real klutz.
· MEANING: stupid and clumsy person

· knock
·i.e.Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
· MEANING: criticize

· knocked up
·i.e.My dog gets knocked up once a year.
· MEANING: pregnant

· knockout
·i.e.Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday?
· MEANING: stunning person

· knuckle sandwich
·i.e.Shut up or I'll give you a knuckle sandwich.
· MEANING: punch in the mouth

· kook
·i.e.Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood.
· MEANING: strange people

· laid-back
·i.e.You need to be more laid-back.
· MEANING: calm and relaxed

· lame
·i.e.That is really a lame excuse.
· MEANING: an inadequate

· line
·i.e.I have heard that line a million times.
· MEANING: story

· loser
·i.e.John is a loser.
· MEANING: annoying and useless

· love handles
·i.e.I exercise every day, but I can't get rid of these love handles.
· MEANING: rolls of fat around my stomach

· make waves
·i.e.Try not to make waves around the office.
· MEANING: cause trouble

· maxed out
i.e.· I am maxed out at my work and need to rest.
· MEANING: exhausted

· mean
·i.e.He plays a mean violin.
· MEANING: performs well on

· mega
·i.e.I have mega amounts of tomatoes in my garden this summer.
· MEANING: large

· megabucks
·i.e.He made megabucks when he sold his company.
· MEANING: a lot of money

· knock
·i.e.Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
· MEANING: criticize

· mellow
·i.e.You need to mellow out and enjoy life.
· MEANING: calm down and relax

· meltdown
·i.e.There has been a meltdown in the relationship between my parents and I.
· MEANING: total collapse

· mickey mouse
·i.e.The homework the teacher gave us was mickey mouse.
· MEANING: nonsense and a waste of time

· move on someone
·i.e.I am going to try to move on Sarah next Saturday.
· MEANING: pick up and seduce

· mush
·i.e.That is total mush and you know it.
· MEANING: nonesense

· nark
·i.e.Watch out for the narks in the airport.
· MEANING: drug police

· neat
·i.e.That was a neat idea that you had.
· MEANING: good

· negative
·i.e.There are too many negatives about the company merger.
· MEANING: bad things

· nick
·i.e.The police nicked the shoplifter as he was leaving the store.
· MEANING: arrested

· nip
·i.e.He took a nip out of the bottle.
· MEANING: a quick drink

· no sweat
·i.e.It's no sweat to have the report in to you by Monday.
· MEANING: no problem

· nuke
·i.e.I'll nuke our dinner in a few minutes.
· MEANING: heat up in the microwave

· nuke
·i.e.Does that attack plane have any nukes?
· MEANING: nuclear weapons

· nut
·i.e.I think that he is a nut.
· MEANING: crazy person

· nuts
·i.e.You are completely nuts if you think I will go with you.
· MEANING: crazy

· pad
·i.e.Have you found a pad yet?
· MEANING: a place to live

· pain in the neck
·i.e.My wife's best friend is a pain in the neck.
· MEANING: annoying

· paper-pusher
·i.e.My office is filled with paper-pushers.
· MEANING: bureaucratic office workers

· party animal
·i.e.You're too old to be a party animal.
· MEANING: love parties

· party-hearty
·i.e.We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary.
· MEANING: celebrate

· paw
·i.e.Get your paws off of my body.
· MEANING: hands

· peanuts
·i.e.I am not going to work for peanuts.
· MEANING: practically no money

· pickled
·i.e.He gets pickled after only one beer.
· MEANING: intoxicated

· piece of cake
·i.e.Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake.
· MEANING: easy to do

· pig
·i.e.He is a pig at parties.
· MEANING: eats too much

· pig out
·i.e.Let's go to the restaurant and pig out.
· MEANING: eat a lot or overeat

· pit stop
·i.e.Let's make a pit stop at the next rest area.
· MEANING: stop and go to the bathroom

· plastered
·i.e.He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend.
· MEANING: intoxicated

· pooped out
·i.e.He pooped out after we started to do the hard work.
· MEANING: quit

· pop
·i.e.Shut up or I will pop you.
· MEANING: hit

· pop for something
·i.e.It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts.
· MEANING: buy

· pro
·i.e.He is really a pro at his work.
· MEANING: professional

· prod
·i.e.Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won't forget?
· MEANING: reminder

· psyched up
·i.e.The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday.
· MEANING: mentally ready

· psycho
·i.e.She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital.
· MEANING: mentally ill

· puke
·i.e.I feel like I am going to puke.
· MEANING: vomit

· push off
·i.e.I am going to push off now.
· MEANING: leave

· put the moves on
·i.e.You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married.
· MEANING: seduce

· put-on
·i.e.It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed.
· MEANING: deception

· quarterback
·i.e.Who is going to quarterback the meeting?
· MEANING: lead

· quick buck
·i.e.I need to make a quick buck.
· MEANING: some easy money

· rack
·i.e.I have to hit the rack by ten or I'll be tired in the morning.
· MEANING: bed

· rack out
·i.e.I am going to rack out for two hours.
· MEANING: sleep

· racket
·i.e.There sure was a lot of racket outside last night.
· MEANING: noise

· rag
·i.e.I can't believe we still get this same old rag.
· MEANING: newspaper

· rap
·i.e.We need to sit down and rap about a few things.
· MEANING: talk about

· rathole
·i.e.When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole.
· MEANING: run down place

· raw
·i.e.The raw office workers were not getting much done.
· MEANING: new

· ream someone out
·i.e.The boss really reamed him out for his bad report.
· MEANING: got angry with him

· red hot
·i.e.Your idea is really red hot.
· MEANING: important

· repo
·i.e.Hey, don't repo my car. I will pay next week.
· MEANING: repossess

· rinky-dink
·i.e.The circus was really rinky-dink.
· MEANING: inferior

· riot
·i.e.The comedy program was a real riot.
· MEANING: funny

· road hog
·i.e.That driver is a road hog.
· MEANING: takes up too much of the road

· rocks
·i.e.Would you like your whiskey on the rocks?
· MEANING: with ice

· rough time
·i.e.We have had a rough time this winter.
· MEANING: hard time

· rug
·i.e.Is that a rug on his head?
· MEANING: wig

· rug rat
·i.e.My sister has three rug rats.
· MEANING: children

· rule
·i.e.My wife rules the house.
· MEANING: dominates

· run off at the mouth
·i.e.He is always running off at the mouth.
· MEANING: talking too much

· run out of gas
·i.e.The politician ran out of gas during the campaign.
· MEANING: lost interest or momentum

· sack
·i.e.When did you hit the sack last night?
· MEANING: go to bed

· scam
·i.e.Don't lose your money in some kind of scam.
· MEANING: swindle

· scarf
·i.e.Since he hadn't eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate.
· MEANING: ate quickly

· schmuck
·i.e.What a stupid schmuck.
· MEANING: jerk

· screw around
·i.e.If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again.
· MEANING: waste time