American College Slang Expression S-Z

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American College Slang Expression: Vocabulary S　

saccharin (adj)

Too sweet to be true. That's so saccharin! [De La Salle University, Metro Manila, Philippines]
 sack jockey (n)

A girl who likes to give oral pleasures. That girl is a real sack jockey. [Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1998]
 sah (adj)

Extremely stupid (from stupid as hell). That movie was so sah!!! [Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR, 1998]
 saltine {possibly offensive} (n)

A person SO white it is unbelievable (as compared to normal crackers). Look at that saltine tryin' to dance. [Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA]
 salty (adj)

1. Bad; ugly; lame; messup up; not right. That song's salty. [California State University, Chico, Chico, CA, 1999; Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, Albuquerque, NM]
2. Embarrassed. [Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI]
3. Rude. [Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, Albuquerque, NM]. 4. Uncool, not hip, not friendly. [Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL]
 sauce (n)

Steroids. E.g, That guy's on the sauce. [University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 1998]
 sauced (adj)

Drunk, just beyond buzzed. After 8 beers, I was pretty sauced. [California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 1998]
 saute' (v)

To have sex or make out. Did you saute' her. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
 say word (phr)

Are you serious? Malik got shot last night. Say word! [Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, 1998]
 say you swear (phr)

Are you tellng the truth? You got an F on your final? Say you swear. [ Shaw University, Raleigh, NC, 1998]
 scene (phr)

1. Do you understand?
2. I understand.
3. Cool. I am going to call you, scene? [Sheridan College, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 1998]
 schlarve the dode {mildly vulgar}(v)

To perform oral sex on a male. Get on your knees and schlarve the dode. [BYU, Provo, UT, 1998]
 schmeish (adj)

Cushy; luxurious; of exceptionally high quality; or simply very good. His new apartment is schmeish. [University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada]
 schneyer (pronounced "schnare") (adj)

Bad; crappy; shitty; stupid; annoying. Often used with suffixes as schneyer-riffic, schneyer-tacular. You are so schneyer-rifficly ugly. [University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1999]
 schnikies (int) (pronounced Sh-nikes--like the shoes)

An exclamation of surprise. Schnikies! You scared me to death! [University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998]
 schrump down (v)

To have sex with/to make out with/to get physical with . It has a kind of furtive and/or clandestine sense to it. Like you wouldn't tell anyone that you schrumped down with your long-time boyfriend, but you would say you schrumped down with someone you met at a party this weekend, someone who would normally be beneath you or with someone else's boyfriend. You can't be serious?! You schrumped down with him? But you're so much better looking... Remember when I got really drunk at Alex's party? -- yeah, well, I ended up schrumping down with Pete. [Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999]
 schwag (adj)

Bad; stupid; lame; boring. That movie was so schwag. [Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 schwank (schwanky) (adj)

Good; cool; real smooth. Hey, the guy downloaded the test, got the answers, emailed it in and passed. That's schwank. Your new car is schwanky. [Phillips College of the University of Arkansas, Helena, AR, 1999]
 scratch (n)

Money. Yo, what's up with that scratch I loaned you? [Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, 1998]
 sco (phr)

Let's go. Sco; we're late. [Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 score (int)

An expression to indicate something good. You got an A?! Score! [Yale University, New Haven, CN]
 scrub (scrubby) (n)

A dirty looking object or person. She's such a scrub. [Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1998]
 scully (n)

Oral sex on a male. [Penn. State, PA, 1998]
 s'dolly (adj)

Okay; acceptable. The date I had last night with that chick went out s'dolly. [University of Botswana, Southern Africa, 1998]
 see the dinosaur (v)

To completely misinterpret something (especially artwork). If you don't explain it to her she's just going to see the dinosaur. [University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1999]
 seed (n)

A child, offspring. She took her seed to class? [Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA]
 sell buicks (v)

To vomit, especially from consuming alcohol. Todd was selling buicks in the kitchen. [SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY]
 sexile (v)

To lock a roommate out of your room for the purposes of sex or just getting it on. My roommate sexiled me for three hours last night when her boyfriend came down to visit her. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999]
 shack (v)

1. To sleep at someone's house (probably because you were too drunk to go home). I was toast so I shacked at Bob's last night. [Texas A & M University, College Station, TX]
2. To sleep somewhere other than your own bed with a member of the opposite sex; it may or may not include sexual contact. I stayed up late studying at Matt's place, so I just shacked over there. [University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 1998]
3. To spend the night at the home of a romantic partner; to spend the night with someone and engage in sexual activity. Did you shack with him last night? [University of Ohio, Athens, OH, 1999; University of Missouri, Columbia, MO]
shacker (n)

Someone who frequently spends the night with someone and engages in sexual activity. Liz is such a shacker. I don't know why she has an apartment. [University of Ohio, Athens, OH, 1999]
 shady (adj)

1. Bad; not good. This generic vodka is pretty shady. [Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1998; Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1999; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA]
2. Not right; fake; fraululent. That whole credit card deal is shady. [Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1998]
3. Sneaky; underhanded; behind someone's back; two-faced. The fact that you knew your curfew was 12 and you stayed out 'til 4 is just shady. [Univeristy of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998; West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1999; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA]
4. Checking on caller id before answering the telephone. Are you always shady? Don't you ever just answer the phone? [West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1999
 shaft

1. (n) An erection. She gave me a shaft. [University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 1998]
2. To disrespect (a person); to treat unfairly. Man, he totally shafted her when he got together with his ex. [North Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega, GA, 1998]
 shagadellic (adj)

Most excellent; very cool. Your new board is shagadellic! [North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA]
 shake hands with the guv'nah (v)

To masturbate (male). [University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC]
 shake the spot (v)

To be center of attention. Kasey and Dee really shook the spot at Tiff's birthday party. [Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, LA, 1999]
 shalong monster (n)

A male with an extremely large sex organ. The shalong monster punctured his partner's lung. [Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1998]
 shasta

1. (n) A girl one would hook up with because there's no one else available or because she's there. (Shasta is cheap soda, but you would drink it anyway because it's there or there's no good soda available.) She's was shasta. It was a slow night at the bar. [Towson University, Baltimore, MD, 1998]
2. (int) Shot down/slamed/regulated. She dumped you? Shasta! [SUNY-Fredonia, Fredonia, NY]
 shawty (shorty) (n; voc)

A female. That shawty right there is cute. Hey shawty, how you doing today? [Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 1999; [Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA]
 She bangs like a screen door in a tornado (phr)

She is damn good in bed. You know your girlfriend, she bangs like a screen door in a tornado; you're a lucky man. [Penn State University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1998]
 sheisty (adj)

Small; skimpy; less than expected. This hamburger is hella sheisty. [California State University- Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 1998]
 shell (adj)

Unusual in a freakish, wrong, or humorous way. That waitress with the greasy purple hair and orange lipstick is definitely shell! [University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 1999]
 shit (n) (see also, the shit)

Something bad. If the fedz knock on our door, shit's gonna break doooooooown. [University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1999]
 shit curry (v)

To have diarrhea. Man, I'm so sick; I'm shittin' curry every 10 minutes. [University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, 1999]
 shitfucker {offensive; vulgar} (n)

A gay male. There were a bunch of shitfuckers hanging out on the quad. [University of Miami, Miami, FL, 1998]
 shite

1. (n) Something bad. There was nothin' but a bunch of shite in there!
2. (v) To screw something up; to err. He misses the ball; he shites it! [James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 1998]
 shitrag (n)

Toilet paper. Hey, man, can you bring some shitrag in here? [Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 1998]
 shittin' in tall cotton (adj)

OK; acceptable; doing better than before. All right, we're done! We're shittin' in tall cotton now! [Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 1998]
 shiznit (adj)

The best; the greatest. Cara is the shiznit. [Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, 1998]
 shammered (adj)

Excessively drunk. Let's go to the bars and get shmammered tongiht!! [University of Ohio, Athens, OH, 1999]
 shorty (shortie; shawty)

1. (n; voc) A female (often used to replace her name when talking to her or about her). Hey shorty, where ya been? [North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC, 1998; Lincoln University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1998]
2. One's girlfriend (or boyfriend) . Hey shorty, what you doin' tonight? [Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 1999; Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA]
3. One's child or offspring. I met Melissa's shorty, Dusty. He's so cutey! [Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1998]
4. A person younger than yourself. There were a bunch of shorties at that party. [Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA]
5. Cute girl, or guy, a short person, or just a name to call someone. Hey shorty, where ya goin'? [Morgan State U., Baltimore, MD]
 shell (adj)

