• S.A.
n. 1926 sl. – Sex Appeal
• SA
adj. c1850 sl., chiefly showmen’s usage – six
n. 1992 NZ sl. – a Samoan
• SAALI
adj. 1940s W. Indies – attractive, well-dressed
• S.A.B.
n. 1980s US college sl. – a Social Airhead Bitch
• SAB
n. 1. 1768 Sc. – a soaking, saturating, esp. of a heavy downpour of rain, a thunder shower
n. 2. 1820 Sc. – the noise made by a gust of wind or by the rise and fall of the sea
n. 3. 1826 Sc. obs. – a stout, heavily-built person
n. 4. 1950s W. Indies – a haircut in which the back of the hair is rounded rather than tapered
vb. 1. 1785 Sc. – to exude moisture, to drip, to ooze
vb. 2. 18C Sc. obs. – to subside or sink; to sag
vb. 3. 1808 Sc. obs. – of flowers: to droop, to become limp
vb. 4. 1866 Sc. – to soak, to seep, to saturate
vb. 5. 1996 UK sl. – to act as a saboteur
• SABANA
n. a White person …1990s US prison & Hispanic usage
• SABBA-DAY
n. Sunday …L18 US sl.
• SABBAGE
adj. savage …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SABBATH DAY’S JOURNEY
n. a short walk; also, ironically, an excuse for not stirring …B1900
• SABBE
n. understanding, intelligence, awareness …L18
• SABBED
adj. soaked …1920 Sc.
• SABBER-DAY
n. Sunday …L18 US sl.
• SABBLEMENT
n. sloppy food …1877 Eng. dial.
• SABBY
n. understanding, intelligence, awareness …L18
• SABÉ
n. an immigrant of French origin …L19 US sl.
• SABE
n. understanding, intelligence, awareness …L18
vb. to understand, to be aware of …L18
• SABINA
n. any animal with a red-roan coat, esp. one with white markings, as cattle, a horse …1944 Amer. dial.
• SABINE
n. a member of a mixed-race group inhabiting southern Louisiana …1931 Amer. dial.
• SABINO
n. any animal with a red-roan coat, esp. one with white markings, as cattle, a horse …1944 Amer. dial.
• SABLE
adj. 1485-1509 chiefly poetical and rhetorical – black
n. c1374 – the colour black; black clothing, also, esp. as a symbol of mourning
vb. 1. 1610 rare, chiefly poetical usage – to blacken or darken
vb. 2. 1848 Eng. dial. obs. – to take frequent sips
► SABLEIZE vb. to make black → 1611 obs.
• SABLE MARIA
n. a police or prison van …L19 sl.
• SABLES
n. mourning garments; a suit of black worn as an emblem of grief …1602
• SABLE SPHINX
n. prizefighter Joe Louis …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• S.A.B.U.
n. 1. a Self-Adjusting Balls Up …1940 army sl.
n. 2. a complete disaster (Self-Adjusting Balls-Up) …1940s sl., orig. US military
• SAC
n. Sacramento, California …1930s US tramps’ & criminals’ sl.
• SACCHARINE LIPS
n. a glib talker …1989 Aust. sl.
• SACH
n. paper or clothing that is saturated with a drug solution; usually sued to smuggle drugs into prisons or hospitals …1930s drug culture sl.
• SACHEM
n. a political leader; one of the leaders of New York’s Tammany Society …19C US sl.
• SACHEREA
n. the state of being outrageously homosexual …2000s African-American sl.
• SACHET
n. a skunk …1967Amer. dial.
• SACHET KITTEN
n. a skunk …1921 Amer. dial.
• SACHET PUSSY
n. a skunk …1921 Amer. dial.
• SACHT
n. paper or clothing that is saturated with a drug solution; usually sued to smuggle drugs into prisons or hospitals …1930s drug culture sl.
