| 24/7 | Noun. All the time. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
| ta! | Exclam. Thank you! {Informal} |
| tab | Noun. 1. Abb. of tablet. Drug culture expression. 2. A cigarette. 3. Ear. See 'tab-hang'. [dialect] |
| tab-end | Noun. A cigarette butt. |
| tab-hang | Verb. To eavesdrop. Heard as tab'ang. E.g."Stop tabhanging, and get on with your homework." See 'tab'. [Northern use/dialect?] |
| table-ender | Noun. An act of copulation on or at a table. |
| tackle | Noun. The male genitals. Implying their usefulness as equipment to complete a task. Cf. 'wedding tackle.' |
| tacky | Adj. Of poor taste, lacking style. {Informal} |
| tactical chunder | Noun. A bout of vomiting, self-administered to enable one to drink more alcohol. A pun on the expression tactical blunder. See 'chunder'. |
| tadger | Noun. A penis. Usually affectionate usage. Cf. 'todger'. [1950s] |
| Taffy | Noun. A Welsh person. Usually offensive. Derived either from the Welsh Dafydd, an equivalent name for David, or the River Taff. Also abbreviated to Taff. |
| tag | Noun. A pseudonym or other identifying mark used as a signature by a graffitti artist. |
| tagnuts | Noun. Faecal remnants that adhere to anal hairs. |
| tailor-made | Noun. A factory produced cigarette, as opposed to a hand-rolled cigarette. |
| taint | Noun. The perineum. Something of a pun, because it aint the anus, and it aint the vagina or balls. |
| take a chill pill | Vrb phrs. To relax. See 'chill pill'. |
| take a dive | Vrb phrs. To feign a foul or knockdown in sports. |
| take a hand to someone | Vrb phrs. To tease, ridicule. Also make a hand. [Irish use] |
| take a hike | Vrb phrs. To depart. Usually a demand by someone. |
| take a pop at (someone) | Vrb phrs. To verbally or physically attack (someone). Also phrased as 'have a pop at (someone)'. |
| take a running jump! | Exclam. A dismissive rebuff. |
| take it easy | Vrb phrs. 1. Goodbye, a parting salutation. 2. Relax, don't get stressed. |
| take it up the arse/ass | Vrb phrs. To be on the receiving end of anal sex. E.g."He took it up the arse and couldn't sit down for three days after." |
| take five | Verb. Have a brief rest or respite from one's current activities. |
| take the biscuit | Vrb phrs. To beat all competition, to take all the honours, usually said ironically or with surprise. {Informal} |
| take the Michael (out of someone) | Vrb phrs. To make fun, tease, satirize. From 'take the mickey'. E.g."I dont like John, he's always taking the Michael out of me." |
| take the mickey (out of someone) | Vrb phrs. To tease, to ridicule. Also shortened to take the mick. An abbreviated form of the Cockney rhyming slang take the mickey bliss, meaning 'take the piss'. E.g."Stop taking the mickey out of Billy, he's very sensitive and you're upsetting him." Cf. 'take the Michael' and 'extract the Michael'. [1930s] |
| take the piss | Vrb phrs. 1. To ridicule, to tease, to make fun off. Cf. 'extract
the urine'. 2. To take advantage of, to exploit. E.g."Just because they like looking after their grand children, doesn't mean you can dump the kids on them every weekend whilst you go out clubbing. That's just taking the piss." |
| talent | Noun. An attractive person or persons. |
| talk out of one's arse | Vrb phrs. To talk nonsense. E.g."You're talking out of your arse if you think you can beat the British champion at chess." |
| talk the hind leg off a donkey | Vrb phrs. To talk incessantly. {Informal} |
| tally-ho! | Exclam. Goodbye, a cheerful parting salutation. |
| tallywhacker | Noun. Penis. |
| tandoori two-step | Noun. Having diarrhoea and an upset stomach. |
| tank | Verb. To travel rapidly, to charge at great speed. E.g."We tanked it up from London, just in time to watch the football match." |
| tanked (up) | Adj. Drunk and in a state rowdiness. E.g."He was tanked up on strong cheap cider and looking for a fight." [Early 1900s] |
| tanorexia | Noun. An obsession with unnatural skin tanning. A pun on anorexia nervosa, and originally used by psychologists and dermatologist's. Also the adjective tanorexic, being characterized by having an extremely unnatural skin tan. |
| tap off | Verb. To seduce a sexually desirable person. |
