• SEA BEARD
n. seaweed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SEA COW
n. a hippopotamus …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SEA CRAW
n. a lobster …1884 Amer. dial.
• SEA DUST
n. salt …World War I navy sl.
• SEAFOOD
n. a sailor considered as a sexual object by a homosexual male …M20 US homosexual sl.
• SEA GALLS
n. the jellyfish or sea-nettle …1817 Eng. dial.
• SEA-GOING CLOTHES
n. tailor made clothes …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
• SEA-GULL
n. 1. a chicken …World War I navy sl.
n. 2. an airman …World War I navy sl.
n. 3. a casual, non-union dock labourer …c1926 NZ sl.
n. 4. a girl or a woman who follows the naval fleet or who follows a particular sailor; this includes sailors’ wives …World War II US naval sl.
• SEAL
n. a Black person …1920s US sl., derogatory
vb. to impregnate a woman …19C Brit. sl.
• SEAL-A-MEALS
n. small plastic bags used for packaging set amounts of cocaine for sale …1980s African-American sl.
• SEA LAWYER
n. a troublemaker; a malcontent .. World War I Amer. sl.
• SEALED OYSTER
n. a close-mouthed person …L19 US sl.
• SEA LION
n. a Texas longhorn steer from the Gulf coast region …1890 Amer. dial.
• SEALS
n. the testicles …19C Brit. sl.
• SEAM RAT
n. a louse; occasionally, a flea or bedbug …1899 Amer. dial.
• SEAM-SQUIRREL
n. a body louse …1899 US sl., chiefly military usage
• SEA NETTLE
n. a stinging jellyfish …1844 Amer. dial.
• SEA PIG
n. a fat surfer …1988 US sl.
• SEAPOOSE
n. 1. an inlet of the sea, esp. an artificial channel connecting a body of water with the sea …1650 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a whirlpool, undertow …1842 Amer. dial.
• SEA POUCE
n. an inlet of the sea, esp. an artificial channel connecting a body of water with the sea …1650 Amer. dial.
• SEA PURSE
n. an inlet of the sea, esp. an artificial channel connecting a body of water with the sea …1650 Amer. dial.
• SEA PUSS
n. an inlet of the sea, esp. an artificial channel connecting a body of water with the sea …1650 Amer. dial.
• SEARCH ME
phr. used in response to a question to indicate that the speaker does not know the answer or has no idea what to do …1901 orig. N. Amer.
• SEARS AND ROEBUCK
n. an outdoor toilet …1966 Amer. dial.
• SEARS AND ROEBUCK TEETH
n. false teeth …1967 Amer. dial.
• SEARS-ROEBUCK
adj. inexperienced; incompetent …1917 Amer. dial.
• SEARS ROEBUCK DETECTIVE
n. a rural, incompetent detective …1927 Amer. dial.
• SEARS ROEBUCK GUY
n. in logging: a novice …1968 Amer. dial.
• SEARS-ROEBUCK HEADQUARTERS
n. an outdoor toilet …1950 Amer. dial.
• SEARS-ROEBUCK HOUSE
n. an outdoor toilet …1954 Amer. dial.
• SEARS-ROEBUCK LIBRARY
n. an outdoor toilet …1966 Amer. dial.
• SEARS-ROEBUCK STOREROOM
n. an outdoor toilet …1950 Amer. dial.
• SEARS-ROEBUCK TEETH
n. false teeth …1967 Amer. dial.
• SEA’S A-CAPPING
phr. it’s making white-topped waves …1968 Amer. dial.
• SEA SLED
n. a motor boat …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SEASON
n. seasoning …1966 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to add cream or sugar to tea or coffee …1967 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. of clothes: to let dry by exposure to air …1979 Amer. dial.
• SEASONED
adj. experienced, as a soldier, etc. …1643
• SEASONING
n. cream or sugar as an ingredient in tea of coffee …1897 Amer. dial.
• SEASONING MEAT
n. salt pork or bacon …1966 Amer. dial.
• SEAT
n. the posteriors …20C
• SEAT BACK!
int. used as a preemptive assertion of one’s right to reclaim a seat or place in line after leaving for a short time …1998 Amer. dial.
• SEAT COVER
n. an attractive female driver …M20 US citizens’ band radio sl.
