• T
n. 1. marijuana …1950s drug culture sl.
n. 2. a gram of methamphetamine …1960s US drug culture sl.
n. 3. a T-shirt …1970s sl., orig. US
n. 4. phencyclidine …1970s US drug culture sl.
n. 5. Tuinal™…1970s US drug culture sl.
n. 6. cocaine …2003 UK sl.
n. 7. a T-shirt …2003 UK sl.
• T.A.
n. Tel Aviv …c1939 colloq.
• TA!
int. 1. thanks! …1772 colloq.
int. 2. an exclamation of impatience or exasperation …1837 Sc.
• TAAVE
vb. to tear, to rend …1972 Sc.
• TAB
n. 1. the ear …1866 orig. Eng. dial.
n. 2. the bill, credit, an IOU; used fig. to imply that an action, good, or bad, will be paid for later …L19 US sl.
n. 3. any form of prison documentation, esp. reports on prisoners that are submitted to the parole board …20C US prison sl.
n. 4. a female sweetheart; one’s girl …E20 Aust. sl.
n. 5. a shoe-string …1904 Eng. dial.
n. 6. an old maid; any oldish woman …1909 theatrical sl.
n. 7. a Cantab or Cambridge University man …1914 colloq.
n. 8. a staff officer …World War I army sl.
n. 9. a woman; a young woman …1918 Aust. sl.
n. 10. a cigarette …c1920 sl., orig. N. Eng. dial.
n. 11. a tabloid newspaper …1930s sl.
n. 12. letters passed between inmates; a letter smuggled out of prison …1934 US prison sl.
n. 13. a project, a line of activity, a program …1930s US sl.
n. 14. a customer that. after giving an infinity of trouble, buys precisely nothing …1935 drapers’ & hosiers’ usage
n. 15. a personal name …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 16. an enterprise; an activity …1946 US sl.
n. 17. a tablet or pill containing an illegal drug; often specifically LSD …1961 sl.
n. 18. a small amount; a dab …1965 Amer. dial.
n. 19. marching with heavy equipment over difficult terrain …1982 Brit. sl., esp. Parachute Regiment usage
vb. 1. to catch, to seize …19C Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to charge with a crime …L19 sl.
vb. 3. to identify, to categorize …1910s sl.
vb. 4. to follow a person; to place someone under surveillance …1920s sl.
vb. 5. to survey a place prior to robbing it …1920s sl.
vb. 6. to name …1924 US sl.
vb. 7. of a customer: to give much trouble …1935 drapery trades usage
vb. 8. to make a drug into tablet form …1967 US sl.
vb. 9. to march or otherwise travel on foot across country …1982 UK military sl.
vb. 10. to walk …1982 sl.
• TABACCA • TABACKA
n. tobacco …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TABACCY • TABACKY
n. tobacco …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TAB ACTION
n. a line of credit at a bar or any other type of business …1940s African-American sl.
• TABANKA
n. love-sickness; sexual obsession …20C W. Indies sl.
• TABANKCA
adj. passionate, obsessed …20C W. Indies sl.
n. love-sickness; sexual obsession …20C W. Indies sl.
• TABASCO
adj. excited, dramatic, spirited …1920s sl.
n. 1. spirit …1920s sl.
n. 2. napalm …1991 US sl.
• TABBED
adj. well-dressed …1970s African-American sl.
• TABBED TO THE BONE
adj. dressed in one’s very best, most fashionable clothes …1970s African-American sl.
• TABBER
n. a customer hard to please …1935 drapers’ usage
vb. to beat, to belabour, to thrash …c1850 Sc.
• TABBERING
n. a thrashing, a beating …1882 Sc.
• TABBIE
n. a cigarette stub …1920 Sc.