| tapped | Adj. Insane or a mentally unstable. From doolally tap. Cf. 'doolally'. |
| ta-ra! | Exclam. Goodbye! Cf. 'ta-ta'. [Welsh/Midlands/Northern use, 1950s] {Informal} |
| tara-a-bit! | Exclam. Goodbye! Also t'ra a bit and other possible spelling variations. [Birmingham/West Midlands use] |
| tart | Noun. 1. A prostitute or promiscuous woman. The often unisexual
nature of contemporary slang ensures the phrase is now applied to promiscuous
males. Derog. 2. Derog. and offensive term for women. Derived from the Cockney rhyming slang jam tart meaning sweetheart. 3. An objectionable person; often used affectionately or playfully. 4. A person who will prostitute their abilities or themselves for any amount of gain. |
| (the) Tartan Army | Noun. Collectively, the supporters of the Scottish national football team. |
| tart fuel | Noun. Sweet, ready-mixed fruit drinks containing alcohol. Commonly believed to be mainly consumed by women who would become morally loose after an excessive consumption, consequently becoming 'tarts'. Cf. 'alcopop' and 'bitch piss'. |
| tart up | Verb. To smarten up. {Informal} |
| tash | Noun. Abb. of moustache. {Informal} |
| ...tastic | Suffix. Added to words to imbue a sense of unexpected excellence. E.g."She took me back to her room and we had a sextastic night." |
| tasty | Adj. Attractive. |
| tat | Noun. 1. Rubbish, junk. Abb. of tatty. E.g."You can't wear that
old cardigan, it's tat." {Informal} 2. Abb. of tattoo. |
| ta-ta! | Exclam. Goodbye! Cf. 'ta-ra'. [Early 1900s] {Informal} |
| taters | Noun. Potatoes. A corruption of the word potatoes. {Informal} Adj. Cold. From the Cockney rhyming slang taters in the mould (potatoes in the mould). E.g."It's a bit taters in hear. Shall I light the fire?" |
| tax | Verb. To rob a person in public by the use of, or threat of aggression, to extort, to mug. A euphemism attempting to obscure the aggressive nature of such an assault. Came to prominence during the early 1990s. |
| t'd off | Adj. Angry, annoyed. |
| tea-bagging | Noun. The oral manipulation and sucking of testicles during sex; a tea-bagger being a person who indulges in said activity. |
| tealeaf | Noun. Thief. Cockney rhyming slang. |
| tear-arse about / around | Verb. To hurry about, hinting at frantic haste. E.g."I've been tear-arsing about from one meeting to the next and without a break all day." |
| tear-jerker | Noun. A film or story likely to be over sentimental and promote tearful emotions. {Informal} |
| tea towel holder | Noun. The anus. |
| technicolour yawn | Noun. An act of vomiting. Jocular usage. [Orig Aust. 1960s] |
| techno | Noun. A type of electronically created dance music. |
| teenth | Noun. Drug parlance for a sixteenth of an ounce. |
| |
Noun. Very large amounts, usually applied to money. E.g."So what price are you going to charge for the full service? Are you talking telephone numbers?" |
| tell someone where to get off | Vrb phrs. An angry rebuke at someone's interference. E.g."If she mentions my acne once more I'll tell her where to get off.' |
| telly | Noun. Television. {Informal} |
| ten-foot | Noun. A narrow alleyway behind a row of homes. From its width being 10 feet in diameter. [East Yorks/Hull use] |
| tenner | Noun. A ten-pound (sterling) monetary note. {Informal} |
| tex mex | Noun. Marijuana. [Probably orig. U.S.] |
| Thames trout | Noun. A lump of excrement. From when the River Thames was very poluted. [Mainly London use] |
| thang | Noun. Thing. |
| thanks a bunch! | Exclam. An ironic thank you very much. |
| thanks for nothing! | Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance at someone's unhelpfulness. |
| thatch | Noun. Pubic hair. |
| that's the stuff | Phrs. Said as an approval of a thing done or said. {Informal} |
| thick as a brick | Phrs. Very stupid. |
| thick as pig shit | Phrs. Very stupid. Also thick as pig shit. |
| thick as shit in the neck of a bottle | Phrs. Very stupid |
| thick as two short planks | Phrs. Very stupid. |
| thick ear | Noun. A slap around the head, often used as an idle threat. E.g. "If you don't come down here and do the washing up, I'll give you a thick ear." {Informal} |
| thicko | Noun. An stupid, unintelligent person. Derog. |