• SEATER
n. 1. a backward fall …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 2. the buttocks …1950 Amer. dial.
• SEA TIGER
n. a barracuda …1939 Amer. dial.
• SEAT OF EASE
n. a privy …c1850
• SEAT OF EASEMENT
n. a chamber pot contained in a case …E18 Brit. euphemism
• SEA TURN
n. a wind off the ocean, often accompanied by fog or rain …1690 Amer. dial.
• SEC
n. Seconal™ …20C drug culture sl.
• SECCY
n. Seconal™; a barbiturate …M20 US drug culture sl.
• SECKO
n. a sexual deviant or sex offender …1949 Aust. sl.
• SECOND BASE
n. a woman’s breasts …1930s African-American sl.
• SECOND CHRISTMAS
n. the day following Christmas Day …1857 Amer. dial.
• SECOND EASTER
n. the day after Easter …1979 Amer. dial.
• SECOND-HANDED
adj. 1. secondhand …1834 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. of a person: inferior; shabby …1921 Amer. dial.
• SECOND-HARD DARTBOARD
n. a sexually promiscuous woman …1982 UK sl.
• SECOND MIND
n. the unconscious mind …1820s African-American sl.
• SECONDS
n. a second helping of food …1792 sl.
• SECOND-STOREY MAN; SECOND-STORY MAN
n. a cat-burglar …1886 Amer. sl.
• SECRET PARTS
n. the female genitals …Shakespeare usage
• SECRETS
n. the male or female genitals …19C colloq.
• SECRET SERVICES
n. copulation in secret, esp. with a partner kept for this purpose …18C Brit. euphemism
• SECRET SORROW
n. 1. a loved one who is unaware of one’s affections …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
n. 2. love for someone who is unaware of one’s affections …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SECRET VICE
n. masturbation …19C euphemism
• SECRET WORKS
n. the male or female genitals …M20 US sl.
• SECTION 37
n. in logging: something queer or unusual …1958 Amer. dial.
• SECTION EIGHT
n. a discharge from the army under section eight of the US Army Regulations 615-360 on the grounds of insanity or inability to adjust to army life …1943 US sl.
vb. (usually as ‘section-eight’) to discharge from the army under section eight of the US Army Regulations …1943 US sl.
• SECTIUNCLE; SECTIUNCULE
n. 1. 1838 rare – a small section
n. 2. 1851 rare – a small, insignificant religious body; a little or petty sect
• SECUNDO
n. a foreman, an underboss …1936 Amer. dial.
• SEDDITY
adj. 1. arrogant, haughty, snobbish, conceited, pretentious …1967 African-American sl.
adj. 2. elegant, high-class, sophisticated …1960s African-American sl.
n. a stuck-up, conceited, snobbish person …1960s African-American sl.
• SEDENT
adj. sitting …L17 rare
• SEDILE
n. a seat …LME obs.
• SEDITTY
adj. arrogant, boastful, showing off …1968 US sl.
• SEE
vb. 1. to possess carnally …Bk1903 sl.
vb. 2. in jazz: to read music …1930s African-American sl.
• SEE BLACK
vb. to suffer the lapses of vision caused by exposure to thirst, heat, and glaring sunlight …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SEED
n. 1. a rustic or countrified person …1900 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a burning coal covered with ashes to preserve a fire overnight …1931 Amer. dial.
n. 3. one’s child; children …1960s African-American sl.
n. 4. a baseball …1960s African-American sl.
• SEEDAN
n. a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SEED, BREED, AND GENERATION
n. the whole of one’s family and relatives …1792 Eng. dial.
• SEED CLOUD
n. one of a group of usually small clouds though to presage rain …1966 Amer. dial.
• SEED EATER
n. a goldfinch …1917 Amer. dial.
• SEED FEATHERS
n. ancestors, old-timers …1954 Amer. dial.
• SEED-FOLKS
n. ancestors, old-timers …1905 Amer. dial.
• SEED-HORSE
n. a stallion …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SEEDS
n. testicles of a human or animal …1927 Amer. dial.
• SEED WART
n. a wart with a rough surface resembling a group of seeds …1948 Amer. dial.
• SEEDY
adj. 1. ill …1858 sl.
adj. 2. boorish; rustic …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 3. wretched, miserable …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SEE FAIR
vb. to ensure fair play by watching …1837 colloq.
