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  美国俚语一

  · 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

  美国俚语二

  · 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

  美国俚语三

  · 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

  美国俚语四

  · 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

  美国俚语五

  · 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

  

  

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