| thingy-ma-bob | Noun. A something whose name escapes one. Also a thing-ma-jig. Cf. 'oojah'. {Informal} |
| this arvo | Phrs. This afternoon. [Orig. Aust.] |
| this avvy | Phrs. This afternoon. E.g."I'm off up town this avvy. Do you fancy coming along?" |
| Thora (Hird) * | Noun. A lump of excrement. Verb. To defecate. E.g."I wouldn't go in the toilet if I was you, I've just had a Thora." * Rhyming slang on 'turd'. Thora Hird, veteran British actress, died in 2003. |
| thrap | Verb. To masturbate Noun. An act of masturbation. E.g."He's in his bedroom, having a good long thrap over a new porn mag." |
| thrape | Verb. 1. To hit, to beat, to thrash. [Midlands use/Dialect?] 2. Usually of vehicles, to race, to go at speed. E.g."I thraped the car up the motorway and arrived in record time." [Midlands use] |
| thrash | Noun. A type of fast raw rock music derived from 'punk'. |
| thrash metal | Noun. Similar to 'thrash' but having a more 'heavy-metal' slant. |
| threads | Noun. Clothes. |
| threepenny bits | Noun. Women's breasts. Rhyming slang on 'tits'. Also thrupenny bits. Cf. 'thrups'. |
| three sheets to the wind | Phrs. Drunk, very intoxicated. E.g."She was three sheets to the wind and still downing gin and tonics quicker than they could pour them." |
| threesome | Noun. An act of sex between three people, a menage a trois. |
| throat yogurt | Noun. Semen. Also spelt throat yoghurt. |
| throne | Noun. The lavatory, the toilet. |
| throw | Verb. 1. To vomit. A shortening of 'throw up'. 2. To intentionally or by one's own foolishness, lose a game. {Informal} |
| throw a benny | Vrb phrs. Have a tantrum, a fit of anger. E.g."If you don't want to see Ted throwing a benny, then don't drop litter on the street." |
| throw an eppy | Vrb phrs. Have a fit of anger. Derived from epilectic fit. See 'eppy'. E.g."After losing the final game of the season he threw an eppy and resigned from the team management." |
| throw a sickie | Vrb phrs. Falsely claim to be ill, usually to avoid work. |
| throw a whitey | Vrb phrs. To feel like vomiting, derived from the action of losing all the colour in one's face prior to being sick. |
| throw a wobbly | Vrb phrs. Become very angry. Also throw a wobbler and chuck a wobbly. E.g." He threw a wobbly when he found her having sex with the plumber on the kitchen floor." |
| throw up | Verb. To vomit. {Informal} |
| thrupenny bits | Noun. See 'threepenny bits'. Thrupenny Bits - also the title of The Hampton Cobbler's original, cheeky and addictive punk rock football song. |
| thrups | Noun. Women's breasts. Shortening of thrupenny bits, rhyming slang on 'tits'. See 'threepenny bits'. |
| thrutch | Verb. To fidget, to be restless. E.g."I got no sleep at all with you thrutching about all night." [Northern use /Dialect?] |
| thunderthighs | Noun. 1. A person with fat or very bulky legs, usually applied
to women. 2. Fat or large legs. |
| thunderbox | Noun. A toilet. |
| tick | Noun. 1. Credit. Often heard in the phrase on tick. E.g."I
can never save money, so always buy electrical goods on tick." {Informal} 2. A moment, a second. E.g."I'll be with you in a tick." {Informal} |
| tickled pink | Adj. Very pleased. |
| tick off | Verb. To reprimand, to tell off. E.g."If you keep ticking me off then I'll go home early and then you'll be sorry." {Informal} |
| ticked off | Adj. Angry, annoyed. |
| tickety-boo | Adj. Fine, all right, in order. E.g."Yes indeed, everything is just tickety-boo, I've never felt better." |
| ticking off | Noun. A reprimand. E.g."I got a right ticking off from the headmaster, and he's going to tell my mum aswell." See 'tick off' (verb) |
| tiddly | Adj. 1. A little drunk. {Informal} 2. Small. {Informal} |
| tidy | Adj. Good, satisfactory. Common use in Wales. E.g."It was a tidy party, but I've got a terrible hangover now." |
| tight | Adj. 1. To be frugal or not generous. {Informal} 2. Drunk. {Informal} |
| tight-arse | Noun. A mean, selfishly frugal person. |
| tight-arsed | Adj. Mean, stingy. |
| tight as a duck's arse | Phrs. Miserly, very mean. Cf. 'tight as a gnat's chuff'. |
| tight as a gnat's chuff | Phrs. Extremely frugal, very miserly. See 'chuff'. |
