GRUB
n. 1. a short, thickset person (rarely a woman) …15C colloq.
n. 2. food; provisions of food …1659 sl.
n. 3. a meal, a feed …c1855 sl.
n. 4. an untidy person; a dirty and slovenly person, generally elderly; also said of a child …c1890 colloq.
n. 5. an excessively diligent student …1847 Amer. student sl.
n. 6. an offensive, obnoxious, or unattractive person …1966 Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to eat …c1720 sl.
vb. 2. to provide with food …c1810 sl.
vb. 3. to beg food …c1840 sl.
vb. 4. to study hard …1848 Amer. sl.
vb. 5. to beg or borrow; to cadge; to beg from …1887 Amer. sl.
vb. 6. to kiss; to neck and pet; to ‘make out’ …1966 Amer. student sl.
GRUB AND BUB
n. food and drink …c1750 sl.
GRUBBED UP
adj. dirtied; dirty …1961 Amer. dial.
GRUBBER
n. 1. an eater …c1860 sl.
n. 2. an overly diligent student …1881 Amer. sl.
n. 3. a beggar …1904 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a person who is coarse, ignorant, or offensive …1941 Amer. sl.
GRUBBERY
n. 1. an eating-house …c1820 sl.
n. 2. a dining-room …c1830 sl.
n. 3. food …c1830 sl.
n. 4. the mouth …c1870 sl.
GRUBBIES
n. old, comfortable clothing, esp. a T-shirt and jeans …1968 Amer. student sl.
GRUBBING
n. money, but not a large quantity …1917 Amer. sl.
GRUBBING-CRIB
n. an eating-house …c1830 sl.
GRUBBING-CRIB FAKER
n. the proprietor of a low eating-house …c1850 sl.
GRUBBING-KEN
n. an eating-house …c1830 sl.
GRUBBINS
n. 1. food, provisions; a meal …1847 Amer. sl.
n. 2. money, but not a large quantity …1917 Amer. sl.
GRUBBLE
vb. to feel; to feel a woman; to rudely grasp a woman’s private parts or the breasts …L17 Brit. sl.
GRUB BOSS
n. in the army: the quartermaster sergeant …1899 US Army usage
GRUBBY
n. 1. food …c1820 cant
n. 2. a student who is not interested in school work, or dumb, one who is a nobody to other students …1942 Amer. student sl.
GRUBBY-KEN
n. a low eating-house …c1820 cant
GRUB-CADGING
n. begging house to house for food …E19 sl.
GRUB-CHOKER
n. a camp cook …1879 Amer. sl.
GRUB-CRIB
n. an eating-house …c1840 sl.
GRUB DOWN
vb. to eat a meal …1978 Amer. sl.
GRUB HOOKS
n. fingers or hands …1923 Amer. sl.
GRUB-HUNTING
n. begging for food …c1845 tramps’ sl.
GRUB IT
vb. to eat …19C sl.
GRUB-LINER
n. one who travels from ranch to ranch for meals …1912 Amer. West sl.
GRUB-MILL
n. the mouth …1880 Amer. sl.
GRUB OUT
vb. 1. study hard …1848 Amer. sl.
vb. 2. to eat a meal …1954 Amer. sl.
GRUB-PILE
n. a meal …1871 Amer. West sl.
GRUB-RIDER
n. one who travels from ranch to ranch for meals …1920 Amer. West sl.
GRUBS
n. 1. old, comfortable clothing, esp. a T-shirt and jeans …1968 Amer. student sl.
GRUB-SHITE
vb. to befoul; hence, to make very dirty …c1780 sl.
GRUB-SHOP
n. 1. an eating-house …c1840 sl.
n. 2. the mouth …c1860 sl.
GRUB-SLINGER
n. a cook …1912 Amer. sl.
GRUB-SPOILER
n. a ship’s cook …1883 nautical sl.
GRUB-STAKE
n. 1. money, supplies, or equipment supplied, esp. to a prospector, on condition of the supplier participating in the profits of a particular undertaking …1863 Amer. West. usage
n. 2. money or provisions …1881 Amer. sl.
n. 3. one’s share of the rations …WWI military colloq.
vb. 1. to provide with a grubstake …1879 Amer. sl.
vb. 2. to give an author money to keep him going while he writes a book …c1920 publishers’ usage
GRUB-STAKES
n. ‘grub’, food …c1890 sl.
GRUB-STEALER
n. a beggar stealing food from another …1887 cant tramps’ sl.
GRUB-TRAP
n. the mouth …c1860 sl.
GRUB UP
vb. to eat a meal …1970 Amer. sl.
GRUB WAGON
n. a chuck wagon …1917 Amer. sl.
GRUE
adj. nervously upset or afraid …c1924 sl.
GRUEFUL
adj. fearful, horror-struck …1880 rare
GRUEL
n. punishment; a beating …c1795 colloq.
vb. to punish …1850 colloq.
GRUELLER
n. a ‘settler’, a knock-down blow …1856 colloq.
GRUEL-STICK
n. a rifle …E20 military sl.
GRUESOME
adj. awful, unattractive, very unpleasant or displeasing …1932 US
GRUESOME AND GORY
n. the penis …20C rhyming sl. for ‘corie’
GRUESOME TWOSOME
n. 1. a disliked or unattractive pair of individuals or things; hence, a pair of sweethearts; a couple going steady …1941 Amer. jocular
n. 2. two young girls who are inseparable …c1940 Aust. sl., orig. US
GRUFFLE
vb. to speak gruffly in a muffled way …1825 sl.
GRUFFLER
n. a child …B1900 Eng. dial.
GRUGGLE
vb. to disorder or disfigure by much handling; to rumple, to crumple, to crease …1804 Sc.
GRULCH
n. a small, stocky person, usually somewhat uncouth and less then amicable …20C Irish
GRUMBLE
n. women viewed as sex objects …1962 Brit. rhyming sl. (Grumble and Grunt)
GRUMBLE AND GRUNT
n. 1. coition …20C sl.
n. 2. the female genitals …20C rhyming sl. on ‘cunt’
n. 3. women viewed as sex objects …1962 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘cunt’
GRUMBLE AND MUTTER
n. a bet …20C rhyming slang for ‘flutter’
GRUMBLE-BELLY
n. a peevish, discontented person; a confirmed grumbler …B1900 Eng. dial.
GRUMBLEDORY
n. a grumbler …1599 obs. rare
GRUMBLE-GUTS
n. an habitual complainer …L19 sl.
GRUMBLE IN THE GIZZARD
vb. to be annoyed, but to keep one’s feelings to oneself; to murmur or repine …L18 sl.
GRUMBLER
n. E19 sl. – fourpennyworth of grog
THE GRUMBLES
n. 1861 sl. – bad temper, sulkiness, ill humour
GRUMBLETONIAN
n. 1. 1690 obs. – a term of contempt applied in the late 17th century to the members of the so-called ‘Country Party’ in English politics, accused by the ‘Court Party’ of being actuated by dissatisfied personal ambition; hence later applied to supporters of the Opposition
n. 2. c1710 colloq. – a constant grumbler, esp. as regards the ‘state of the country’; a discontented person; a scolder
GRUMBLY
adj. 1858 colloq. – inclined to grumble
GRUMMET
n. 1. sexual intercourse …19C sl.
n. 2. the vagina …M19 nautical sl.
n. 3. a woman, esp. as a sex object …1960s sl., orig. NZ surfers
n. 4. someone or something disliked …1980s NZ juvenile sl.
GRUMP
n. a bad-tempered, surly person …20C sl.
GRUMPER
n. the buttocks …1972 US sl.
GRUMPHIE
n. a familiar name for a pig …1775 chiefly Sc.
• GRUMPS
n. 1970 Amer. dial. – grandfather
THE GRUMPS
n. a depressed or sulky mood …1835 colloq.
GRUMPTIOUS
adj. irritable, sullen, inclined to grumbling …B1900 Eng. dial.
• GRUMPUS
n. a grumpy bad-tempered person …1986 US sl.
• GRUMPY
n. 1970 – grandfather (Amer. dial.)
GRUNCH
n. 1960s – sticky, dirty, unpleasant substances (sl.)
int. 20C – exclamation of annoyance or disgust (US students’ sl.)
GRUNDY
adj. 1966 – dirty, shabby, grimy, filthy, disgusting; disreputable, unpleasant (US sl.)
n. 16C – a short, fat person, usually of men (sl., orig. US)
GRUNDYITE
n. 1845 – a stickler for propriety
GRUNGE
n. 1. a person who works hard, usually for meagre rewards …1960 sl.
n. 2. dirt; filth; rubbish; something of inferior quality …1960 sl.
n. 3. a general term of abuse; a repugnant, odious, dirty, or boring person; a slovenly or offensive person; an obnoxious person; someone who is sloppy in dress …1965 sl., orig US
n. 4. sticky, dirty, unpleasant substances; grease, grime, or filth; also, anything nasty or inferior; a bad, unpleasant thing; something dull or unappealing …1968 sl. orig. US
n. 5. a form of rock music, epitomized by the work of the Seattle band Nirvana, but first used in relation to the New York Dolls, c1973; also, the fashion style that developed out of the rock music (1980s) …1970s sl.
vb. 1. to assault, to attack, to terrify …1960s sl.
vb. 2. to whine, to complain …1960s sl.
GRUNGED-OUT
adj. filthy, grimy, dirty, messy; unappetizing, unappealing …1986 US sl.
GRUNGEHOLE
n. a dirty room or place; a filthy or disreputable place …1986 Amer. sl.
GRUNGIES
n. dirty laundry …1987 US campus sl.
GRUNGY
adj. 1. dirty, filthy, messy, unappetizing, unappealing …1965 sl.
adj. 2. ugly, run-down or dilapidated …1965 sl.
adj. 3. inferior, poor, dismal …1969 Amer. sl.