• TABBIED
adj. having a wavy or streaky appearance …1861
• TABBY
adj. 1. 1638 – made or consisting of tabby (a silk taffeta – see noun 1)
adj. 2. c1689 – of a brownish tawn or grey colour, marked with darker parallel stripes or streaks; brindled; diversified in colour
adj. 3. 1746 – pertaining to a tabby (an old or elderly maiden lady)
adj. 4. 1920s US sl. – interfering, inquisitive, judgemental
n. 1. 1638 – a general term for a silk taffeta, apparently originally striped, but afterwards applied also to silks of uniform colour waved or watered
n. 2. 1774 – a cat having a striped or brindled coat; also, a she-cat
n. 3. 1748 – a spiteful or ill-natured female gossip or tattler
n. 4. 1748 – an old or elderly maiden lady; an old maid …1748
n. 5. 1748 obs. – padding or quilting to improve the figure
n. 6. 1802 – a concrete formed of a mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones in equal proportions, which when dry becomes very hard; originally called ‘tabby work’
n. 7. 1819 – a collector’s name for two Pyralid moths, the Tabby, Aglossa pinguinalis, and the Small Tabby, Aglossa cuprealis, both with fore wings greyish brown, clouded with a darker colour
n. 8. 1916 sl. – an attractive young woman or girl
n. 9. 1930s US criminals’ sl. – a prostitute
vb. 1. 1728 – to give a wavy appearance to silk, etc., by calendering
vb. 2. 1860 – to stripe or streak in parallel lines with darker markings
• TABBYHOOD
n. 1793 – the condition of being an old maid
• TABBYISM
n. L17 sl. – acting as a querulous, interfering old woman
• TABBY MEETING
n. L19 sl. – a meeting of evangelists and their congregations at Exeter Hall, London
• TABBY PARTY
n. 19C sl. – a party consisting only of women
• TAB-CAT
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a striped or brindled cat; a tabby cat; a pet cat
• TABEFACT
adj. c1425 obs. rare – wasted, corrupted
• TABEFACTION
n. 1658 rare – the wasting away or consumption of the body; emaciation
• TABEFY
vb. 1. 1656 rare – to waste away, to consume; to emaciate
vb. 2. 1656 obs. – to melt down
• TABELLARIOUS
adj. 1656 obs. rare – belonging to carriers or auditors
• TABELLARY
n. 1656 obs. rare – a carrier of letters; an auditor, a scrivener
• TABERNACLE
n. 1. 1382 – a dwelling, a place of abode
n. 2. 1382 – a temporary dwelling; generally movable, constructed of branches, boards, or canvas; a hut, tent, booth
n. 3. 1486 obs. – an alleged term for a company of bakers
• TABERNARIOUS
adj. 1656 obs. rare – belonging to shops or taverns
• TABESCENT
adj. 1890 – wasting away
• TABETLESS
adj. 1. 1768 Sc. – without feeling; destitute of sensation, numb, benumbed
adj. 2. 1786 Sc. – heedless, foolish, silly
• TABHOLE
n. 1968 sl. – the ear
• TAB ISSUE
n. 1940s African-American sl. – a line of credit at a bar or any other type of business
• TABLA
n. 1977 US sl. – a surfboard
• TABLATURE
n. 1711 obs. – a painting; a picture
• TABLE
n. 1. 1387 obs. – a board or other flat surface on which a picture is painted; hence, the picture itself
n. 2. 1390 obs. – a board or plank
n. 3. c1440 obs. rare – a plot of ground for planting; a bed
n. 4. c1470 obs. – the ‘board’ on which chess, draughts, backgammon, or any similar game is played
n. 5. a1577 obs. – a sketch, plan, scheme
n. 6. 1602 – the company at dinner or at a meal
n. 7. a1677 obs. – the face or dial-plate of a clock or watch
n. 8. 1977 UK sl. – a pinball machine
• TABLE-BOARD
n. 1. 1483 obs. – a board for backgammon or any similar game
n. 2. 1884 US – board. i.e. meals, without lodging
• TABLE DANCE
n. 1992 US sl. – in a strip-club: a semi-private sexual performance near or on a customer’s table
• TABLE-END MAN
n. L19 sl. – a man whose sexual desire is so intense that he makes love to his partner over the dining/kitchen table rather than waiting until they reach the bedroom
• TABLE GARDEN
n. 1917 Amer. dial. – a vegetable garden for home consumption
• TABLE-GOSPELLER
n. 1610 obs. – one who makes table talk of the gospel; one whose religion is mere talk
• TABLE-GRADE
adj. pert. to a sexually attractive woman who looks good enough to eat …1972 US sl.
