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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3-D adj. Say hello to the 3-D Yankees. In cop parlance, that’s short for Definitely Done Dancing, which is the way bodies in the morgue are referred to. [English Police Slang Abbreviation] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2007)

45 v. The Wildcats’ confidence has been growing every week. It started with a win over Fox, the No. 2 ranked team in Class B, when Thackerville 45’ed them (a term for the 45-point mercy rule used in 8-man football). [English Football Sports & Recreation New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 5, 2008)

50/50 girl n. He stands in the Hall of Flags in front of the young women selling charity raffle tickets—often called the “50-50 girls,” for the distribution of the raffle proceeds: half to the winner, half to charity. [English Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2009)

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-dar n. As an autism parent nearly twelve years post diagnosis, I (and, I’m sure, many other parents) have developed what is often referred to as “A-dar,” short for autism radar. It’s the awareness of a possible autism diagnosis through observing the behavior and facial cues of children and adults with whom we happen to come in contact. It’s not something I ever make an effort to do—it just happens. I’ll be in a public place, or a gathering of some sort, and I happen to notice something different, but all too familiar. My spine sort of tingles, and I know. Or I think I know. [English Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 18, 2009)

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)

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