• SEEGAR
n. a cigar …1858 Amer. dial.
• SEE HOW THE CAT WILL JUMP
vb. to watch events and act accordingly …1885
• SEEK A HARE IN A HEN’S NEST
vb. to attempt something that is almost impossible …1599 obs.
• SEEK A KNOT IN A BULRUSH
vb. to look for or make difficulties when there are none …1340
• SEEK A NEEDLE IN A BOTTLE OF HAY
vb. to attempt an extremely difficult, impossible, or foolish task …1690
• SEEK A NEEDLE IN A TRUSS OF HAY
vb. to attempt an extremely difficult, impossible, or foolish task …1711
• SEEK FOR A SALMON’S NEST
vb. to look for something that doesn’t exist …1589 obs.
• SEE MONKEYS
vb. to be overcome by heat …1918 Amer. dial.
• SEEN IT’S BEST DAYS
adj. old …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SEENY BEAR
n. the black bear …1927 Amer. dial.
• SEEP
n. a place where water oozes out of the ground; a sluggish spring …1881 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to undergo to subject something to soaking in hot liquid …1886 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to suppurate; to ooze …1965 Amer. dial.
• SEEP SPRING
n. a place where water oozes out of the ground; a sluggish spring …1901 Amer. dial.
• SEEPY
adj. of land: constantly damp …1859 Amer. dial.
• SEE RED
vb. to be or get angry …1901 sl.
• SEE ROSES
vb. to menstruate …1990 Amer. dial.
• SEERS
n. eyeglasses …1966 Amer. dial.
• SEETHE A WALLOP
vb. to boil with a rapid noisy bubbling …1565 obs.
• SEE THE BIG ANIMAL
vb. to see or experience all that one can endure …1848 Amer. sl.
• SEE THE ELEPHANT
vb. 1. to see what there is to see; to experience something to the end; to become jaded or disappointed …1844 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to go into combat for the first time …US Civil War usage
vb. 3. to view the interesting sights in a city …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• SEE THE LIONS
vb. to have worldly experience; to see remarkable sights…1590
• SEE THE MONKEY DANCE
vb. to see novel and entertaining things …1863 Amer. sl.
• SEE THE MONKEYS
to have delirium tremens …1965 Amer. dial.
• SEE THE MONKEY SHOW
vb. to see novel and entertaining things …1861 Amer. sl.
• SEE THE SUN DANCE
vb. to see the sun rise on Easter morning …1867 Eng. dial.
• SEE THROUGH A LADDER
vb. to see what is obvious …1852
• SEE TWO MOONS
vb. to be drunk …1722 Amer. sl.
• SEE WHICH WAY THE CAT JUMPS
phr. i.e. what direction events are taking …1827
• SEE YOU
phr. goodbye …1962
• SEE YOU IN CHURCH!
int. used as an expression of farewell …1950 Amer. dial.
• SEE YOU IN CHURCH, IF YOU SIT BY THE WINDOW
phr. an informal way of saying goodbye to people one knows well …1965 Amer. dial.
• SEE YOU LATER, ALLIGATOR
phr. goodbye …1956 jocular usage, orig. US
• SEE YOU SOME MORE!
int. goodbye …1940s NZ sl.
• SEG
n. 1. a segregation unit or cell …1960s sl., orig. US & Can. prison
n. 2. a toadying or hypocritical smile …1960s US students’ sl.
n. 3. a supporter of racial segregation …1965 US sl.
vb. to segregate; to have a segregationist policy …1960s sl., orig. US
• SEGACIATE; SEGASHIATE; SEGASHUATE
vb. 1. to fare; to get on; to bear; to endure …1832 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to associate …1883 Amer. dial.
► SEGGER n. 1. one given to talking; a boaster, a braggart → 1440 obs.
n. 2. a heavy blow → 1879 Eng. dial.
• SEGGIE
n. 1. a segregation unit or cell …1960s sl., orig. US & Can. prison
n. 2. a supporter of racial segregation …1965 US sl.
• SEGO LILY STATE
n. Utah …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SEGUNDO
n. a foreman, an underboss …1903 Amer. dial.
• SEH ONE
adj. of a woman: to be attractive …1990s W. Indies sl.
• SEH-SEH SEH-SEH
n. gossip …1990s W. Indies sl.
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