• TABLE-HOP
vb. to circulate among the tables at a restaurant, greeting and chatting with friends and acquaintances …1950s sl., orig. US
• TABLE-HOPPER
n. a necrophile; one having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses …1987 sl.
• TABLE LEGS
n. people’s legs that are noticeably bent, uneven, or not right; thick legs …1968 Amer. dial.
• TABLEMAN
n. 1. one of the ‘men’ or pieces used in any game played on a board, esp. backgammon …1483 obs.
n. 2. a gamester; applied in contempt …1608 obs.
• TABLE MANNERS
n. in poker: a player’s mannerisms, which may provide clues as to the relative strength of his hand …1981 US sl.
• TABLEMENT
n. a tabulation, list, catalogue …1551 obs. rare
• TABLE MUSCLE
n. a pot belly; a large girth …1944 Amer. dial., jocular usage
• TABLE-PLAY
n. play at ‘tables’ or backgammon …1550 obs.
• TABLE-PLAYER
n. a player at backgammon …c1450 obs.
• TABLE PUSSY
n. a woman with good looks and manners …1970 US sl.
• TABLER
n. 1. a backgammon board; hence, the game of backgammon or ‘tables’; also, a chess-board …1303 obs.
n. 2. a money-changer …c1550 obs.
n. 3. a player at backgammon …1561 obs.
n. 4. one who gets his meals at another’s table for payment; a boarder …1598 obs. or rare
n. 5. one who boards persons …1665 obs.
• TABLES
n. a backgammon board …1573 obs.
• TABLESCORE
vb. to take food left on restaurant tables …1997 US sl.
• TABLET
n. 1. a flat cake of soap …1582
n. 2. a contraceptive tablet; the pill …M20 euphemism
n. 3. an MDMA tablet …1990s sl.
• TABLE TALK
n. in poker: idle chatter that does not rise to the level of intentionally distracting talk …1979 US sl.
• TABLE TAPPER
n. 1949 Amer. dial. – an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher
• TABLE TIME
n. 1993 US sl. – a time-based charge for playing pool
• TABLE-TOPPER
n. 1987 sl. – a necrophile; one having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses
• TABLE ZAMBONI
n. 1987 US sl. – a cleaning rag used by a bartender
• TABLIER
n. 1474 obs. rare – a chess-board
• TABLING
n. 1. a1553 now rare or obs. – the act of providing or fact of being provided with meals; provision of food; boarding, board
n. 2. 1553 obs. – playing at ‘tables’ or backgammon
n. 3. 1892 – tables collectively
• TABLING-DEN
n. 1886 obs. – a low-class gambling-house
• TABLING-HOUSE
n. 1577 obs. – a house of resort for playing ‘tables’ or other games; a gambling-house
• TABLING SCHOOL
n. 1660 obs. – a boarding-school
• TABNAB
n. 1933 nautical sl. – a cake, bun, or pastry; a savoury snack
• TABOPHOBIA
n. Bk1991 – an abnormal fear of a wasting sickness
• TABOR
n. 1. the earlier name of the drum; in later use, a small kind of drum used chiefly as an accompaniment to the pipe or trumpet …c1290 arch. or poetic
n. 2. the drummer with his drum …1362 rare
vb. 1. to perform upon or beat the tabor; to drum …a1300 rare
vb. 2. to beat, to thump, to thrash …1624 obs.
• TABORER
n. a drummer; a performer on the tabor …c1400 obs.
• TABORN
n. a drum …a1340 obs.
vb. to drum …a1300 obs.
• TABORNER
n. a drummer …a1400 chiefly Sc. obs.
• TABOR-STICK
n. a drumstick …a1300 rare
• TABOUR
n. the earlier name of the drum; in later use, a small kind of drum used chiefly as an accompaniment to the pipe or trumpet …c1290 arch. or poetic
n. 2. the drummer with his drum …1362 rare
vb. 1. to perform upon or beat the tabour; to drum …a1300 rare
vb. 2. to beat, to thump, to thrash …1624 obs. exc. Sc.
