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A-hole

Language; Slang

(American) A euphemism for asshole, usually in the literal rather than metaphorical sense.

Aggro

Language; Slang

(British and Australian aggravation). Originally the slang term was a euphemism for threatened or actual violence, offered typically by skinheads, although it is not clear whether they or ...

Aggravation

Language; Slang

(British) Serious trouble, victimisation or mutual harassment. A colloquial extension of the standard meaning of the word, used by police and the underworld. Aggravation is, like bother ...

Aggro

Language; Slang

(American) Wonderful, excellent. This probably ephemeral term was recorded among teenagers in New York and California in the late 1980s. It is probably based on a misunderstanding or deliberate ...

Ah-eet

Language; Slang

(American) 'Doing OK, feeling good' (recorded, US student, April 2002). The term, which can be used as an exclamation or greet- ing, is probably a humorous or mock- dialect deformation of ...

Aggie

Language; Slang

(British) a marble (as used in children's games). An old term, usually for a striped marble, still heard in the 1950s. From agate, the banded stone from which marbles were ...

Anchors

Language; Slang

Brakes. Originally part of the jargon of pre-war professional drivers. The term was popular with some middle-class motorists throughout the 1950s and 1960s, usually in the phrase 'slam on the ...