American Slang Collection 美国俚语大全
ace He''s an ace reporter. MEANING: very good action Do you know where the action is in this town? MEANING: excitement airhead My sister''s boyfriend is a real airhead. MEANING: stupid person all wet Your ideas about politics are all wet. MEANING: completely wrong all-nighter I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter. MEANING: after studying all night. ammo The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo. MEANING: ammunition antifreeze I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this. MEANING: liquor armpit This town is really an armpit. MEANING: undesirable place awesome What an awesome sunset. MEANING: great bad Wow, that was really a bad movie. MEANING: intense barf He barfed all over the seat of the airplane. MEANING: vomitted bashed The boat was bashed beyond recognition. MEANING: crushed beat After working all day I am really beat. MEANING: exhausted beemer He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in. MEANING: B.M.W. car bench He was benched during the basketball playoffs. MEANING: taken out of the game bent It''s OK. Don''t get so bent. MEANING: angry bent out of shape Don''t get so bent out of shape. MEANING: become upset big gun The president brought two big guns to the meeting. MEANING: powerful people big mouth Shut up! You really have a big mouth. MEANING: talk too much big stink The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station. MEANING: big issue blade He carried a ten inch blade with him. MEANING: knife blimp I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel. MEANING: very fat person blow I''m going to blow out of here now. MEANING: leave blow He blew all his money gambling. MEANING: lost blow a fuse Hey, don''t blow a fuse. MEANING: lose your temper. blow one''s cool Calm down. Don''t blow your cool. MEANING: become angry blown away I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars. MEANING: greatly impressed bomb The movie was a bomb. MEANING: bad bombed The driver of the car was bombed. MEANING: intoxicated bonkers I think I am going bonkers. MEANING: crazy boo-boo If you make another boo-boo like that, you won''t have a job. MEANING: mistake booze I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party. MEANING: alcohol bread I need some bread to pay for my car. MEANING: money break A lucky break helped him get the job. MEANING: opportunity break it up Break it up, or I will call the police. MEANING: stop bring-down The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down. MEANING: depressing buck Do you have a buck I can borrow? MEANING: dollar bummed I was really bummed after I heard the news. MEANING: depressed bummer My trip to New York was a bummer. MEANING: bad experience bust The whole idea was a bust. MEANING: failure buy it If you don''t slow down, you''re going to buy it in a car accident. MEANING: die call The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come. MEANING: prediction can Do you know where the can is? MEANING: bathroom carb My motorcycle''s carb is out of adjustment. MEANING: carburetor catch some rays I''m going to lie on the beach and catch some rays. MEANING: get some sunshine. catch some Z''s I need to catch some Z''s before I go on my trip. MEANING: get some sleep cheesy That is really a cheesy looking outfit. MEANING: cheap chicken Don''t be a chicken. MEANING: coward chintzy That really was a chintzy present you got him. MEANING: cheap chow down I need to find a place to chow down. MEANING: eat a lot clip Watch out or they will clip you at that bar. MEANING: cheat clunker I can''t go on a date in that clunker. MEANING: old car cold fish My date for the dance was a cold fish. MEANING: dull collar I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later. MEANING: arrest come up for air He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion. MEANING: take a break con Don''t try to con me. MEANING: deceive cool This is a really cool place to work. MEANING: good cool down Things should cool down in a day or two. MEANING: calm down cop How did you get the road sign? I copped it. MEANING: robbed cop The cop showed me his badge. MEANING: policeman couch potato He is a couch potato. MEANING: lazy person crack open a bottle Let''s crack open a bottle for his birthday. MEANING: open cram I need more time to cram for the test. MEANING: study hard cream Our team creamed them badly. MEANING: beat croak I feel like I am going to croak. MEANING: die cruise The skier was cruising down the hill MEANING: going very fast cuffs He put the cuffs on the killer. MEANING: handcuffs cushy He has a really cushy job. MEANING: easy cut Could you cut my whiskey with a little water? MEANING: dilute cut out It is late. I have to cut out. MEANING: leave damage Lets get the bill and find out the damage. MEANING: cost dead This disco is really dead tonight. MEANING: quiet deck He was decked in the fight. MEANING: knocked down deep pockets Her boyfriend has deep pockets. MEANING: is a good source of money