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Asshole

Language; Slang

(American) 1. The anus. The American version of the British and Australian arsehole. 2. A very stupid person, someone who is pathetically or offensively foolish. This American word always implies ...

-artist

Language; Slang

(Suffix) An expert in, or devotee of, a particular activity. The word can be added to many others, but the most popular are bull(shit)-artist, burn-artist, con-artist, piss-artist, ...

Arvo

Language; Slang

(Australian) Afternoon. An example of the Australian tendency to abbreviate even the most mundane everyday words. The tendency is shared by nursery slang in general and, in Britain, ...

Arty-farty

Language; Slang

Pretentious, affected, more decorative than useful. A more vulgar parallel of the innocuous 'arty-crafty', which is Edwardian in origin and was usually applied to the ...

Artillery

Language; Slang

Needles, hypodermic syringes and other paraphernalia used by heroin addicts. The image of an arsenal of deadly equip- ment is typical of addicts' own self-dram- atising slang (as in ...

Arsy

Language; Slang

(Australian) Lucky. Usually said grudgingly or enviously about someone who has managed to get away with something. (Arse in Aus- tralian slang may signify luck as well as brazenness.)

Asap

Language; Slang

Immediately, as soon as possible. The spoken form of the commonly used initials a.s.a.p. (sometimes also used in speech, pronounced letter by letter or as one word).