| bad-mouth | trans. To abuse or deprecate verbally; to criticize, slander, or gossip maliciously… | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| baloney | Humbug; nonsense. | 1928 | Go To Quotation |
| boosterism | A tendency to ‘boost’ or seek to raise the estimation of (oneself, one's town, product… | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| bummer | An unpleasant or depressing experience, esp. one induced by a hallucinatory drug (= down trip n.… | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| cagey | Not forthcoming, reticent, wary, non-committal. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Canfield | A form of the game of patience similar to Klondyke. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| contrail | A condensation trail (see condensation n. Compounds), a vapour trail. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| dolorimeter | An instrument for the measurement of pain or sensitivity to pain. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| Dutch colonial | Designating a style of architecture characteristic of former Dutch colonies, often… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| egg-head | An intellectual, a ‘highbrow’. Also attrib. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| gink | A fellow; a man. (Freq. pejorative.) | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Goldwynism | A witticism uttered by or typical of Samuel Goldwyn, esp. one that revolves round a contradiction, a colourful image, etc. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| goof | A silly, stupid, or ‘daft’ person. | 1916 | Go To Quotation |
| hep | Well-informed, knowledgeable, ‘wise to ’, up-to-date; smart, stylish. Hence as n., the… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| job sharing | A working arrangement in which two or more people are employed on a part-time basis to… | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| Kilroy | The name of a mythical person, popularized by U.S. servicemen in the war of 1939 – 45… | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| klaxon | An (electric) horn or warning hooter, orig. one on a motor vehicle. Also klaxon-horn. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Little Leaguer | A player in a Little League. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| mike | A microgram of a drug, esp. lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| monkey jacket | A short close-fitting jacket, esp. as worn by sailors. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| mosey | A walk at a leisurely pace; a stroll. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| nana | A banana. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| night-blind | Affected with night-blindness; unable to see in dim light. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| no-talent | Chiefly of a person: lacking talent, talentless. | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| oomph | The quality of being exciting, energetic, or sexually attractive; energy, vigour. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| ornamenter | A person who or thing which ornaments something; spec. an artisan skilled in decoration. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| pan | trans. To follow or sweep over (a person, object, etc.) with a camera. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| poufed | Gathered into a bunch or pouf (pouf n.); puffed out; spec. (of hair) arranged so as to have maximum volume. Freq. with out. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| puri | A small round cake of unleavened wheat flour, deep-fried in ghee or oil. | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| quirl | intr. To coil; to twist, curl. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| scutter | One who or that which is remarkable or extraordinary; (often familiarly) a great rascal or scamp, a ‘devil’. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| Smithfield | The name of a town in Virginia, used attrib. to designate a type of ham cured by a special process which originated there. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| soft-pedal | trans. and intr. (freq. const. on). To reduce the loudness or volume of (a noise); to… | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| spin-dry | trans. To remove excess water from (washing) by spinning it rapidly in a rotating… | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| stooge | transf. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| superette | A small supermarket. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| tommy-gun | A Thompson or other sub-machine-gun. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| vaudevillain | = vaudevillian n. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| wham | trans. To strike violently; to propel with great force, by hitting, throwing, kicking, etc. Also fig. | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| whee | intr. To utter a high-pitched sound. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| whee | An exclamation of joy, exhilaration, astonishment, etc. Occas. as n., a high-pitched sound resembling this. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| zingo | = zing int. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