dicey Since the weather is a little dicey, I won''t go today. MEANING: chancy dirty I hear that it''s a dirty movie. MEANING: an obscene ditch I''ll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother. MEANING: leave do a snow job on Don''t try to do a snow job on me. MEANING: deceive dope He is such a dope. MEANING: stupid person dope There are a lot of dope dealers around here. MEANING: drug dork He is such a dork. MEANING: strange person dough I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping. MEANING: money down Let''s go to a bar and down a few beers. MEANING: drink quickly drag Doing homework on the weekend is a drag. MEANING: boring dynamite This drink is really dynamite. MEANING: powerful; great earful My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood. MEANING: a lot of gossip easy mark The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash. MEANING: likely victims eat The problem is really eating away at me. MEANING: bothering excellent That''s excellent man. MEANING: fine face-off The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off. MEANING: confrontation far-out This music is really far-out. MEANING: great fix The addict needs another fix. MEANING: dose of drugs flaky He is too flaky to do the work. MEANING: unreliable flashback At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend. MEANING: remembered flick I haven''t seen a flick in a long time. MEANING: movie flip out He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed. MEANING: lost control flip side What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape? MEANING: other side fox His older sister is a fox. MEANING: very attractive foxy She is a foxy lady. MEANING: sexy freebie The pillow was a freebie MEANING: free get into something I got into gardening in high school. MEANING: became seriously interested in get it I listened to the joke twice, but I still don''t get it. MEANING: understand get with it If you don''t get with it, we will never finish this work. MEANING: hurry up gig I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00. MEANING: job glitch This computer program has a glitch. MEANING: defect glitzy This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in. MEANING: fashionable go Let me have a go at solving the problem. MEANING: try go bananas I am going to go bananas if I don''t have a vacation soon. MEANING: go crazy go down What is going down? MEANING: happening goof I am really a goof at times. MEANING: fool goof up I really goofed up when I painted my room green. MEANING: made a serious mistake goofy You are always acting goofy these days. MEANING: silly gourd Use your gourd to figure out what is happening. MEANING: head grand His salary is twenty grand. MEANING: thousand dollars grass Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory. MEANING: marijuana gravy This job is pure gravy. MEANING: easy money groovy This music is groovy. MEANING: pleasant gross Picking your nose is really a gross habit. MEANING: disgusting gross-out The party was a gross-out. MEANING: digusting time grub Where is the best place to get some grub around here? MEANING: food grubby Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party. MEANING: unclean and untidy grungy That is a really grungy jacket. MEANING: dirty gut He got shot in the gut. MEANING: stomach. gut The gut issue is about what we are going to do now. MEANING: basic guts It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion. MEANING: courage hairy That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over. MEANING: dangerous hammer Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding. MEANING: accelerator hang it up I have decided to hang up my teaching job. MEANING: quit hang loose Just hang loose for another few days. MEANING: relax hang tough We need to hang tough on our decision. MEANING: stick with hardware The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had. MEANING: weapons have a buzz on I had a buzz on after the third martini. MEANING: was slightly intoxicated have good vibes I have good vibes about our new secretary. MEANING: feel good about have it all together Recently I don''t have it all together. MEANING: feel mentally all there. heave I heaved up on the floor. MEANING: vomited high The teenagers look high to me. MEANING: intoxicated on drugs or alcohol hip-shooter He is such a hip-shooter. MEANING: always talking without thinking history I don''t have any idea where my old boyfriend is. He''s history. MEANING: something in the past hit Your proposal was a hit with the boss. MEANING: successful hole up I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me. MEANING: hide honcho The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation. MEANING: boss hooker Her clothes make her look like a hooker. MEANING: prostitute hot The police stopped them because they though the car was hot. MEANING: stolen huffy I will do it soon so please don''t get huffy. MEANING: angry hungry If you are not hungry, you won''t get ahead in the