GRUNT
n. 1. a slice of ham or pork …1925 US sl.
n. 2. among telephone-line and power-line repairers: a line repairer’s assistant; also, a mechanic or an electrician’s helper …1926 Amer. sl.
n. 3. on the railroad: a locomotive engineer …1939 Amer. sl.
n. 4. excrement …1947 US sl.
n. 5. the bill, for food, drink …1951 US sl.
n. 6. a bowel movement …1960s US Black sl.
n. 7. in the military: an infantryman; broadly, an ordinary combat soldier …1962 Amer. sl.
n. 8. in the navy: a member of the US Marine Corps …1968 US Navy usage
n. 9. food, esp. snack food …1960s US campus sl.
n. 10. the vagina; a woman or women sexually objectified …1961 UK rhyming sl. for ‘cunt’
n. 11. any person doing menial work; a labourer …1970s US sl.
n. 12. a meal, dinner …1972 US Black sl.
n. 13. a stupid or unpleasant person; a contemptible person …1977 US sl.
n. 14. in the US Air Force: a nonflying officer …a1981 Amer. sl.
n. 15. an excessively diligent student, usually unsociable …a1986 Amer. sl.
n. 16. an extremely unattractive woman …1990s sl.
n. 17. an ill-tempered, constantly complaining person …20C US sl.
vb. 1. to belch …20C US colloq.
vb. 2. to do menial work …1938 US sl.
vb. 3. to defecate …1967 sl.
GRUNTER
n. 1. a pig …M16 sl.
n. 2. pork …M16 sl.
n. 3. a shilling (5p) …L18 sl.
n. 4. a policeman …E19 sl.
n. 5. sixpence (2.5p) …M19 sl.
n. 6. an automobile …1910s sl.
n. 7. a professional wrestler …1936 US sl.
n. 8. a prostitute …1940s Aust. sl.
n. 9. an old person out of sympathy with current youth enthusiasms …1980s sl.
GRUNT HORN
n. a tuba …1926 US sl.
GRUNTING-CHEAT
n. a pig …M16 cant
GRUNTING-CHETE
n. a pig …M16 cant
GRUNTING PECK
n. pork, bacon, or any pig-meat …M17 sl.
GRUNT IRON
n. a tuba …1935 US sl.
GRUNTLING
n. a pig …1686 US sl.
GRUNTS
n. 1. ground troops, esp. infantry …1962 Amer. sl.
n. 2. food, esp. snack food …1968 Amer. sl.
GRUNT WORK
n. work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting and boring; menial work, drudgery …1970s US sl.
GRUSHIE
adj. healthy, thriving …Sc.
GRUTCH
n. a grudge …1175 Eng. dial.
vb. to grudge …1175 Eng. dial.
G-SHOT
n. 1. a small dose of drugs used to hold off withdrawal symptoms until a full dose can be taken;…1950s drugs sl.
n. 2. a small amount of heroin …1969 Amer. drugs sl.
G-STRING
n. any device – a tampon, towel, etc., used to staunch the flow of menstrual blood …1970s US Black sl.
G.T.H.!
int. ‘go to hell’ …1917 Amer. sl.
G.T.T.
adj. “gone to Texas” to avoid paying debts; absconded …1839 Amer. sl., now hist.
GUB
n. a White person …Aust.
GUBBAH
n. a White person …Aust.
• GUBBINS
n. 1740 Eng. dial. – an unintelligent, uneducated, or ignorant person; a fool, an idiot, a blockhead; a greedy, clownish person, a country fellow
GUBERS
n. acne; facial pimples …M20 US sl.
GUCK
n. 1. a foolish saying; a fool …1596 Sc. obs.
n. 2. a duck …1887 Sc.
n. 3. the cuckoo, Cuculus canorus …B1900 Sc.
n. 4. slime or oozy dirt; any oozy, sticky, or slimy substance …1945 colloq.
vb. to trifle; to play the fool …c1560 Sc. obs.
GUCKED
adj. foolish, silly …c1450 obs. chiefly Sc.
GUCKRY
n. foolishness, folly …1596 Sc. obs.
GUCKY
adj. crooked …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
GUDDLE
n. a muddled affair; a mix-up; confusion …colloq.
vb. to do sexual foreplay; to feel a woman; to rudely grasp a woman’s private parts or the breasts …E19 Brit. sl.
• GUDE NAIL
n. 1866 Sc. obs. – a good disposition or ‘streak’ in one’s nature
GUESS AT HALF AND MULTIPLY BY TWO
vb. to allow ‘about as much as you would’ …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
GUESSING-STORY
n. a conundrum, a riddle …B1900 Eng. dial.
GUFF
n. 1. empty or foolish talk; nonsense …1815 colloq.
n. 2. insolent talk …1815 colloq.
GUFFIN
n. an awkward, clumsy oaf …M19 Brit. & Amer. dial.
GUFFLE
vb. to puzzle very much; to nonplus …B1900 Scot.
GUFFOON
n. an oaf …19C Brit.
GUG
n. an extremely unpleasant person …M20 US sl.
GU-GU
n. (derogatory) an Asian or dark-skinned foreigner, esp. a Filipino …L19 US sl.
A GUID NAIL
n. a good disposition …Bk1902 Scot.
GUIN
n. (derogatory) a nickname for an Italian …20C US sl.
GUINEA
n. (derogatory and offensive) an immigrant of Italian or Spanish origin …1890 US sl.
GUINEA-HEN
n. a courtesan; a prostitute …17C Brit.
GUINZO
n. (derogatory) a person of Italian extraction …1931 US sl.
GUIVER
n. insincere talk; pretense …1864 Aust. sl.
GULF
n. a public restroom …E20 US sl.
GULIST
n. one who pampers his appetite; a glutton, a gormandizer …1632 obs.
GULL
n. 1. a simpleton; an oaf …L16
n. 2. a prostitute, one who frequents the coastal area …20C US sl.
GULL-FINCH
n. a fool, a simpleton; a person easily deceived …1630 obs.
GULLION
n. 1. a sum of money equal to 2s in value …1822 Sc.
n. 2. mud, a quagmire, a stinking, rotting marsh …1824 Sc. & Irish
n. 3. a contemptible and mean wretch; a soft, worthless fellow …1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. the stomach-ache, colic …1839 Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 5. a drunkard …B1900 Eng. dial.
GULLOP
vb. to belch up …1642 obs. rare
GULLY
n. the female genitals; the vagina …19C Brit. sl.
GULLY-FLUFF
n. the fluff, dirt, etc., which accumulates in the pockets …B1900 colloq.
GULLY-HOLE
n. the female genitals; the vagina …19C Brit. sl.
GULLY-WASHER
n. a heavy rain that washes gullies in the ground; a heavy downpour …1903 Amer. dial.
GULPIN
n. 1. one who will swallow anything; one easily gulled; a credulous simpleton; a fool …1802
n. 2. a young child …1814 Scot.
n. 3. a thick-witted, stubborn fellow …B1900 Irish
n. 4. a marine …B1900 nautical
• GULTIE
n. 1795 Sc. – a pig, esp. a castrated boar; a nickname or a pet-name for a pig
GUM
n. 1. God
n. 2. insolence …old sl.
n. 3. nonsense; humbug …old Amer. dial.
n. 4. opium …20C US drugs sl.
vb. 1. to dupe, cheat, deceive …US sl.
vb. 2. to talk nonsense …old Amer. dial.
GUMA
n. 1. semen …L19 US colloq.
n. 2. heroin …1967 US sl.
GUMBA
n. a thug; a gangster; spec., a member of an organized crime syndicate, usually the US Mafia …1960s US sl.
GUMBAH
n. 1. a close male friend …1955 US sl.
n. 2. a stupid person …1950s US sl.
n. 3. an Italian-American …1950s sl.
n. 4. in the US Mafia: a patron …1960s US criminals’ sl.
GUM BEATERS
n. false teeth …1969 Amer. dial.
GUMBO
n. heavy mud …sl.
GUM BOOT
n. a police officer, esp. a detective or plainclothes officer …20C Amer. sl.
vb. (usually as ‘gumboot’) to work as a police officer or detective …20C Amer. sl.
GUMBY
n. 1. a dull, tedious person, esp. one out of touch with current fashions …1970s Can. teen sl.
n. 2. a slanted box haircut …1980s Amer. teen sl.
GUMDIGGER
n. a dentist …20C Aust. sl.
GUMFOOT
n. a police officer, esp. a detective or plainclothes officer; one known for wearing, silent, gum-rubber shoes …E20 Amer. sl.
vb. to work as a police officer or detective …20C Amer. sl.
GUM GODFREY!
int. an exclamation and oath, “By God!”
GUMHEEL
n. a police officer, esp. a detective or plainclothes officer; one known for wearing, silent, gum-rubber shoes …E20 Amer. sl.
vb. to work as a police officer or detective …20C Amer. sl.
• GUMMEL
vb. Bk1900 Sc. – to gobble up
• GUMMER
n. 20C US sl. – a grandmother
• GUMMUL
vb. 1825 Sc. – to gobble up, to eat ravenously
GUMMY
adj. 1. inferior; tedious; unpleasant …1922 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. sentimental; maudlin …1940 Amer. sl.
• GUMP
n. 1. 1722 sl., now US – a foolish person
n. 2. 1899 Amer. tramps’ sl. – a chicken, esp. a stolen one
n. 3. 1950s Amer. prison sl. – a male homosexual
• GUMPH
n. 1722 sl., now US – a foolish person
GUMPLE-FOISTED
adj. sulky, in a bad humour, out of temper; ill-humoured …1824 Scot.
GUMPTION
n. sense; shrewdness; courage; initiative; enterprise …1831 Amer. colloq.
GUMPUNCHER
n. a dentist …20C Aust. sl.
GUMSHOE
n. a police officer, esp. a detective or plainclothes officer; one known for wearing, silent, gum-rubber shoes …1906 Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to work as a police officer or detective …20C Amer. sl.
vb. 2. to walk a police beat …20C Amer. sl.
vb. 3. to walk quietly and stealthily …20C Amer. sl.
GUMSHOE MAN
n. a police officer, esp. a detective or plainclothes officer …20C Amer. sl.
GUMSUCKER
n. a person from Victoria; any native-born, non-aboriginal Australian …1855 Aust. sl.