Crazy, unexpected, inappropriate. That was so shell when she took off. [University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC]
 shiesty (adj)

1. Slick, sly, or devious. That was really shiesty to jack his notes. [Queens College, NYC]
2. Nasty, scummy. Her apartment was shiesty. [Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ]
 shife (adj)

Very cool; da bomb. His car is shife. [University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA]
 shred (v)

To rip down the slopes at high speeds (mostly snowboarding). I caught major edge shredding through the cherry pow pow. [Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1998]
 shitfaced (adj)

Really drunk. You're too shitfaced to drive. [Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI]
 shitty (adj)

Drunk; intoxicated. She got shitty after too beers. [Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA; Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL]
 shiznet

1. (int.) Expression of disgust. You lost your job? Shiznet. [Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL]
2. (n) The shit; something very good. jThat party will be the shiznet!. [Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD]
 shocka (v)

To relax; to hang loose. We're just gonna shocka at my pad. [University of Washington, Seattle, WA]
 shoots (int)

"Okay!", "Alright!", "Right on!" Go to that club? Shoots! [University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI]
 shucked (adj)

Intoxicated, especially by marijuana. I'm just gonna go to that party and get shucked. [Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC]
 sick (adj)

Great; the most awesome. That car is sick! [UC-Santa Cruz University, Santa Cruz, CA]
 sick out (adj)

Very good; totally outstanding. That party was sick out! [Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 1999]
sig (v)

To talk too much, never shut up. Stop siggin'; we gotta study. [East Central University, Ada, OK]
 69 {vulgar}

1. (n) The act of simultaneous oral sex between two persons. When I walked in, they were doing the 69.
2. (v) Simultaneous oral sex between two persons. I 69ed with this chick last night. [Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1998; UCLA, Westwood, CA, 1999]
 skadip (adj)

Bad; ugly; lame; unacceptable; unattractive. This outfit is skadip. [Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA, 1999]
 skank (n)

1. A chick who sleeps around. That skank was mackin' on my boyfriend!
2. Its a kind of dancing--like, what you do to ska music. We was skankin' to some Five Iron Frenzy. (a band) [Highline Community College, Des Moines, WA, 1998]
 skank a ripper (v)

To ask for (beg for) a portion of someone else's drink, cigerette, or pipe. Hey Mister, can I skank a ripper off that? [Sheridan College, Oakville, Ont., Canada, 1998]
 skankalicious (adj)

Very disgusting; super nasty; whorish. That girl I had sex with last night was skankalicious. [Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1998]
 skeet {vulgar} (v)
To have sex. I went to her crib so we could skeet. [Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998]
 skeevy (adj)

Shady, unsavory, icky. That club was skeevy. [University of Delaware, Newark, DE]
 sketch (n)

A random, weird person (male or female), typically seen at parties dressed in ragged clothing drinking a 40. You are such a sketch. [University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX]
 sketch artist (n)

Someone who is very strange/weird. We saw that sketch artist wander around the campus this morning. [Columbia University, New York, NY 1998]
 sketchy (adj)

1. Potentially dangerous (as in a person or situation). Sketchy people hang out in the hood at night. [Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1998]
2. Strange, odd or unknown. I don't know about that girl. She seems a little sketchy to me. [Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, 1998; Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 1998; West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; Tufts University, Medford, MA; Union College, Schenectady, NY]
 sketell (sket) (n)

A girl who sleeps around with a lot of guys. Did you see Sarah kissing Gavin at the party last night? I saw her coming out of Leon's house this morning. That girl is an absolute sketell. [St. Philips 6th Form College, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, 1999]
 skill twist (n)

A good sexual experience. That was a skill twist! [Northwestern University, Evanston, IL]
 skinny (adj)

1. Greedy; selfish. Taking the last cookie was very skinny of you. [University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX]
2. Uncool. Don't act so skinny. [University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX]
 skitch (skitchy) (adj)

Not quite right (harmlessly so) or not all there. She was acting kinda skitch in there. Not sure why it did that. It's just kinda skitchy today. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999]
 skootchie (n)

1. A skank hoochie (either male or female). Her date is just a skootchie. [Bluefield State College, Bluefield, WV; Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO]
2. A male hoochie. He's just a player--just a skootchie. [Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH]
 skrilla (scrilla) (n)

1. (n) Money. Yo, what's up with that scrilla you owe me? [University of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, 1999; Montgomery College, Germantown, MD, 1999; Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, 1998; Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, 1998; Rice University, Houston, TX]
2. Drunk; intoxicated. That vodka got me scrilla. [University of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, 1999]
 skull (n)

Oral sex on a male; fellatio. Get some skull from her? [Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN]
 slap happy (adj)

Jumpy and excited. I'm so slap happy about the performance. [University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL]
 slave {potentially offensive} (n)

A job, particularly a new job. Yo' home boy, I just got me a new slave. [Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1998]
 slicker than cum on a gold tooth {vulgar} (adj)

Having a very slippery surface. That ice was slicker than cum on a gold tooth. [Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, 1998]
 slim (n; voc)

A person; a friend. Hey slim, what's up? [Howard University, Washington, D.C]
 slip (v)

To lose control of a situation or to lose sight of reality. If you don't calm down you're gonna slip. [Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA]
 slow down (v)

To quiet down or shut up. Slow down; I gotta study. [University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1998]
 slummy (slummed out) (adj)

Way past ghetto; the absolute worst. I am living straight slummy; I ain't got no money. Damn, those cats in the PJ's be slummed out. [Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX, 1999]
 smack

1. (n) Bad talk: insults, criticisms, lies. He was talking smack about her. [University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 1998]
2. (v) (also smack ass) To be very good; to be cool or awesome. You're gonna smack ass on that assignment. [University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN]
 smack down (v)

To beat someone up--usually invoked as a disciplinary action. If he doesn't quit it, I'm gonna smack him down. [Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD]
 smashed (adj)

Really drunk. I'm smashed; can you dive? [Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada]
 smoke rocks (v)

To act or speak stupidly. You're smokin' rocks man! [Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, 1998]
 smoke both sides of the cigar (v)

To be a homosexual. He smokes both sides of the cigar. [University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998]
 smokey treat

1. (n) Marijuana. We got fucked up on some potent smokey treats. [Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1998]
2. A cigarette. Let's go have a smokey treat. [Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1998; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1998]
 smokes (n)

Cigarettes. Got any smokes? [Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, 1999]
 snoopy (n)

A get together; a date. Yo, me and Christie are gonna have a snoopy Friday night. [New York University, New York, NY, 1999]
 smoother (n)

Someone who is smooth; one who can persuade. Watch out for James; he's a smoother and always gets his way. [University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada]
 smoove (smooth)

1. (adj) Cool; got it goin' on; bad (good); sweet; fresh; phat. That pad is smooth. Hey, that's a smoove song. [University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR; University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
2. (verb) To vomit. Be careful; someone smooved in there. [University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR]
 snapdragon (int)

An expression of disgust or disappointment. Snapdragon, I broke my shoe. [Langston University, Langston, OK]
 snaps (n)

Money. I'm low on snaps; can you loan me twenty? [Radford University, Radford, VA; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 snook (snookie) (voc)

A term of endearment one uses in direct reference to one's close friends. Snookie, wanna catch a flick? Yo snook, what's up? [Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA]
 snoot (n)

Nose. She popped him on the snoot. [Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA]
 snuff (v)

To hit; to punch. He snuffed me when I turned around to walk away! [Lincoln University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1998]
 so (adv)

Really. That is so old skool. [St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA]
 solid (adj)

Enjoyable and fun. That bash was solid! [University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT]
 som'em som'em (something something) (n)

A reward; usually any form of sexually activity. Hey girl, how about a little som'em som'em?! [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC]
 sometimes on pancakes (phr)

As if; yeah right. Your rents are getting you a new car? Sometimes on pancakes! [Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA]
 son (voc)

A friend or the way you call someone who's name you don't know. Son, come here for a second! [Lincoln University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1998]
 sorry (adj)

No good, poor quality. That band was sorry. [UC-San Diego, San Diego, CA]
 spang (v)