• SACK
n. 1. L17 cant – a pocket
n. 2. L17 sl. – the vagina
n. 3. 1829 US sl., orig. naval usage – bed; applied to a hammock or bunk
n. 4. 1835 Sc. obs. – a term of contempt for a man; a stupid, dull fellow
n. 5. c1840 colloq. – dismissal from employment; a discharge from office; a being discarded by a sweetheart or mistress
n. 6. 1859 rare – plundered goods
n. 7. 1866 Sc. – a bottle
n. 8. L19 sl. – the scrotum
n. 9. 1903 Amer. dial. – a cow’s udder
n. 10. 1910s US prison sl. – a sack of tobacco, used as prison ‘currency’
n. 11. 1927 Amer. dial., derogatory – a woman
n. 12. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a sleeping bag
n. 13. 1950s US sl. – a pitiable, downtrodden person
n. 14. 1960s US college sl. – an unattractive woman
n. 15. 1960s African-American sl. – an overcoat, a jacket
n. 16. 1968 Amer. dial. – a woman’s breast
n. 17. 1980s African-American sl. – one’s home
n. 18. 1980s African-American & college sl. – a second-rate athlete
n. 19. 1980s UK drug culture sl. – a bag of heroin; hence, heroin
n. 20. 1984 US sl. – courage
n. 21. 1990s drug culture sl. – a bag of drugs, usually marijuana or crack cocaine
n. 22. 2000s African-American sl. – attractive female buttocks
vb. 1. a1547 – to strip a person or place of possessions or goods; to plunder, to despoil
vb. 2. L18 sl. – to rob, to steal; to take possession of, to pocket
vb. 3. 1820-3 – to beat in a contest
vb. 4. 1841 sl. – to dismiss or discharge a person from his employment or office
vb. 5. 1841 UK sl. – to jilt someone
vb. 6. c1880 sl. – to expel from school or university
vb. 7. M19 sl. – to reject or dismiss something or someone
vb. 8. 1914 Amer. dial. – to carry, to lug, to tote, esp. something heavy
vb. 9. 1930s US criminals’ sl. – to tie someone up with the cord around their limbs and throat; they are then placed in a sack and when they struggle to get free they will asphyxiate themselves
vb. 10. 1940s US criminals’ sl. – to sort out, to arrange
vb. 11. 1966 US sl. – to sleep; to spend the night
vb. 12. 1970s sl. – to end a relationship, esp. in an abrupt, brutal manner
vb. 13. 1980s US college sl. – to humiliate someone
vb. 14. 1980s Aust. prison sl. – to ostracize; to exclude from a group
vb. 15. 2001 UK sl. – to abruptly stop any activity
vb. 16. 2001 UK sl. – to dispose of something
• THE SACK
n. 1. 1825 sl. – dismissal from employment
n. 2. M19 sl. – expulsion from school
• SACKAGE
n. 1. 1577-87 rare – the act of sacking a city, etc.
n. 2. 1609 obs. rare – booty, plunder
vb. 1585 obs. – to plunder
• SACK ARTIST
n. a chronic idler …1940s US sl.
• SACK, BACK AND CRACK
n. a treatment for removing a man’s body hair by waxing it and stripping it off …2003 UK sl.
• SACK-CHASER
n. a woman, but not a prostitute, who pursues men, bartering her sexual favours for his financial status …1990s African-American sl.
• SACK-DIVER
n. a pickpocket …L17 sl.
• SACK DOWN
vb. to go to bed; to sleep …1940s sl.
• SACK DRILL
n. sleep; also time spent in bed …1946 sl., orig US services’
• SACK DUTY
n. sleep; also time spent in bed …1946 sl., orig US services’ usage
• SACKED
adj. as good as secured, achieved …1940s US sl.
• SACKED OUT
adj. fast asleep …1940s sl.
• SACK ‘EM UP MEN
n. resurrectionists …c1830 sl.
• SACKER
vb. 1. to flatter …1841 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to seem innocent when up to roguery; to tell false tales of distress …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SACKET
n. 1. c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a small sack or bag
n. 2. 1844 Sc. – a sorry-looking, broken-down animal
n. 3. 1853 Sc.& Eng. dial. – a term of abuse; a scamp, a rascal, a pert, impudent person
n. 4. 1889 Sc. & Eng. dial. – a short dumpy person
n. 5. 1889 Sc. & Eng. dial. – a determined little fellow
n. 6. 1889 Sc. & Eng. dial. – a stupid person or animal
• SACKETMAN
n. one who carries a sack, or a sportsman’s game-bag …1845 Sc.
• SACKETY
adj. of a person: like a stuffed sack, short and thickset; dumpy …1825 Sc.
• SACKFU’ O’ LADLES
n. a very thin or emaciated person …1887 Sc.
• SACK HOUND
n. a lazy person overly fond of sleep …1959 US sl.
• SACKIE
adj. short and thick in physical build …1825 Sc.
n. a short dumpy person …1824 Sc.
• SACK IN
vb. to remain in bed late in the morning …1946 sl., orig. US
• SACKING
n. 1. 16C sl. – prostitution
n. 2. 1930s sl. – a method of killing a person using a sack
n. 3. 1957 Amer. dial. – a type of horseplay; it started by ‘dogging’ the victim; one boy would jump on the victims back, another would job on his back, and the third, and so on; finally something would have to give and when they fell everyone yelled ‘sack’ and piled on
• SACKING LAW
n. harlotry as practiced by the underworld with a view to further gain …L16 cant
• SACK IT
vb. to receive an accidental blow to the scrotum …2000 UK sl.