GUM UP
vb. to ruin, to spoil, to throw into confusion; to wreck …1890 Amer. sl.
GUM UP THE WORKS
vb. to ruin, to spoil, to throw into confusion …1890 Amer. sl.
GUN
adj. 1. expert, pre-eminent …1916 Aust. & NZ
adj. 2. excellent …1998 NZ sl.
n. 1. gonorrhea …19C obs. sl.
n. 2. an important person …1830 Amer. sl.
n. 3. a professional thief, esp. a pickpocket …1858 Amer. sl.
n. 4. an armed criminal …1859 Amer. sl.
n. 5. a professional killer …colloq.
n. 6. a hypodermic syringe …1899 US drugs sl.
n. 7. the accelerator of a car; the throttle of a car, airplane, etc. …1900s Amer. sl.
n. 8. throwing arm. esp. a strong and accurate one …1929 US baseball sl.
n. 9. the penis …M20 sl.
n. 10. a long, heavy surfboard …1960s Amer. surfers’ sl.
n. 11. a large surfboat for riding big waves …Aust. sl.
n. 12. a champion, esp. in shearing …Aust. sl.
n. 13. in horse racing: an all-out effort by a jockey …sl.
vb. 1. to look over; to examine …1812 UK sl.
vb. 2. to shoot someone…1898 Amer. sl.
vb. 3. to accelerate a vehicle or rev its engine …1920 US sl.
vb. 4. in computing: to use a computer’s force-quit feature to close a malfunctioning program …1983 US sl.
vb. 5. to attack verbally …2003 UK sl.
vb. 6. to inject a drug intravenously …2003 UK drugs sl.
GUN AND BOMB
n. a condom …2003 UK rhyming sl.
GUN AND RIFLE CLUB
n. an inner-city hospital’s casualty department …1978 US sl.
GUN APE
n. an artillery soldier …1988 US sl.
GUN BELT
n. the American defense industry …1991 US sl.
GUNBOATS
n. 1. a pair of boots …US Civil War usage
n. 2. a pair of shoes or galoshes, esp. of a large size …1862 Amer. sl.
n. 3. large feet …1886 Amer. sl.
GUN-BULL
n. an armed prison guard …1928 US sl.
GUN BUNNY
n. an artilleryman …1970s US sl.
GUNCEL
n. 1. a sexually vulnerable boy or young man …1914 Amer. criminals’ sl.
n. 2. a male homosexual …1931 Amer. sl.
GUNCH
n. an attempt to influence the roll of a pinball …1970s Amer. sl.
vb. to attempt to influence the roll of a pinball …1970s Amer. sl.
• GUNCHESTER
n. 1994 UK sl. – Manchester, England
• GUNDIE-GUTS
n. 1712 obs. – a fat, pursy fellow; a greedy person, or one having a voracious appetite
• GUN DOCTOR
n. Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl. – a gunner’s mate
• GUN DOWN
vb. 1. 1969 sl. – to kill with a gun
vb. 2. 2002 US sl. – of a male: to masturbate while looking directly at somebody else
• GUNDY
adj. unsatisfactory; broken; beyond repair; ruined; worthless …Aust. sl.
• GUNFIGHTER SEAT
n. in a public place: a seat with the back against the wall, overlooking the room …1997 US sl.
• GUNFIRE
n. an early-morning cup of tea served to troops before going on first parade …1912 army sl.
• GUN FOR
vb. 1. to be on the lookout for with the intent of hurting or killing; to seek out or pursue with harmful intent; to aim to punish …1878 US sl.
vb. 2. to pursue actively …1940s Amer. sl.
vb. 3. to support, to go for …Aust. sl.
• GUN FROM THE GATE
n. in horse racing: a racehorse that starts races quickly …1951 US sl.
• GUNGA
n. 1. marijuana, esp. from Jamaica …1944 US sl.
n. 2. the chin …1992 UK rhyming sl. (Gunga Din)
• GUNGA DIN
n. 1. the chin …1992 UK rhyming sl.
n. 2. (derogatory, racist) used to address a man with a perceived Indian or Asian ethnicity …1994 UK sl.
• GUNGE
n. 1. any dirty, messy or sticky substance; general filth …1965 colloq.
n. 2. any tropical skin disease affecting the crotch area of a US soldier in Vietnam …1977 US sl.
n. 3. marijuana …Aust. sl.
n. 4. rubbish, nonsense …2003 UK sl.
vb. to make filthy …1976 UK sl.
• GUNGED UP
adj. filthy; sticky; clogged with filth, esp. with an unidentifiable or disgusting viscid substance …1962 UK sl.
• GUNGEON
n. marijuana, esp. from Jamaica …1944 US sl.
• GUNGE UP
vb. to make filthy; to clog with dirty viscous material …1976 Brit. sl.
• GUNGEY
adj. filthy; sticky; clogged with filth, esp. with an unidentifiable or disgusting viscid substance …1962 UK sl.
• GUNG-HO
adj. 1. very zealous; totally committed; dedicated; spirited; enthusiastic; wholeheartedly fervid about doing something…1942 US sl., orig. US Marine Corps usage
adj. 2. warlike; keenly militaristic …Aust. sl.
• GUNGI
adj. enthusiastic; spirited, brave …1961 US sl.
• GUNGINEER
n. an engineer officer turned over to gun-mounting …c1930 Royal Navy usage
• GUNGOO
adj. genuine; complete, entire …20C Royal Navy usage
• GUNGUN
n. marijuana variously claimed to be from Africa, Jamaica, or Mexico …1998 UK sl.
• GUNGY
adj. 1. enthusiastic; spirited, brave …1961 US sl.
adj. 2. filthy; sticky; clogged with filth, esp. with an unidentifiable or disgusting viscid substance; messy, ugly, smelly, old, or ragged …1962 UK sl.
• GUN HAND
n. in racquetball: the hand with which a player holds the racquet …1971 US sl.
• GUNIAH • GUNIAR
n. a ‘black-fellow’s’ hut, roughly constructed of boughs and bark; also, a White man’s hut or house …L19 Aust , orig. Aboriginal
• GUN IT
vb. of a vehicle: to travel at top speed …1976 US sl.
• GUNJA
n. a potent variety of marijuana; a Jamaican term for marijuana …19C sl.
• GUNJEH
n. marijuana, esp. from Jamaica …1944 US sl.
• GUNK
n. 1. an unidentified and unpleasant substance; any nasty, messy stuff, dirt, slime; any sticky, viscous liquid, esp. hair tonic, cosmetics, lubricants, etc. …1932 US sl.
n. 2. (derogatory) a person …1964 US sl.
n. 3. glue sniffed as a recreational drug …M20 US drugs sl.
n. 4. non-physical rubbish, trash, as of a radio or TV broadcast; matter deficient either technically or artistically, also vulgar and lacking in moral responsibility …1960s sl.
n. 5. any industrial solvent inhaled for its psychoactive effect …1982 US sl.
n. 6. a thick liquid …1999 UK sl.
• GUNKHOLE
n. a shallow cove or channel nearly unnavigable because of mud, rocks, or vegetation …20C Amer. yachting usage
vb. to cruise, rivers, creeks, tidal estuaries, etc. in a small yacht, anchoring in remote spots …1908 Amer. yachting usage
• GUN MOLL
n. an armed female thief or other criminal; the female companion of a male gunman or gangster; a female gangster …1908 US sl.
• GUN-MOUTH PANTS
n. men’s trousers with straight, tapered legs …1937 Trinidad and Tobago sl. Partridge
• GUNNA
n. a procrastinator …1996 Aust. sl.
• GUNNEAH
n. a ‘black-fellow’s’ hut, roughly constructed of boughs and bark; also, a White man’s hut or house …L19 Aust , orig. Aboriginal
• GUNNER
n. 1. one who lies in order to do harm …1709 sl. obs.
n. 2. a thief …1889 sl. obs.
n. 3. a Merchant Service warrant officer in the East …L19 nautical usage
n. 4. the person shooting the dice in craps …1930s US sl.
n. 5. in poker: the player with the best hand or who plays his hand as if it were the best hand …1951 US sl.
n. 6. in basketball: a flashy performer …1960s US basketball sl.
n. 7. a person with sexual expertise and experience …1965 US sl.
n. 8. a student who aggressively courts attention in class; earlier, a sexually aggressive student; one who takes competition to an aggressive level …1994 Amer. students’ sl. Dict
n. 9. braces (suspenders) …1949 US sl.
• GUNNER’S TAILOR
n. the rating who made the cartridge bags …1867 obs. naval usage
• GUNNERY JACK
n. a gunnery lieutenant …L19 Royal Navy usage
• GUNNIF
n. a thief, a crook …2000 UK sl.
• GUNNING
n. thieving …1868 criminals’ sl.
GUNNY
n. 1. an armed criminal …1950s Amer. sl.
n. 2. a gun enthusiast; a proponent of gun possession …1957 US sl.
n. 3. a gunnery sergeant …1940s US Marine Corps usage
n. 4. potent marijuana …1970 US sl.
n. 5. a door gunner on an airship, or a crew member of a gunship …1980 US sl.
GUNNYA(H)
n. a ‘black-fellow’s’ hut, roughly constructed of boughs and bark; also, a White man’s hut or house …L19 Aust , orig. Aboriginal
GUN PET
n. a parapet fortified to protect artillery …1990 US sl.
GUNPOWDER
n. 1. an old woman …L17 sl.
n. 2. a fiery drink …c1755 sl.
GUNS
n. 1. a gunnery-lieutenant …1916 Royal Navy usage
n. 2. the fists …1981 US sl.
n. 3. a helicopter gunship …1990 US Army Aero Weapons Platoon (Vietnam) usage
n. 4. to marines in Vietnam: a weapons squad or platoon …1990 US sl.
GUNSACK
n. thick, heavy female thighs …2003 Trinidad and Tobago sl.
GUNSEL
n. 1. a boy kept for homosexual purposes, a catamite …1914 US sl.
n. 2. a tramp’s young male companion or lover; hence, any homosexual youth …1918 US sl.
n. 3. a stupid or inexperienced youth; a young man; a naive young man …1910 US sl.
n. 4. a gunman or armed thug …1943 US sl.
