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Apple-polisher

Language; Slang

A flatterer, someone who curries favour. The term comes from the image of the ingratiating pupil who polishes an apple carefully before presenting it to a teacher. The tradition of 'an apple for ...

Apples

Language; Slang

(Australian) Fine, perfect, OK. Often used in the expression 'she's apples', meaning 'everything is all right'. This use of the word may originate in 'apples and rice' or 'apples and ...

Apples

Language; Slang

1. Female breasts 2. The testicles Apples, like almost all other round fruits, have readily been used as euphemisms for these bodily parts. This type of metaphor may occur as a spontaneous ...

Apples and pears

Language; Slang

(British) Stairs. One of the best-known examples of cockney rhyming slang , which, although authentic, is rarely, heard these days.

Apricots

Language; Slang

(British) The testicles 'Hot water has always made my apricots sag.' (Pensioner Ron Tuffer, quoted in the Eastbourne Herald, 7 May 1994)

Apricot!

Language; Slang

(British exclamation) A generalised term of approval recorded among middle-class students in 1999. It may be a jocular version of 'peachy'.

Ass-wipe

Language; Slang

(American) 1. toilet paper. A working-class, blue-collar or armed-forces term. 2. a worthless, contemptible person. A term popular in the 1970s and 1980s. at it phrase British 1. having sex. A ...