To ask people for spare change. I'm broke, so I'll have to do some mad spanging. [Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 1998]
 spankin' (adj)

Very cool; da bomb. Those are some spankin' new kicks! [University of Pittsburgh, Titusville, PA]
 sped (n)

A stupid person; a moron (derived from special ed). There were a bunch of speds in the library yesterday. Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, 1998]
 spent (adj)

Tired. I played ball all day; I can't go out; I'm spent. [Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, 1999]
 spiffy (adj)

Nice; cool; neat. That new movie last night was pretty spiffy. [University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1998; College of the Southwest, Hobbs, NM]
 spliff (n)

A "Marley-style" joint (marijuana cigarette), characterized by a roughly cylindrical shape, the point being the end smoked from. It enables the roller to fit most of the weed outside the roach. Pass me the spliff. [Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD]
 sponge (n)

Someone who is always living off others' money. You are such a sponge. Why don't you get a job? [SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY]
 sponsored by velveeta (adj)

Really stupid, cheap or cheesy. That movie was totally sponsored by velveeta. [University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998]
 spoogy (adj)

Wet, damp, sticky, gross, as in weather. The weather today is spoogy. [Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 1998]
 spooky kid square state (phr)

Denotes that someone is from a Midwestern, suburban city/village (or acts like it). My new roommate is the spooky kid square state type. [University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1998]
 spoon

1. (adj) Very good; really cool. That movie was spoon. [Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, 1998]
2. (n) A geek; a dork; someone you are putting down (usually an acquaintance). You are such a spoon. Don't you ever turn that computer off? [University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA]
 spumoni (adj)

Extremely neat; very good; da bomb. That new dress is spumoni! [Rose State College, Midwest City, OK]
 square bit'ness (v)

Handle your business; take care of things (before they take care of you). He pissed me off. I gotta square bit'ness with him. [University of Houston, Houston, TX]
 squeebs (int)

An expression used to signify that a person has made a fool of him/herself. You erased your hard drive? Yeaaaaaa squeebs! [Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY, 1999]
 squirt belly (n)

A very very fat girl. Did you see that squirt belly trying on that red swim suit? [Walsh University, North Canton, OH]
 squish (int)

Expression of extreme excitement. I can't wait for that album to come out, squish! [California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay, CA, 1998]
 stack it (v)

To fall over. Hannah stacked it again last night on those heels she wears. [Cheltenham and Gloucester College, England, UK, 1998]
 star (n)

A girl who's fine. There's a star just waiting for you to ask her to dance. [San Jacinto College, Houston, TX]
 stay frosty

1. (v) Stay cool. Stay frosty; we're not going to be late.
2. (v) Take it easy. Let's just stay frosty at my place after classs.
3. (int.) Goodbye. Stay frosty, dude. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
stellar (adj)

Super or above everybody. That new club is stellar! [Queens College, NYC]
 step (v)

To move; to get out of someone's face; to stop bothering someont. You better step before you get your ass kicked. [Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, 1998]
 stickleroo (n)

A cool person; a hip person; one who's down with the knowledge. Why don't you go out with Jason? He's a stickleroo! [University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN]
 straight (adj)

1. True; no doubt about it. That's straight; she cancelled the final! [MacMurry College, Jacksonville, IL]
2. Cool. That flick was straight! [MacMurry College, Jacksonville, IL]
3. In agreement; acceptable. Let's dip to the store. Cool; I'm straight with that. [University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998; University of Illinois, IL
 straight edge (adj)

Against the use of drugs. He won't use dope; he is straight edge. [Yale, New Haven, CT, 1998]
 strange (n)
A new or previously unknown sexual partner. I met a strange and so we spent the night at my pad. [Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA]
 style

1. (v) To flirt; to put the moves on someone. Where's Joe? Over there, styling that girl in the red shirt.
2. (n) The object of one's flirtations. Yeah, Chris is my new style, and he's here tonight. I think I'll go talk to him now. [University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Queen's University, Ontario, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1998]
 stumpy (voc)

A replacement for someone's name. Hey, stumpy. What's up, stumpy? [Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 1999]
 style king (n)

Someone who is particularly excellent at the art of flirting; someone with an extremely high rate of success. Mike's too much of a styler to want to commit. [University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Queen's University, Ontario, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1998]
 style project (n)

The object of one's flirtations. She's my style project for the night. [University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Queen's University, Ontario, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1998]
 styler (n)

Someone who has perfected the art of flirting; someone with an extremely high rate of success. Mike's too much of a styler to want to commit. [University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Queen's University, Ontario, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1998]
 sucka (n; voc)

1. A person. Hey sucka, turn off the TV.
2. A person who sucks. I'm so tired of him; he's such a sucka. [University of Arkansas, Elkins, AR]
 sugar honey iced tea (phr)

Another way of saying shit; an expression of displeasure or disgust; an indication that something is valueless. That ain't nothing but some sugar honey iced tea!! [Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR, 1998]
 Sultana's (n)

The student shop just off campus. We're just off down to Sultana's. [Durham University, Durham, England, 1998]
 sup (int; greeting)

What's up? Hi. Sup, dude? [SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 supa (n)

A man who does it all and makes it look easy. Carlos is a supa; get him on our team. [University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA]
 sup now? (int)

Used to degrade someone further after you have already degraded them physically or verbally. Sup now, loser? [SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY]

super doke (pronounced "doooo" with the mouth only slightly open) (adj)

Really cool. Your project was super doke! [St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, FL]
 super tight (adj)

The bomb; very good; fun. That party was super tight! [University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS]
 swamp donkey (n)

A racist person or a very foolish person. That stuck-up girl is a dumb swamp donkey. [Pellissippi State, Knoxville, TN, 1998]
 swanky (adj)

Most positive; rich; classy. That house was swanky. [North Central Technical College, Wausau, WI, 1999]
 swayze (v)

To leave or go somewhere. (It is somehow related to Patrick Swayze, the actor.) It's late; I gotta swayze. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
 sweat (v)

To find a member of the opposite sex attractive. I'm sweatin' for that new girl in our geo class. [University of Delaware, Newark, DE]
 sweet (adj)

Very good; cool; awesome; da bomb; radical; fun. Ice hockey is so sweet! [University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1998; Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO, 1999; Goldey Beacom College, Wilmington, DE; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 sweet dog (sweet dog nice) (adj)

Very good (the best). That Fluid Mechanics Lab Report is sweet dog nice. [Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1998]
 sweet shit (n)

Something very good; something impressive. That football game was sweet shit. [University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, 1999]
 sweetie (n)

An extremely good looking guy or girl. Check out the sweetie by the bar. [St.Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada]
 swerved (adj)

Intoxicated; drunk. I got swerved on those margaritas last night. [University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV]
 swipe the v-card (v)

To lose one's virginity. Guess who swiped the v-card last night? [University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1998]
 switch hitter (n)

A homosexual. He's definitely a switch hitter. [University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998]
 swole (adj)

Feeling stupid or embarrassed about something. I felt mad swole after he dissed me. [Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA 1998]
 swoll (swool) (adj)

Angry; mad; pissed off. I was really swoll after they left me! [University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998]
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ta huh (int)

No; expression of disapproval. Ta huh! I'm not trippin' over that dude. [Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR, 1998]
 T. and A. (n)

Tits and ass. All I want to see is T. and A. [Bluffton College, Bluffton, OH, 1999]
 tanked (adj)

Extremelly drunk. Damn, the guy was tanked last night at the bar. [Sheridan Collage, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 1998; SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY]
 tap (v)

To have sex. When ya gonna tap her? [University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD]
 tapped (adj)

Done; finished; nothing left. Is that party tapped? [Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1998]
 'tard (n)

A person (usually male) who is too ignorant to see blatant sexual hints given by the opposite sex, which causes the individual to never get any action and be a virgin for the rest of his/her existence. You are such a 'tard; didn't you know he was hittin' on you? [Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH]
 target (n)

Love/lust interest; focus of attention; the person you'd like to have sex with or go out with or become involved with. Now that Ethan's taken, who's your new target? I don't have a boyfriend right now, but I do have a couple targets. [Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999]
 tax (v)

To have sex. Hey baby, let's go tax. We're gonna tax! [University of Wisconsin-Spencer, Spencer, WI, 1999]
 teabag {vulgar} (v)

