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adam

Language; Slang

The drug MDA; methyl diamphetamine. Adam is an acronym from the initials, used by middle-class Londoners during the vogue for the drug since the mid-1980s. MDA is more commonly known to ...

adam and eve

Language; Slang

To believe. Well-established rhyming slang which is still heard among working class Londoners and their middleclass imitators, usually in the expression of astonishment ‘Would you ...

addy

Language; Slang

An Internet address. The abbreviation, used in Internet communication and text messaging, is also spoken.

adhocratic

Language; Slang

Improvised and/or temporary, as in decisions made to suit the moment rather than as part of planned policy. The term, from Caribbean speech, has been used by white as well as black ...

aerated

Language; Slang

Angrily over-excited or agitated. Perhaps originated by educated speakers who were familiar with the technical senses of aerate (to supply the blood with oxygen or to make ...

a few fries short of a happy meal

Language; Slang

Intellectually impaired, deranged, eccentric. This variation on the lines of the colloquial ‘one sandwich short of a picnic’ was popular among students in the UK, and also recorded in the USA in ...

acid head

Language; Slang

A user, especially a heavy or habitual user, of the drug LSD. The terms are not pejorative and were used from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s by takers of LSD or other hallucinogens about ...