business. MEANING: eager to make money hustle If you don''t hustle, we will be late again. MEANING: hurry up hyped The fans were all hyped up for the football game. MEANING: excited hyper Don''t get hyper about what she told you. You know it isn''t true. MEANING: over excited I.D. Can you show me some I.D. please? MEANING: identification in The tie you are wearing is really in. MEANING: fashionable in deep They are really in deep with each other. MEANING: deeply involved in the bag Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about. MEANING: settled intense This is a very intense situation we are discussing. MEANING: serious jam I am glad you got yourself out of that jam. MEANING: trouble jerk someone around Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around. MEANING: wasting my time and causing me trouble jock My roommate is a jock for the basketball team. MEANING: an athlete john The john really smells. MEANING: bathroom joint Where is the closest joint to here. MEANING: cheap bar joint He is good at rolling joints. MEANING: marijuana cigarettes junkie Sam is a junkie. MEANING: rug addict just off the boat He acts like he is just off the boat. MEANING: naive keep one''s cool He kept his cool when his house burned down. MEANING: remained calm kegger I hear there is a kegger at John''s house tonight. MEANING: beer party kick I get a kick out of watching him paint. MEANING: enjoy klutz He is a real klutz. MEANING: stupid and clumsy person knock Don''t knock it if you can''t do it any better. MEANING: criticize knocked up My dog gets knocked up once a year. MEANING: pregnant knockout Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday? MEANING: stunning person knuckle sandwich Shut up or I''ll give you a knuckle sandwich. MEANING: punch in the mouth kook Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood. MEANING: strange people laid-back You need to be more laid-back. MEANING: calm and relaxed lame That is really a lame excuse. MEANING: an inadequate line I have heard that line a million times. MEANING: story loser John is a loser. MEANING: annoying and useless love handles I exercise every day, but I can''t get rid of these love handles. MEANING: rolls of fat around my stomach make waves Try not to make waves around the office. MEANING: cause trouble maxed out I am maxed out at my work and need to rest. MEANING: exhausted mean He plays a mean violin. MEANING: performs well on mega I have mega amounts of tomatoes in my garden this summer. MEANING: large megabucks He made megabucks when he sold his company. MEANING: a lot of money knock Don''t knock it if you can''t do it any better. MEANING: criticize mellow You need to mellow out and enjoy life. MEANING: calm down and relax meltdown There has been a meltdown in the relationship between my parents and I. MEANING: total collapse mickey mouse The homework the teacher gave us was mickey mouse. MEANING: nonsense and a waste of time move on someone I am going to try to move on Sarah next Saturday. MEANING: pick up and seduce mush That is total mush and you know it. MEANING: nonesense nark Watch out for the narks in the airport. MEANING: drug police neat That was a neat idea that you had. MEANING: good negative There are too many negatives about the company merger. MEANING: bad things nick The police nicked the shoplifter as he was leaving the store. MEANING: arrested nip He took a nip out of the bottle. MEANING: a quick drink no sweat It''s no sweat to have the report in to you by Monday. MEANING: no problem nuke I''ll nuke our dinner in a few minutes. MEANING: heat up in the microwave nuke Does that attack plane have any nukes? MEANING: nuclear weapons nut I think that he is a nut. MEANING: crazy person nuts You are completely nuts if you think I will go with you. MEANING: crazy pad Have you found a pad yet? MEANING: a place to live pain in the neck My wife''s best friend is a pain in the neck. MEANING: annoying paper-pusher My office is filled with paper-pushers. MEANING: bureaucratic office workers party animal You''re too old to be a party animal. MEANING: love parties party-hearty We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary. MEANING: celebrate paw Get your paws off of my body. MEANING: hands peanuts I am not going to work for peanuts. MEANING: practically no money pickled He gets pickled after only one beer. MEANING: intoxicated piece of cake Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake. MEANING: easy to do pig He is a pig at parties. MEANING: eats too much pig out Let''s go to the restaurant and pig out. MEANING: eat a lot or overeat pit stop Let''s make a pit stop at the next rest area. MEANING: stop and go to the bathroom plastered He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend. MEANING: intoxicated pooped out He pooped out after we started to do the hard work. MEANING: quit pop Shut up or I will pop you. MEANING: hit pop for something It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts. MEANING: buy pro He is really a pro at his work. MEANING: