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ass-kicker

Language; Slang

(American) An aggressive person, a disciplinarian; someone who kicks ass. An armed- forces term which has been adopted by students and school pupils, among others.

ass-wipe

Language; Slang

(American) 1. toilet paper. A working-class, blue-collar or armed-forces term. 2. a worthless, contemptible person. A term popular in the 1970s and 1980s. at it phrase British 1. having sex. A ...

a touch of the tarbrush

Language; Slang

(Having) a skin colour which suggests a trace of black or coloured ancestry. This euphemism, often heard in a discriminatory context, originated in the mid-19th century, when it was ...

attitude

Language; Slang

(American) A bad attitude, antisocial behaviour, sullen hostility. This use of the word without ‘an’ or ‘the’ probably derives from the black American prisoners’ shortening ...

aussie kiss

Language; Slang

Cunnilingus. By analogy with French kiss and the notion of ‘down under’, the phrase was in use among males in the UK and Ireland in 2003.

aviation blonde

Language; Slang

(British) A female with blonde hair that is dyed rather than natural. The male witticism refers to the combination of ‘blonde hair, black box’.

away-day

Language; Slang

(British) A single dose of LSD or another hallucinogenic drug. A pun on the notion of a trip and the name of a cheap excursion ticket on British Rail.