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apricot!

Language; Slang

(British exclamation) A generalized term of approval recorded among middle-class students in 1999. It may be a jocular version of ‘peachy’.

apricots

Language; Slang

(British) The testicles ‘Hot water has always made my apricots sag.’ (Pensioner Ron Tuffer, quoted in the Eastbourne Herald, 7 May 1994)

archer

Language; Slang

(British) £2,000. An invention by an anonymous wit in the tradition of a monkey, a pony, etc. It refers to the sum paid by the author and Tory politician Jeffrey Archer to Miss Monica ...

arching for it

Language; Slang

(British) (of a woman) Sexually aroused. ‘It refers to a young woman who is sexually fired up (like a cat on heat)’. (Recorded, student, London 2004).

arctic

Language; Slang

(British) 1. Bad. An intensified form of the vogue sense of cold. 2. Excellent, fashionable. An intensified form of cool or chilled. The term has been fashionable in both senses since 2000.

arm

Language; Slang

1. British power, influence, coercion. A colloquial coinage on the lines of ‘hold’, ‘grip’ or ‘strong-arm’. This should give us some arm. 2. See on the arm 3. South African a ...

arm candy

Language; Slang

A temporary escort, typically a fellow stu- dent or ‘unattached’ acquaintance, cho- sen to accompany to a social function. An Americanism of the late 1990s heard in the UK since 2000. Social ...