| tightwad | Noun. A miserly person, a mean person. |
| Tim | Noun. A supporter of Celtic Football Club, a Glasgwegian based team with a Catholic following, hence Tim also referring to Catholics. Cf. 'hun'. [Mainly Glasgow use] |
| time | Noun. A prison sentence. Serving one's time, or doing time. |
| (the) time of the month | Noun. A euphemism for a woman's menstrual cycle. |
| tin bath | Noun. A laugh, often in the sense of ridiculing, hence often heard as "you're having a tin bath mate!", meaning "you're having me on and can't be serious". Cockney rhyming slang, from Cockney's pronunciation of bath as barf, so rhyming with laugh (pronounced larf). [London use] |
| tinkle | Noun. 1. An act of urination. Much accepted expression, less
vulgar than 'widdle.' [Orig. U.S.] 2. A phone-call. E.g."I'll give you a tinkle at the weekend." {Informal}. |
| tinnie | Noun. A can of beer. [Orig. Aust.] |
| tip | Noun. 1. A style, manner. E.g."That tune was very much on an
operatic tip." 2. An untidy place, a mess. E.g."Will you tidy your bedroom please, it's a right tip and there's dirty clothes still on the floor from two weeks ago." |
| tip it down | Verb. To rain heavily. E.g."It's been tipping it down for 40 days and nights." |
| tip off | Verb. To give information secretly. Noun. An act of revealing secret information. |
| tit | Noun. 1. A woman's breast, usually applied in the plural, as
tits. 2. An imbecile, an objectionable person. 3. A push-button. E.g."Come on, hurry! Push the tit, we're running out of time - fire evrything we've got at them!" [Orig. Military use] |
| tit about / around | Verb. To waste time, to mess about. E.g."Stop titting around and get on with your work." |
| tit boring | Adj. Very boring, tedious. |
| titch | Noun. A nickname for a small person. |
| titchy | Adj. Tiny, small, insignificant. {Informal} |
| titfer | Noun. A hat. Cockney rhyming slang from tit for tat. |
| tit-head | Noun. An idiot, a despicable person. |
| tits-up | Adj. See 'go tits-up'. |
| tit wank | Noun. A form of masturbation whereby the penis is sandwiched and rubbed between a female's breasts (See 'tit'). Cf. 'soapy tit wank'. |
| tizzy | Noun. A confused, flustered state. E.g."She was all emotional and in a tizzy." {Informal}. |
| toast | Verb. To sing one's own lyrics over a vocaless backing track. From reggae and originating in the West Indies. |
| toby jug | Noun. A fool, a gullible person. Rhyming slang on 'mug'. See 'mug'. |
| tod | Noun. See 'on one's tod'. |
| toddle off | Verb. To casually leave. {Informal}. |
| todger | Noun. A penis. A variation on 'tadger'. |
| todger dodger | Noun. A lesbian. From, avoiding (dodges) contact with the penis (todger). See 'todger'. |
| to do | Noun. A fuss, a fracas. {Informal}. |
| toe-jam | Noun. The dirt that collects between one's toes. |
| toe-job | Noun. An act of licking/sucking a person's toes, usually for sexual gratification. |
| toe-rag | Noun. A contemptible or worthless person. From the cloth that was worn around one's feet as a sock, usually by vagrants. [Mid 1800s] |
| toff | Noun. A member of the wealthy upper classes. |
| toffee-nosed | Adj. Snobbish. Derog. |
| togger | Noun. Football. Generally adolescent/juvenile use. |
| togs | Noun. Clothes. {Informal} |
| toilet | Noun. A thing or place that is considered dirty, squalid or unkempt. E.g."Have you seen the state of Pete's kitchen? I'm not going to his for dinner, it's a toilet." |
| toke | Verb. To smoke a 'joint', or marijuana cigarette. Noun. A drag on a cigarette or 'joint'. |
| toley | Noun. A lump of excrement. Also spelt toly and tolli. [Orig. Scottish] |
| tom | Noun. 1. A prostitute. A London term nationally known due to
its use on police dramas such as The Bill. 2. Jewellery. From the rhyming slang, Tom Foolery. Verb. To work as a prostitute. |
| Tom and Dick | Noun. Sick. Rhyming slang. |
| Tom, Dick and Harry | Noun. Anybody, any person regardless of specifics. E.g."Next time lock the door! Any Tom, Dick and Harry could have walked in here and stolen my money." |
| tommies | Noun. Tomatoes. |
| tomming |
Noun. 1. Out seeking sex, being sexually promiscuous. |
| tommy | Noun. 1. Tomato. E.g."You know what this salad is lacking?