GUNSHEL
n. 1. a young man; a naive young man …1910 US sl.
n. 2. a tramp’s young male companion or lover; hence, any homosexual youth …1918 US sl.
n. 3 a gunman or armed thug …1943 US sl.
GUNSHIP
n. 1. a van used in a drive-by shooting …1988 US sl.
n. 2. in the Metropolitan Police: a Flying Squad car when firearms are being carried …1999 UK sl.
n. 3. in the Metropolitan Police: an Armed Response Vehicle …1999 UK sl.
GUN-SHOT
n. a single measure of chilled After Shock™ cinnamon or peppermint liqueur imbibed through a straw in a single action …2001 UK sl.
GUN-SHY
adj. apprehensive; reluctant; fearful …1884 Amer. sl.
GUN-SLINGER
n. 1. a western gunfighter; an armed criminal …1928 sl., chiefly US
n. 2. an inmate who habitually exposes himself to female guards …1990s Amer. prison sl.
n. 3. a chronic masturbator …2002 US sl.
GUNSMITH
n. an experienced pickpocket who trains novice pickpockets …1934 US sl.
GUN SOMEONE DOWN
vb. to shoot so as to fell or kill …1898 Amer. sl.
GUNSTER
n. a bouncing fellow, a ‘cracker’; a harmless liar …c1700 sl.
GUN TALK
n. tough, threatening talk …2003 Trinidad and Tobago sl.
THE GUNTZ
n. the whole lot, the whole way …1958 UK sl.
GUNTZEL
n. 1. a young man; a naive young man …1910 US sl.
n. 2. a sexually vulnerable boy or young man; a boy kept for homosexual purposes …1914 Amer. criminals’ sl.
n. 3. a tramp’s young male companion or lover; hence, any homosexual youth …1918 US sl.
n. 4. a gunman or armed thug …1943 US sl.
GUN UP
vb. to prepare to fight, either with fists or weapons …1981 US sl.
GUNYAH; GUNYER; GUNYIO
n. a ‘black-fellow’s’ hut, roughly constructed of boughs and bark; also, a White man’s hut or house …L19 Aust, orig. Aboriginal
GUNZ
n. a drill sergeant …c1880 Brit.
GUNZEL
n. 1. a young man; a naive young man …1910 US sl.
n. 2. a tramp’s young male companion or lover; hence, any homosexual youth …1918 US sl.
n. 3. a gunman or armed thug …1943 US sl.
GUNZEL-BUTT
n. a strange-looking person; …M20 US sl.
GUNZL
n. 1. a young man; a naive young man …1910 US sl.
n. 2. a gunman or armed thug …1943 US sl.
GUP
int. 1. exclamtion of remonstrance or derision …obs.
int. 2. go up!; to a horse: get up! …16C colloq.
n. 1. gossip; scandal; silly talk …1883 Anglo-Indian colloq.
n. 2. a fool …c1925 Aust. sl.
n. 3. information …c1930 army sl.
GUP-GUP
n. gossip; scandal …1809 Anglo-Indian colloq.
GUPPIE
n. 1. (derogatory or jocular) a homosexual yuppie (young urban professional) …1984 sl.
n. 2. a yuppie concerned about the environment, and ecological issues …1985 sl.
GUPPIES
n. anchovies …1996 US sl.
GUPPY
adj. foolish, stupid, silly …c1930 sl.
n. 1. a fool …c1925 Aust. sl.
n. 2. an individual who is socially categorized as a Gay Upwardly Mobile Professional …1984 UK sl.
n. 3. a heavy drinker …1991 US sl.
n. 4. a navy diver who is not SCUBA qualified …1991 US Navy usage
• GURGRUGOUS
adj. 1825 Sc. – ugly
GURK
n. 1. a belch …1923 sl.
n. 2. an audible release of intestinal gas; a fart …E20 Aust. sl.
vb. 1. to belch …1923 Brit. sl.
vb. 2. to release intestinal gas audibly; to fart …E20 Aust. sl.
• GURLIE; GURLY
adj.1718 Sc. – boisterous, stormy, rough
adj. 1721 Sc. – surly, cross, crabbed, growly, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, sour-tempered
adj.1823 Sc. – of water: gurgling; of infants: gurgling, crowing
adj.1837 Sc. – of a tree: gnarled
GURLIEWHIRKIE
n. unforeseen evil, dark and dismal; premeditated revenge …B1900 Sc.
GURNER
n. a person intoxicated by MDMA (ecstasy) …2000 UK sl.
GURNING
n. the effect of tightened facial muscles as a result of taking MDMA (ecstasy) …1996 UK sl.
GURR
n. diarrhoea …E16 Brit. colloq.
• GURRAN
n. 1866 Sc. – a thickset animal; anything short and thick or good and strong of its kind
GURRAWAUN
n. a coachman …1864 obs. Anglo-Indian
GURRELL
n. a fob …c1850
GURRIER
n. a lout, a ruffian …2001 Ireland sl.
GURRY
n. diarrhoea …E16 Brit. colloq.
GURU
n. 1. a leader, expert, or authority in some field, esp. a charismatic or spiritual figure who attracts a devoted following …1960s Amer. sl.
n. 2. a person who aids and supports someone having a psychedelic drug experience …1960s US drugs sl.
n. 3. a psychiatrist …1960s Amer. sl.
n. 4. a computer expert …1990s computing sl.
GURU-YOU!
int. a disguised curse, “Screw you!” or “Fuck you!” …1971 US sl.
GUSH
n. 1. a smell, a whiff, as of tobacco …1838 colloq.
n. 2. talk too effusive and objectionably sentimental …c1865 colloq.
vb. 1. to talk too effusively and sentimentally; often, also insincerely …1864 colloq.
vb. 2. in professional wrestling: to bleed …1992 US sl.
GUSHER
n. 1. an over-effusive and sentimental talker …1864 colloq.
n. 2. oil well that does not have to be pumped
GUSHING
adj. excessively sentimental and effusive, either inanely or insincerely …1864 colloq.
GUSHY
adj. excessively sentimental and effusive, either inanely or insincerely …1889 colloq.
GUSSET
n. 1. a woman, esp. a woman considered sexually …17C Brit.
n. 2. the female genitals …17C Brit.
GUSSETEER
n. a whoremonger; a lecher; a wencher; somewhat derisory …19C Brit. sl.
GUSSETING
n. wenching …19C colloq.
GUSSET OF THE ARSE
n. the inner side of the buttocks …L18 sl.
GUSSIE
n. 1. a pig, swine …a1500 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a coarse, lusty woman …B1900 Sc.
n. 3. a division of an orange …B1900 Sc.
n. 4. an affected and/or effeminate man …c1890 Aust. sl.
n. 5. a nickname for an officer …c1930 army sl.
GUSSIED-UP
adj. smartly dressed …Aust. sl.
GUSSIES
n. women’s lace panties …1954 sl.
GUSSY UP
vb. 1. to dress in one’s best clothes; to adorn oneself …1952 Amer. sl.
vb. 2. to clean or make neat …20C Amer. sl.
vb. 3. to decorate or elaborate on a plain design …20C Amer. sl.
vb. 4. to refurbish, to renovate; to polish …20C Amer. sl.
vb. 5. to decorate; to make fancy …L1940s Amer. sl.
GUST
n. a guest …c1905 jocular obs.
GUSTA
n. a heavy fall …1918 Aust. sl.
GUSTFUL
adj. fitfully irritable or emotional
GUSTO
n. 1. exuberant enjoyment, zest
n. 2. beer …1960s sl., orig. US Black usage
n. 3. money …1984 US sl.
GUSTY
adj. fitfully irritable or emotional
GUT
adj. 1. easy; easily passed with little application or study …1916 Amer. sl.
adj. 2, based on one’s instincts, feelings, or emotions; immediately or deeply felt; intuitive …1951 Amer. colloq.
adj. 3. basic; essential; most immediate …1964 Amer. sl.
adj. 4. of a political issue or the like: of fundamental importance; of extraordinary concern to voters, often engendering a visceral reaction …1964 Amer. sl.
n. 1. the stomach, abdomen, paunch …a1000
n. 2. courage, bravery, staying power …M17 sl.
n. 3. gluttony …19C obs. sl.
n. 4. a glutton …20C sl.
n. 5. a sausage …1910s US criminals’ sl.
n. 6. a school course that requires little effort; an easy course …1916 US sl.
n. 7. the main street …1920s US sl.
n. 8. a certainty …1920s US sl.
n. 9. an air hose on a brake system …1946 US sl.
n. 10. an easy task …1970s US sl.
n. 11. a gut feeling …2000s US sl.
vb. 1. to eat like a glutton …17C sl.
vb. 2. to empty …L17 sl.
vb. 3. to display one’s courage …1940s US sl.
vb. 4. to punch in the stomach; literary and figurative use …1960s US Black sl.
vb. 5. in hot rodding: to remove all but the bare essentials from a car’s interior …1958 US sl.
GUT-ACHE
n. 1. a stomach ache …L18 sl.
n. 2. a greedy person …1950s UK juvenile sl.
GUT A FOB
vb. to pick a pocket …c1815 criminals’ sl.
GUT A HOUSE
vb. to empty a house of its furnishings; to rob it …17C criminals’ sl.
GUT A JOB
vb. to render it valueless …19C sl.
GUT AN OYSTER
vb. to eat it …L17 obs. sl.
GUT A QUART POT
vb. to drink the pot to the dregs …L17 sl.
GUT BAG
n. a plastic bag containing frozen food, the exact identity of which is not clear …1991 US sl.
GUT-BARGE
vb. to use your beer-belly to bump into another’s in an informal trial of strength …2002 UK sl. Partridge Concise Slang 2008
GUTBASH
n. a bellyful of food; hence, a resultant belly-ache …c1925 Services sl., esp. Royal Navy
GUT BOMB
n. a greasy hamburger; broadly; any greasy, tasty, heavy food; any food considered to be especially unhealthy …1968 Amer. sl.