1. To put one's mouth on another's tesicular region. She was all goin' down on me and she started teabaggin'! [Messiah College, Grantham, PA, 1998; Penn State University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1998]

2. To perform oral sex on a male. Wanna teabag? [Bluffton College, Bluffton, OH, 1999]
 Thank you, Captain (Grand Admiral, Emperor, Lieutenant) Obvious (int)

A retort to a ridiculously apparent statement. Thank you, Captain Obvious, for noticing that there aren't any parking spaces here. [University Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA]
 that's a terrible thing (int)

Expression of disappointment; another way of saying that's too bad. You didn't find your car keys....that's a terrible thing. [Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR, 1998]
 that's out (phr)

Unacceptable; to be discarded. Let's go get wasted. No, that's out. [University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1998]
 that's word (word being pronounced with a long uh at the end) (phr)

The final word in the context of what you are speaking. That's word; I'm leaving. [Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL]
 the b (n)

A frisbee. Hey, let's hit the quad and throw the b. [James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 1998]
 the dog's (phr)

Short for "The Dog's Bollocks"; something very good. The new club's the dog's! [University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada]
 the dope daddy doctor shit (phr)

The best; highly excellent. You tried that caramel Hagen Dasz yet? -Yeah, that's the dope daddy doctor shit! [University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 1998]
 the goat shit (phr)

Variation on "The Dope Shit". Something that homeys think is cool but that is actually simply the goat shit. Yeah, that club is the goat shit. [University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada]
 the grail (n)

The ultimate in anything. His new board is the grail! [University of Akron, Akron, OH]
 the Heisman (n)

It refers to the position of the man on the Heisman trophy. It means you tried to kiss or hook-up with someone and were denied. I was hanging with the hottie from my chem class and when I went in for the kill, he gave me the Heisman! I am so embarrassed. [Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1998]
 the man (n)

Anyone who is holding you down, usually an authority figure. [University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, 1998]
 the Pacific difference (n)

An old marketing slogan for Pacific University, used in the mid- 1980s. It is now used by students in a sarcastic way when anything is wrong with the school. Ironically, the administration hasn't caught on, and still tries to use it in the original sense - to much private laughter from the student body. So the new meal plan is worse than the old one? Boy, that's the Pacific difference. [Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, 1999]
 the shit (n)

The best, generally describing some sort of drug, alcoholic beverage, or food item, but can be used to describe a situation as well. Now that there's the shit! That was just the shit! [Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 the way forward (n)

The correct thing to do; an action appropriate to the situation. Most often used in the negative/sarcastic sense. I threw up on her dress.--clearly the way forward! She discovered that trying to chat up her tutor on the juice was not the way forward. [London School of Economics, London, UK, 1998]
 thick (adj)

1. Having a nice body; attractive. Man, that girl is thick; I mean look at those curves. [Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, 1998; North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, 1998]

2. Really dumb, slow or stupid. She is so thick that she re-used his condom! [University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998]
 thirsty (adj)

Exhibiting extreme desperation. He was so thirsty, he spent 6 hours on the internet looking for information. [Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA]
 throw me a bone (phr)
Help me out; give me a chance. Come on, girl. Throw me a bone. [Wake Forest U., Winston-Salem, NC]
 throw mud (v)

To defecate. have to go to the bathroom and throw some mud. [University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1998]
 throw up the T (phr)

T stands for trick. A girl who uses guys like pieces of meat and makes you think you have a chance with them, but in actuality, you don't. You use the phrase whenever you see a girl that you positively know is a trick. (The phrase is meant to be followed up by a certain hand motion. This motion of using both hands to make a "T" (a.k.a. timeout in sports game) signifies that a trick has been spotted. This is very important! Also, the "T" is not a toy; use it ONLY when it is necessary.) There's Gina. Throw up the T. [Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH]
 tick (adj)

Nice looking; wel-built. She is tick. [University of Luton, England, 1998]
 tight (adj)

Very good; cool. Damn, that song is tight! [Cal State Hayward, Hayward, CA, 1999; Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1999; Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 1999;Tri City Community College, Parma, OH, 1998; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 1998; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1998; North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, 1998; Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH; Rice University, Houston, TX; Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA; University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA; Florida State University; CSU Hayward, Hayward, CA; Delta College, Lathrop; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; University of California at Davis, Davis, CA; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 tightass (n)

Someone who is uptight; someone who is very particular; someone who is meticulous in following rules. That prof is such a tightass. [West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1999]
 tip (v)

To leave; to go. Let's tip. [Pace, White Plains, NY, 1998]
 tit bit nipply (adj)

Very cold; so cold your nipples get hard. It's a tit bit nipply today. [University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1998]
 titanic

1. (adj) Huge, gigantic.; Man, Clinton sure looks titanic now. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,1998]

2. (int) You¡¦re going down! You didn't study? Titanic! [Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR]
 tits (adj)

Very good; well liked. [Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 T-jones (n)

Parents or mother. I'm going to grub at my t-jones' house on Sunday. [St. Philips College, San Antonio, TX, 1998; University of Houston, Houston, TX]
 toasted (adj)

Intoxicated. [Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 tod (adj)

Someone or something stupid. E. g., That outfit is so tod. [Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, 1998]
 togged to the bricks (adj)

Dressed very well. My swing partner last nite was togged to the bricks. [Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998]
 tool (n)

1. New toy or equipment you bought. Dude, show us your tool. [Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR, 1998]

2. A stupid person; a dork; a loser. I am not going to date that guy; he is such a tool! [University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 1998; USMA, West Point, NY, 1998; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL]

3. Slut, hoe, sleazy gal. [University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA]

4. A clueless or lazy person or someone (usually a guy, but can be a woman as well) who hurts someone else (in relationships) because they either are oblivious, insensitive or don't know how to deal with the situation, etc. At Yale, we made the distinction between a tool and an asshole by saying that an asshole knows what he is doing and does it anyway (i.e. hurts someone); a tool doesn't realize or doesn't know how to avoid hurting the other person. You should never have even dated him...he is such a tool. [Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999]
 toolbelt (toolbox, toolshed) (n)

1. Geek, dork, dweeb. He is such a toolbelt; I don't know what she sees in him.

2. Overly pompous, obnoxious, self-centered. That prof is a toolbox. [College of Mount Saint Joseph, Cincinnati, OH]
 top piece (T.P.) (n)

Fellatio. She gave that man top piece in the back stair way of school during lunch. [Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, 1998]
 tore back (to' back) (adj)

Looking bad usually after serious intoxication; a little more severe than to' up or to' up from the floor up. You are tore back today; where were you last night? [Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA]
 tore up (to' up) (adj)

Not in order; messed up. After partying all night I was way tore up and so had to get a ride home. [Concordia University, Irvine, CA]
 toss salad (v)

To lick someone's anus. I hear she tossed his salad last night. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999; Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA]
 tostito (n)

A fine Black man. There's some fine tostitos in there. [Temple University, Philadelphia, PA]
 total z (adj)

Short for: total zero; it means acomplete idiot. He's a total z. [Dual Language School, Balatonalmadi, Hungary]
 totally narley baby (adj)

Very good; very cool. My science project for that neato science fair was totally narley baby! [Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1998]
 totty (n)

Attractive members of the opposite sex. Check out the totty by the library. [Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland]
 town/gown (n)

Descriptive term for locals-student relations. That guy over there ain't doing much for town/gown. [Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham universities, England, 1998]
 townies (n)

Local high school students. Some townies threw eggs on some cars last night. [Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, 1998]
 T.P.T. (n)

Trailer park trash; a white poor person who lives in a trailer. Forget it; they're just T.P.T. [Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, 1998]
 track (n)

House. I'm going to the track. [St. Philips College, San Antonio, TX, 1998]
 trailer (adj)

Acting/looking like a white poor person who lives in a trailer. That girl is so trailer. [Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, 1998]
 t-rashed (adj)

Extremely intoxicated. You're t-rashed; let me drive. [Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI]
 tree (n)

Marijuana. Got some tree? [University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1999]
 tribe (n)

A group of friends or buddies. I'm meetin' my tribe in the quad after class. [Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL]
 trick (tric) (n)

1. A female who plays relationship games; a female who plays games with a guy's head. Don't even worry; that girl's a trick. [Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, 1999]

