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Culture specific, informal words and terms that are not considered standard in a language.

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buy the big one

Language; Slang

To die. * I don’t plan to buy the big one for at least another thirty years. * She conked out for good— you know, bought the big one.

buy the farm

Language; Slang

To die; to get killed. * He bought the farm on San Juan Hill. * I’m too young to buy the farm.

buy time

Language; Slang

To use a tactic to postpone something. * You are just doing this to buy time. * Maybe I can buy some time by asking for a continuance.

buy trouble

Language; Slang

To encourage trouble; to bring on trouble. * I don’t want to buy trouble. I have enough already. * Saying something like that is just buying trouble.

call hogs

Language; Slang

To snore really loudly. * Mike was calling hogs all night long and I got hardly a wink of sleep. * Wake up! Wake up! You’re calling hogs again!

call someone out

Language; Slang

To challenge someone to a fight. * Max wanted to call him out, but thought better of it. * Did you call me out? What are you going to do about it?

cancel someone’s Christmas

Language; Slang

To kill someone; to destroy someone. (Underworld. The dead person will miss Christmas.) * If he keeps bugging me, I’m gonna cancel his Christmas. * Bruno threatened to cancel Frank’s Christmas if ...

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