• SACK IT UP
vb. to terminate, to bring to a conclusion …1970s African-American sl.
• SACKLE
vb. to loiter; to wander idly about …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SACKLESS
adj. 1. 1742 Sc. & Eng. dial. – without blame or accusation; guiltless, innocent
adj. 2. 1768 Sc. & Eng. dial. – weak in mind or body; feeble, helpless; wanting in energy
adj. 3. 1788 Sc. & Eng. dial. – simple, inoffensive, harmless; trembling; bashful
adj. 4. 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial. – lacking common sense; silly; foolish; stupid; thoughtless; useless, awkward
adj. 5. Bk1904 Eng. dial. – dispirited, melancholy; moping
n. 1778 Eng. dial. – a weak, senseless person; a helpless, clumsy fellow
• SACK LICE
n. lice in the pubic area …1990 Amer. dial.
• SACK LUNCH
n. cunnilingus …1960s sl.
• SACK MAN
n. a hobgoblin used to threaten children and make them behave …1966 Amer. dial.
• SACK MOUTH
n. a chatterer, a gossip …1980s African-American sl.
vb. to talk nonsense; to talk for the sake of it …1980s African-American sl.
• SACK OF COALS
n. a black cloud or clouds in the Southern Hemisphere …L19 nautical sl.
• SACK OFF
vb. 1. to carry off surreptitiously, to steal …1907 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to reject something …2002 UK sl.
• SACK OF GARBAGE
n. in bar dice games: a roll that produces no points for the player …1971 US sl.
• SACK OF SAUCE
n. a used condom …1997 US sl.
• SACK OF SHIT
n. an unpleasant person; used abusively …2001 US sl.
• SACK OF TATERS
n. a stick of small bombs, as incendiaries …1939 Royal Air Force sl.
• SACK O’ NUTS
n. the scrotum …1970s African-American sl.
• SACK OUT
vb. to go to bed; to go to sleep …1946 sl., chiefly US
► SACK-PANTS n. loose-fitting trousers → 1856 US
• SACK RAT
n. a lazy person, overly fond of sleep …1947 US sl.
• SACKS
n. 1. the human breasts …20C US sl.
n. 2. trousers …20C
• SACK SHIP
n. a big ship used to carry supplies from Europe to the East Coast fisheries …1965 Can.
• SACKS OF RICE
n. mice …1990s rhyming sl.
• SACK TIME
n. sleep; also time spent in bed …1944 sl., orig. US services’ usage
• SACK UP
vb. 1. to go to bed …1920s US sl.
vb. 2. to divide up and place bulk drugs into separate bags prior to sale …2000s drug culture
sl.
• SACKWAH
n. anywhere that drinking, generally illicit, takes place …1970s Black British sl.
• SACK WEATHER
n. inclement weather during which air missions cannot be flown …1949 US sl.
• SACKY
adj. 1. 1854 Eng. dial. – imbecile, deficient in understanding
adj. 2. Bk1904 Sc. – short and thick
n. 1. 1824 Sc. – a short, dumpy person
n. 2. Bk1904 Eng. dial. – a soft fellow; a dupe; a coward
• SACKY DACKY
n. a depressed misfit …1946 US sl.
• SACRACH
n. a small quantity …1921 Sc.
• SACRAMENT
n. LSD …1960s drug culture sl.
• SACRÉ BLEU!
int. used for registering shock, frustration, anger, esp. in a context of Frenchness …1869 UK usage
• SACRED
adj. excellent …1993 US sl.
• SACRED COW
n. on the railway: an extra engine used on a mountain …1977 US
• SACRED MUSHROOM
n. a psilocybe mushroom; usually in plural …1960s drug-culture sl.
• SACRED OX
n. on the railway: an extra engine used on a mountain …1977 US
• SACRED SITE
n. a place one holds in reverence …1987 Aust. sl.
• SACRIPANT
n. 1829 – a boastful pretender to valour
• SAD
adj. 1. 17C sl. – mischievous, troublesome, corrupt
adj. 2. 1782 Sc. – singular, remarkable, outstanding
adj. 3. 1788 Eng. dial. – of colour: dark, deep
adj. 4. 1813 Sc. – odd, unaccountable, strange
adj. 5. L19 sl. – of very bad quality
adj. 6. L19 sl. – unfashionable
adj. 7. 1922 Sc. – damp; soggy and limp with moisture
adj. 8. 1946 US sl. – terrible
adv. 1890 Sc. – with a thud
n. 1. 1828 Sc. – a heavy pressing-downward movement; a thud, a thump; a hollow, knocking sound
n. 2. 1920s US sl. – one who leads a supposedly ‘degenerate’ sex life
n. 3. 1990s sl. – a term of abuse
vb. 1. 1736 Sc. – to make dense and compact; to compress, to press down, to solidify by hammering; to cause to sink or settle down
vb. 2. 1775 Sc. obs. – to sadden
vb. 3. 1928 Sc. – of snow: to subside
• SAD AND SORRY
n. a lorry …1992 UK rhyming sl.
