Slang 1 Flashcards

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A blast

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Very fun event. Awesome. “Last night was a blast.

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A fling

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A short and casual relationship. “I don’t want to date him. He’s just a fling”.

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A hard nut to crack

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Refers to a person who’s difficult to get to know or get information out of. “I want to know what secret she’s hiding, but she’s a hard nut to crack”.

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A real one

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Someone who is a loyal friend, or a really good person!

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Abe

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A five-dollar bill.

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About it

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Ready; knowledgeable; cool. “Sam is smart. He’s really about it”.

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Ace boon coon

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A close friend.

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Ace out

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To be fortunate or lucky. “I really aced out on that test in English”.

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Ace

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Someone or something that is considered very cool; excellent; very good; awesome; exceptional, to pass a test with 100%. “I think I’m going to ace the exam”.

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Bail

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To llave abruptly

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Boo

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Boyfriend or girlfriend

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Capper

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Someone who tells lies

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Chick

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A girl or a young woman

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Chill out

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Stay calm

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Comfy

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Comodo

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Cram

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Study a lot before an exam

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Crash

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Fall asleep quickly

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Croak

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Die

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Dig

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Like

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Ditch

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Skip an event

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Dope

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Stupid person

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Easy peasy

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Something easy

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Getting hitched

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Getting married

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Gig

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Job

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Go banana
Go crazy
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Goof off
Waste time
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Grub
Food
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Hang out
Spend time with others
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I feel you
I understand you
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I am all set
I am ready
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I am down
I am able to join
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Sick
Cool
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Slaps
When something is cool or good
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Snatched
Indicates that something looks fabulous and perfect for the occasion
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To hit the bullet
To accept a difficult situation
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To trash
To destroy something
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Whiz
A really smart person
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Wrap up
Finish something
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You do you
Do your own thing or be yourself
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Zip up
Shut up
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Brick
Too cold
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Dough
Money
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Lame
Patetic person
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Lame
Patetic person
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Dumb
Stupid or before an adjective means very
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Paper
Money
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Tight
Very angry
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Chillin
Take something with calm
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Thirsty
Desesperated or ancious
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Party animal
Someone who enjoys parties
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Go- getter
Someone who is ambitious
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Good egg
Good person
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Bad egg
Bad person
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Mover and shaker
An influential person
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Smart cookie
Someone really clever
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Busybody
Someone who is overly interested in the lives of other people
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Fuddy-duddy
Someone who is quite old-fashioned in their ways or maybe in the way they think
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Party-poopers
Someone who ruins all the fun
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A penny pincher
Someone who is very careful about the money that they spend
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Worrywart
People who worry too much
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Worrywart
People who worry too much
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Dime in a dozen
Very cheap
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Cash-strapped
In need of money
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Black sheep
A person with bad character
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Flat broke
Having no money at all
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End in smoke
Fail
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In a nutshell
Very briefly
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In high spirits
Happy, enjoying things
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Roll up your sleeves
Get ready for hard work
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Lit
Something exciting or very good
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Goat
Greatest of all time
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Lemon
A bad purchase
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Lighten up
Relax
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Long in a tooth
Old
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Neat
Great, fantastic
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No biggie
It is not a problem
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No sweat
No problem
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On cloud nine
Very happy
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On fleek
Something perfect
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Period!
Point!
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Pig out
To eat a lot
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Salty
Refers to being upset or annoyed
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Shoot the breeze
Chat
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Action
Excitement
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Airhead
Stupid
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All wet
Completely wrong
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All-nighter
After studying all night
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Bad
Intense
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Barf
Vomited
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Bashed
Crushed
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Beat
Exhausted
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Bent
Angry
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Beat out of shape
Become upset
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Big gun
Powerful people
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Big mouth
Talk too much
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Buy it
Die
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Call
Prediction
