| vernacular | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ bite | a portion removed from the whole.; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" |
| ~ swiz | British slang for a swindle. |
| ~ heist, rip-off | the act of stealing. |
| ~ shakedown | extortion of money (as by blackmail). |
| ~ power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people. |
| ~ fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, shtup, ass, shag, screw | slang for sexual intercourse. |
| ~ blowjob, cock sucking | slang for fellatio. |
| ~ hand job, jacking off, jerking off, wank | slang for masturbation. |
| ~ dekko | British slang for a look. |
| ~ square-bashing | drill on a barracks square. |
| ~ shakedown | a very thorough search of a person or a place.; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" |
| ~ caff | informal British term for a cafe. |
| ~ deck | street name for a packet of illegal drugs. |
| ~ gat, rod | a gangster's pistol. |
| ~ mickey finn | slang term for knockout drops. |
| ~ nick | (British slang) a prison.; "he's in the nick" |
| ~ dreck, schlock, shlock | merchandise that is shoddy or inferior. |
| ~ cert | an absolute certainty.; "it's a dead cert" |
| ~ legs | staying power.; "that old Broadway play really has legs" |
| ~ soup-strainer, toothbrush | slang for a mustache. |
| ~ arsehole, bunghole, arse, asshole | vulgar slang for anus. |
| ~ bay window, potbelly, tummy, corporation, pot | slang for a paunch. |
| ~ niff, pong | an unpleasant smell. |
| ~ street name | slang for something (especially for an illegal drug).; "`smack' is a street name for heroin" |
| ~ corker | (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person.; "that story was a corker" |
| ~ hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff | senseless talk.; "don't give me that stuff" |
| ~ baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle | pretentious or silly talk or writing. |
| ~ codswallop, folderol, trumpery, applesauce, rubbish, tripe, wish-wash, trash | nonsensical talk or writing. |
| ~ skin flick | a pornographic movie. |
| ~ dibs | a claim of rights.; "I have dibs on that last slice of pizza" |
| ~ non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community. |
| ~ rhyming slang | slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component.; "Cockney rhyming slang" |
| ~ bun-fight, bunfight | (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion. |
| ~ burnup | a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road. |
| ~ nosh-up | a large satisfying meal. |
| ~ hood | (slang) a neighborhood. |
| ~ 'hood | (slang) a neighborhood. |
| ~ paleface | (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians). |
| ~ poor white trash, white trash | (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished. |
| ~ honkey, honkie, honky, whitey | (slang) offensive names for a White man. |
| ~ slant-eye, gook | (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War). |
| ~ injun, red man, redskin | (slang) offensive term for Native Americans. |
| ~ hymie, kike, sheeny, yid | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew. |
| ~ chinaman, chink | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent. |
| ~ dago, ginzo, greaseball, wop, guinea | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent. |
| ~ jap, nip | (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent. |
| ~ spic, spick, spik | (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent. |
| ~ boche, jerry, kraut, krauthead, hun | offensive term for a person of German descent. |
| ~ airhead | a flighty scatterbrained simpleton.; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one" |
| ~ babe, sister, baby | (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women. |
| ~ bad egg | (old-fashioned slang) a bad person. |
| ~ boffin | (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research. |
| ~ butch, dike, dyke | (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine. |
| ~ good egg | (old-fashioned slang) a good person. |
| ~ guvnor | (British slang) boss. |
| ~ old man | (slang) boss. |
| ~ out-and-outer | someone who is excellent at something. |
| ~ schlockmeister, shlockmeister | (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise. |
| ~ squeeze | (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend.; "she was his main squeeze" |
| ~ suit | (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit.; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" |
| ~ tripper | (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations. |
| ~ wog | (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia. |
| ~ juice | electric current.; "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice" |
| ~ big bucks, big money, megabucks, bundle, pile | a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit).; "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" |
| ~ key | a kilogram of a narcotic drug.; "they were carrying two keys of heroin" |
| ~ skinful | a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk.; "someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful" |
| ~ juice | energetic vitality.; "her creative juices were flowing" |
| ~ the shits, the trots | obscene terms for diarrhea. |
| ~ heebie-jeebies, jitters, screaming meemies | extreme nervousness. |
| ~ bitch | an unpleasant difficulty.; "this problem is a real bitch" |
| ~ give | occur.; "what gives?" |
| ~ buy it, pip out | be killed or die. |
| ~ feel | pass one's hands over the sexual organs of.; "He felt the girl in the movie theater" |
| ~ hoof | dance in a professional capacity. |
| ~ chuck, ditch | throw away.; "Chuck these old notes" |
| ~ bunk off, play hooky | play truant from work or school.; "The boy often plays hooky" |
| ~ square, straight | rigidly conventional or old-fashioned. |
| ~ besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, fuddled, pie-eyed, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, pissed, pixilated, cockeyed, plastered, loaded, wet, stiff, tight | very drunk. |
| ~ can-do | marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done.; "a can-do kind of person"; "the city's indomitable optimism and can-do spirit" |
| ~ freaky | strange and somewhat frightening.; "the whole experience was really freaky" |
| ~ uncool | (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring. |
| ~ butch | (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance. |
| ~ grotty | very unpleasant or offensive.; "a grotty little play" |
| ~ some | remarkable.; "that was some party"; "she is some skier" |
| ~ mean | excellent.; "famous for a mean backhand" |
| ~ bolshy, stroppy | obstreperous. |
| ~ pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off | well below average height. |
| ~ slam-bang | violent and sudden and noisy.; "a slam-bang collision" |
| ~ clean, plumb, plum | completely; used as intensifiers.; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" |
| ~ drop-dead | extremely.; "she was drop-dead gorgeous" |
| n. (communication) | 2. vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language). |
| ~ non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community. |
| adj. | 3. common, vernacular, vulgar | being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" |
| ~ informal | used of spoken and written language. |
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