• SAD APPLE
n. 1. a contemptible person …1910s sl.
n. 2. a pessimist …1910s US sl.
• SAD AS ANY MALLET
adj. dull, stupid …1645
• SAD-ASS
adj. 1. 1960s US sl. – depressing
adj. 2. 1971 US sl. – contemptible
n. 1960s US homosexual sl. – a sadist
• SAD-ASSED
adj. 1. depressing …1960s US sl.
adj. 2. contemptible …1971 Amer. sl.
• SAD-BAD
adj. ill; in health; very bad …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAD BASTARD
n. a contemptible person; an ineffectual person …2003 UK sl.
• SAD BIRD
n. a contemptible person …1910s sl.
• SAD CATTLE
n. prostitutes, viewed as a group …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
• SADCASE
n. one who tells unamusing jokes …2000s Aust. sl.
• SADD
n. an impenetrable mass of floating vegetable matter which obstructs navigation on the White Nile …1874
• SADDAM HUSSEIN
n. a pain; an irritation; an annoying person …1998 UK rhyming sl.
• SAD DAY!
int. used for expressing commiseration with another person’s troubles …1989 US sl.
• SADDED
adj. saddened, made sorrowful …1680 obs.
• SADDEN
vb. to consolidate; to make firm and hard; to compress; to stamp or beat down …1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SADDER THAN A MAP
adj. very bad, terrible, disgusting …1930s African-American sl.
• SADDIE-MAISIE
n. a practitioner of sadism and masochism …M20 US sl.
• SADDITY
adj. 1. 1960s African-American sl. – arrogant, haughty, snobbish, conceited
adj. 2. 1960s African-American sl. – elegant, high-class, sophisticated
n. 1960s African-American sl. – a stuck-up, conceited, snobbish person
• SADDLE
n. 1. E17 Brit. – the female genitals
n. 2. E17 Brit. – women considered sexually
n. 3. M19 sl. – a loaf
n. 4. L19 UK tramps’ sl. – an overcoat
n. 5. 1954 Amer. dial. – a sanitary napkin
n. 6. 1971 US sl. – in trucking: the driver’s seat
n. 7. 1976 US sl. – in trucking: the truck in the middle of a group of trucks travelling down the highway together
• SADDLE AND BRIDLE
n. an opium smoker; the equipment used for smoking opium …1930s US drug-culture sl.
• SADDLEBACK
n. 1. a louse …M19 sl.
n. 2. a bony or poor-looking horse …1968 Amer. dial.
• SADDLEBAG
n. a promiscuous woman …1990s UK juvenile sl.
• SADDLEBAG HOUSE
n. a house consisting of two parts separated by a central space or by a large fireplace with a central chimney and covered by a single roof …1925 Amer. dial.
• SADDLE BAGS
n. 1. excess flesh around the upper thighs, or occasionally, a portly stomach …1960s sl.
n. 2. the labia majora; the scrotum …1990s sl.
• SADDLE BLANKET
n. 1. 1967 Amer. jocular usage – a dollar bill
n. 2. 1967 Amer. dial. – a pancake
n. 3. 1990s US sl. – a sanitary towel
• SADDLE BUM
n. an out-of-work cowboy who drifts from ranch to ranch subsisting on free meals …c1936 Amer. dial.
• SADDLE-FUCK
vb. to have sex, the woman astride the prone man …1972 US sl.
• SADDLE-GOOSE
n. a nickname for a fool …1526 obs.
• SADDLE-HORSE ANT
n. a big black ant that stings …1968 Amer. dial.
• SADDLE-IRON
n. a stirrup …1823 Sc.
• SADDLE-NOSE
n. a flat or snub-nose …1626
• SADDLE ONE’S NOSE
vb. to wear spectacles …L18 sl.
• SADDLE POCKET
n. a saddlebag …1857 Amer. dial.
• SADDLE-POCKET DOCTOR
n. a physician who travelled through the mountains on horseback, often for great distances …1981 Amer. dial.