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Catch some Z's
Get some sleep
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Chicken
Cowards
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Catch some rays
Get some sunshine
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Chinzy
Cheap
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Chow Down
Eat a lot
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Clip
Cheat
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Clunker
Old car
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Cold fish
Dull
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Collar
Arrest
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Come up for air
Take a break
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Con
Deceive
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Cool
Good
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Cool down
Calm down
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Cop
Stole
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Cop
Policeman
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Couch potato
Lazy person
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Crack open a bottle
Open
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Cram
Study hard
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Cream
Beat
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Cuffs
Handcuffs
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Cushy
Easy
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Cut
Dilute
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Cut out
Leave
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Damage
Cost
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Dead
Quiet
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Deck
Knocked down
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Deep pockets
It's a good source of money
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Dicey
Chancy
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Dirty
An obscene
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Ditch
Leave
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Do a snow job on
Deceive
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Dope
Stupid person
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Dope
Drug
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Dork
Strange person
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Dough
Money
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Down
Drink quickly
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Drag
Boring
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Dynamite
Powerful, great
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Earful
A lot of gossip
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Easy mark
Likely victims
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Eat
Bothering
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Excellent
Fine
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Face off
Confrontation
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Far out
Great
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Fix
Dose of drugs
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Flaky
Unreliable
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Flashback
Remembered
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Flick
Movie
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Flip side
Lost control
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Fox
Very attractive
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Foxy
Sexy
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Freebie
A free thing
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Get into something
Become seriously interested in
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Get it
Understand
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Get it with
Hurry up
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Gig
Job
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Glitch
Defect
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Glitzy
Fashionable
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Go
Try
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Go bananas
Go crazy
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Go down
Happening
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Goof
Fool
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Goof up
Serious mistake
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Goofy
Silly
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Gourd
Head
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Groovy
Pleasant
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Gross
Disgusting
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Gross out
Disgusting time
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Grub
Food
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Breeze
Something that is very easy
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Bummed
A bad situation, something depressing or sad
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Bun (one) out
To make someone feel sad
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Burnout
To feel overworked or stressed
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Buzz
A little high from drugs, alcohol or caffeine
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Call it quits
Stop working and, maybe, leave the place where you work. Also, call it a day
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Can-do
Completely possible
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Cold
Not friendly, unemotional
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Chug
Drink fast, usually beer
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Choke
To go from winning to losing
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Bum (one) out
To make some feel sad
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Burnbout
To fee stressed. The result from woking too much
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Call it quits
Call it a day
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Can-do
Completely possible. A can-do attitude.
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Chip in
To share the expenses. To contribute money
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Chug
Drink fast, usually beer
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Cold
Not friendly
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Come off
To appear, to make an impression
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Come on
To show some romantic interest in someone
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Cool off
Calm down; try not to be upset
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Corny
Lacking of sophistication
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Crap
Something bad; junk
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Crush
Deep romantic lo veo, often one thar can't be fullfilled. To experience disappointment
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Cut it out
To stop immediately
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Dang
Used to express frustration or surprise
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Dead duck
A person who is in big ttouble
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Die
To laugh uncontrollably
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Ding-dong
A stupid person, someone you don't like
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Dog
A woman who isn't attractive; a bad product.
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Double take
To look quickly: look at something twice; to be surprised
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Down
To be sad or depressed
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Drag
A negative situation; something bad
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Dump
A messy or unclean house or apartment
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Eager beaver
A person who keeps busy and likes to work
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Easy
To say yes to something; to agree without objection
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Eat it or eat the loss
To take a loss: to accept some failure
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Elbow room
Space; enough room to feel confortable
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Eye opener
A strong alcoholic drink; a dramatic experience; an important event or learning experience
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Eager beaver
A person who keeps busy and likes to work
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Fall for
To be attracted to someone; to be deceived, tricked, or fooled
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Fat cat
A rich person
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Fender bender
A car accident, usually a small accident
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Five-finger discount
Stealing from a store
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Fixing it
Going to, will
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Fizzle
Lose energy; slowly stop working
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Flake
A person who is a little stupid. The adjective is flaky
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Flick
Movie
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Flip or flip out
To get very angry
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Flip-flop
To change one's mind
