实用英语之口语：美国俚语大全
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· 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 |