• SADDLER
n. 1. a saddle-horse …1888 US colloq.
n. 2. a ride on a bicycle’s saddle while another person pedals …1979 UK sl.
• SADDLES
n. the testicles hanging in the scrotum …2004 UK sl.
• SADDLE-SEAT
n. a riding-horse …1895 Sc.
• SADDLE-SICK
adj. indisposed through riding; bruised and sore from long riding …1823 Sc.
• SADDLE STIFF
n. an out-of-work cowboy who drifts from ranch to ranch subsisting on free meals …1984 Amer. dial.
• SADDLE THE SPIT
vb. to host a dinner or supper …L18 sl.
• SADDLE TRAMP
n. 1. 1932 Amer. dial. – an out-of-work cowboy who drifts from ranch to ranch subsisting on free meals
n. 2. 1942 Amer. sl. – a vagrant who travels on horseback
n. 3. 1989 US sl. – a motorcycle gang member
• SADDLE UP
vb. 1. 1970s sl. – to have sexual intercourse
vb. 2. 1970s sl. – to engage in mutual fellatio and cunnilingus
vb. 3. 1976 US sl. – to pick up your gear and resume a combat patrol
vb. 4. 1980s homosexual sl. – to have anal intercourse
• SADDLING PADDOCK
n. 1. the bar of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, generally accepted as a place to pick up prostitutes …M19 Aust. sl.
n. 2. any place of assignation; a trysting place …L19 Aust. sl.
• SADDO
n. a pathetic or contemptible person …1990s UK sl.
• SAD DOG
n. a wicked, debauched fellow …18C sl.
• SADDY
adj. 1705 Sc. – of a horse: with a sagging back, saddle-backed
int. 1835 Amer. dial. – thank you!
n. 1870 Amer. dial. – a formal acknowledgement of thanks
vb. 1859 Amer. dial. – to bob up and down; to curtsy like a child
• SADE
n. Bk1904 Eng. dial. – a sufficiency
vb. 1. c888 obs. – to become satiated or weary
vb. 2. c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to glut, to satiate; to make weary of
vb. 3. 1886 Eng. dial. – to become weary or tired
• SADFUCK
n. a contemptible person …1997 UK sl.
• SADFUL
adj. sorrowful …1658 obs. rare
• SADIDDY
adj. exhibiting an unwarranted air of superiority; conceited, stuck-up, pretentious, affected …1992 Amer. dial.
• SADIE AND MAISIE
n. sado-masochism …1960s sl.
• SADIE-MAISIE
n. 1. sado-masochism …1965 sl.
n. 2. a practitioner of sadism and masochism …M20 US sl.
• SADIE THE OFFICE SECRETARY
n. a personification of the stereotypical female office worker …1953 US sl.
• SADIE THOMPSON
vb. to rape a man …1985 US sl.
• SADING
adj. tiring, monotonous …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SADISTICS
n. a statistics course …1980s college sl.
• SADIT
n. a stuck-up, conceited, snobbish person …1960s African-American sl.
• SADITTY
adj. exhibiting an unwarranted air of superiority; conceited, stuck-up, pretentious, affected …1972 Amer. dial.
• SADJELL
n. a lazy, unwieldy animal …1824 Sc.
• SAD KECKS
n. a term of contempt for a killjoy …1999 UK sl.
• SADLANDS
n. the suburbs of a city …2002 UK sl.
• SADLIES
adv. sadly; to a great degree …Bk1904 Sc.
• SADLINS
adv. sadly; greatly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SADLY
adj. in bad health, ill, poorly …1711 now Eng. dial.
• SADLY-BAD
adj. very ill …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SADLY-BADLY
adj. very ill or unwell; very much indisposed …1880 Eng. dial.
• SADLY-BEGONE
adj. 1. deceived, taken in …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. woebegone, disappointed …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SADLY-POORLY
adj. very ill …Bk19604 Eng. dial.
• SADLY-SURRILY
adj. very ill …Bk19604 Eng. dial.
• SADNESS
n. 1. heaviness, solidity …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 2. seriousness, gravity …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SADO-MASO
adj. sado-masochistic …1970s US sl.
n. a sado-masochist …1970s US sl.
• SAD-ON
n. a bad mood …1989 Royal Navy sl.
• SAD SACK
n. a contemptible person; a miserable, depressed person; an inept misfit …1943 sl., chiefly US, orig. military usage
vb. to act or move in a miserable, depressed manner …1970s US sl.
• SAD SACK OF SHIT
n. a miserable, pessimistic, morale-lowering person …1940s sl., orig. US
• SAD SHAPE
n. ugliness …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SAD VULGAR
n. a common, vulgar person …L19 UK society usage
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