S: (adj) huffy, mad, sore (roused to anger) "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
S: (adj) potted ((British informal) summarized or abridged) "a potted version of a novel"
S: (adj) living ((informal) absolute) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
S: (adj) come-at-able, get-at-able, getatable (capable of being reached or attained) "a very getatable man"; "both oil and coal are there but not in getatable locations"
S: (adj) dead-on (accurate and to the point) "a dead-on feel for characterization"; "She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue"- Peter S.Prescott
S: (adj) hot (marked by excited activity) "a hot week on the stock market"
S: (adj) fly ((British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked)
S: (adj) huffy, mad, sore (roused to anger) "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
S: (adj) livid (furiously angry) "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"
S: (adj) dinky ((British informal) pretty and neat) "what a dinky little hat"
S: (adj) dishy ((informal British) sexually attractive) "a dishy blonde"
S: (adj) chancy, fluky, flukey, iffy (subject to accident or chance or change) "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
S: (adj) punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy (dazed from or as if from repeated blows) "knocked silly by the impact"; "slaphappy with exhaustion"; "punch-drunk with love"
S: (adj) chummy, buddy-buddy, thick ((used informally) associated on close terms) "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months"
S: (adj) comfortable, comfy (providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)) "comfortable clothes"; "comfortable suburban houses"; "made himself comfortable in an armchair"; "the antihistamine made her feel more comfortable"; "are you comfortable?"; "feeling comfy now?"
S: (adj) bad, tough (feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')) "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
S: (adj) jammed, jam-packed, packed (extremely crowed or filled to capacity) "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"
S: (adj) broken, busted (out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')) "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"
S: (adj) knocked-out (damaged) "the gym has some of the most knocked-out equipment since Vic Tanny"
S: (adj) licked (having been got the better of) "I'm pretty beat up but I don't feel licked yet"
S: (adj) tall (impressively difficult) "a tall order"
S: (adj) cushy, soft, easygoing (not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship) "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a parttime consultant"; "a soft job"
S: (adj) het up (worked up emotionally by anger or excitement) "was terribly het up over the killing of the eagle"; "got really het up over the new taxes"; "he was suddenly het up about racing cars"
S: (adj) crazy, wild, dotty, gaga (intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with) "crazy about cars and racing"; "they are dotty about each other"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"
S: (adj) no-frills (characterized by the absence of inessential features) "he got a no-frills introduction to the job"
S: (adj) crazy (possessed by inordinate excitement) "the crowd went crazy"; "was crazy to try his new bicycle"
S: (adj) big-ticket, high-ticket (very expensive) "big-ticket items like cars and furs"; "a big-ticket government program"
S: (adj) cool (fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept) "he's a cool dude"; "that's cool"; "Mary's dress is really cool"; "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early"
S: (adj) in (currently fashionable) "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in"
S: (adj) prehistoric (no longer fashionable) "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"
S: (adj) classy, posh, swish (elegant and fashionable) "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child
S: (adj) hopeless ((informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform) "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
S: (adj) shady (of questionable honesty or legality) "He established a dummy company through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers"
S: (adj) dicky, dickey ((British informal) faulty) "I've got this dicky heart"- John le Carre
S: (adj) big (significant) "graduation was a big day in his life"
S: (adj) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial ((informal) small and of little importance) "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
S: (adj) potty ((British informal) trivial) "potty little details"
S: (adj) high-flown, high-sounding, inflated (pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)) "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
S: (adj) white-shoe (denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative) "the politician tried to hide his white-shoe background"
S: (adj) fat, juicy (lucrative) "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
S: (adj) cool (used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis) "a cool million bucks"
S: (adj) fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious (not as expected) "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"
S: (adj) all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory, cool (being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition) "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"
S: (adj) pumped-up, pumped up, pumped, wired (tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline) "we were really pumped up for the race"; "he was so pumped he couldn't sleep"
S: (adj) economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting (avoiding waste) "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
S: (adj) all in, beat, bushed, dead (very tired) "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
S: (adv) okay, O.K., all right, alright (in a satisfactory or adequate manner) "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right')
S: (adv) anywhere, anyplace (at or in or to any place) "you can find this food anywhere"; (`anyplace' is used informally for `anywhere')
