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the Asian invasion

Language; Slang

(British) A group, clique or gang of young (South) Asians. The phrase has been used e.g. as an ethnic or social categorisation by university students since 2000. The innitcrowd is a synonymous ...

Auntie Flo

Language; Slang

(British) Menstruation. The expression, playing on the word flow, typically appears in the form ‘Aunt Flo is round today’ or ‘We’re expecting Auntie Flo’.

aye-aye shepherd’s pie

Language; Slang

(British exclamation) These joky expressions of agreement or compliance originated among primary and junior schoolchildren, but during the early 1990s were adopted as catch- phrases by adults, ...

Ayrton (Senna)

Language; Slang

(British) A tenner, a £10 note. The rhyming slang term, borrowing the name of the late Brazilian Formula One racing driver, was still in use among London students in 2004. I’ve only got an Ayrton ...

B

Language; Slang

(American) A friend, peer. The abbreviation of buddy and/or bro(ther) is used as a greeting between males, particularly in black street usage. Hey B, how’re they hangin’? Compare G.

brutal

Language; Slang

Excellent. A typical appropriation of a negative (compare bad, wicked, chronic) as a faddish adolescent form of all-purpose approval. Brutal has been recorded at different times in the ...

bubba

Language; Slang

(American) A young man, especially an uncomplicated extrovert. The jocular term, evoking beer- and sport-loving, possibly well-to-do redneck youths, was applied in the mid-1990s to ...