professional prod Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won''t forget? MEANING: reminder psyched up The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday. MEANING: mentally ready psycho She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital. MEANING: mentally ill puke I feel like I am going to puke. MEANING: vomit push off I am going to push off now. MEANING: leave put the moves on You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married. MEANING: seduce put-on It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed. MEANING: deception quarterback Who is going to quarterback the meeting? MEANING: lead quick buck I need to make a quick buck. MEANING: some easy money rack I have to hit the rack by ten or I''ll be tired in the morning. MEANING: bed rack out I am going to rack out for two hours. MEANING: sleep racket There sure was a lot of racket outside last night. MEANING: noise rag I can''t believe we still get this same old rag. MEANING: newspaper rap We need to sit down and rap about a few things. MEANING: talk about rathole When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole. MEANING: run down place raw The raw office workers were not getting much done. MEANING: new ream someone out The boss really reamed him out for his bad report. MEANING: got angry with him red hot Your idea is really red hot. MEANING: important repo Hey, don''t repo my car. I will pay next week. MEANING: repossess rinky-dink The circus was really rinky-dink. MEANING: inferior riot The comedy program was a real riot. MEANING: funny road hog That driver is a road hog. MEANING: takes up too much of the road rocks Would you like your whiskey on the rocks? MEANING: with ice rough time We have had a rough time this winter. MEANING: hard time rug Is that a rug on his head? MEANING: wig rug rat My sister has three rug rats. MEANING: children rule My wife rules the house. MEANING: dominates run off at the mouth He is always running off at the mouth. MEANING: talking too much run out of gas The politician ran out of gas during the campaign. MEANING: lost interest or momentum sack When did you hit the sack last night? MEANING: go to bed scam Don''t lose your money in some kind of scam. MEANING: swindle scarf Since he hadn''t eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate. MEANING: ate quickly schmuck What a stupid schmuck. MEANING: jerk screw around If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again. MEANING: waste time screw up If you screw up one more time, I will fire you. MEANING: make a mistake sharp He is very sharp with numbers MEANING: intelligent shot I''ll give the puzzle another shot. MEANING: try shot down Everyone shot down my idea at first, but later agreed that it was a good idea. MEANING: disagreed with slammer The police threw them both in the slammer. MEANING: jail smashed Try not to get smashed at the beer party. MEANING: intoxicated smoke eater My father is a smoke eater. MEANING: fireman split It is time to split and go see the movie. MEANING: leave spook The cows were spooked by the howling of the wolves. MEANING: frightened spud Do you want rice or spuds for dinner? MEANING: potatoes square My father looks square in his jacket. MEANING: old-fashioned steamed up Don''t get so steamed up over the issue. MEANING: angry stink This whole operation stinks. MEANING: is repulsive straight I want you to give me a straight answer. MEANING: honest stressed I am really stressed by all the recent world events. MEANING: upset sucker Don''t be a sucker. MEANING: be deceived take a hike I am tired of all your complaining. Take a hike. MEANING: leave taken He was taken for all his money at the casino. MEANING: cheated out of taking care of business I have been taking care of business. MEANING: doing what I have to do threads Those look like expensive threads he is wearing. MEANING: clothes tool around I don''t want to tool around all night. It is time to go home. MEANING: drive around totaled My car was totaled in the accident with the garbage truck. MEANING: completely wrecked up He has been up ever since he met his new girlfriend. MEANING: happy and cheerful up for grabs This is a sale. Everything is up for grabs. MEANING: available. veg out I want to veg out in front of the television this evening. MEANING: relax and do nothing vibes He really gives off good vibes. MEANING: feelings wad You don''t want to carry a wad like that with you in the big city. MEANING: bundle of money waste After you waste him, throw the body in the river. MEANING: kill wheels If you let me borrow your wheels, I''ll go out and buy a pizza. MEANING: car whiz He is a whiz at the computer. MEANING: talented person wired I am really wired after drinking five cups of coffee. MEANING: alert wussy Don''t be such a wussy all the time. Say what you are thinking. MEANING: weak person yukky This food tastes yukky MEANING: bad zapped I am too zapped to help you right now. MEANING: exhausted zip He knew zip about running the company. MEANING: Nothing
