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

Citations in the Category Colloquial

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boo word n. For Some The Word “Workaholic” Is A Boo Word, For Others It Is A Hurray Word. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2006)

boo word n. Defector has pejorative connotations. It is a boo word. [English Politics Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2006)

boo word n. Whatever their politics may be, the students interviewed were not—by their own perceptions—“liberals.” The world [sic] “liberal” has for them become, to use the jargon, a “boo” word, even a term of accusation. [English Politics Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2006)

boo word n. Donald Nelson warned that Hitler’s hustlers are baiting the chumps with trick words, whispering about our industry being “sovietized,” the biggest boo word of the bunch. [English Politics Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2006)

boot camp flu n. One month into her training—Paige came down with what’s known as “boot camp flu,” or the adenovirus. [English Health Colloquial] [full cite] (Nov. 23, 2007)

Brown Out n. The district’s 2,278 Latino students comprise about 10 percent of the student body. Many businesses planned ahead to observed the boycott also known as “Brown Out” and “A Day Without Latinos.” [English Politics Race Colloquial] [full cite] (May. 2, 2006)

bucket around v. phr. Where breathes the fighting man with soul so dead that he takes insult on being termed a soldier of fortune? There’s no better label for the man who prefers bucketing around the globe seeking danger to a safe nest where his protected talent may flower in peace. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2006)

bugaboo word n. I hope he will be defeated so badly that the bugaboo word Imperialism will never be heard again. [English Politics Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2006)

butter butts n. Audubon warblers, the Western form of the yellow-rumped warbler, also were moving through in large numbers early last week. These blue and yellow warblers are affectionately called “butter butts” by many birders due to their flashing yellow rump patch, which is so visible as they flit away from you. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Colloquial] [full cite] (May. 25, 2007)

Cabbage Night n. Ah, the joys of the annual ritual of mischief known throughout Vermont as Cabbage Night. It’s the night many home- and business-owners have come to dread as youths harness all their collective naughtiness into one evening of mayhem, albeit with eggs, toilet paper, shaving cream and tomatoes. [English United States Colloquial] [full cite] (Nov. 6, 2007)

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