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arsy

Language; Slang

(Australian) Lucky. Usually said grudgingly or enviously about someone who has managed to get away with something. (Arse in Aus- tralian slang may signify luck as well as brazenness.)

artillery

Language; Slang

Needles, hypodermic syringes and other paraphernalia used by heroin addicts. The image of an arsenal of deadly equip- ment is typical of addicts’ own self-dram- atising slang (as in ...

-artist

Language; Slang

(Suffix) An expert in, or devotee of, a particular activity. The word can be added to many others, but the most popular are bull(shit)-artist, burn-artist, con-artist, piss-artist, ...

arty-farty

Language; Slang

Pretentious, affected, more decorative than useful. A more vulgar parallel of the innocuous ‘arty-crafty’, which is Edwardian in origin and was usually applied to the ...

arvo

Language; Slang

(Australian) Afternoon. An example of the Australian tendency to abbreviate even the most mundane everyday words. The tendency is shared by nursery slang in general and, in Britain, ...

angel dust

Language; Slang

The drug P.C.P. A powdered (usually home-made) version of an animal tranquillizer which is smoked or sniffed through a tube and which produces in the user unpredictable ...

anglo

Language; Slang

(American) A person of (mainly) Anglo-Saxon ethnic origin. The term came into widespread use in the 1970s, especially among Hispanics. This was the first attempt by Americans from other ethnic ...