firewall - the application of maximum thrust; "he slammed the throttle to the firewall"

fix - something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug; "she needed a fix of chocolate"

heavy lifting - difficult work; "the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting"

biz, game - your occupation or line of work; "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz"

no-brainer - anything that requires little thought

crapshoot - a risky and uncertain venture; "getting admitted to the college of your choice has become a crapshoot"

snogging - (British informal) cuddle and kiss

wash - any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

aggro - (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression; "I skipped it because it was too much aggro"

fun - violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then the fun began"; "they began to fight like fun"

hell, sin - violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"

dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird, dickybird - small bird; adults talking to children sometimes call small birds dickeybirds

bunny rabbit, bunny - (usually informal) especially a young rabbit

bib-and-tucker - an attractive outfit; "she wore her best bib-and-tucker"

delf - an excavation; usually a quarry or mine

funny wagon - an ambulance used to transport patients to a mental hospital

boom box, ghetto blaster - a portable stereo

stinker, lemon - an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

long johns - warm underwear with long legs

main drag - the main street of a town or city

put-put - a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)

rathole - a small dirty uncomfortable room

rattrap - filthy run-down dilapidated housing

redbrick university - (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University

Ritz - an ostentatiously elegant hotel

security blanket - anything that an adult person uses to reduce their anxiety

shooting gallery - a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin

Sunday best, Sunday clothes - the best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday

war paint - full ceremonial regalia

smoke - something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"

class - elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"

setup - the way something is organized or arranged; "it takes time to learn the setup around here"

guts, moxie, backbone, grit, gumption, sand - fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"

ways, way - the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways"

number - a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe"

enormity - vastness of size or extent; "in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size"; "universities recognized the enormity of their task"

drag - something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"

hot stuff - the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting); "he thought she was really hot stuff"

soup-strainer, toothbrush - slang terms for a mustache

eye, oculus, optic - the organ of sight

peeper - an informal term refering to the eye

bay window, potbelly, tummy, corporation, pot - slang terms for a paunch

proboscis - the human nose (especially when it is large)

physiognomy, visage, smiler, kisser, phiz, countenance, mug - the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)