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aggro

Language; Slang

(British and Australian aggravation). Originally the slang term was a euphemism for threatened or actual violence, offered typically by skinheads, although it is not clear whether they or ...

aggravation

Language; Slang

(British) Serious trouble, victimisation or mutual harassment. A colloquial extension of the standard meaning of the word, used by police and the underworld. Aggravation is, like bother ...

aggro

Language; Slang

(American) Wonderful, excellent. This probably ephemeral term was recorded among teenagers in New York and California in the late 1980s. It is probably based on a misunderstanding or deliberate ...

ah-eet

Language; Slang

(American) ‘Doing OK, feeling good’ (recorded, US student, April 2002). The term, which can be used as an exclamation or greet- ing, is probably a humorous or mock- dialect deformation of ...

a-hole

Language; Slang

(American) A euphemism for asshole, usually in the literal rather than metaphorical sense.

aiit!

Language; Slang

American exclamation: contracted alterations of all right or awright, fashionable since 2000. See also ite!

aim archie at the armitage

Language; Slang

(Australian) To urinate (for a male). A later version of the widely known point percy at the por- celain, popularised in Barry Humphries’ Barry McKenzie cartoon series. (‘Armit- age Ware’ is a ...