Tommies! " 2. A British soldier, usually a private. {Informal} |
| tommy K | Noun. Tomato ketchup. |
| tommy-rot | Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. E.g."Don't believe a thing he says, he's talking absolute tommy-rot!" |
| tommy sauce | Noun. Tomato ketchup. |
| tommy (tank) | Noun. An act of masturbation. Rhyming slang on 'wank'. |
| tomtit | Noun. An act of defecation. From the rhyming slang for 'shit'. |
| ton | Noun. The figure of one hundred, usually applied to the speed of 100 mph or a sum of £100. |
| tongue | Verb. To perform cunnilingus. |
| tonk |
Verb. 1. To hit or kick hard. E.g."He tonked the football
into the opposition's half of the pitch." |
| tonking | Noun. A thorough beating, a severe defeat. E.g."The England team gave Germany a good tonking - final score 5-1." |
| tonky | Noun. A condom. [Merseyside use] |
| tonsil hockey | Noun. Passionate, deep kissing. Cf. 'tonsil tennis'. |
| tonsil tennis | Noun. Passionate, deep kissing. Cf. 'tonsil hockey'. |
| toodle-oo ! | Exclam. Goodbye! {Informal} |
| tool | Noun. 1. A penis, implying its supposed usefulness. [1200s] 2. An idiot, a contemptible person. |
| tool-up | Verb. To arm oneself, usually with a gun. |
| tooled up | Adj. Armed, carrying weapons. |
| Toon Army | Noun. Collectively the supporters of Newcastle United Football Club. Toon meaning town in the Geordie dalect. See 'Geordie'. |
| too right! | Exclam. I agree! An exclamation of aggreement. |
| toot | Verb. Originally to snort drugs but now also smoking. Noun. 1. The inhalation, via the nose, of an illicit powdered drug, such as cocaine. 2. A smoke. 3. Rubbish, junk, trash. 4. Nonsense, drivel, gibberish. |
| toothing | Noun. Sex between strangers, after having been arranged via the mobile phone (cell phone) using Bluetooth technology. |
| tootsies | Noun. Toes. |
| top | Verb. To kill. E.g."He took a full bottle of pain-killers and
topped himself." Adj. Excellent, 'sorted'. [Orig. Manchester use] |
| top banana | Noun. The leading person, the boss. [Orig. U.S.] |
| top bollocks | Noun. A woman's breasts. |
| top dog | Noun. The leader, boss. |
| top one | Adj. Excellent, expressing that something is the best. |
| topper | Noun. An exceptional thing or person. Dated expression. |
| top totty | Noun. Very attractive woman, or women. |
| top whack | Phrs. The maximum price or rate. Cf.'full whack'. {Informal} |
| torch | Verb. To set alight. |
| tortoise | Noun. See 'have a tortoise'. |
| tosh | Adj. Rubbish, nonsense. {Informal}. |
| toss | Noun. 1. Rubbish, nonsense. E.g."That play was toss, we should
have gone to the cinema instead." 2. An act of masturbation. Verb. To masturbate. |
| tossbag | Noun. A contemptible or worthless person. |
| tosser | Noun. An idiot, a contemptible person. Also, occasionally spelt tossa. |
| tossing | Adj. An intensifier. E.g."I'm not doing the tossing washing up, it's your turn!" |
| toss off | Verb. To masturbate. Term applied to males. E.g."He's been tossing himself off for last 2 hours, whilst watching Miss World." [1700s] |
| toss-pot | Noun. Mildly offensive name for an idiot or contemptible person. Often heard used affectionately. |