GUT BOMBER
n. a greasy hamburger; broadly, and food considered to be especially unhealthy …1980 Amer. sl.
GUT-BRACER
n. a strong alcoholic drink …1940s US sl.
GUTBUCKET
n. 1. jazz played in an especially earthy, bluesy, or robust manner, esp. in barrelhouse style; a very basic, raw, unsophisticated style of jazz; hence, extended to rock music …1929 Amer. jazz musicians’ usage
n. 2. a bucket used for food or liquor; hence, inferior liquor …1932 US Black sl.
n. 3. a grossly fat person; a pompous person, usually corpulent; used derisively …1938 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a toilet or chamber pot …1942 Amer. sl.
n. 5. a low place or dive …1944 US Black sl.
n. 6. the belly …1957 Amer. sl.
n. 7. a washtub bass …1964 Amer. sl.
n. 8. a rough and rowdy bar with rough and rowdy patrons …1970 US sl.
n. 9. a jazz or blues musician …1971 Amer. jazz usage
n. 10. a fish bait boat; hence, a messy space of any kind …1975 US sl.
n. 11. an old or unseaworthy vessel …1989 US Navy sl.
GUTBUCKETING
n. playing in ‘gutbucket’ style (see ‘gutbucket’ n. 1.) …1936 Amer. jazz usage
GUT BUGGY
n. an ambulance …1969 Amer. sl.
GUT-BURGLAR
n. a cook …1925 Amer. logging sl.
GUT-BURNER
n. a strong or bracing alcoholic drink …1940s US sl.
GUT-BUSTER
n. 1. something powerful and dramatic …1930s sl.
n. 2. a very steep hill …1950s NZ sl.
n. 3. a hilarious joke; something very funny …1985 Amer. sl.
n. 4. an activity requiring great effort, esp. great physical effort …Aust. sl.
GUT-BUSTING
adj. powerful, energetic, overwhelming …1930s sl.
GUT-BUTCHER
n. an active pederast …1927 Amer. sl.
GUT CARD
n. in gin: a card that completes a broken sequence …1965 US sl.
GUT CHECK
n. 1. a test of courage or determination …1968 US sl.
n. 2, a quick evaluation and reassertion of spirit and resolve, usually among teammates; a quick reassessment of strategy and stiffening of morale …1972 Amer sl., orig. football usage
GUTCHER
n. a grandfather …B1900 Sc. obs.
GUT-CONCRETE
n. thick soup …B1900 sl.
GUT COURSE
n. an easy course in college …1916 Amer. college sl.
GUT-EATER
n. a Native American: used contemptuously …1925 Amer. Western usage
GUT-EATING
adj. (derogative) Native American …1949 Amer. Western usage
GUT ENTRANCE
n. the female genitals …c1840 sl.
• GUTFATTY
n. L16 sl. – a term of abuse for a person who has a fat stomach
GUT-FIGHTER
n. 1. an aggressive, usually undisciplined fighter who delivers rapid powerful punches to the abdomen …1958 Amer. sl.
n 2. in politics: a candidate or political operative who wages an unusually aggressive uncompromising campaign, esp. against a politically stronger opponent …1962 Amer. sl.
GUT FOOT
n. fallen arches, i.e. flat feet …1930s African-American sl.
GUT-FOUNDERED
adj. extremely hungry …M17 colloq.
GUT-FUCKER
n. a pederast; a sodomite …19C sl.
GUTFUL
n. a sufficiency, quite as much of anything as one wants or care to take; enough to surfeit or disgust one; a bellyful…1900 sl., orig. Aust. & NZ
GUT-GOUGER
n. a knot high on the trunk of a tree …1963 Amer. logging usage
GUT GUNNER
n. a student who succeeds in an easy course …1910s US campus sl.
GUTHAMMER
n. the penis …2000s sl.
GUT-HEAD
n. one who is stupefied by an excess of food …E17 sl.
GUT-HEATER
n. a slug of whisky; a strong or bracing drink of liquor …1940s Amer. sl.
GUT-HOOKS
n. riding spurs …1930s Amer. sl.
GUT HOPPER
n. a student who moves from one easy course to another …1955 US sl.
GUT HORN
n. a long tin horn blown by the cook’s helper to call a logging crew to eat …1958 Amer. sl.
GUT ISSUE
n. the one most important issue in a discussion …1986 US sl.
GUT IT
vb. 1. to stay up all night working without any amphetamine for stimulation but purely through strength of will and character …1910s US campus sl.
vb. 2. to be strong or tough in the face of adversity …1930s US sl.
GUT IT OUT
vb. to be strong or tough in the face of adversity; to be sturdily stoic; to persist; to endure bravely and tenaciously …1930s Amer. sl.
GUT IT THROUGH
vb. to be strong or tough in the face of adversity; to endure bravely and tenaciously …1930s US sl.
GUTKAS
n. trousers …1920s Cockney usage
GUTLESS
adj. 1. cowardly, feeble, lacking determination …1900 US sl.
adj. 2. of automobiles: under-powered …c1945 colloq.
adj. 3. used to describe an extreme of quality, either very good or very bad …2002 UK sl.
GUTLESS WONDER
n. a totally insipid and spineless person; a coward …1937 Amer. sl.
GUT-MONGER
n. a pederast; a sodomite …L19 sl.
GUT OUT
vb. to be strong or tough in the face of adversity; to endure bravely and tenaciously …1930s US sl.
GUT-PIECE
n. the abdomen …1967 Amer. sl.
GUT PLUNGE ON BUTCH
n. an act of scrounging for meat from a butcher’s shop by a tramp …1920s US sl.
GUT PUDDING
n. a sausage …L16
GUT-PULLER
n. a poulterer …c1850 obs.
GUT-PUNCH
vb. to punch in the belly …1974 Amer. sl.
GUTRAGE
n. a visceral anger …1966 US sl.
GUT REACTION
n. an immediate and instinctive response; an intuition …1968 Amer. sl.
GUT REAMER
n. the active participant in anal sex …19C US sl.
GUT-RIPPER
n. 1. a sharp stick set in the ground close together with others, to hit a man in the stomach …1865 Amer. sl.
n. 2. a knife used as a weapon …1941 Amer. sl.
n. 3. an antipersonnel grenade that explodes at waist level …1991 US sl.
GUT-ROBBER
n. a cook, esp. a bad one …1919 US sl.
GUTROT
n. 1. cheap wine or spirits; inferior liquor …1916 sl.
n. 2. unhealthy looking or unpalatable food …1930s Aust. sl.
n. 3. a stomach upset …1979 Brit. sl.
GUTS
adj. 1. requiring or demonstrating courage or fortitude …1957 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. earthy or spirited …1962 Amer. sl.
n. 1. one’s insides, the contents; the belly; the intestines …a1000
n. 2. (derogatory) a term of abuse, an overweight or obese person; a notably fat person …1596 UK
n. 3. the essentials; the most important part; the inner and real meaning; the essence of a matter …1663 UK
n. 4. courage, bravery, stamina, endurance, staying power; masculine valour …M17 sl.
n. 5. energy, vigour, power in performance …M18 sl.
n. 6. a glutton …M19 sl.
n. 7. the source of true feelings …L19 sl.
n. 8. the facts, the information …1910s sl., orig. Aust.
n. 9. cheek, audacity, nerve …1910s sl.
n. 10. the undercarriage of railroad trains on which tramps hitched a ride …1910s US criminals’ sl.
n. 11. information …1919 Aust. sl.
n. 12. a sausage …1920s US tramps’ sl.
n. 13. in the game of two-up: the centre of the betting circle into which betted money is tossed …1950s Aust. sl.
n. 14. the interior of a car …1975 US sl.
n. 15. the pulp and membrane inside a fruit …1990 Trinidad and Tobago sl.
n. 16. in horse racing: a combative and competitive spirit …sl.
vb. to eat greedily; to overeat …L19 Aust. sl.
GUTS-ACHE
n. 1. a stomach ache …L18 sl.
n. 2. a contemptible person …20C Aust. sl.
n. 3. a greedy person …1950s UK juvenile sl.
GUTS AND BUTTS DOC
n. a gastroenterologist …1994 US sl.
GUTS AND GARBAGE
n. a (very) fat man …M18 sl.
GUT SAUSAGE
n. a poor man’s meal; cornmeal suet and in an intestine …1958 Can. sl.
GUTSBALL
adj. courageous, spirited, plucky; robust …1963 Amer. sl.
n. (usually as ‘guts ball’) a ballgame such as baseball played with great aggressiveness and tenacity; hence, any action or actions requiring or demonstrating fortitude, extreme competitiveness, courage, determination, etc. …1962 Amer. sl.
GUT-SCRAPER
n. 1. a fiddler; a violinist …a1720 sl.
n. 2. a pederast …19C Brit. & US sl.
GUTSER
n. 1. a heavy fall; a collision …c1905 sl.
n. 2. a disappointment; a let-down; a misfortune …1910s Aust. sl.
n. 3. a glutton; a greedy person …1910s sl.
n. 4. in poker: four cards retained in the hope of making a straight …c1920 Aust. sl.
vb. 1. to fall; to fail badly …20C Aust. sl.
vb. 2. to be beaten or overcome; to lose …1950s sl.
GUTSFUL
n. one’s fill; more than enough; a sufficiency, quite as much of anything as one wants or care to take …1920s colloq., orig. Aust. & NZ
GUTSFUL OF GRUNTS
n. a disagreeable or unpleasant person …c1910 Aust. sl.
GUTS-HIGH
adj. extremely courageous; fearless …1958 Amer. sl.
GUT-SHOOT
vb. to shoot in the belly or abdomen …1935 Amer. sl., orig. Western
THE GUTS-HORN
n. the dinner bugle call …E20 army sl.
GUT-SHOT
adj. having been shot in the belly or abdomen …1848 Amer. sl., orig. Western
n. (usually as ‘gut shot’)
n. 1. in poker: a drawn card that completes an inside straight …1951 US sl.
n. 2. a bullet wound in the stomach, painful and often fatal …1992 US sl.
