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Crash course

Language; Slang

An intense and rapid training course usually taken under pressing circumstances.

Ace boon coon

Language; Slang

(American, in the language of African American males) one's best friend. An item of black street-talk combining ace and coon with 'boon' to provide the suggestion of a cherished ...

Ace

Language; Slang

Excellent, first class. Used extensively since the late 1950s in the USA, since the mid-1960s in Australia, and by the 1970s, especially by teenagers, in Brit- ain. The origin of the term is ...

Ace in the hole

Language; Slang

An advantage held in reserve until it is needed. From American stud-poker terminology, it refers to an ace (the most valuable card) dealt face down and not revealed.

Agg

Language; Slang

(British) Violence, aggression. A shortened form of aggro, heard in provincial adolescent slang from around 1990, and previously used by older prison inmates and members of the underworld. ...

A few fries short of a happy meal

Language; Slang

Intellectually impaired, deranged, eccentric. This variation on the lines of the colloquial 'one sandwich short of a picnic' was popular among students in the UK, and also recorded in the USA in ...

Aerated

Language; Slang

Angrily over-excited or agitated. Perhaps originated by educated speakers who were familiar with the technical senses of aerate (to supply the blood with oxygen or to make ...