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Fluke
Something that happens by chance; something lucky or unlucky
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Flunk
To fail a test, to do a bad job or something
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Fly
Cool (new use)
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Fool around
To have a relationship outside of marriage or outside of an established relationship; to experiment with something, to try to learn how something works
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Forty winks
Sleep, sometimes it's a nap
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Four-letter word
A vad word
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Freak or freak out
To be very upset; to be surprised and then get mad
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Fret
Worry
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Free lunch
Something for nothing
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Fresh
Something that is in style; something good
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Fruity
Not masculine
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Full of oneself
To have a very high opinion of oneself
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Funky
Odd; unusual; sometimes good
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Geek
A person who is very intelligent, works well with new tech but might lack strong social skills
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Get a bang
To be amused or impressed, to feel some excitement
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Get a grip
Understand what's happening, reconize reality
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Get a handle on
Learn something new
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Get a load of
Look at this, this is interesting
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Get by
Have enough money to live, to survive
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Get going
To leave, to go somewhere
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Get over
Learn to leave with, accept
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Get the hang of
To learn how to do something
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Get the picture
Understand, often used as a question
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Get together
To meet someone, sometimes used for a large gathering of people
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Get-up-and-go
Energy, motivation
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Giveaway
An open secret, something obvious, often used with the word "dead" preceding it
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Go-getter
A person who works hard and is ambitious
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Goof around
To neglect responsabilities
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Green
New, inexperienced
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Gross
Something that makes you feel sick, a very unattractive object or situation
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Grungy
Dirty, old
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Grunt work
Hard work, manual work
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Guzzle
Drink quickly, consume large amounts of liquids
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Hairy
Diffcult, complicated
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Freak out
Stressed out, to sweat something, to be worried
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Hands on
Involved, to be part of something
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Hands off
Not involved, allow others to do work
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Hang it up
To stop doing something
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Hard up for
Desperate to get something, to desire something. I feel pretty hard up for some fresh tomatoes
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Has been
Someone who is no longer famous, a former celebrity
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Hassle
A problem, something irritating
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Haul ass
Go fast (a little vulgar)
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Have a ball
Have a very good time, to have fun
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Have a cow
To get angry
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Have it
To be upset, to want something to stop
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Have it together
To be well-organized, to lead a respectable life
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Have the hots / have got the hots
To like someone a lot
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Heads-up
A warning or caution, watch out for this
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Head trip
A person who has a high opinion of himself or herself based on some past accomplishement
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Heebie-jeebies
To feel a little sick at the mention or sight of something unpleasant
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Hip
Cool, aware of current trends
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Hit the spot
Consume something that provides satisfaction, to eat or drink something good
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Hokey
Overly sentimental
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Hold up
Wait
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Holy cow
Wow, exclamation
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Homeboy/hommie
A friend, a person who lives in your neighborhood
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All- nighter
Standing awake; usually with the aid of caffeine and cool showers for over 24 hours
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Amped
Someone super excited or you can' t wait for something to happen
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Bail or ditch
Both mean that you have to cancel the plans with someone
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Bail
To leave abruptly
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Bet
Indicates agreement
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Betcha/ you bet
Yes, I agree
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Busted
Caught doing something wrong
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Cappers
Refers someone who tells lies
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Comfy
Comfortable; relaxing
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Cram
To study a lot before an exam
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Creeper
A weird person
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Croak
Die
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Dig
To like something
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Ditch
To skip an event
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Dope
Stupid person
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Easy peasy
Something very easy
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For real
Are you serious?
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Freebie
Something that is free
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GOAT
Greatest of all time, great; awesome; amazing at what they do
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Getting hitched
Getting married
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Good to go
Ready; prepared; all set
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Goof off
To waste time idly
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Grub
Food
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I' m all set
To be ready; refers to a task that has been completed or finalized
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To be down
To be able to join
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In no time
Very soon
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Lighten up
Relax
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Lit
Used to refer to something that is outstanding or exciting
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Long i tooth
Old
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Low key
Low profile, discrete
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Neat
Cool, awesome, tidy
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Not biggie
Not something to worry about
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No sweat
A task that is easy or simple, usually said in response to being asked to perform it; Just do it, not worry
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On cloud nine
Very happy
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Period
To end a sentence when you don't want to talk anymore
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Pig out
To continue eating in exceso until one can't move or feel sick
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Pop the question
To así somebody to marry, usually from the male to the female, often one bended knee with an engagement ring
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Rip off
A purcharse that was very overpriced; a lesser imitation of something. When you're on the wrong side of the deal
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Ace
Someone or something that is considered very cool; excellent; very good; awesome; exceptional, to pass a test with 100%. “I think I’m going to ace the exam”.