• TABOURER
n. a drummer; a performer on the tabour …c1400 obs.
• TABOURS
n. a beating, a drubbing …1825 Sc.
• TAB OUT
vb. to pay a bar bill and leave the bar …1992 US sl.
• TABROUN
n. a drum …a1340 obs.
• TABS
int. used to lay claim to something …1956 Amer. dial.
n. the ears …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TABSHAG
n. a term of reproach for an idle person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TABU
n. a typical army mess (Typical Army Balls-Up) …World War II Brit. military usage
• TABULARIOUS
adj. pert. to written documents or accounts …1656 obs. rare
• TABULATE
vb. to board a floor or other place; to make thing of boards …1656 obs. rare
• TABULATION
n. a fastening together of planks or boards, a making a floor …1658 obs. rare
• TAB UP
vb. 1. to charge with a crime …L19 sl.
vb. 2. to identify, to categorize …1910s sl.
vb. 3. to survey a place prior to robbing it …1926 sl.
• TABURNISTER
n. a female player on the tabor …a1340 obs. rare
• TAC
n. phencyclidine …1960s drug culture sl.
• TACENDA
n. 1843 – things to be passed over in silence; matters not to be mentioned
• TACENT
adj. 1652 – silent, quiet, holding one’s peace → obs.
• TACH
n. 1. ..M19 – a hat → back-slang
n. 2. 1960 – a tachometer, an instrument that measures the velocity of machines → sl.
• TACHE
n. 1. 1300 – a spot, a blotch, a blemish, a blot → obs.
n. 2. 1330 – a moral spot or blemish; a fault or vice; a bad quality or habit → obs.
n. 3. 1400 – a distinctive mark, quality, or habit; a trait, a characteristic, good or bad → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 4. 1607 – a slight taste or flavour; a smack → obs.
n. 5. 1893 – a moustache → sl.
vb. 1. 1310 – to fasten, to attach, to fix, to secure a person or thing → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. 1390 – to stain or taint, esp. with moral defilement, or with the imputation of guilt or shameful conduct; to stigmatize → obs. exc. Sc.
vb. 3. 1400 – to lay hold of a person; to arrest, to apprehend by legal authority → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 4. 1400 – to make a hostile charge or attack; to charge → obs.
vb. 5. 1700 – to blemish; to deface; to tarnish or spoil slightly by handling or use; to make the worse for wear → Sc.
• TACHELESS
adj. 1300 – stainless, faultless → obs.
• TACHEMENT • TACHMENT
n. 1400 – something attached; an appurtenance → obs.
• TACHO
n. 1960 – a tachometer, an instrument that measures the velocity of machines → sl.
• TACHOPHOBIA
n. 1991 – an abnormal fear of speed (Bk.)
• TACHYDIDAXY
n. 1846 – fast teaching
• TACHYGRAPH
n. 1810 – a writer of shorthand
• TACHYGRAPHER
n. 1887 – a shorthand writer; a stenographer
• TACHYGRAPHIC
adj. 1763 – pert. to the art of rapid writing; specifically applied to a cursive or running handwriting as opposed to one having separate and fully-formed letters
• TACHYGRAPHICAL
adj. 1764 – pert. to the art of rapid writing; specifically applied to a cursive or running handwriting as opposed to one having separate and fully-formed letters
• TACHYGRAPHIST
n. 1895 – a shorthand writer; a stenographer
• TACHYGRAPHY
n. 1641 – the art or practice of quick writing; applied to shorthand, and to cursive as distinguished from angular letters
• TACHYIATER
n. 1898 – one who cures speedily
• TACHYLALIA
n. 1994 – fast talking → (Bk.)
• TACHYPHAGIA
n. 1994 – food grabbing or fast eating (Bk.)
• TACHYTHANATOUS
adj. 1860 – killing quickly, rapidly fatal or lethal
• TACID
adj. 1651 – tacit → obs.
• TACIDLY
adv. 1640 – tacitly → obs.
• TACITURNIST
n. 1887 – one who practices habitual silence or reserve
• TACITURNOUS
adj. 1727 – silent, saying nothing, reserved in speech, making no noise → obs.
