• SQUACKETT
vb. to quack like a duck; to make any disagreeable noise with the mouth …1901 Eng. dial.
• SQUAD
n. a police car …1974 US sl.
• SQUADDIE; SQUADDY
n. a soldier, esp. a private soldier …1933 Brit. sl.
• SQUADROL
n. a small police van …1961 US sl.
• SQUANDERMANIA
n. Bk1991 – a mania for spending money
• SQUARE
adj. conventional, conservative …1946 sl., orig. US
n. 1. a conventional person …1944 sl. orig. US jazz sl.
n. 2. a conformist …1950s Amer. sl.
n. 3. a cigarette containing tobacco as opposed to marijuana …1970 US sl. chiefly Black
vb. to conciliate by bribery …1859 sl.
• SQUARE-BASHING
n. military marching and drill …1943 Brit. sl.
• SQUARE DINKUM
adj. genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward …L19 Aust. & NZ colloq.
int. honest! really! on the level! …L19 sl., chiefly Aust.
• SQUARE GROUPER
n. a bale of marijuana in south Florida …Bk1998 drug culture sl.
• SQUAREHEAD
n. 1. a sham thief …Bk1892 Aust. sl.
n. 2. a foreigner of Germanic extraction; a German soldier in World War I …1903 sl., chiefly US, derogatory
n. 3. a Scandinavian …1903 sl., chiefly US, derogatory
• SQUARE JOHN
n. a conventional person …1934 sl. N. Amer.
• SQUARE MACKEREL
n. marijuana …Bk1998 drug culture sl.
• SQUARE OFF
vb. to begin, to commence …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SQUARER
n. 1. one who reduces wood, stone, etc., to a square form …1422-3
n. 2. one who quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow …1599 obs.
n. 3. one who squares his elbows for fighting, a sparrer …1850 Sc.
• SQUARE RIG
n. the uniform of a naval rating …1951 sl.
• SQUARESVILLE
n. a conventional place or institution …1956 sl., orig. US
• SQUARE TIME BOB
n. crack …Bk1998 drug culture sl.
• SQUARE UP TO SOMEONE
vb. to prepare to fight with someone …1827 sl.
• SQUAREVILLE
n. a conventional place or institution …1956 sl., orig. US
• SQUAREY; SQUARIE
n. a female companion; a girlfriend …1917 Aust. sl.
• SQUARKEN
vb. to burn or scorch; to burn in roasting …1530 obs. rare
• SQUASH
n. a vacillating person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
vb. to humiliate …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• SQUASHED TOGETHER
adj. crowded, packed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SQUASHED UP
adj. crowded, packed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SQUAT
vb. to pinch …Bk1896 Amer. dial.
• SQUAT ON
vb. to humiliate …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• SQUAW
n. a term of contempt …Bk1942 Amer. Western sl.
• SQUAWK
n. 1. a sudden vociferous complaint …1909 sl., orig. US
n. 2. an identification signal, enabling an aircraft’s position to be located by radar …1956 sl., orig. US
vb. 1. to turn informer …1872 US sl.
vb. 2. to complain vociferously …1875 sl., orig. US
• SQUAWK-BOX
n. a loudspeaker or public-address system; also, an intercom …1945 US sl.
• SQUAW-MAN
n. any White that has lived with an Indian woman …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SQUAWP
n. a dirty or peevish child …B1900
• SQUAW PISS
n. beer with an alcohol level of 3.2% …1960s Amer. sl.
• SQUEACHY
adj. fine, correct, as it should be, all right …1916 Amer. dial.
• SQUEAK
vb. to turn informer …1690
• SQUEAKER
n. 1. one who betrays associates to the police or other authorities; an informer …1903 sl.
n. 2. a violinist …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SQUEAKY CLEAN
adj. washed and rinsed so clean as to squeak …1976 sl.
• SQUEAL
n. a call for police assistance or investigation …1949 sl.
vb. to turn informer; to tattle …1846 sl.
• SQUEAL-CAT
n. a child who is always telling on other children …1965 Amer. dial.
• SQUEALER
n. one who betrays associates to the police or other authorities; an informer …1865 sl.
• SQUEEGEE
adj. 1. fine, correct, as it should be, all right …1905 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. twisted, askew, diagonal …1905 Amer. dial.
adj. 3. distorted, damaged, rickety …1959 Amer. dial.
n. a person of importance; used derisively …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SQUEE-GEED
adj. twisted, askew, diagonal …1950 Amer. dial.
• SQUEEHAWED
adj. askew, crooked …1950 Amer. dial.
• SQUEE-JAWED
adj. 1. crooked, askew, irregular …1927 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. twisted, askew, crooked, diagonal …1950 Amer. dial.
• SQUEEKER
n. a young courier pigeon … World War I Amer. sl.
• SQUEE-WAMPUS
adj. askew, crooked …1942 Amer. dial.
• SQUEE-WOBBLED
adj. twisted, askew, crooked …1967 Amer. dial.
• SQUEEZE
n. 1. an impression of an object made for criminal purposes …1882 sl.
n. 2. a girlfriend or lover …1980 sl., chiefly US
n. 3. a close friend …1980 sl., chiefly US
vb. to fret, to whimper …Bk1896 Amer. dial.