| total | Verb. To wreck, usually with reference to a vehicle. E.g."That's the third car I've totalled this year, and I wasn't speeding this time." [Orig. U.S.] |
| totally hatstand | Adj. Crazy, mad, insane. Adaptation of 'completely hatstand' from Viz comic. Cf. 'completely hatstand' and 'hatstand'. |
| to the max | Phrs. Totally, completely, to the limit. |
| totty | Noun. Sexually alluring female or females, also applied, these days, to males. Originally a term for a prostitute in late 1800s. E.g."There was plenty of totty at the party." |
| touching cloth | Phrs. Have an urgent need defecate. |
| touch up | Verb. To sexually molest, to grope. E.g."The priest has been touching up the choir boys again." |
| tough! | Adj. Short for tough luck!, a sarcastic and bitter exclamation. |
| tough cookie | Noun. A strong unyielding person. |
| tough guy | Noun. A particularly hard and unyielding male, scared of little and acting so. |
| tough nut | Noun. A difficult or obstinate person. |
| tough shit! | Exclam. Hard luck! Often expressed with irony. Cf. 'hard-shit'. |
| tough titty! | Exclam. Hard luck! Cf. 'tough shit'. |
| towel-head | Noun. An Arab, from the headwear worn by Arabs in the Middle East. Also towelhead. Offens and derog. |
| town bike | Noun. A promiscuous woman from the local district. Cf. 'bike'. Derog. |
| townie | Noun. A person, usually young, who typically wears casual, brand-name sportswear, such as Nike, Addidas and Reebok etc Usually associated with town/city dwellers. Also towny. Mainly derog. |
| toyboy | Noun. A woman's evidently younger male lover. |
| tracky | Noun. Tracksuit. E.g."Can I borrow your tracky bottoms? Mine are in the wash." {Informal} |
| Tracy | Noun. A disparaging name for a female considered to be working class, unintelligent, vulgarly dressed and generally below the social standards acceptable to the user of the phrase. Frequently heard used in conjunction with 'Sharon'. See 'Sharon and Tracy'. Derog. |
| trade | Noun. 1. A sexual partner or collective term for such. [Gay
use] 2. A prostitutes term for their sexual partners as business. |
| tradesman's entrance | Noun. The anus, the back passage. Traditionally tradesman delivered their goods or services via the backdoor, not the main entrance as used by paying customers. |
| trainspotter | Noun. Generally a usually intelligent but particularly anally retentive person; the person may be obsessed with trivia or have a keen interest in collecting particular objects or data, such as trainspotting, stamp collecting etc. Originates from the much ridiculed hobby of rail enthusiasts, trainspotting, the viewing and taking note of trains from station platforms. The expression was popular on the club scene at which a trainspotter will be seen watching DJ's, spotting which tracks are played and gleaning knowledge on the music for future reference. Derog. Cf 'anorak' and 'nerd'. |
| tramlines | Noun. The scars created by the constant injection of illicit drugs. |
| trannie | Noun. 1. A cross-dresser, usually male wearing female attire,
and adopting feminine characteristics. Abb. of transvestite. Cf. 'tv'.