• TACK
n. 1. 1300 – that which fastens one thing to another, or things together; a clasp, a buckle, a hook, a nail, etc. → obs.
n. 2. 1412 – hold; holding quality; adherence, endurance, stability, strength, substance, solidity → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 3. 1425 – a spot, a stain, a blemish → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 4. 1602 – a smack, taste, or flavour of something; esp. a peculiar or ill flavour → obs.
n. 5. 1688 – a billiard-cue → obs.
n. 6. 1718 – an agreement, compact, bargain; hence, a post, situation, a steady job → Sc.
n. 7. 1728 – a specific period of time, as a spell of weather, a stretch → Sc.
n. 8. 1821 – the sound of a smart stroke; a tap; a crack → Sc.
n. 9. 1833 – foodstuff
n. 10. .M19 – anything mouldy or sour, esp. a taste in food or drink that is other than one expects → sl.
n. 11. 1893 – a person who is unfashionable or untidy → Amer. dial.
n. 12. ..L19 – drink → sl.
n. 13. 1901 – a shred of clothing, the least covering of clothes, a ‘stitch’ → Ireland
n. 14. 1905 – a slap → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 15. 1905 – an attack → Eng dial. (Bk.)
n. 16. 1905 – anything of little or no value, or of inferior quality → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 17. 1905 – foolish talk → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 18. 1922 – a cigarette → Amer. dial.
n. 19. 1938 – a nickel → Amer. dial.
n. 20. 1950 – an unsophisticated person → African-American sl.
n. 21. 1950 – a fool → African-American sl.
n. 22. 1950 – a conservative person → African-American sl.
n. 23. 1950 – a bullet → W. Indies Rasta usage
n. 24. 1950 – money → sl.
n. 25. 1960 – a tachometer, an instrument that measures the velocity of machines → sl.
n. 26. 1968 – a citified person → Amer. dial.
n. 27. 1972 – a clever or smart man → Amer. dial.
n. 28. 1972 – an impediment in speech → Sc.
n. 29. 1986 – anything that demonstrates a quality of vulgarity, bad taste, or kitsch → US sl.
n. 30. 1990 – a (prison-created) tattoo → US criminals’ sl.
n. 31. 1992 – a tattoo → US sl.
n. 32. 1996 – marijuana → UK sl.
n. 33. ..L20 – something tacky or cheap and seedy or vulgar; rubbish, junk → colloq.
vb. 1. 1387 – to attach, to fasten one thing to another → obs.
vb. 2. 1601 – to taint, to infect → obs.
vb. 3. 1637 – to change one’s opinion, attitude, or conduct
vb. 4. 1720 – to attack
vb. 5. 1732 – to join in wedlock → sl. obs.
vb. 6. 1858 – to join, to unite, esp. in a loose or slack manner → Sc.
vb. 7. 1868 – to give a smack or taste to→ Eng. dial.
vb. 8. 1905 – to clap the hands → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 9. 1905 – to strike with the open hand; to slap; to beat → Eng. dial.
vb. 10. 1925 – to beg food → US sl.
vb. 11. 1950 – to tick, as a clock → Eng. dial.
• TACK ATTACK
n. a rush of bad taste, or an experience of bad taste …1980s sl.
• TACKED
adj. drunk or drug-intoxicated …2004 US sl.
• TACKED BACK
adj. covered with tattoos …1989 US sl.
• TACKED DOWN
adj. well-dressed …1960s African-American sl.
• TACKED OUT
adj. in trucking: running at full speed …1971 US sl.
• TACKER
n. 1. one who grants a tack or lease …1551 Sc. obs.
n. 2. in English History: one who favoured the tacking of other bills in parliament to money-bills, in order to secure their passage through the House of Lords; especially in early 18th century, one who advocated tacking the bill against occasional conformity, 1704, to a money-bill …1704 Eng. hist.
n. 3. in various trades, one who tacks or fastens articles or parts of things; also, a machine for putting or driving in tacks …1727
n. 4. a great falsehood …1777 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a little child, especially a small boy …1885 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• TACKET
n. 1. a nail; in later use, a small nail, a tack …1316 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a restless, unruly boy …1896 Sc.
n. 3. the penis …1905 Eng. dial.