GUTSINESS
n. courage, energy, spirit …c1890
GUTS IT OUT
vb. to endure bravely and tenaciously …1973 Amer. sl.
GUTSLIDER
n. a bodyboarder; term of derision used by surfers …2003 S. Afr. sl.
GUTS LIKE CALABASH
n. extreme courage …1991 Trinidad and Tobago sl.
GUTSO
n. a fat person …1950s sl.
GUTS OUT
vb. to endure bravely and tenaciously …1973 Amer. sl.
GUT-SPILLER
n. a Ghurka soldier …World War II Aust. servicemen’s usage
GUT-STICK
n. the penis …19C Brit. sl.
GUT-STICKER
n. a sodomite; a pederast …19C Brit. & US sl.
GUT-STRETCHER
n. an active pederast …1927 Amer. sl.
GUT-STRUGGLE
n. a dance in which the partners hold each other as close as possible …1926 Amer. sl.
GUT-STUFFER
n. an active pederast …1927 Amer. sl.
GUTS-UP
adj. extremely courageous; fearless …1950s Amer. sl.
vb. (usually as ‘guts up’) to eat, to overeat …c1840 Aust. sl.
GUTSY
adj. 1. courageous, brave, spirited, plucky, robust …1890 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. gluttonous …Scot.
adj. 3. having a fat belly …1890 Amer. sl.
adj. 4. energetic and tough …c1890 Amer sl.
adj. 5. greedy; very hungry …c1920 Royal Air Force usage
adj. 6. utterly sincere; deeply felt, esp. used of songs, music …c1965 sl.
adj. 7. lusty; passionate …colloq.
n. (derogatory) a term of abuse, an overweight or obese person; a fat man …1596 UK Partridge
GUTTA-PERCHA
n. 1. an inhabitant of the state of Victoria …L19 Aust. sl.
n. 2. the foreskin …1920s US sl.
GUTTED
adj. 1. impoverished; penniless; temporarily without cash …c1820 sl.
adj. 2. deeply disappointed; sick and tired; fed up; utterly depressed; very upset …1960s sl.
GUTTER
n. 1. the female genitals …19C obs. sl.
n. 2. a football scrum …L19 Brit. school usage
n. 3. space in front of a race-course totalisator …20C Aust. sporting sl.
n. 4. a vein, esp. a prominent one suitable for drug injection …1930s US sl.
n. 5. a dive in which one lands flat on the water …1950s Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to eat greedily
vb. 2. to fall stomach-flat in the water …c1860 sl.
THE GUTTER
n. a wretched and lowly venue …1846 Amer. sl.
GUTTER ALLEY
n. 1. the throat …17C sl.
n. 2. a urinal …c1850 obs.
GUTTER BALL
n. in pool: a shot in which the cue ball falls into a pocket …1993 US sl.
GUTTER-BLOOD
adj. said of a person who has been brought up in the same neighbourhood, and is of the same rank as another …1822 Scot.
n. 1. a base-born person; one of low birth; one of the rabble’ a ;ragged rascal …1818 Scot.
n. 2. one born within the same town or city as another; one whose ancestors have been in the same town or city for some generations …1822 Scot.
n. 3. a lout, a hoodlum …M19 sl.
n. 4. a vulgar man who puts on airs; a parvenu … c1855 chiefly Sc. colloq.
GUTTER BUNNY
n. a commuter who bicycles to work …1996 US mountain bikers’ sl.
GUTTER-CHAUNTER
n. a street singer …c1840 mainly Cockney usage
GUTTER-CRAWLER
n. a youth who drives a car slowly along by the curb in the expectation that some girl will allow herself to be ‘picked up’ …c1920 sl.
GUTTER-CRAWLING
n. 1. route-marching through streets …E20 army usage
n. 2. driving a car slowly along by the curb in the expectation that some girl will allowed herself to be ‘picked up’ …c1920 sl.
GUTTERED
adj. very drunk …1950s sl.
GUTTER GLITTER
n. cocaine …2003 UK drugs sl.
GUTTER-GRIPPER
n. a motorist who drives with one hand stuck through the open window, gripping the ‘gutter’ that runs around the car’s roof …1950s Aust. sl.
GUTTER HOTEL
n. the open air …c1870 UK tramps’ sl.
GUTTER HYP
n. a very low-level narcotics user …1920s drugs sl.
GUTTER HYPE
n. 1. a very low-level narcotics user …1920s drugs sl.
n. 2. a drug addict reduced by the circumstances of addiction to living in the streets or, at best, using inferior drugs …1936 US sl.
GUTTER JUNKIE
n. 1. a very low-level narcotics user …1920s drugs sl.
n. 2. a drug addict reduced by the circumstances of addiction to living in the streets or, at best, using inferior drugs …1936 US sl.
GUTTER-KID
n. a street urchin …1887 Cockney colloq.
GUTTER-LANE
n. the throat; the gullet …a1700 obs. sl.
GUTTER LANGUAGE
n. profanity and obscenity; scabrous speech …1890 Amer. sl.
GUTTER-MASTER
n. a term of reproach …17C
GUTTER MERCHANT
n. an itinerant street salesman …1923 sl.
GUTTER PERCHER
n. the sparrow one sees in towns and cities …20C
GUTTER-PROWLER
n. a street thief; a small-time thief …c1840 sl.
GUTTERPUP
n. a vulgar person; a vile wretch …1869 Amer. sl.
GUTTER-SLUSH
n. a street urchin …1885 sl.
GUTTER SLUT
n. 1. (derogatory) a poor prostitute; a common whore …20C Amer. sl.
n. 2. a sexually promiscuous woman …2003 UK sl.
GUTTERSNIPE
n. 1. (derogatory) a male servant …L19 UK tramps’ sl.
n. 2. a low prostitute; a common whore …19C colloq.
n. 3. a broker who does business chiefly on the sidewalk or in the street, and who is not a member of the Stock Exchange …1856 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a vulgar person; a vile wretch …1869 Amer. sl.
n. 5. a street urchin …1885 sl.
n. 6. a common prostitute …E20 US sl.
GUTTERSNIPING
n. playing music on the street and passing the hat for money …1928 Amer. sl.
GUTTER WEAR
n. fashionably shabby clothing …1988 US sl.
GUT THROUGH
vb. to be strong or tough in the face of adversity; to endure bravely and tenaciously …1930s US sl.
GUT-THUMPER
n. an exciting and suspenseful occasion …1980s Amer. sl.
GUTTIE
n. 1. a glutton …19C colloq.
n. 2. a very fat person …19C colloq.
n. 3. in golfing: a gutta-percha ball …1890 golfers’ sl.
n. 4. one who has no redeeming features; a street urchin …1910s Irish sl.
GUTTIES
n. plimsolls, trainers …20C Ulster sl.
GUTTLE
n. a drunkard …19C Brit. sl.
vb. to eat or drink heartily …L17
GUTTLE-SHOP
n. a tuck-shop …c1860 Brit. school usage
GUT TRUCK
n. a wagon or truck that hauls the carcasses of dead farm stock …1983 Amer. sl.
GUT-TWISTER
n. a horse that bucks savagely …1927 Amer. Western sl.
GUTTY
adj. 1. forceful and assertive …1939 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. courageous, brave, spirited, plucky, robust …1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 3. dirty and disagreeable, esp. of a task …c1950 sl.
adj. 4. raw, unsophisticated …1950s US Black sl.
adj. 5. capable of high speed; having a powerful engine …1950s Amer. hot rodding usage
n. 1. a glutton …19C sl.
n. 2. a very fat person …19C sl.
n. 3. in golfing: a gutta-percha ball …1890 golfers’ sl.
n. 4. one who has no redeeming features; a street urchin …1910s Irish sl.
n. 5. an unpleasant person …1998 Ireland sl.
GUT-VEXER
n. 1. a fiddler …17C colloq.
n. 2. a pederast …19C Brit. & US sl.
GUT-WAGON
n. a wagon or truck that hauls the carcasses of dead farm stock …1925 Amer. sl.
GUT-WARMER
n. a strong or bracing drink of liquor; whisky …a1944 Amer. sl.
GUT-WINDER
n. a bullet wound in the abdomen …1865 Amer. sl.
GUT-WORKS
n. the belly …1974 Amer. sl.
GUT-WRENCH
n. the penis …1943 Amer. jocular
GUT-WRENCHING
adj. emotionally shattering; extremely disturbing; highly emotional …1990s Amer. sl.
GUT-WRENCHINGLY
adv. in a gut-wrenching way ….1990s Amer. sl.
GUTZER
n. 1. a heavy fall; a collision …c1905 sl.
n. 2. a disappointment; a let-down; a misfortune …1910s Aust. sl.
n. 3. a greedy person; a glutton …1910s sl.
int. an exclamation of dismissal …1910s Aust.
GUV
adj. expert …c1820 Oxford usage
n. 1. one’s father …M19
n. 2. an informal style of address to a male of superior status …1890 UK sl.
n. 3. a boss; an important, influential person …M19
GUVNER
n. 1. a boss; the person in charge; the most important, influential person …1802 Brit. sl.
n. 2. a term of address to a man of higher status …1852 sl.
GUVNOR; GUV’NOR
adj. the most important …1970s sl.
n. 1. the boss; the person in charge; the most important, influential person …1802 Brit. sl.
n. 2. father …1827 sl.
n. 3. a term of address to a man of higher status …1852 sl.
n. 4. the landlord of a public house …1999 UK sl.
THE GUV’NOR
n. the head of a Teddy-boy’s gang …c1950 Brit. sl.