2. A transexual. 3. A transistor radio. [1960s] 4. A Ford transit van. Also tranny. |
| tranks | Noun. Tranquillizers. |
| trap off | Verb. To attain a liason with a sexually desirable person. Also just phrased as trap. |
| trap | Noun. The mouth. E.g."Shut your trap you noisy bugger." |
| trashed | Adj. 1. Worn-out. 2. Very intoxicated by drink or drugs and consequently worse for wear. [Orig. U.S.] |
| treacle | Noun. An affectionate term of address, more prevalent in London. |
| treader | Noun. A bicycle. |
| tree hugger | Noun. An environmentalist, a green activist. |
| tribal | Noun. A type of 'house' music which is very rhythmic and deep. [Orig. U.S.] |
| trick | Noun. 1. A prostitutes client. 2. A casual sexual encounter. [Mainly gay use] |
| trick cyclist | Noun. A pun on psychiatrist. |
| triffic ! | Exclam. Excellent! A contraction of terrific. |
| triffid | Noun. Any large or sprawling plant, usually a house plant. From The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. |
| trip | Noun. 1. The time spent under the influence of a hallucinatory
drug such as LSD. {Informal}. 2. A 'tab' of LSD. Verb. To hallucinate on LSD or other hallucinogen. |
| triphop | Noun. Variety of dance music that draws its influences from 'hip-hop' and 'house', but being deeper and a little more orientated towards listening. |
| trippy | Adj. Of or like the experiences and qualities felt under the influence of hallucinogens. |
| trog | Noun. An ugly, uncouth person. Derived from troglodyte. |
| troll | Noun. An ugly person, usually referring to a woman. |
| trolley dolly | Noun. An airline flight attendant, mainly applied to females. Mainly derog. |
| trolleyed | Adj. Very intoxicated by drink or drugs. An extension of 'off one's trolley'. |
| trolleys | Noun. Underwear, specifically knickers and underpants. [1950s] |
| tromboning | Noun. A sexual act performed on a male, whereby the partner orally stimulates the males anus from behind, whilst masturbating the male's penis. |
| tromp | Verb. To trudge, to walk. E.g."I'm worn out, having tromped around the shops for the last 6 hours." |
| trots | Noun. Having diarrhoea. The origins are quite apparent, the need to hurry to the toilet with sickness. Cf. `runs'. |
| trouble and strife | Noun. Wife. Cockney rhyming slang. |
| trough | Verb. To eat. The imagery is of eating like an animal. |
| trouser | Verb. To pocket. E.g."Chris trousered all his winnings and left the casino with no chance to win back their losses." |
| trouser cough | Noun. An emmision of intestinal gases from the anus, a 'fart'. |
| (the) trouser department | Noun. The male genitals. |
| trousered | Adj. Drunk, or very intoxicated. |
| trousers | Adj. Nonsense, gibberish. |
| trouser snake | Noun. Euphemism for the penis. A shortening of 'one-eyed trouser-snake'. |
| trouser tent | Noun. A penile erection, when visible beneath clothing. |
| trout | Noun. An unattractive woman, often prefixed with old. Derog. |
| trump | Verb. To break wind from the anus, to 'fart'. E.g."There's
a disgusting smell in here. Has someone trumped?" Noun. 1. An act of breaking wind. 2. The resulting smell of having broke wind from the anus, a 'fart'. |
| trumpton | Noun. The fire brigade. After the children's UK television programme of the same name, circa 1960s. [Police use] |
| T.T.F.N. | Abb. Ta ta for now. Goodbye for now. See 'ta-ta'. |
| tubby | Noun. A fat person, often of short stature. Not necessarily derogatory. |
| tube | Noun. A contemptible or idiotic person. [Scottish use] |
| tub of lard | Noun. A fat person. Cf. 'lardarse'. Derog. |
| tuck | Noun. Food. {Informal} |
| tuck in | Verb. To eat, usually with enthusiasm. E.g."To start the day I love tucking into a full English breakfast." {Informal} |
| tuck shop | Noun. A confectioners, a sweet shop. Children's expression. |
| tug | Noun. An act of male masturbation. |
| tummy banana | Noun. A penis. Juvenile expression. |
| tumshie | Noun. A turnip. [Scottish use] |
| tuned to the moon | Phrs. Of a person, crazy, eccentric. [Scottish use] |
| tup | Verb. 1. To have sexual intercourse. 2. To headbutt. E.g."He said my girlfriend looked like Quasimodo, so I tupped him." [Wigan use] |
| turd | Noun. 1. A lump of faeces. Derived from the Anglo-Saxon tord.
