美国俚语大全.docx

1、美国俚语大全美国俚语大全http:/www.51T2005-8-13来源：无忧考网 51T baidu ace Hes an ace reporter. MEANING: very good action Do you know where the action is in this town? MEANING: excitement airhead My sisters boyfriend is a real airhead. MEANING: stupid person all wet Your ideas about politics are all wet. MEANING: comp

2、letely wrong all-nighter I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter. MEANING: after studying all night. ammo The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo. MEANING: ammunition antifreeze I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this. MEANING: liquor armpit This tow

3、n is really an armpit. MEANING: undesirable place awesome What an awesome sunset. MEANING: great bad Wow, that was really a bad movie. MEANING: intense barf He barfed all over the seat of the airplane. MEANING: vomitted bashed The boat was bashed beyond recognition. MEANING: crushed beat After worki

4、ng all day I am really beat. MEANING: exhausted beemer He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in. MEANING: B.M.W. car bench He was benched during the basketball playoffs. MEANING: taken out of the game bent Its OK. Dont get so bent. MEANING: angry bent out of shape Dont get so bent out of shap

5、e. MEANING: become upset big gun The president brought two big guns to the meeting. MEANING: powerful people big mouth Shut up! You really have a big mouth. MEANING: talk too much big stink The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station. MEANING: big issue blade He carried a ten i

6、nch blade with him. MEANING: knife blimp I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel. MEANING: very fat person blow Im going to blow out of here now. MEANING: leave blow He blew all his money gambling. MEANING: lost blow a fuse Hey, dont blow a fuse. MEANING: lose your temper. blo

7、w ones cool Calm down. Dont blow your cool. MEANING: become angry blown away I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars. MEANING: greatly impressed bomb The movie was a bomb. MEANING: bad bombed The driver of the car was bombed. MEANING: intoxicated bonkers I think I am going bonkers. MEA

8、NING: crazy boo-boo If you make another boo-boo like that, you wont have a job. MEANING: mistake booze I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party. MEANING: alcohol bread I need some bread to pay for my car. MEANING: money break A lucky break helped him get the job. MEANING: opportunity br

9、eak it up Break it up, or I will call the police. MEANING: stop bring-down The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down. MEANING: depressing buck Do you have a buck I can borrow? MEANING: dollar bummed I was really bummed after I heard the news. MEANING: depressed bummer My trip to New York was a

10、 bummer. MEANING: bad experience bust The whole idea was a bust. MEANING: failure buy it If you dont slow down, youre going to buy it in a car accident. MEANING: die call The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come. MEANING: prediction can Do you know where the can is? MEANING: b

11、athroom carb My motorcycles carb is out of adjustment. MEANING: carburetor catch some rays Im going to lie on the beach and catch some rays. MEANING: get some sunshine. catch some Zs I need to catch some Zs before I go on my trip. MEANING: get some sleep cheesy That is really a cheesy looking outfit

12、. MEANING: cheap chicken Dont be a chicken. MEANING: coward chintzy That really was a chintzy present you got him. MEANING: cheap chow down I need to find a place to chow down. MEANING: eat a lot clip Watch out or they will clip you at that bar. MEANING: cheat clunker I cant go on a date in that clu

13、nker. MEANING: old car cold fish My date for the dance was a cold fish. MEANING: dull collar I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later. MEANING: arrest come up for air He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion. MEANING: take a break con Dont try to con me. MEANING: deceive c

14、ool This is a really cool place to work. MEANING: good cool down Things should cool down in a day or two. MEANING: calm down cop How did you get the road sign? I copped it. MEANING: robbed cop The cop showed me his badge. MEANING: policeman couch potato He is a couch potato. MEANING: lazy person cra

15、ck open a bottle Lets crack open a bottle for his birthday. MEANING: open cram I need more time to cram for the test. MEANING: study hard cream Our team creamed them badly. MEANING: beat croak I feel like I am going to croak. MEANING: die cruise The skier was cruising down the hill MEANING: going ve

16、ry fast cuffs He put the cuffs on the killer. MEANING: handcuffs cushy He has a really cushy job. MEANING: easy cut Could you cut my whiskey with a little water? MEANING: dilute cut out It is late. I have to cut out. MEANING: leave damage Lets get the bill and find out the damage. MEANING: cost dead

17、 This disco is really dead tonight. MEANING: quiet deck He was decked in the fight. MEANING: knocked down deep pockets Her boyfriend has deep pockets. MEANING: is a good source of money dicey Since the weather is a little dicey, I wont go today. MEANING: chancy dirty I hear that its a dirty movie. M

18、EANING: an obscene ditch Ill ditch my younger brother with my grandmother. MEANING: leave do a snow job on Dont try to do a snow job on me. MEANING: deceive dope He is such a dope. MEANING: stupid person dope There are a lot of dope dealers around here. MEANING: drug dork He is such a dork. MEANING:

19、 strange person dough I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping. MEANING: money down Lets go to a bar and down a few beers. MEANING: drink quickly drag Doing homework on the weekend is a drag. MEANING: boring dynamite This drink is really dynamite. MEANING: powerful; great earful My grand

20、mother gave me an earful about the neighborhood. MEANING: a lot of gossip easy mark The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash. MEANING: likely victims eat The problem is really eating away at me. MEANING: bothering excellent Thats excellent man. MEANING: fine face-off The two sid

21、es were headed for a nasty face-off. MEANING: confrontation far-out This music is really far-out. MEANING: great fix The addict needs another fix. MEANING: dose of drugs flaky He is too flaky to do the work. MEANING: unreliable flashback At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend. MEANI

22、NG: remembered flick I havent seen a flick in a long time. MEANING: movie flip out He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed. MEANING: lost control flip side What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape? MEANING: other side fox His older sister is a fox. MEANING: ve

23、ry attractive foxy She is a foxy lady. MEANING: sexy freebie The pillow was a freebie MEANING: free get into something I got into gardening in high school. MEANING: became seriously interested in get it I listened to the joke twice, but I still dont get it. MEANING: understand get with it If you don

24、t get with it, we will never finish this work. MEANING: hurry up gig I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00. MEANING: job glitch This computer program has a glitch. MEANING: defect glitzy This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in. MEANING: fashionable go Let me have a go at solving t

25、he problem. MEANING: try go bananas I am going to go bananas if I dont have a vacation soon. MEANING: go crazy go down What is going down? MEANING: happening goof I am really a goof at times. MEANING: fool goof up I really goofed up when I painted my room green. MEANING: made a serious mistake goofy

26、 You are always acting goofy these days. MEANING: silly gourd Use your gourd to figure out what is happening. MEANING: head grand His salary is twenty grand. MEANING: thousand dollars grass Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory. MEANING: marijuana gravy This job is pure gravy. MEANING: easy

27、money groovy This music is groovy. MEANING: pleasant gross Picking your nose is really a gross habit. MEANING: disgusting gross-out The party was a gross-out. MEANING: digusting time grub Where is the best place to get some grub around here? MEANING: food grubby Those clothes are too grubby to wear

28、to the party. MEANING: unclean and untidy grungy That is a really grungy jacket. MEANING: dirty gut He got shot in the gut. MEANING: stomach. gut The gut issue is about what we are going to do now. MEANING: basic guts It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion. MEANING: courage hairy

29、That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over. MEANING: dangerous hammer Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding. MEANING: accelerator hang it up I have decided to hang up my teaching job. MEANING: quit hang loose Just hang loose for another few days. MEANING: relax hang tough We need to hang tough on our decision. MEANING: stick with