GUY
adj. particularly or only of interest to men …1990s US sl.
n. 1. a dark lantern …E19 sl.
n. 2. a Christian as opposed to a Jewish crimp …c1830 sl.
n. 3. a grotesque-looking, ill-dressed, ugly, or ridiculous person, esp. an old man; hence, a person who is an object of ridicule or derision; broadly, a fool …1823 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a man or a boy; a general form of address …1847 sl., orig. US
n. 5. a person who acts as a decoy in a confidence game; also, a petty swindler …1850 Amer. criminals’ sl.
n. 6. a trick or hoax; a prank, a jest, a joke …1854 Amer. sl.
n. 7. one who tricked men into joining the navy …M19 sl.
n. 8. a comical or joking fellow; hence, a smart alec …c1862 Amer. sl.
n. 9. in the circus and carnival: a customer, a patron, usually a man …1878 Amer. sl.
n. 10. a walk; hence, an expedition or journey …1889 rhyming sl. for ‘Guy Fawkes’, a walk
n. 11. an act of running off, of leaving surreptitiously …L19 sl.
n. 12. something to eat; bread …20C S. Afr. sl.
n. 13. an American soldier …1918 military sl.
n. 14. a woman; a person of either sex regarded as decent, down-to-earth, good company, etc. …1927 Amer. sl.
n. 15. a woman’s boyfriend, fiancé, husband, lover etc. …1940s Amer. sl.
n. 16. God …1940s US euphemism
n. 17. a person, irrespective of gender …1970s sl.
n. 18. an animal; a household pet; a dog …1978 Amer. sl.
n. 19. a thing referred to, esp. something one does not know the name of …1980 Amer. sl.
n. 20. an incompetent person, one who is inadequate …1980s US campus sl.
n. 21. an object; a thing …1980s US sl.
vb. 1. to mock, to ridicule; to taunt; to tease…1854 Amer. sl.
vb. 2. to hiss …c1870 obs. theatrical usage
vb. 3. to hoax, to trick, to put on …1890 Amer. sl.
vb. 4. to run away, to leave quickly, to escape …1874 sl.
GUY-A-WHACK
adj. useless, incompetent …20C Aust. sl.
n. a defaulting bookmaker …20C Aust. sl.
vb. to run off, to leave quickly …L19 Aust. sl.
GUYED OUT
adj. drunk …1930 Amer. circus usage
GUYESS
n. a woman or girl …2000s sl.
GUYING
n. 1. hissing …1885 theatrical usage
n. 2. ridicule …c1890 colloq.
GUY-MAGNET
n. a person who is attractive to men; a sexually attractive female …1996 Aust. sl.
• GUYNESS
n. 1990s Amer. sl. – maleness; masculinity
• GUY OFF
vb. L19 sl. – to run away., to escape
• GUY OUT
vb. 19C circus colloq. – in the circus: to make the tents secure by tightening the guy-ropes
• GUY THING
n. 1992 US sl. – a problem or subject best understood by males; something that appeals only to men
• THE GUY UPSTAIRS
n. 1925 – God
• GUYVER
n. 1864 Aust. sl. – insincere talk; pretense
• GUYVO
n. 20C Royal Navy usage – a smart fellow; a dandy
• GUY-WATCH
vb. 20C Aust. sl. – to sexually ogle males
• GUZINTER
n. 1. 1940s Aust. sl. – a schoolteacher
n. 2. 20C school usage – a division sum in arithmetic
• GUZINTERS
n. 1910s Aust. sl. – an animals innards
• GUZUNDER
n. E20 Aust. sl. – a chamber pot
• GUZZERY
n. 1890s Amer. sl. – a saloon or bar
• GUZZLE
n. 1. 1659 – the throat or esophagus
n. 2. L17 – beer
n. 3. 1704 – liquor
n. 4. 18C US sl. – a drink
n. 5. 1852 Amer. sl. – a fraud
n. 6. 1879 Amer. sl. – a drink of liquor
n. 7. E19 – a drinking spree
n. 8. M19 sl. – the eating of a meal
n. 9. 1906 Amer. dial. – the Adam’s apple
n. 10. 1920s sl. – a swig, a gulp
vb. 1. 1579 – to drink alcohol in great quantities
vb. 2. 17C sl. – to eat voraciously
vb. 3. L18 sl. – to lie
vb. 4. 1848 Amer. sl. – to swindle
vb. 5. 1885 Amer. sl. – to seize by the throat, esp. with an armlock; to strangle; to choke violently; to throttle; broadly, to murder
vb. 6. 1901 sl. – to kill deliberately
vb. 7. 1930s sl. – to indulge in sexual foreplay; to ‘neck’
vb. 8. 1936 UK & Amer. criminals’ sl. – to arrest, to interrogate
• GUZZLE-AND-GRAB
n. 1951 US sl. – eating and drinking, with an emphasis on fast, low-brow food and alcohol
• GUZZLE CRIB
n. L19 US sl. – a cheap saloon or bar
• GUZZLED
adj. 1. 1920s US sl. – killed
adj. 2. 1936 Amer. criminal’s sl. – arrested
adj. 3. 1939 Amer. sl. – drunk
• GUZZLE-GUTS
n. 1. 1788 sl. – a heavy drinker; a drunkard
n. 2. 1788 sl. – a glutton; a greedy person
• GUZZLER
n. 1. L18 sl. – a heavy drinker of alcohol; ; a drunkard; a voracious eater
n. 2. L19 sl. – one who strangles or throttles; a murderer
n. 3. 1920s US sl. – an insignificant person
n. 4. 1928 Amer. criminals’ sl. – a man who has lost all decently and is beyond all redemption
n. 5. 1972 Amer. sl. – a strangle-hold, esp. in wrestling
• GUZZLERY
n. 1890s Amer. sl. – a cheap saloon or bar
• GUZZLE SHOP
n. 1890s Amer. sl. – cheap saloon or bar
• GUZZLE THE GRASS
vb. 1980s Aust. sl. – to vomit
• GUZZLING
adj. M17 – drinking heavily
n. 1930s sl. – kissing and cuddling
• G.V.
n. 1900s sl. – a governor
• GWA
n. 1978 S. Afr. sl. – tobacco; a cigarette
• GWAAI
n. 1978 S. Afr. sl. – tobacco; a cigarette
• GWAAN!
int. 20C W. Indies & Black British teen sl. – a term of encouragement or appreciation; i.e. go ahead! get going!
• GWAFFED
adj. 2003 S. Afr. sl. – drug-intoxicated
• GWAI
n. 1978 S. Afr. sl. – tobacco; a cigarette
• GWARR
n. 2004 S. Afr. sl. – the vagina
• GWARRY
n. 2004 S. Afr. sl. – the vagina
• GWAT
n. 2004 S. Afr. sl. – the vagina
• GWEEB
n. 1984 Amer. students’ sl. – a person who entirely lacks style; a tedious and contemptible person; an obnoxious person; an over-diligent student
• GWEEBO
n. 1986 Amer. students’ sl. – a person who entirely lacks style; a tedious and contemptible person; an obnoxious person; an over-diligent student
• GWEEP
n. 1. 1982 Amer. students’ sl. – a person who entirely lacks style; a tedious and contemptible person; an obnoxious person; an over-diligent student
n. 2. 1990 US sl. – an overworked computer programmer
• GWENDERS
n. 1816 Eng. dial. (Cornwall) [in some parts of Cornwall it is pronounced ‘wonders’] – a disagreeable tingling sensation in the extremities, caused by cold; numbness of the fingers or toes
• GWENNIE; GWENNY
n. 1. c1918 Royal Navy usage – the gunner
n. 2. 20C Royal Navy usage – a high-angle, anti-aircraft gun on board ship
n. 3. 20C Royal Navy usage – in World War II: any gun
• GWEVA
n. 1960s S. Afr. – a bootlegger
• G-WHEEL
n. 1990 US sl. – in a carnival: a game wheel that has been rigged for cheating (the ‘G’ is for ‘gaffed’ (rigged))
• GWIDGY-GWEE
n. 1895 Eng. dial. – a small black spot caused by a pinch or bruise
• G-WOMAN
n. 1984 Amer. sl. – a woman who is an FBI agent
• GYAC
phr. 1. 2003 UK sl. – Give You A Clue (pronounced as if retching)
phr. 2. 2003 UK sl. – God You’re A Cunt (pronounced as if retching)
• GYAL
n. 1994 sl. – a girl; girls
• GYBE
n. c1560 UK criminals’ sl. – a written paper, esp. a counterfeit pass or license, carried by many of the mendicant villains
vb. L17 sl. – to whip; to beat; to castigate
• GYBED
adj. L17 sl. – whipped
• GYBERY
n. L17 sl. – mockery; jeering
• GYBING
n. L17 sl. – mockery; jeering
• GYBS
n. L19 sl. – prayers
• GYGER
n. 1567 cant – a door
• GYKE
n. c1950 sl. – a gynaecologist
• GYLRIG
n. 1. 1950s UK back-slang of ‘girl’ or ‘girly’ – a desirable person
n. 2. 1950s UK sl. – sexual activity
• GYM
n. 1866 Amer. colloq. – a gymnasium
vb. 1930s UK criminals’ sl. – to travel or to gain admission to, usually a racecourse, without paying the full charge .
• GYM BUNNY
n. 2001 UK sl. – someone who makes regular use of a gymnasium
• GYM CAD
n. c1870 Royal Military Academy usage obs. – a gymnasium instructor
• GYMHEAD
n. 2002 UK sl. – someone who exercises obsessively and therefore spends a great deal of time in a gymnasium
• GYM JUNKIE
n. 20C Aust. sl. – a person who visits the gym an inordinate amount
• GYMMY
n. M19 Brit. schoolboys’ sl. – gymnastics
• GYMNASIUM
n. 17C sl. – the female genitals; the vagina
• GYM NASTY TRICKS
n. 20C Brit. schoolboys’ sl.- gymnastics
• GYM QUEEN
n. 1994 US sl. – a man who spends a great deal of time at a gym
• GYM RAT
n. 1978 Amer. sl. – an athlete; a sports enthusiast; a person who frequents gymnasiums; an exercise fanatic; anyone fanatically pursuing a course of activity, a career, etc.