[1000s] 2. A contemptible person. E.g."That new bloke in accounts is a right turd, fawning all over the receptionist." |
| turd burglar | Noun. A homosexual male. Derog./Offens. |
| turd fish | Noun. A lump of faecal excrement, when viewed floating in water. |
| turf | Noun. The area felt to belong to a person or gang. |
| turf out | Verb. To expel a thing or a person, to throw out. E.g."Haven't you turfed out that broken chair yet?" {Informal} |
| turkey | Noun. A stupid or idiotic person. [Orig. U.S. 1940s] |
| turnip | Noun. 1. An idiot. 2. The head. |
| turn-off | Verb. To disgust. Noun. A thing that is disgusting. |
| turn-on | Verb. To excite, often sexually. Noun. Something that excites. |
| turn over | Verb. To rob by ransacking a premises. E.g."The library got turned over at the weekend and three computers got stolen." |
| turtle's head | Noun. See 'have a turtle's head'. |
| tut | Noun. Rubbish, nonsense. E.g."Whatever he told you about me is just a load of tut." or "I think we need to clear up all this tut before your parents arrive." |
| TV | Noun. Abb. of transvestite. Cf. 'trannie'. |
| twag | Verb. To play traunt. E.g."No wonder he failed his exams, he's been twagging for most of the last year." [Hull/Lincolnshire use] |
| twannock | Noun. An idiot, an objectionable person. [Yorkshire use] |
| twat | Noun. 1. The female genitals. [1600s] 2. A contemptible person, an idiot. Verb. To hit, to thump. E.g."I twatted him before he had chance to twat me." |
| twat face | Noun. A contemptible person. |
| twatfaced | Adj. Intoxicated with alcohol or drugs. |
| twatted | Adj. Very intoxicated due to alcohol or drugs. |
| twatting | Adj./Adv. A general intensifier. E.g."You wouldn't twatting believe the colour of her car, it's pink and it matches her hair." |
| twentyfour-seven | Noun. All the time. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
| twernt | Noun. Anatomically, the area between the genitals and the anus. Derived from the expression "if it twernt there your guts would fall out". |
| twerp | Noun. An imbecile, a fool. Fairly inoffensive term. Also twirp. |
| twig | Verb. To understand, to realise. E.g."Once I saw the look on her face I twigged it was a joke." {Informal} |
| twilight zone | Noun. The term phrased in recognition of a bizarre occurrence. Taken from the title of the U.S. television mystery sci-fi series of the same name. Often used in conjunction with a vocal rendition of the theme tune, to add emphasis. |
| twine on | Verb. To rant, talk incessantly. E.g."Stop twining on and get on with your job, we've a deadline to make." |
| twinkle | Noun. A term of endearment or form of address. |
| twinnie | Noun. Affectionate term for a twin. |
| twirly | Noun. A senior citizen, or OAP (old age pensioner). Originally bus driver's slang, from supposed senior citizen's regular attempts at using their cheap off-peak journey passes before the permitted off-peak hour, and therefore being "too early" (a verbal corruption of). E.g."How can I keep the bus on schedule when at every bus stop I have to refuse all the twirlies." Also twearly, twearlies. |
| twisting | Noun. A telling off, a scolding, a reprimand. |
| twit | Noun. An idiot. Patronising and derogatory but often jocular. |
| twitchell | Noun. A narrow alleyway. [Nottinghamshire use] |
| twitcher | Noun. A bird watcher, an ornithologist. |
| two and eight | Noun. State, or condition. Cockney rhyming slang. E.g."He was in a right two and eight, having drunk 12 pints of lager in 3 hours." |
| two bob bit | Noun. An act of defecation. Rhyming slang on 'shit'. In pre-decimal currency, a 'bob' was slang for a shilling (5 pence), and a 'two bob bit' being a two shilling coin, usually called a Florin. See 'bob' (noun). |
| TWOC | Acronym. Taking WithOut Consent. Originally and usually applied to the stealing of vehicles. Originates from the proliferation of car theft in the UK during the 1990s. |
| two cans short of a picnic | Phrs. Of a person, eccentric, insane. |
| twocker | Noun. A person who steals vehicles. Also spelt twoc-er. See 'TWOC'. |
| two finger salute | Noun. The insulting hand gesture which involves raising the hand with two fingers extended vertically. See 'two fingers'. |
| two fingers | Noun. The insulting gesture of the V-sign using two fingers. Cf. 'finger' (noun 2). |
| twonk | Noun. A fool, idiot. |
| two sandwiches short of a picnic | Phrs. Eccentric, insane, odd. Also phrased as one sandwich short of a picnic. |
| two's (up) ! | Exclam. Said to put claim on a share of something, often a drink
or cigarette. |
| two ticks | Noun. A short time, a couple of moments. See 'tick'. |
| two-time | Verb. To be unfaithful to one's partner. E.g."He's been two-timing on his girlfriend for the last 6 months." |
| twunt | Noun. An idiot, a fool. A combination of the words 'twat' and 'cunt'. [1990s] |
| tyke | Noun. 1. A person from Yorkshire, England. 2. A mischevious person, used in good humour. |
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