2. A person who is not cool. She is such a loser--just a trick. [Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA]

3. Usually a girl who sells her body for sex or a girl who performs sexual pleasures. Don't ask her out; she's a trick. [Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1999; Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA]
 trick that (tric that) (phr)

Forget that. Tric that; I'm leaving. [Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA]
 trifling (trifilin', try-full-in)

1. (adj) Of no importance; not to be taken seriously; without status; lame. Who Frankie G.'s got a beef with me? I ani't worried, he's just triflin' loser. [Bunkerhill Community College, Boston, MA, 1998; John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD]

2. (v) To be sneaky, underhanded, deceitful or two-faced. (Mostly used to describe someone who gossips or talks about people behind their back.) We used to be tight but I found out she was triflin' and told everyone who I been with. [University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998]
 trip

1. (n) Something fun; something one does for amusement. It's his trip to go bar hopping. [Silliman University: Dumaguete City, Phillipines, 1998]

2. To go crazy. [Hope College, Holland, MI; Rider University, Lawrenceville, NY]
 trippy (adj)

An unexplained reaction from a person. She was totally trippy. [California State University, Hayward, Hayward, CA]
 truck (v)

To knock someone over or run over someone. I trucked him in the hall. [Penn. State U., University Park, PA]
 tru dat (int)

Yes, I agree. I know what you mean. Tru dat; that exam was killer. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
 true (adj)

Trustworthy; loyal; faithful. Are you worried that he is going to narc on you? No, that dude is true! [Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 1998]
 tweaked (adj)

On crystal meth or cocaine. [University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 1998]
 tweaker (n)

1. A tweaker is someone who's been trippin' out lately. Don't ask her to study; she's a tweaker. [Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR]

2. Someone who uses methamphetamines. That party was full of tweakers. [Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR]
 tweek (tweak) (v)

To flip out or trip balls. She tweeked when she found out we had to do a research paper in that class. [Penn State, State College, PA]
 twisted (adj)

Very highly intoxicated. That Hennessey had me twisted at tha club. [St. Philips College, San Antonio, TX, 1998]
 2.5 (n)
A security guard or university cop; essentially, police officer wanna-be's. Since they aren't a complete authority (full cop or 5.0), they are only half of a full cop - a 2.5. Man, University of Delaware 2.5's suck; Can't believe they give them guns. [University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1999]
 two point one two (phr)

I'll be right back; I'll return right away. Going downstairs, two point one two. [Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1999]
 two sandwiches short of a picnic (adj)

Crazy; not all there. He's got 3 personalities- definitely two sandwiches short of a picnic. [University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998]
 222 (n)

Fellatio. You bitch give me a 222 now!!!! [University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1998]American College Slang Expression: Vocabulary U

uh . . . ya! (int)

Of course. Uh . . . ya! I'll drive. [University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX]
 unclued (adj)

Unaware; out of it. (Usually the last thing someone says for awhile.) Man, I'm unclued.[Samford University, Birmingham, AL, 1998]
 unintentionally mack (v)

To unintentionally flirt with someone excessively; to flirt with someone without knowing;, to pimp on someone unintentionally. Honey child, you were just unintentionally macking all over that boy! [University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 1999]
 unit (n)

A stupid person; a loser; a dork; someone uncool. You're a unit, Dave! [University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, 1998]
 untranslatable (adj)

Something hard to understand, to believe, to describe, or to tell about. That road was untranslatable! [Ural State Academy of Railway Transport, Ekaterinburg, Russia]
 up hill gardener (n)

A male homosexual. Don't mack with him; he's an up hill gardener. [New Wales School of Art and Design, Wrexham, N.Wales, 1998]
 up his/her/its ass (adv)

Very. That movie was phat up its ass! [University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998] American College Slang Expression: Vocabulary V　

vermen (n)

A hillbilly; a dirty person who watches NASCAR and lives in a trailer. That bar was full of vermen. [Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH]
 vexed (adj)

Angry and upset; used when someone upsets you. I was so vexed when he cheated on me. [University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1999] (Judi's note: This is slang because?)
 vicid (adj)

Cute, pretty, or nice. That new girl, Celia, is vicid; you should ask her out. [Wayne State University, Detroit, MI]
 victimize (v)

To drive around in a car and when you see someone on the street or side walk, you roll down the window and yell something at them, usually something funny or an inside joke they won't understand. Look at that dude! Roll down the window and victimize him. [College of DuPage, Glenn Ellen, IL, 1998]
 vid (n)

A notable or somehow striking image or memory of an image. I got a vid of you falling down the steps! [Williams College, Williamstown, MA]
 vitals (n)

All the critical information on a certain person, place, thing, idea, or event. Yo, can you give me the vitals on Jims party? [Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998] American College Slang Expression: Vocabulary W　

wack

1. (adj) Bad; terrible. [Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia; University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR; Grand Valley University, Grand Rapids, MI; SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; Midland College, Midland, TX; University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC] That song is totally wack.

2. (adj) Cool. If you're so wack, why don't you have a date. [University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR]

3. (v) To beat your meat; to jack off; to masturbate (male). He was wacking in the can. [University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR]

4. (v) To hit someone. He almost wacked her when she called him a player. [University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR]
 waffler (n)

Waffler a person who always switches from bi to straight every single time you turn around. That boy is a waffler! [Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1998]
 walk of shame (n)

When a guy or girl walks home after hooking up with someone- usually done in the daylight, so everyone sees that they are wearing the same clothes they had on the night before and that they are alone. I saw Carrie doing the walk of shame from Greg's house this morning. [Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999; University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 1998]
 walking on sunshine (phr)

Really happy about something; in love (or really deep like). She's been walking on sunshine since he asked her out. [Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA]
 wang (wanger) (n)

An unsuccessful person; a fool; a loser. Anyone who attends University of Flordia is a wang. The gators football team are a bunch or wangers. [University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1998]
 wank

1. (n) {offensive} A person who thinks they are cool but they really ain't shit. He's such a wank; he thinks all the girls are in love with him. [Luther College, Decorah, IA]

2. {slightly offensive} (verb) To masturbate. I had to wank she walked in in that dress. [University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales]
 wasted (adj)

Intoxicated and happy. I've been partying all night. I'm wasted! [William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, 1998]
 watch grease (v)

To masterbate. He's just been watching grease since she dumped him. [Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH; Kent State University, Kent, OH; Pittsburgh Art Institute, Pittsburgh, PA]
 wax

1. (v) To have sex. So have you waxed yet? [Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA]

2. (n) Sex. Wanna a little wax? [Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA]
 wazzup? (greeting)

Hi; what's up? Dude, wazzup? [University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997] 
weak (adj)

1. Unbelievable. He got an A? That's weak.

2. Surprised. I was so weak when you showed up at her house.

3. Funny. That guy is so weak; he always makes me laugh. [Bennet College; Greensboro, NC]
 wear (one) low (v)

To bother someone; to get on somebody's nerves. Chris is wearin' me low asking me for my phone number. [Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, 1998]
 wench (n)

Derogatory term for a woman; synonymous with slut, bitch, ho. She's nuthin' but a wench. [Glamorgan University, Pontypridd, Wales]
 whacked (adj)

Really wasted -- usually on drugs. Man, I was whacked last night. [West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1999]
 whas up? (phr)

Hey, how you doing? Hello, glad to see you. What's going on? What are you about to get into? Whas up, G? Hey girl whas up with that boy of yours? [University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1998]
 What are you saying for today? (phr)

What are you up to? What are you doing? Hey man, what are you saying for today? - Ah not much, just chillin back in the hood! [Seneca College, Toronto, Canada, 1998]
 What the fro? (phr)

What is going on here? Some guy bumped into me and I spilled juice all over my new dress, so I exclaimed, "What the fro?!" [SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 1998]
 What up, Big Cuz? (greeting)

Greeting. What's going on? What up, Big Cuz? Where ya been? [University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR]
 What's the (da) dealio (phr) (What's da dilly? What the dilly? What da dilly yo? What da dealy)

What's the deal? What's going on? E.g., What's da dilly, son? What's da dilly yo! [West Humber, Toronto, Canada, 1998; North Carolina A&T, Greensboro, NC, 1998; Penn State, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998; Franklin College, Franklin, IN, 1998; [William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, 1998; Elmira College, Elmira, NY; Sydney, Australia; State University of New York, Oneonta, NY]
 what's his (her) face (voc)