• GYMSLIP TRAINING
n. 2003 UK sl.- the process of instructing, and conditioning the behaviour of a transvestite who wishes to be treated as an adolescent girl, esp. when used in a dominant prostitute’s advertising manner
• GYNAE
n. 1. 1933 sl. – gynaecology
n. 2. 1933 sl. – a gynaecologist
• GYNIE
n. 1. 1933 sl. – gynaecology; a gynaecologist
n. 2. 1995 UK sl. – a gynaecological examination
• GYNO
n. 1933. sl. – gynaecology; a gynaecologist
• GYNOPHAGITE
n. 1853 humorous nonce word, rare – a woman-eater; one who preys upon the weaker sex
• GYNOPHILIAN
adj. 1647 obs. – woman-loving
• GYNO SHOT
n. 1995 US sl. – a close-up scene in a pornographic film or a photograph, showing a woman’s genitals
• GYP
adj. 1920s sl. – cheating, deceitful
n. 1. c1750 Cambridge University usage – a college servant
n. 2. a1840, usually offensive – a Gypsy
n. 3. 1859 sl., orig. criminals’ usage, sometimes offensive – a thief or a swindler; one who charges an exorbitant price for goods or services; a cheat; a crook
n. 4. 1910 UK sl. – pain, actual or figurative
n. 5. 1914 Amer. sl. – an act or method of swindling; a swindle or fraud; an act of deception; a hoax; a purchase made at an exorbitant price or the item so purchased; broadly, an unfair action; a bitter disappointment
n. 6. 1914 Amer. sl. – the victim of a swindle
n. 7. 1930s Amer. sl. – a cabdriver who does not start the meter, hence, can pocket the fare
n. 8. 1930s sl. – one who fails to pay his due debts
n. 9. 1938 Amer. sl. – in horse racing: a small-scale usually migratory stable owner who trains and races his own horses
n. 10. 1946 Amer. military sl., usually offensive, often used contemptuously – an Egyptian
n. 11. 1954 US sl. – in oil drilling: gypsum
vb. 1. 1880 Amer. colloq. – to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one’s debts
vb. 2. 1918 Amer. sl. – to steal, to filch; to rob from
vb. 3. 1928 Amer. sl. – to disappoint
vb. 4. 1970s sl. – to play truant from school
• GYPE
adj. L19 tailors’ usage – looking like a boxer or a boxer’s clothes, etc.
• GYP FLAT
n. 1927 Amer. sl. – a business establishment that makes a practice of fleecing customers; a club, bar, etc. where the unwary will be swindled
• GYP ARTIST
n. 1889 Amer. sl. – a short-changer or other swindler; a cheat; a crook
• GYP JOINT
n. 1. 1927 Amer. sl. – a business establishment that makes a practice of fleecing customers; any business place that overcharges; a club, bar, etc. where the unwary will be swindled
n. 2. 1942 Amer. navy sl. – a ship’s store
• GYP MOLL
n. 20C US sl. – a female swindler
• GYPO
adj. 1910s sl. – Egyptian; pert. to a gypsy or gypsy culture
n. 1. L19 UK sl., derogatory, casually racist – a gypsy
n. 2. L19 sl., usually derogatory – a native Egyptian soldier; an Egyptian
n. 3. 1914 sl., chiefly services’ usage – any greasy gravy or sauce
n. 4. 1920s US sl. – contract work, a sub-contractor, a piece-worker
n. 5. 1990s UK juvenile sl. – an impoverished, badly dressed schoolchild
• GYPO-BASHING
n. 2000 UK sl. – racially motivated physical attacks on gypsies
• GYPOO
n. 1914 sl., chiefly services’ usage – any greasy gravy or sauce .
• GYPPER
n. L19 UK sl., derogatory, casually racist – a gypsy
• GYPPERY
n. 20C US sl. – dishonest activity, swindling
• GYPPIE
n. 1. a1889 sl., usually derogatory – a native Egyptian soldier
n. 2. 1913 sl. – a gypsy
n. 3. 1920 sl. – an Egyptian cigarette
• GYPPO
adj. 1. 1910s sl. – Egyptian; pert. to a gypsy or gypsy culture
adj. 2. 1959 Can. sl. – small-time
n. 1. L19 UK sl., usually derogatory – a gypsy
n. 2. 1912 Amer. logging usage – a small logging or freighting contractor
n. 3. 1914 sl., chiefly services’ usage – any greasy gravy or sauce
n. 4. 1916 sl., usually derogatory – a native Egyptian soldier; an Egyptian
n. 5. 1920s Amer. sl. – an itinerant worker or piece-worker
n. 6. 1929 Amer. logging usage – contract work done usually on a small scale; part-time work
n. 7. 1978 S. Afr. sl.. orig. military usage – an avoidance or shirking of a duty; a shirker
n. 8. 1990s UK juvenile sl. – an impoverished, badly dressed schoolchild
vb. 1. 1925 Amer. sl. – to cheat, to swindle; to exploit for one’s labour
vb. 2. 1971 S. Afr. sl.. orig. military usage – to dodge an unpleasant responsibility; to shirk a duty; to avoid something
• GYPPO GUT
n. 1940s sl. – stomach troubles; diarrhoea; orig., that contracted in Egypt, but now extended to any such problems that tourists experience abroad or in ethnic restaurants at home
• GYPPO’S DOG
n. 2001 UK sl. – a standard of skinniness
• GYPPO TUMMY
n. 1944 Amer. military sl. – traveller’s diarrhoea contracted in Egypt or elsewhere
• GYPPY
adj. 2000 UK sl. – painful; annoying
n. 1. a1889 sl., usually derogatory – a native Egyptian soldier; an Egyptian
n. 2. L19 sl., usually derogatory – a gypsy
n. 3. 1920 sl. – an Egyptian cigarette
n. 4. 1920s US sl. – contract work, a sub-contractor, a piece-worker
n. 5. 1965 Amer. military sl. – traveller’s diarrhoea contracted in Egypt or elsewhere
n. 6. 1990s UK juvenile sl. – an impoverished, badly dressed schoolchild
• GYPPY TUMMY
n. 1943 sl. – upset stomach; diarrhoea; orig., that contracted in Egypt, but now extended to any such problems that tourists experience abroad or in ethnic restaurants at home
• GYP RACKET
n. 20C US sl. – swindling, fraud
• GYP-ROOM
n. c1870 Cambridge usage – a room where the ‘gyps’ (college servants) keep table furniture, etc.
• GYP SHEET
n. 1971 Amer. college sl. – a sheet of paper on which examination answers are written, used by a student to cheat on a test
• GYPSIE LEE
n. 1930s Aust. rhyming sl. – tea
• GYPSTER
n. 1889 Amer. sl. – a swindler, a cheat; a crook
• GYPSY
adj. 1. 1951 US sl. – unlicensed, unregulated, usually owned by the operator; independent of any organization, legal or otherwise; generally applied to a taxicab or truck, although originally to a racehorse owner/jockey
adj. 2. 20C W. Indies sl. – interfering, meddling, nosy, officious, irritatingly inquisitive
n. 1. 1939 Amer. sl. – in horse racing: a small-scale usually migratory stable owner who trains and races his own horses
n. 2. 1940s Amer. sl. – a taxicab operating without a taxi license or medallion, or with only a livery license that does not enable it to pick up passengers on the street
n. 3. 1950s US sl. – an independent cab-driver
n. 4. 1946 Amer. sl. – in trucking: an independent migratory trucker who owns and operates usually only a single tractor-trailer; hence, a truck so operated
n. 5. 1950s US sl. – a prostitute who travels around for trade or lives in a trailer park
n. 6. a1978 Amer. sl. – in the theatre: a chorus dancer; a stage dancer
n. 7. 1981 US sl. – in the circus and carnivals: an undependable employee, esp. a drunk
vb. 1. 1880 Amer. colloq. – to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one’s debts
vb. 2. 1918 Amer. sl. – to steal, to filch; to rob from
vb. 3. 1928 Amer. sl. – to disappoint
vb. 4. 1940s US sl. gambling sl. – to make a risky bet or call
vb. 5. 1970 Amer. police sl. – to assign a police officer to duty far away from his usual assignment, usually as a method of punishment
vb. 6. 1970s sl. – to play truant from school
• GYPSY BANKROLL
n. 1981 US sl. – a roll of money in which the top several notes are real large-denomination notes and the rest are counterfeit, plain paper, or small-denomination notes
• GYPSY CAB
n. 1970s Amer. sl. – a taxicab operating without a taxi license or medallion, or with only a livery license that does not enable it to pick up passengers on the street
• GYPSY QUEEN
n. 2000s sl. – a homosexual
• GYPSY’S
n. 1970s rhyming sl. for ‘piss’ ( Gypsy’s Kiss) – urination
• GYPSY’S DEAL
n. 1990s US sl. – a business deal that never actually materializes
• GYPSY’S GINGER
n. 20C sl. – a pile of human excrement found out of doors
• GYPSY’S KISS
n. 1970s rhyming sl. for ‘piss’ – urination
• GYPSY’S LEAVE
n. 20C sl. – departure without warning and without settling one’s debts
• GYPSY’S WARNING
n. 1. 20C rhyming sl. – morning; also as ‘good morning’
n. 2. 20C sl. – no warning at all
• GYPSY SWITCH
n. 1950s US criminals’ sl. – a form of criminal sleight of hand in which a high-denomination note is palmed and swapped for a low-denomination one
• GYRENE
n. 1894 Amer. sl., orig. Navy usage – a member of the US Marine Corps’ a marine
• GYRO
n. 1991 US sl. – a surfer who constantly flaps his arms to gain balance on the surfboard
• GYROTWISTIVE
adj. 1869 Amer. sl. – full of tricks and evasions
• GYRO WANKER
n. 1991 US sl. – a surfer who constantly flaps his arms to gain balance on the surfboard
• GYTCH
vb. 1956 Amer. sl. – to steal
• GYTE
n. 1. c1820 Sc., derogatory – a child
n. 2. c1880 Sc. – a first-year pupil at the Edinburgh High School
• GYVE
n. 1938 US sl. – marijuana; a marijuana cigarette
• GYVEL
n. 18C Sc. obs. – the female genitals
• GYVER
n. 1864 sl., chiefly Aust. & NZ – affected behaviour or speech
• GYVO
n. c1935 Aust. sl. – humbug; flattery; insincerity, pretense; deceptive talk or behaviour
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