COMMON with brag, to boast) CONTEMPORARY blown away by: very impressed by. box, on the box: television, on TV. ENGLISH SLANG: brass: money. These slang expressions are brill: really good, brilliant. regularly used in contemporary broke (adjective): without any English, specially in Britain. Some money. of them are well established, but bucks: dollars. most are recent or new words or bum abound: go round doing phrases. nothing. With some exceptions (e.g. for contrast), this list does not include chav: aggressive cultureless a lot of very well-established slang teenager or young person, with no words that appear in all good social aspirations, and probably dictionaries. It does not include jobless. SMS or "text" language. It chick : girl does not include dialectal or chill out: stop being excited, regional slang, unless these are become calm. (c.f. cool it.) understood well beyond their Chinese, go for a Chinese: have a region; it does not include swear take-away Chinese meal. words or "bad language". Words chippie: fish and chip shop marked "impolite" should be cool it: don't get excited, be more avoided in most situations. calm, calm down. Note for students: It is not advisable for the learner of English cool: good, fashionable. to "learn" slang. Most slang words crack up: (1) disintegrate under are either short-lived, or else pressure, (2) laugh uncontrollably. regional (dialect). London slang crap (impolite): excrement, shit, from the 1980's would for instance something with no value. be largely incomprehensible to a crash (out): go to bed, go to sleep New Yorker in the 2000's! cut it out: shut up, stop talking. cut up (adjective): distressed, sad. ace: really good, exceptional. do over: burgle, steal from anorak: very boring person, person dope: drugs. who has no character. doss: sleep ballistic: furious, extremely angry dough: money (as in "He'll go ballistic when he dude: person, man hears that") easy, I'm easy; I don't mind, I have bash, have a bash: (1) try to do no preference one way or the other. something, (2) have a party. fazed: worried, disconcerted (and bird: woman, female. unfazed: cool, calm ) blab: talk, give away secrets fag (noun): (GB) cigarette: (USA) ladette: female version of lad homosexual, gay. lager-lout: hooligan, young male flak, take the flak: criticism, blame, who drinks too much cheap beer. take the blame lass: girl, young lady (Traditional funny farm: hospital for mentally Scottish word) retarded people, asylum. mate: friend grand: thousand (pounds or dollars) mental: mad, stupid, idiotic. grass (noun): 1. cannabis. 2. An miffed: disconcerted, taken aback informer. (also supergrass). naf, naff: of poor quality, rubbish grass (verb): to give information neat: really good, appreciated. about someone (to the police or the nerd: person who is passionately authorities). interested in computers. grub: food. nick (noun): prison gutted: very annoyed, very angry nick (verb): take, steal with oneself pad: the place you live in. guy: man, boy, person PIN number: personal identification hair, keep your hair on: stay calm, number used at a hole in the wall. don't get alarmed piss off: go away, stop it halls: university student residences. piss off, as in hand, lend a: help. You piss me off: You bore or annoy hang on: wait me. hell of a (adjectival expression): pissed off: angry, fed up enormous, giant, big. pissed: drunk. high, he's on a high: elated, in a very good mood. plastic: plastic bank card, Visa card etc. high: he's high: he's under the influence of drugs. Pond: the Atlantic Ocean hole in the wall: cash distributor, pop pills: take drugs cash machine psyched up: tense, anxious hump, he's got the hump.... : he's puke: vomit, be sick (very) angry with ... quid: pound (sterling) iffy: dubious, of dubious quality rat, to rat on someone: to give kip: sleep information about someone. knackered: tired, exhausted sack, hit the: go to bed. knock someone up: (GB) wake sad: pathetic, poor, opposite of cool. someone up: (USA - impolite) have sarnie: sandwich. sex with someone. score with... : have sex with... knot, tie the knot: get married. screenager : person who spends lad: brash young man who tries to be their time looking at their computer, popular with other lads, see lager iPad, mobile phone or TV - lout. (Traditionally, a lad is just a neologism based on the words Scottish word meaning screen and teenager, though a boy or young man) applicable to all ages. screw, have a screw loose: be twisted, he's twisted: he is a bit mentally retarded. strange. screw: (a) extort money from a twit: idiot, stupid person. person, overcharge for something. unfazed: cool, calm (b) (impolite) have sex with a wank: masturbate person. wanker: (impolite) stupid person, un- screw it up: do something very cool person badly, fail at something (e.g. an wheelie, do a: cycle with the front exam) wheel in the air. screwball: idiot. wheels: car, vehicle. shack up with: live with. wicked: fantastic, really good. shattered: very tired, distressed wind up: to tease or try to shoot down to: go quickly to...(e.g. deliberately aggravate someone shoot down to the station). Yucky, yug, yuggy: disgusting, shoot up: inject a drug (such as unpleasant heroin). sickie, take a: be absent from work because you are (or are pretending to be) sick. skive: avoid work, avoid going to work. slag someone off: to say unpleasant things about someone to other people. slag: a woman who sleeps around with different men. sleep around: have sex with lots of different people. sleep over: spend the night at someone else's house. slog, a hard s.: something very difficult. snog: kiss, embrace. stoned: under the influence of cannabis. strapped: short of money. suss out: work out, find the solution a swift one: a quick drink. switch, hit the: turn on or turn off (TV, etc.) takeaway: restaurant seeling take- away food. throw up: vomit, be sick (puke).