Used in place of a name for someone whose name you don't know. You have to go talk to what's his face about your application. [Montreat College, Montreat, NC, 1998]
 What's the haps on the craps? (greeting)

What's happening? Yo, G, what's the haps on the craps? [Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL]
 What's your damage?! (phr)

What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you trippin'? What's your damage?! [Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA, 1998]
 whatever (int)

It's a catchall word. Is used as a dismissive - the equivalent of "no comment", in exasperation (when someone has given up or almost given up), and in indignation. Is pretty much always used in response to a comment or something that's happened but is sometimes just filler. Dan broke up with me yesterday. He said I was too clingy. -Whatever! Wasn't our project due at noon? -Whatever. [Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999; Cal Poly Pomona,Pomona, CA, 1997]
 whatever's clever (phr)

Whatever is the easiest or more convient. Dana, should we go workout first or go to the cafe and grub? Response: Whatever's clever. It really doesn't matter to me. [Clarion University, Clarion, PA, 1999]
 whateves (int)

Another word used for whatever. He said he would call me, but whateves.[University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1999]
 whiff

1. (v) To err, mess up, lose, perform poorly. I really whiffed on that job interview.

2. (int) Expression indicating that one has erred or performed poorly. He asked out that girl, but totally got turned down. Whiff! [University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998]
 whip

1. (n) Automobile (especially a very nice one). Yo son, I got the hot whip for a grand! [University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1999; Lincoln University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1998; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ]

2. (int) Exclamation of surprise (like damn) Whip! You really surprised me with that haircut! [University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL]
 whipped (adj)

1. When a guy lets his girl tell him what to do all the time and doesn't have any backbone. Joe's out celebrating his 5-week anniversary. Damn is that boy whipped. [Indiana University, South Bend, IN, 1998]

2. Having too much sex. He's been whipped since he started dating her. [Boston University, Boston MA]
 white hat (n)

1. A college-type guy who wears a white hat (with college logo), amongst other articles of clothing such as a plaid shirt and khakis. This bar is full of white hats. [Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1998]

2. (n; adj )A member of a fraternity or a wannabe greek. Don't mess with those white hats. This is such a white hat bar. [University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, Urbana, IL, 1999]
 white squall (n)

Really nasty weather outside. Just look outside - it's white squall out there! [Willamette University, Salem, OR, 1999]
 whomp (v)

To beat; to hit. If you don't shut up, I'm gonna whomp you. [Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD]
 whoop ass (whup ass) (adj)

1. Very good; awesome; cool. That ride was whoop ass! [Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, 1998]

2. (v) To defeat someone or something. I'm gonna whup ass on you. [Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK]

3. (v) To be rowdy. Finals are over; let's whup ass!

4. (n) Defeat. Our team suffered a real whoop ass yesterday. [Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK]

5. (n) Rowdiness. There's too much whoop ass in here; I can't study. (can be reversed as ass whup) [Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK]
 whoopty fucking doo (int)

Heavily sarcastic that's great! They've got tuna casserole tonight. Aren't you psyched? -Whoopty fucking doo! [Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999]

whore bag {vulgar} (n)

A girl who sleeps around. Nicci is a whore bag. [D.U.C.K-DuBois, PA, 1998]
 Whudumup? (phr)

What is going on? Whudumup, dude? [Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, 1998]
 wicked

1. (adj) Very good; awesome; unbelievable; with great power/impact. That was a wicked trick you did on that bike! [Florida State University, Panama City Beach, FL, 1998; Providence College, Providence, RI, 1999]

2. (adv) Very. [University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1999]
 wicked bad (adj)

Very good; extremely cool. That flick was wicked bad! [University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1998]
 wicked doughnut (n)

A 360 spin with your car. Man she pulled a wicked doughnut in the parking lot yesterday! [Gordon College, Glouchester, MA, 1998]
 wife-beater (wifebeata) (n)

A man's sleeveless undershirt, generally tight fitting. Look, that guy's wearing a wife- beater and jeans. [Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 1998; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA]
 wig (wig out) (v)

To overreact; to respond emotionally; to go crazy; to become very upset. I was wiggin' out when I found out I had a flat tire at midnight. Stop wiggin'; you've still got a month to find a new apartment. [University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1998; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA]
 wigger (n)

A white person who tries too act black. Seth Green in "Can't Hardly Wait" acted like a total wigger. [Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA, 1999]
 wiggity-wack (adj)

Overwhelmingly bad. That food was wiggity-wack! [Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia]
 wired (adj)

Very excited; very psyched. Are you ready to go out? I'm wired. [Monash, Melbourne, Australia, 1998]
 with a quickness (phr)

Fast, hurriedly, A.S.A.P.. I just spilled my drink. Get me a towel with a quickness. [University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL]
 woochow! (int)

Said with great enthusiasm, often very loud, to proclaim one's excitement or happyness! Woochow! I got an A! [Feather River College, Quincy, CA, 1998]
 wool (n)

Attractive women. I heard there's gonna be a lot of wool at the party tonight. [Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, 1998]
 woopty-woo (int)

Exclamation when something good has happened. Our final has been cancelled? Woopty-woo! [Dakota County Technical College, Rosemount, MN]
 word (werd) (int)

1. What's up? How are you? Word, g, where you been? [Keene State College, Keene, NH, 1998; SUNY, Brockport, Brockport, NY, 1998]

2. I agree. Someone says, "That was an amazing concert!" You say, "Word!" [Keene State College, Keene, NH, 1998; MacMurry College, Jacksonville, IL; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, 1997]
 word up (phr)

1. What's going on?

2. How are you?

3. Give the vital information on a certain person, place, thing or event. Hey, give me the word up on how Joe is doing? [Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998]
 wrecked (adj)

1. High on drugs (usually pot). Damn, you shoulda seen me, I was sooo wrecked last night! [UA&P, Manila, Philippines, 1998]

2. ntoxicated. They had three kegs and everyone got fully wrecked. [SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY]
 wrenched (adj)

Intoxicated; wasted; drunk outta yo' mind. She was so wrenched she couldn't even find the john. [Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA]
 wuk (n)

Sexual intercourse. That girl needs a good wuk. [University of Luton, England, 1998]
 Wu-Tang style (phr)

Particularily excellent; memorable; remarkable. That boy was dancing Wu-Tang style! [Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1999; University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, Waukesha, WI, 1999]American College Slang Expression: Vocabulary X

Xippie ( pronounced zippie) (noun)

Gen-X hippie or hippie wannabe. [USC, Columbia, SC]American College Slang Expression: Vocabulary Y

ya heard (phr)

Do you understand? Do you get it? Do you agree? The party was hype, ya heard. [University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, 1999]
 ya know this (int)

Expression of agreement or reassurance. You're gonna pass. Ya know this! [University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA]
 yahtzee (int)

An exclammation used identify a horrifying member of the opposite sex. (E.g., when an unattractive woman walks by. Watch out. Yahtzee! [Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1999]
 yeah cow (int)

Ok; that's cool. Yeah cow! Let's see a flick. [Jackson State University, Jackson, MS]
 yeah thanks (int)

Okay; it doesn't matter. Jim: I already cleaned our room. Bill: Yeah thanks!! [West Virginia State College, Institute, WV, 1998]
 yeapa-snapa (n)

1. Female genitalia. Dat damn yeapa-snapa will get you in trouble every time!!

2. Women. There was a buncha yeapa-snapa hanging out on the quad after class. [Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 1998]
 yo

1. (int) A general filler or attention-getter. Yo that song is tight. [University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1998]

2. (adj) Your. Where'd ya park yo car? [Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD]
 yo bus aint cang (phr)

I'm sorry about your bad luck. You caught your hair on fire? Looks like yo bus aint cang. [Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1999]
 yoha broha (greeting)

Salutations my good fellow; what's up. Yoha broha! Where ya been since lunch? [North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA]
 yoke (n)

Semen. She gots da yoke all over her shirt. [Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 1999]
 yoni {vulgar} (n)

Clitoris. I fingered my girl's yoni last night. [Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 1998]
 You can't run with the wolves when you piss like a puppy! (phr)