• TACKET-BOOT
n. a hobnailed boot …1897 Sc.
• TACKETY (BIT)
n. the female breast …1988 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘tit’
• TACKETY-SHOED
adj. wearing studded shoes …1897 Sc.
• TACKEY
adj. 1. of poor quality, shoddy; run-down; cheap. common; in poor taste …1886 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. of clothing or appearance: unfashionable, dowdy; untidy, slovenly, shabby; gaudy, tawdry …1890 Amer. sl.
adj. 3. uncouth, ill-mannered; impolite in behaviour …1916 Amer. sl.
n. 1. a small horse or pony of sturdy but inelegant build; an inferior or broken-down horse …1800 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a low-class White person …1836 Amer. dial.
• TACKEY PARTY
n. a party at which people dress in unfashionable, dowdy, or ridiculous clothes …1890 Amer. dial.
• TACKHEAD
n. 1. a stupid person; a rural farmer …20S US sl.
n. 2. an overdressed or excessively stylish person …20C US sl.
n. 3. an unattractive, unkempt woman …1960s African-American sl.
n. 4. a troublemaker …1990s US sl.
• TACKIE
n. 1. a small horse or pony of sturdy but inelegant build; an inferior or broken-down horse …1800 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a low-class White person …1836 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a tire …1978 S. Afr. sl.
vb. to drive fast, to accelerate …1990s S. Afr. sl.
• TACKIES
n. running shoes; trainers …1913 S. Afr.
• TACKINESS
n. a state of unrefined vulgarity …1977 US sl.
• TACKLE
n. 1. implements of war, weapons; esp. arrows; also, a weapon, an, arrow …c1375 obs.
n. 2. the genitals …M16 sl.
n. 3. one’s best clothes …E17 sl.
n. 4. a prostitute, a mistress …1688 sl. obs.
n. 5. clothes …1698 UK sl.
n. 6. victuals; food or drink …1857 Eng. dial. & sl.
n. 7. a watch chain …L19 sl.
n. 8. a quick and rather troublesome child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 9. a cantankerous, verbally abusive woman …1980s Irish sl.
n. 10. a showily or bizarrely dressed woman …1980s Irish sl.
n. 11. drugs …2000s sl.
vb. 1. to grip, to lay hold of …E19 sl.
vb. 2. to attack, to punish …1828
vb. 3. to take in hand, to deal with …1847
vb. 4. to grapple with, to attempt to deal with …1847
vb. 5. to enter into a discussion with; to approach or question some subject …M19 sl.
vb. 6. to attack food, to begin to eat …1889
vb. 7. to begin, to commence …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 8. to get to know someone with the specific aim of initiating an affair …1950s W. Indies sl.
vb. 9. to court; to flirt …1987 Trinidad and Tobago
• TACKLE TO
vb. to work vigorously on …1874 Sc.
• TACKLE UP
vb. to repair, to mend …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TACKLING
n. 1. arms, weapons, instruments …a1400 obs.
n. 2. fishing tackle …1548 obs.
n. 3. gear, furnishings, fittings, accoutrements, outfit, baggage, etc. …1558 obs.
n. 4. a horse’s harness …c1645 obs.
n. 5. food or drink …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TACKLING-LADDER
n. a rope-ladder …1680 obs.
• TACK ONE’S TEETH INTO ANYTHING
vb. to set about anything heartily …B1900 Eng. dial.
• TACK-O-RAMA
adj. completely tacky or tasteless, gaudy …Bk2002 Aust. sl.
• TACK-TO
n. a frequent companion, esp. of a woman who keeps company with a man in a somewhat imprecise relationship …1827 Sc.
• TACK TOGETHER
vb. to marry …M18 sl.
• TACK UP
vb. to approach someone in a confrontational manner …2000s US prison sl.