S: (adv) somewhere, someplace (in or at or to some place) "she must be somewhere"; (`someplace' is used informally for `somewhere')
S: (adv) everywhere, everyplace, all over (to or in any or all places) "You find fast food stores everywhere"; "people everywhere are becoming aware of the problem"; "he carried a gun everywhere he went"; "looked all over for a suitable gift"; (`everyplace' is used informally for `everywhere')
S: (adv) anon ((old-fashioned or informal) in a little while) "see you anon"
S: (adv) obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain (unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')) "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"
S: (adv) thoroughly, soundly, good (completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly')) "he was soundly defeated"; "we beat him good"
S: (adv) forever, forever and a day (for a very long or seemingly endless time) "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day"
S: (adv) dingdong (heartily or earnestly) "They fell to work dingdong"
S: (adv) way, right smart (to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)) "way over budget"; "way off base"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"
S: (adv) at least, leastways, leastwise, at any rate (if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)) "at least he survived"; "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"; "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching"
S: (adv) irregardless (regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously)
S: (adv) surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting (definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')) "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come"
S: (adv) easily, easy (with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')) "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; "success came too easy"
S: (adv) easy, soft (in a relaxed manner; or without hardship) "just wanted to take it easy"; "the judge went easy on the young defendant"
S: (adv) slowly, slow, easy, tardily (without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')) "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights"
S: (adv) like hell, like mad, like crazy, like sin, like thunder, like the devil ((informal) with great speed or effort or intensity; used for emphasis) "drove like crazy"; "worked like hell to get the job done"; "this sprain hurts like hell"; "ran like sin for the storm cellar"; "work like thunder"; "fought like the devil"
S: (adv) hopelessly (in a hopeless manner) "the papers were hopelessly jumbled"; "he is hopelessly romantic"
S: (adv) roughly, rough (with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')) "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"
S: (adv) plop, plunk (with a short hollow thud) "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"
S: (adv) plump (straight down especially heavily or abruptly) "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water"
S: (adv) sweetly, sweet (in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')) "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other"
S: (n) firewall ((colloquial) the application of maximum thrust) "he moved the throttle to the firewall"
S: (n) fix (something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug) "she needed a fix of chocolate"
S: (n) heavy lifting (difficult work) "the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting"
S: (n) game, biz (your occupation or line of work) "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz"
S: (n) redbrick university ((British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University)
S: (n) way (the property of distance in general) "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways"
S: (n) number (a clothing measurement) "a number 13 shoe"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) drag (something tedious and boring) "peeling potatoes is a drag"
S: (n) hot stuff, voluptuousness (the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)) "he thought she was really hot stuff"
S: (n) turf (range of jurisdiction or influence) "a bureaucracy...chiefly concerned with turf...and protecting the retirement system"
S: (n) borscht circuit, borsht circuit, borscht belt, borsht belt ((informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests) "many comedians learned their trade playing the borscht circuit"
S: (n) drink (any large deep body of water) "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued"
S: (n) number one (a reference to yourself or myself etc.; `take care of number one' means to put your own interests first)
S: (n) fuddy-duddy (a conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance) "you may accuse me of being and old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun"
S: (n) gal (alliterative term for girl (or woman))
S: (n) geezer (a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric)
S: (n) head (a user of (usually soft) drugs) "the office was full of secret heads"
S: (n) headhunter (a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations))
S: (n) man (a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman) "she takes good care of her man"
S: (n) Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback (`Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms)
S: (n) woman (a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man) "he was faithful to his woman"
S: (v) break (happen or take place) "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"
W: (adj) straight up [Related to: colloquialism] ((of an alcoholic drink) stirred or shaken with ice, but served without it) "I like my martinis straight up"
W: (adj) ripping [Related to: colloquialism] (very good; of the highest quality) "made an excellent speech"; "he was a splendid teacher"; "a first-class mind"
W: (adj) fantabulous [Related to: colloquialism] (very good; of the highest quality) "made an excellent speech"; "he was a splendid teacher"; "a first-class mind"
W: (n) Ebonics [Related to: colloquialism] (a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States)
W: (v) skip [Related to: colloquialism] (leave suddenly) "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"