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vernacular (enc)

Vernacular

Noun1.vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
bite - a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"
heist, rip-off - the act of stealing
shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail)
square-bashing - drill on a barracks square
shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
caff - informal British term for a cafe
deck - street name for a packet of illegal drugs
gat, rod - a gangster's pistol
dreck, schlock, shlock - merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
cert - an absolute certainty; "it's a dead cert"
legs - staying power; "that old Broadway play really has legs"
niff, pong - an unpleasant smell
street name - a slang term for something (especially for an illegal drug); "`smack' is a street name for heroin"
corker - a remarkable or astounding message; "that story was a corker"
hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing
codswallop, folderol, trumpery, wish-wash, applesauce, tripe, rubbish, trash - nonsensical talk or writing
non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted easily-recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
rhyming slang - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component; "Cockney rhyming slang"
bun-fight, bunfight - (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion
burnup - a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road
nosh-up - a large satisfying meal
'hood - (slang) a neighborhood
airhead - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one"
baby, sister - sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women
bad egg - (old-fashioned slang) a bad person
boffin - a scientist or technician engaged in military research
good egg - (old-fashioned slang) a good person
guvnor - boss
old man - boss
out-and-outer - someone who is excellent at something
schlockmeister, shlockmeister - a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
squeeze - (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main squeeze"
wog - an offensive slang term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
juice - electric current; "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice"
big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile, bundle - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
key - a kilogram of a narcotic drug; "they were carrying two keys of heroin"
juice - energetic vitality; "her creative juices were flowing"
heebie-jeebies, jitters, screaming meemies - extreme nervousness
bitch - an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch"
bumf, bumph - toilet paper (often used for printed matter that might as well be used as toilet paper)
give - occur; "what gives?"
buy it, pip out - be killed or die;
feel - pass one's hands over the sexual organs of; "He felt the girl in the movie theater"
hoof - dance in a professional capacity
chuck, ditch - throw away; "Chuck these old notes"
bunk off, play hooky - play truant from work or school; "The boy often plays hooky"
2.vernacular - the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted easily-recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
Adj.1.vernacular - being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
informal - used of spoken and written language

 

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