• TACKY
adj. 1. of clothing or appearance: unfashionable, dowdy; untidy, slovenly, shabby; gaudy, tawdry …1862 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. of poor quality, shoddy; run-down; cheap. common; in poor taste …1886 Amer. sl.
adj. 3. drunk; sticky with the moisture of alcohol …1900s US college sl.
adj. 4. well-prepared, mentally sharp …1901 Amer. sl.
adj. 5. sticky …Bk1913 Amer. sl.
adj. 6. uncouth, ill-mannered; impolite in behaviour …1916 Amer. sl.
adj. 7. good, skilled, clever …1950s W. Indies sl.
adj. 8. tricky, hard to beat, cunning …1950s W. Indies sl.
n. 1. a small horse or pony of sturdy but inelegant build; an inferior or broken-down horse …1800 Amer. colloq.
n. 2. a poor White person of the southern states, from Virginia to Georgia …1836 US sl.
n. 3. a stupid person, a rural farmer …20C US sl.
n. 4. an overdressed or excessively stylish person …20C US sl.
• TACKYHEAD
n. 1. a stupid person; a rural farmer …20S US sl.
n. 2. an unattractive, unkempt woman …1960s African-American sl.
• TACKY-LACKY
n. a drudge; a person at everyone’s beck and call …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TACKY PARTY
n. a party at which people dress in unfashionable, dowdy, or ridiculous clothes …1890 Amer. dial.
• TACO
adj. inhabited by or characteristic of Mexicans; cheap; stupid; lazy …1968 Amer. dial., derogatory
n. 1. a Mexican or Mexican-American …1968 Amer. dial., derogatory
n. 2. the act of lifting a person (from behind) by the belt, belt buckles, top of the underwear, or the seat of the pants …1989 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a fellow Black; the premise being one is no better than a Mexican …1980s African-American sl., derogatory
n. 4. the penis …1990s US teen sl.
• TACO BELL
n. the penis …1990s US teen sl.
• TACO BELLE
n. a Latin American woman …1980s sl.
• TACO-BENDER
n. a Mexican or Mexican-American …1970 Amer. sl., derogatory
• TACO-EATER
n. a Mexican or Mexican-American …1986 Amer. sl., derogatory
• TACO-HEAD
n. a Mexican or a Chicano …1960s US sl., derogatory
• TACO HELL
n. a Taco Bell™ fast-food restaurant …1990 US sl.
• TACOLAND
n. the part of town where the Mexicans live …1960s sl., derogatory
• TACO QUEEN
n. a White homosexual who prefers Hispanic partners …1970s US homosexual sl.
• TACO-ROLLER
n. a Mexican or Mexican-American …1968 Amer. sl., derogatory
• THE TACO TELEGRAPH
n. the informal means by which news is spread in Mexican communities …1989 Amer. dial.
• TACO TOWN
n. 1. San Jose, US …1960s US sl., derogartory
n. 2. the Mexican section of a community …1970 Amer. sl., derogatory
• TACO-TWISTER
n. a Mexican migrant worker …1974 Amer. sl., derogatory
• TACOU
adj. foolish, stupid …20C W. Indies sl.
• TACO WAGON
n. 1. a car embellished with bright colours, chrome and other accessories associated with Mexican-American car enthusiasts …1960 US sl.
n. 2. in hot rodding: any car which has had its leaf springs shackled, lowering the body …1962 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a modified Chevy with much Chrome and with baby booties or sponge dice hanging from the mirror …1970 Amer. sl.
• TACT
n. 1. the sense of touch; touch …1651
n. 2. the act of touching or handling; a touch …1801 obs. rare
• TACTABLE
adj. capable of being touched …1611 obs.
• TACTATION
n. the act of touching …1688 obs. rare
• TACTIC
adj. 1. pert. to military or naval tactics; tactical …1604 obs.
adj. 2. belonging to touch …1625 rare
adj. 3. pert. to the beating of time …1779 obs.
n. a tactician; one skilled in tactics …1638 obs.
• TACTICS
n. arrangement, disposition …1650 obs. rare
• TACTILE
adj. perceptible to the touch …1615
• TACTION
n. the act of touching; contact …1623
• TACTIVE
adj. characterized by touching …1634 obs. rare
• TACTUAL
adj. pert. to touch; due to touch …1642
• TACTURE
n. touch, contact …1597 obs.
• TACTURIENCY
n. the desire of touching …1652 nonce word obs.
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