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afro

Language; Slang

A hairstyle consisting of a mass of tight curls which was adopted by Afro-Caribbeans and imitated (often by perming) by white hippies, particularly between 1967 and 1970

afters

Language; Slang

(British) A drinking session in a pub after official closing time, lock-in. The term is an abbreviation of ‘after hours (drinking)’. There’s going to be afters on Friday night. Are you going to ...

agg

Language; Slang

(British) Violence, aggression. A shortened form of aggro, heard in provincial adolescent slang from around 1990, and previously used by older prison inmates and members of the underworld. ...

-age

Language; Slang

(suffix American) A termination that became popular amongst older adolescents in the early 1990s in creating mock-serious nouns from existing slang and standard bases.

ag-fay

Language; Slang

A male homosexual. Usually used pejoratively and almost always by heterosexu- als, this example of pig Latin is based on fag. Unlike the superficially similar ofay, this expression is ...

aggers

Language; Slang

The backside, buttocks. An item of provincial slang recorded in the Observer newspaper, 23 July 1994. Its derivation is uncertain.

aggie

Language; Slang

(British) a marble (as used in children’s games). An old term, usually for a striped marble, still heard in the 1950s. From agate, the banded stone from which marbles were ...