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Slang

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

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fomp

Language; Slang

To play around sexually. (Collegiate.) * Who are those two over there fomping? * Jerry wanted to fomp, and I wanted to get him out of my sight.

fork something over

Language; Slang

To hand something over (to someone). * Okay, fork it over. It’s mine! * Okay, fork over the dough and be quick about it!

fracture

Language; Slang

To cause someone to laugh very hard. * Now, this joke’ll fracture you. * I like to tell a few that fracture everybody.

To assassinate an unpopular military officer in Vietnam. (Military.) * The guy was so certain that nobody was going to frag him that he got careless and Charlie got him. * I saw some creeps frag a ...

freak someone out

Language; Slang

To shock or disorient someone. * The whole business freaked me out. * I didn’t mean to freak out everybody with the bad news.

freeload

Language; Slang

To sponge off someone else; to eat and drink at someone else’s expense; to live off someone else. * Don’t come around here and expect to freeload. * My brother-in-law has been freeloading at our ...

front off about something

Language; Slang

To be brash and resentful about something. * Todd was fronting off about his assignment and got a detention for it. * You will wish you hadn’t fronted off about your supervisor.