You are too young or not mature enough to hang with us. Get lost; you can't run with the wolves when you piss like a puppy! [University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998]
 you damn skippy (int)

Yes--with emphasis. Are you going to see that model tonight? You damn skippy! [Florida A& M University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998]
 you go girl! (you go boy!) (phr)
An exclamation of praise; great job; right on. I just aced my bio exam. You go girl! [Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999]
 young (voc)

Something to call a friend; a way to address someone. Comes from the word "young buck," or "youngin". Young, peep this. [Montgomery College, Gaithersburg, MD, 1999]
 your six (phr)

Behind you. You betta watch your six. [University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
 yummy (adj)
Good looking. That guy in the blue shirt is yummy. [Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1998]
 yummy pants (n)

An attractive female. Check out the yummy pants at the bar. [University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO]American College Slang Expression: Vocabulary Z　

za (n)

Pizza. Let's go to Joe's and get some za. [University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI]
 zeltoids (n)

Pot; weed; marijuana. Got any zeltoids? [North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, NC]
 zeen (phr)

Get it, understand? Do you agree? I woke up really early, zeen? So I'm madd tired. [University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998]
 zerbit (v)

To give a full contact rasberry: lips pursed, touched to the flesh of another, and air exhaled at a rapid rate. Joe happily zerbitted Lisa on the neck. [Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1998]
 zipperfish (n)

A woman's genital area; pussy. So'd ya get to the zipperfish last night? [Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge]
 zooted (adj)

High or drunk. Damn yo, that kid is zooted yo! [Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ, 1998]
Slang Subculture Definition

What is slang? Is there a precise definition about it? Usually, slang is rather called slang expression in linguistics. In some famous dictionaries and encyclopedias, some information about slang can be found: language that is not usually acceptable in serious speech or writing; very informal words and expressions; unconventional words or phrases that express either something new or something old in a new way. The origin of the word slang itself is quite obscure. It first appeared in print around 1800, applied to the speech of disreputable and criminal classes in London. The term, however, was probably used much earlier. It is flippant, irreverent and indecorous, and may be indecent or obscene. Its colorful metaphors are generally directed at respectability, and it is this succinct, sometimes witty, frequently impertinent social criticism that gives slang its characteristic flavor. But the above-said details are not enough to define slang.

Actually, the related types of nonstandard word usage include cant, and jargon---synonyms for vague and high-sounding or technical and esoteric language. In England, the term cant still indicates the specialized speech of criminals, the private language of the underworld. In the United States, cant is more often called argot. In addition, dialect, which refers to language characteristic of a certain geographic area or social class, also coins some slang expressions. Obviously, all of them make up a main part of the slang expressions. Moreover, slang, stemming from society, has its complexity and multiplicity. As a result, it is destined that slang is a subculture in society. That is to say, slang includes not just words but words used in a special way in a certain social context.

Civilized society tends to divide into a dominant culture and various subcultures that flourish within the dominant framework. The subcultures around the world show specialized linguistic phenomena that establish another subculture---slang. Varying widely in form and content, it depends on the nature of the groups and their relation with each other and the dominant culture. As a result, slang has many complicated sources and has its various characteristics, and its development also possess the firm relations with others, such as society and linguistics.I. The Relations Between Slang Sources And Slang Development
Looking through the human society, the civilization is filled with all kinds of subcultures. All social strata have their own habits and their own thinking patterns. The habits and thinking patterns create their own culture, which is called subculture in the dominant culture. When the individual social strata feel unsatisfactory to the society or other social strata, they will complain or revolt by way of violence. Slang is produced largely by social forces rather than by an individual speaker or a writer, who himself created some slang expressions. This is the reason why it is difficult to determine the origin of slang terms. Slang sometimes stems from within a group, satirizing or burlesquing its own values (precise signification), behaviors, and attitudes. Usually, Slang emanates from conflicts in values ---sometimes it is superficial, often fundamental. When an individual applies one language in a new way to express hostility, ridicule, or contempt, he may be creating slang, often with a sharp wit, but the new expression will perish unless others pick it up. If the speaker is a member of a group that finds that his creation projects the emotional reaction of its members toward an idea, a person, or a social institution, the expression will gain currency according to the unanimity of attitude within the group. That is to say, a new slang term is usually widely used in a subculture before it appears in the dominant culture. Sometimes the shock value of slang stems largely from the verbal transfer of the value of a subculture to completely opposed value in the dominant culture. Names such as fuzz, pig, fink, bull, and dick for policemen were created not by officers of the law but created by criminal groups or others.

It is true that the occupational groups are legions of slang creators, and while in most respects they identify with the dominant culture, there is just enough social and linguistic hostility to maintain group solidarity. In addition to occupational and professional groups, there are many other types of subcultures that provide slang expressions. These include sexual deviants, narcotic addicts, ghetto groups, institutional populations, agricultural sub societies, political organizations, the armed forces, Gypsies, and sports groups of many varieties. Some of the most fruitful sources of slang are the subcultures of professional criminals who have migrated to the New World since the 16th century. Old-time thieves still humorously refer to themselves as FFV--First Families of Virginia.

Most subcultures tend to draw words and phrases from the contiguous language (rather than creating many new words) and to give these established terms new and special meanings. Take American slang for example, some borrowings from foreign languages are traditional. The occupations or professions like medicine, law, psychology, sociology, engineering, and electronics tend to create true neologisms, though nurses and medical students adapt some medical terminology to their slang, and air force personnel and some other branches of the armed services borrow freely from engineering and electronics.

Food, drink, sex and so on also involve extensive slang vocabulary, and in the future more and more slang expressions will come out, so it is difficult to elaborately draw a list of slang sources.II. The Relations Between Linguistic Processes And Slang Development
The slang development is really complicated, not only because of its sociality but also because of its linguistic constant changing forms. Linguistic processes also form the slang. The processes by which words become slang are the same as those by which other words in the language change their form or meaning or both. Some of these are the use of metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, acronyms, hyperbole, generalization, specialization, clipping. Others are the use of folk etymology, distortion of sounds, elevation and degeneration, borrowings from foreign languages, and the play of euphemism against taboo. Take funky for example, it was once a very low term for body odor, has undergone elevation among jazz buffs to signify the best. Fanny, on the other hand, once simply a girl's name, is currently a degenerated term that refers to the buttocks (in England, it has further degenerated into a taboo word for the female genitalia).III. Characteristics Of Slang
Slang comes from society. On the other hand, during the development of slang, because of its sociality and linguistic changeful form, it has many characteristics. Slang is an active, vivid, colorful, glamorous and attractive form of language, which is real like a living thing.

Every slang word, however, has its own history and reasons for popularity. When conditions change, the term may change in meaning, be adopted into the standard language, or continue to be used as slang within certain enclaves of the population. Some slang expressions become respectable when they lose their edge; spunk, fizzle, spent, hit the spot, jazz, and funky, once thought to be too indecent for feminine ears, are now family words. Other slang survives for centuries, like bones for dice, beat it for run away, duds for clothes, and booze for liquor. These words must have been uttered as slang long before appearing in print, and they have remained slang ever since.

Slang has both a high birth and death rate in the dominant culture. The rate of turnover in slang words is undoubtedly encouraged by the mass media, and a term must be increasingly effective to survive. It is a typical characteristic of slang. It is possible that anybody can create popular slang anytime. But the essence is how effective the expression could be.

Sometimes it is hard to know that a word once was a slang expression. Terms such as scab, strikebreaker, and goon were highly charged words in the era in which labors began to organize in the United States. They are not used lightly even today, though they have been taken into the standard language. So that is to say, once to be slang not always being slang. This characteristic makes a difficult discrimination between slang and stand language words.

Other slang terms may change their form or both form and meaning, like one for the book (anything unusual or unbelievable). Sportswriters in United States borrowed this term around 1920 from the occupational language of the legal bookmakers, who lined up at racetracks in the morning ("the morning line" is still figuratively used on every sports page) to take bets on the afternoon races. Newly arrived bookmakers went to the end of the line, and any bettor requesting unusually long odds was motioned down the line with the phrase, "That's one for the end book." The general public dropped the word end as meaningless, but old-time gamblers still retain it.

