slang4

quarterback: leader.
"Dave is the quarterback of Dave's ESL Cafe."
quick and dirty: done fast, but not well.
"The mechanic did a quick and dirty repair on my car."

racket (1): noise.
"Small kids can make a lot of racket."
racket (2): something that's dishonest or deceptive.
"The Tobacco Industry is quite a racket."
racket (3): an occupation.
"I've been in the ESL racket for fourteen years."
rank: give someone a difficult time.
"She's always ranking her teacher."
rat: a despicable person.
"I thought I loved you, but now I know you're really a rat."
razz: annoy someone.
"Will you please stop razzing me?"
rear (end): buttocks.
"Dave fell on his rear (end)."
riot, a : something or someone very funny.
"Jim Carrey is a riot!"
rip off (1): stealing.
"Someone ripped off my car."
rip off (2): fraud.
"I paid $10,000 for my computer. What a rip off!"
rocking: great; excellent.
"Dave's ESL class is really rocking!"
rubbish: nonsense; not true.
"That rumor is a bunch of rubbish."
rug rat: a child.
"Dave has a couple of rug rats at home."
runs, the: diarrhea.
"Oh no! I've got the runs!"

scarf: to eat.
"I can easily scarf an entire banana split."
screw up: to make a mistake.
"I screwed up on the driving test, so I didn't pass."
screw-up: a person who makes a mistake.
"Why are you such a screw-up?"
scum: a despicable individual.
"Don't hang around with that kind of scum."
shades: sunglasses.
"Those are really cool shades!"
shoot some hoops: play basketball.
"Let's shoot some hoops!"
silks: clothing.
"Those are really awesome silks!"
smarts: intelligence.
"It takes a lot of smarts to become a doctor."
smurfbrain: a dumb or stupid person.
"Stop acting like a smurfbrain!"
snookered: cheated.
"I got snookered into buying swamp land in Florida."
sofa spud: a person who watches too much television.
"I'm usually a sofa spud on Sunday."
solid (1): really good; cool.
"Dave's ESL Cafe is totally solid!"
solid (2): consecutive.
"It's been raining for seven solid days."
specs: eyeglasses.
"I didn't know that you wore specs."
split: to leave.
"Let's split from here now."
spunk: spirit.
"She might be small, but she's got a lot of spunk."
stoned (out): drunk from drugs or alcohol.
"I'm really stoned (out), dude!"
street smart: knowledgeable about city life.
"Since Dave is from Los Angeles, he's very street smart."
suck: to be bad and unacceptable.
"That song really sucks!"

technicolor yawn, to do a : vomit.
"My dog just did a technicolor yawn all over the carpet!"
thou: thousand.
"I need to borrow a hundred thou."
threads: clothing.
"My wife spent $900 on new threads."
ticker (1): the heart.
"My grandfather has a bad ticker."
ticker (2): a watch.
"Wow! That's a really cool ticker!"
tints: sunglasses.
"You have to wear tints in California."
totally: really; completely.
"That's totally awesome, dude!"
to the max: maximum.
"I studied to the max."
turkey (1): failure; flop.
"Thank goodness that Dave's ESL Cafe is not a turkey!"
turkey (2): dumb person.
"Turkeys are not allowed to work for this company."
turn-off: something that repulses a person.
"Bad breath is a real turn-off."

umpteen: many; countless.
"I've asked you umpteen times to show me the money!"
unlax: relax.
"Dave needs to definitely unlax with his family."
upchuck: vomit.
"She got sick and upchucked three times."
uptight: nervous; anxious.
"Why are you so uptight?"

vanilla (1): plain.
"She drives a vanilla car."
vanilla (2): Caucasian.
"The Midwest is too vanilla for me."

wad: roll of money.
"It's dangerous to carry a big wad in your pocket."
wasted: killed.
"A lot of people get wasted in the streets of New York."
wheels: car; motorcycle.
"If you want to live in Los Angeles, you've got to get some wheels"
whitebread: plain; boring.
"Dave's ESL Cafe is definitely not whitebread!"
whiz (1): someone who shows a special talent for something.
"Einstein was a whiz in Physics."
whiz [offensive] (2): to urinate.
"I really have to take a whiz."
wimpy: weak.
"Don't be so wimpy!"
winks, get some: sleep.
"I really need to get some winks"
wrongo: wrong.
"That is totally wrongo!"

yank (1): bother; harass.
"Stop yanking me, okay?"
Yank (2): a Yankee; an American.
"Dave is a Yank."

zero: an unimportant person.
"If you don't work hard, you'll end up a zero."
zip (1): nothing.
"I don't know zip about you."
zip (2): energy; vigor.
"I need something that will give me more zip. "
zit: pimple; acne.
"Teens often have a lot of zits."