Slang Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Slang. The language of the underbelly or exclusionary in-groups. Often vulgar or inappropriate for polite company. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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6,000-mile screwdriver n. Well, we don’t know yet. I mean, that is—and again, we’re not going to apply the 6,000-mile screwdriver on that. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

6,000-mile screwdriver n. Military command-and-control systems are said to provide commanders with six-thousand-mile screwdrivers. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

7,000-mile screwdriver n. Senior military officers referred to it as “the 7,000-mile screwdriver.” That was their way of describing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s penchant for micromanaging aspects of the Iraq War that interested him. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

7,000-mile screwdriver n. As I think most of you know from our efforts on the USS Cole, the chief of naval operations, secretary of the navy, both for good, legal reasons of not interfering with ongoing investigations from Washington, and for practical reasons of the difficulty of adjusting things with a 7,000-mile screwdriver, do not reach out into the midst of the investigation and pull back information prematurely. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

A and A n. The other two A and As—U.S. Army slang for Afghan army soldiers—hit the deck directly in front of the Humvee and quickly bring their rifles up to the prone position. [English Military Slang Acronym] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2007)

A-she-ville n. In Asheville, that’s a problem. Straight people here proudly refer to the town as the lesbian capital of the South; when they joke about “A-she-ville,” they’re proud. [North Carolina English Gay Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

abandon-minium n. These women would for the most part end up sleeping in their cars or what they would refer to as “Abandon-miniums” (abandoned homes). [English Houses & Housing Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 2, 2006)

Abercrombie zombie n. KarmaLoop was able to create an active and loyal customer base by railing against the large and trendy clothing stores found in malls—at times referring to them as the “Abercrombie Zombies,” a mockery of the giant retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. [English Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

abortuary n. Abortion protesters have referred to the clinic as an “abortuary,” but Planned Parenthood officials have said that abortions are expected to account for less than 10 percent of the patients seen at the clinic. [English Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 21, 2007)

ad car n. Hey Harry, I got a guy hot for an ad car (a cheap, optionless car heavily advertised to lure people in to buy a more expensive model). His old car’s got a few Ripley’s (old damage, badly repaired, from Ripley’s Believe it Or Not), but this guy’s hung (ready to sign the papers). [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 6, 2007)

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