While many slang words introduce new concepts, some of the most effective slang provides new expressions---fresh, satirical, shocking--for the established concepts, often very popular or respectable ones. For example, at the beginning of nineteen century, an article was a meaning of a girl or a woman. But in the 1970s, it was used to describe a person who was vile or contemptible, and today it means a bright person. Take surfing for instance, it is a stimulating sport, which Americans are very fond of, but now it is also used for Internet scan. Sound is sometimes used as a basis for this type of slang, as, for example, in various phonetic distortions. It is also used in rhyming slang, which employs a fortunate combination of both sound and imagery. Thus, gloves are turtledoves (the gloved hands suggesting a pair of billing doves). Most slang, however, depends upon incongruity of imagery, conveyed by the lively connotations of a novel term applied to an established concept. Slang is not all of equal quality, a considerable body of it reflects a simple need to find new terms for common ones, such as the hands, feet, head, and other parts of the body.

Sometimes slang expressions will oppose to its literature meaning. This characteristic will cause some misunderstanding. For example, break a leg, its literature meaning is very unlucky, but when used in American slang, it will be a good blessing to someone. If the foreigner does not catch the meaning, it may cause a fight.

Slang, like other normal words, has its rich and abundant expressions to describe the synonymous meaning. For instance, have a cash (or "crush") on someone, get the hot for someone, drool over someone, have it bad for someone, be all over someone, and be head over heels in love with are used for expressing someone been struck by another. As a result, writers sometimes would rather choose a slang expression for their masterpiece.

All the above-mentioned characteristics make the slang expressions fairly special, and the above-said characteristics are just like an angle of an iceberg. Therefore, it attracts the linguists and other social scientists, and all the people who like using it.IV. Diffusion Of Slang
As everyone knows, language acts as a tool of communication applied widely by mass media. To be an active thing, slang diffuses in every place. Its hands have reached out to every country and region, every career and profession. In many forms of dissemination, slang is like a magician invading into the dominant culture with his wizardries.

Slang invades the dominant culture as it seeps out of various subcultures. Before the appearance of mass media, such terms invaded the dominant culture slowly and were transmitted largely by oral. Today, with the development of the technology, however, a sportscaster, news reporter, or comedian may introduce a lively new word already used by an in-group into millions of homes simultaneously, giving it almost instant currency. For example, the term "flyaway" was first used largely to indicate something loose and flowing because of unconfined fullness at the back, and it also had another meaning of being an aircraft that is ready to fly. Later, because of reports of NBA (American National Basketball Association) action, it is widely used for describing the excellent motion of a basketball superstar Michael Jordan, and now the term has become a popular words in basketball sport.

When subcultures are structurally tight, little of their language leaks out. Thus the Mafia, in more than a half-century of powerful criminal activity in America, has contributed little slang. When subcultures weaken, contacts with the dominant culture multiply, diffusion occurs, and their language appears widely as slang, such as argot or cant. Criminal narcotic addicts, for example, had a tight subculture and a highly secret argot in the 1940s. Now middle-class teenagers, even those with no real knowledge of drugs, use their terms freely. Slang spreads through many other channels, such as popular songs. Take "a dear John letter" (a letter for breaking off relations) for example, the slang expression came from a song, and the words of the song told a story that a girl was saying goodbye to his boy friend John. V. Use Of Slang
Now, slang has taken its roots over the world, like a big tree standing in a forest. Slang is used for many purposes, but generally it expresses a certain emotional attitude. The same term may express completely varied attitudes when used by different people. For example, the term doll is very typical to the slang usage. The phrase A Barbie doll is used for describing a person who is stupid, but another phrase a baby doll means a pretty girl. Slang sometimes would insult or shock others when used directly; some terms euphemize a sensitive concept, though obvious or excessive euphemism may break the taboo more effectively than a less decorous term. Some slang words are essential because there are no words in the standard language expressing exactly the same meaning, for example, freak-out, barn-storm, rubberneck, and creep. At the other extreme, multitudes of words, vague in meaning, are used simply as fads.
There are many other usages which slang is put to, according to the individual and his place in society. Most slang expressions are used in spoken level, but persons probably are unaware that it is slang. The choice of terms naturally follows a multiplicity of unconscious thought patterns. When writers use the slang expressions, slang is chosen much more consciously and carefully to achieve a specific effect. Writers, however, seldom invent slang. It has been claimed that slang is created by ingenious individuals to freshen the language, to vitalize it, to make the language more pungent and picturesque, to increase the store of terse and striking words, or to provide a vocabulary for new shades of meaning. Most of the slang originators, however, are probably not conscious of these noble purposes and do not seem extremely concerned about what happens to their language.VI. Attitudes Toward Slang
With the rise of naturalistic writing demanding realism, slang began to creep into literatures, but oppositions have been confronting. The important reason is that some of slang comes form other subcultures, such as underworld, criminal groups, narcotic addicts and prostitution. Most of them are very vulgar and coarse. So in some formal occasions, slang is refused and seldom drawn into. Then the schools waged warfare against it, the pulpit thundered against it, and many women, who aspired to gentility and refinement, banished it from the home. Furthermore, some formal types of literatures certainly refused slang expressions. Take research paper writing for example, it has to be a formal style.

But many people still accept slang. By 1925 a whole new generation of United States and European naturalistic writers was in revolt against the Victorian restraints that had caused even Mark Twain to complain. Today any writer may use slang freely, especially in fiction and drama. It has become an indispensable tool in the hands of master satirists, humorists, and journalists. Not only just because it is slang but also because, when used with skill and discrimination, it adds a new and exciting dimension to language. At the same time, linguists and other social scientists are seriously studying it as a revealing index to the culture that produces and uses it. As everyone knows, slang is now socially acceptable. Especially in some countries, slang is widely used. In the United States slang is so rich and varied that collectors have as yet only scratched the surface. A dictionary (written by Harold Wentworth and Stuart B.Flexner) named Dictionary of American Slang t can prove that the slang is a very popular language expression in the United States. Today slang does continue its vitality, and update slang expressions come in everyday, for many people support it and approach it. VII. Role Of Slang
A famous linguist, Doctor Walter Chapman pointed out that the linguistics was like a king of the world, and slang was more like a jester entering into the magnificent imperial palace, making an excellent performance in front of the king for a solemn ceremony. In Walter's words, it was obvious that slang had jumped out of the restriction to be a special one. Undoubtedly, slang has been acting as an important role thought the long river of the human history. During the long history, slang itself becomes an active and indispensable language. More over, slang is the most active part of the language and it concluded large quantity of information of culture in our society. Thus, the most primary role is that slang will act as a transportation of information. As we know, slang expression is a vivid form of language. Slang not only has its strong vitality but also includes much information of different cultures. Foreign culture, like United Kingdoms or U.S., usually prefer to use slang, especially in some newspaper or magazines such as Times, New York Times, Thames and so on. In order to understand the content of the publication, learning more slang seems very necessary to the language learner. Thus, by way of learning slang, people in the world can study and comprehend more subcultures. So, learning slang will enlarge the knowledge and cultural background of cultures. It is obvious that slang itself has much practicality.VIII. Experiencing Slang
As everyone knows, sometimes the slang expressions are so complex that anybody cannot grasp it. A foreigner probably can use his native slang easily to express in his country but not in other countries. A medicine student might be able to list all the technical slang terms in medicine but not in other fields of special study. Thus, for an American English major who has been studying English for a long time, it is impossible to him to master the American slang. It seems very disappointed. But actually not, it is a truth that nobody can finish drinking all the water of a whole sea. Now just imagine, when a foreigner spits a misunderstanding slang expression out, which he or she regards as a splendid expression. It might be embarrassed and puzzled, then what can be done and how to deal with it? Nevertheless, just say, "Sorry, I'm in the dark (be not sure), can you make it please?" In fact, it is lucky to everyone to learn a new slang expression more. Undoubtedly, it is a good thing. So, make slang our food, digest it and burn it. Only in this way, people can completely make use of slang on one's heart's content.

In a word, slang is a significant part of linguistics and an important part of culture. With the development of civilization, more and more slang expressions are appearing while some slang expressions are disappearing. And slang itself has come to form its system, existing in the dominant culture. And it deeply takes its roots and becomes a subculture in human society. Undoubtedly, it is very close to our day life. So it is necessary for us to concern about slang. And slang is the thing that we have to confront and keep in touch with.References
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