• SQUEEZE-PIDGIN
n. a bribe …1946 sl.
• SQUEEZE THE HAYBALERS
vb. to milk a cow …1950 Amer. dial.
• SQUEEZE TO VERJUICE
vb. to squeeze greatly …1605 obs.
• SQUEEZE UP
vb. to ejaculate …1974 UK sl.
• SQUEEZY
adj. fretful …Bk1896 Amer. dial.
• SQUELCH
vb. to humiliate …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• SQUELCH-GUTTED
adj. very fat; having a prominent belly …B1900 Eng. dial. obs.
• SQUENCH
vb. to quench, to extinguish …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SQUIB
n. 1. a racehorse lacking stamina …1915 Aust. sl.
n. 2. a coward …1945 Aust. sl.
vb. to lose one’s nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear …1918 Aust. sl.
• SQUID
n. a piece, a scrap, a bit; a lump …1914 Amer. dial.
• SQUIFFED
adj. drunk …1890 sl.
• SQUIFFY
adj. slightly inebriated; intoxicated; drunk …1855 sl., chiefly Brit.
• SQUIGGED
adj. crooked …B1900 Sc.
• SQUILLIONAIRE
n. a multi-millionaire; hence, an extremely rich person …1979 sl.
• SQUINNY
adj. 1. very thin, lean, or slender; narrow …1784
adj. 2. squinting, looking askance, peering …a1825
adj. 3. discontented-looking …B1900 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a contemptible fellow …1716 obs.
n. 2. a squint, a sly glance, a look; a person who squints …1881
vb. 1. to squint, to look askance; to peer with partly closed eyes, to peep …1605
vb. 2. to weep or cry; to fret, as a child …1847
vb. 3. to laugh broadly; to smile or wink …B1900 Amer.
• SQUINT
n. 1. a look, a glance …1673 sl.
n. 2. tinted windshield glass …Bk1998 sl.
• SQUINT-A-PIPES
n. a squinting man or woman …1788 sl. obs.
• SQUINTERS
n. the eyes …c1760 sl.
• SQUINT LIKE A BAG OF NAILS
vb. to squint in all directions …sl.
• SQUIOGLING
adj. askew, crooked, oblique …1896 Amer. dial.
• SQUIRE
n. a term of address to a man of higher status …1959 Brit. sl.
• THE SQUIRE
n. 1. a simpleton, a fool …L17 sl.
n. 2. one who treats the rest of the company …L17 sl.
• SQUIRE NABBEM
n. 1834 US sl. – a constable
• SQUIRE OF DAMES
n. 1. 1590 obs. – a pimp or pander
n. 2. 1590 – a man very attentive to women and much in their company; a woman’s man; a gallant
• SQUIRE OF THE COMPANY
n. L17 sl. – one who treats the rest of the company
• SQUIRE OF THE GIMLET
n. c1670 colloq. – a tapster
• SQUIRE OF THE GUSSET
n. L17 sl. – a pimp
• SQUIRE OF THE PAD
n. a highwayman …1700 sl.
• SQUIRE OF THE PLACKET
n. a pimp …c1630 colloq.
• SQUIRISH
adj. 1. said of a person who acts like he can pay for anything, but is ‘not strong enough in the pocket’ …L17 sl.
adj. 2. foolish …L18 sl.
• SQUIRK
n. 1. a half-suppressed laugh; a sniggering …1882
n. 2. a sharp squeaking sound …1902
• SQUIRL
n. a flourish in writing …c1840 colloq.
• SQUIRM
n. a small, objectionable boy …c1880 school sl.
• SQUIRREL
n. 1. a harlot …L18 sl.
n. 2. a conformist …1950s Amer. sl.
n. 3. smoking cocaine, marijuana, and PCP; LSD …Bk1998 drug culture sl.
• SQUIRRELLY
adj. racing term describing a car that is given to sliding …Bk1998 sl.
• SQUIRT
n. 1. someone insignificant but presumptuous …1848 sl., orig. US
n. 2. a diligent student …Bk1942 Amer. college sl.
n. 3. a student who fails …Bk1942 Amer. college sl.
n. 4. a child …1958 US sl.
• SQUISH
n. nonsense …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SQUIT
n. a small or contemptible person …a1825 Brit. sl.
• THE SQUITS
n. diarrhoea …1841 Brit. euphemism
• SQUITTER-BREECH
n. a pants fouler, i.e. one who has or suffers from diarrhoea …1611 obs.
• SQUITTERS
n. diarrhoea …1664 sl.
• SQUIWINIKIE
adj. blundering, awkward …1885 Amer. dial.
• SQUIZ(Z)
n. a look, a glance …1913 Aust. & NZ sl.
vb. to look at …1941 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SQUIZZED
adj. drunk …1845 US sl.
• SQUIZZEN
vb. to squeeze; to crush, to crumple …B1900 Eng. dial.
• SQUIZZIT
vb. to question; to inquire into, to examine …1922 Amer. dial.
• SQUZ
adj. squeezed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• S.S.
n. a fool; (Sammy Soft) …c1840 sl.
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