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1. alickadoo, n. View full entry 1961
...A person who is attached to or associated with a rugby game or club but does not play, esp. an administrative official or committee member....
2. ballahoo, n. View full entry 1815
...A type of fast-sailing two-masted schooner. Also used as a term of contempt for a sluggish, slovenly, or ungainly vessel (cf. ballyhoo, ballyhoo of blazes). Now rare...
3. bourgie, adj. and n. View full entry 1967
...Bourgeois, middle-class; exhibiting characteristics frequently associated with the (white) middle class, such as conventionality, materialism, or elitism....
4. boy toy, n. View full entry 1971
...A toy which typically appeals to boys; (also) a gadget, esp. an unnecessary or extravagant one, designed to evoke a somewhat childish appeal in men....
5. Clintonista, n. View full entry 1992
...A supporter or adherent of Bill Clinton or his policies. Also: a member of the Clinton administration....
6. cuff, n.3 View full entry c1616
...A contemptuous term for an old man; esp. a miserly old fellow....
7. Disgusted, n. View full entry 1884
...Originally as a self-designation: a member of the public who writes anonymously to a newspaper expressing outrage about a particular issue. Hence more widely: a person who is vocal and indignant in...
8. euro-creep, n. View full entry 1982
...depreciative. A person in favour of greater British political and economic integration with continental Europe, regarded as servile or obnoxious. Cf. creep1c(b)....
9. Fascist, n. and adj. View full entry 1921
...One of a body of Italian nationalists, which was organized in 1919 to oppose communism in Italy, and, as the partito nazionale fascista, under the leadership of Benito...
10. feminazi, n. View full entry 1989
...A person (typically a woman) regarded as holding extreme feminist views....
11. FOB, n.4 View full entry 1968
...A recent immigrant....
12. grunge, n. View full entry 1965
...A general term of disparagement for someone or something that is repugnant or odious, unpleasant, or dull; also, dirt, grime. Also attrib....
13. Hinglish, n.2 and adj.2 View full entry 1967
...Esp. in India: a mixture of Hindi and English; esp. a variety of English used by speakers of Hindi (or in a bilingual Hindi and English context), characterized by frequent...
14. Islington, n. View full entry 1982
...attrib. Designating or relating to (the type of) a middle-class, socially aware person with centre-left or left-wing views supposedly characteristic of Islington residents. Esp. in Islington Man, Islington...
15. jazz, n. and adj. View full entry 1912
...U.S.slang. Energy, excitement, ‘pep’; restlessness; animation, excitability. Now rare....
16. lite, adj.2 and n.6 View full entry 1954
...Occas. in advertisements: = light18a....
17. management-speak, n. View full entry 1986
...A form of language considered typical of business managers or consultants, esp. in being obfuscatory, needlessly complex, or empty of useful meaning. Cf. managementese, Newspeak, technospeaktechno-...
18. millocrat, n. View full entry 1838
...Esp. in 19th-cent. Britain: a member of the body of mill owners regarded as a dominant or ruling class....
19. Nazi, n. and adj. View full entry 1930
...A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (now hist.); a member of any similar organization. Also more generally, usu. in pl.: the German government or armed...
20. nerdish, adj. View full entry 1980
...Having the characteristics of a ‘nerd’; typical or suggestive of a ‘nerd’; = nerdy...
