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Aim archie at the armitage

Language; Slang

(Australian) To urinate (for a male). A later version of the widely known point percy at the por- celain, popularised in Barry Humphries' Barry McKenzie cartoon series. ('Armit- age Ware' is a ...

Aimed

Language; Slang

(American) identified, singled out and/or victimised. A slang version of 'targeted' which probably originated in the argot of black street gangs. It is now used in milder contexts by ...

Air hose

Language; Slang

(American) shoes, typically loafers (leather mocca- sins), worn without socks. A preppie term for a preppie sartorial convention, pun- ning on the American sense of 'hose' meaning socks, ...

Airlocked

Language; Slang

(British) Drunk. The term occurs especially in Northern Irish use and it is possibly an inoffensive form of 'bollocked' or evoking a loss of faculties as if from oxygen deprivation.

Aiit!

Language; Slang

American exclamation: contracted alterations of all right or awright, fashionable since 2000. See also ite!

Airhead

Language; Slang

Airhead is a stupid or foolish person.

Ankle-biter

Language; Slang

A child, usually a baby or toddler. Commonly used with mock distaste by parents, sometimes with real distaste by others, ankle-biter has been heard in all social classes in Britain and ...

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