美国俚语习语大全.docx

1、美国俚语习语大全 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: completely wrong all-nighter I almost fell asle

2、ep 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 town is really an armpit. MEANING: undesirable

3、 place awesome What an awesome sunset. MEANING: great call The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come. MEANING: prediction can Do you know where the can is? MEANING: bathroom carb My motorcycles carb is out of adjustment. MEANING: carburetor catch some rays Im going to lie on th

4、e 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. MEANING: cheap chicken Dont be a chicken. MEANING: coward chintzy That really was a chintzy present you got hi

5、m. 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 clunker. MEANING: old car cold fish My date for the dance was a cold fish. MEANING: dull collar I knew they would c

6、ollar 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 cool This is a really cool place to work. MEANING: good cool down Things should cool down in a day or two. MEANIN

7、G: 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 crack open a bottle Lets crack open a bottle for his birthday. MEANING: open cram I need more time to cram for the

8、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 very fast cuffs He put the cuffs on the killer. MEANING: handcuffs cushy He has a really cushy job. MEANING: easy

9、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 This disco is really dead tonight. MEANING: quiet deck He was decked in the fight. MEANING: knocked down deep p

10、ockets 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. MEANING: an obscene ditch Ill ditch my younger brother with my grandmother. MEANING: leave do a snow job on Dont

11、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: strange person dough I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping. MEANING: money down Lets go to a bar

12、 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 grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood. MEANING: a lot of gossip easy mark The Japanese are an easy mar

13、k 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 sides were headed for a nasty face-off. MEANING: confrontation far-out This music is really far-out. MEANING: great

14、 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. MEANING: remembered flick I havent seen a flick in a long time. MEANING: movie flip out He flipped out when he heard

15、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: very attractive foxy She is a foxy lady. MEANING: sexy freebie The pillow was a freebie MEANING: free get into som

16、ething 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 dont get with it, we will never finish this work. MEANING: hurry up gig I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to

17、 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 the problem. MEANING: try go bananas I am going to go bananas if I dont have a vacation soon. MEANING: go crazy g

18、o 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 You are always acting goofy these days. MEANING: silly gourd Use your gourd to figure out what is happening. ME

19、ANING: 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 money groovy This music is groovy. MEANING: pleasant gross Picking your nose is really a gross habit. MEANING: d

20、isgusting 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 to the party. MEANING: unclean and untidy grungy That is a really grungy jacket. MEANING: dirty gut He got shot

21、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 That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over. MEANING: dangerous hammer Put the hammer to the floor

22、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 hardware The police were surprised by all

23、 the hardware the gang members had. MEANING: weapons have a buzz on I had a buzz on after the third martini. MEANING: was slightly intoxicated have good vibes I have good vibes about our new secretary. MEANING: feel good about have it all together Recently I dont have it all together. MEANING: feel

24、mentally all there. heave I heaved up on the floor. MEANING: vomited high The teenagers look high to me. MEANING: intoxicated on drugs or alcohol hip-shooter He is such a hip-shooter. MEANING: always talking without thinking history I dont have any idea where my old boyfriend is. Hes history. MEANIN

25、G: something in the past hit Your proposal was a hit with the boss. MEANING: successful hole up I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me. MEANING: hide honcho The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation. MEANING: boss hooker Her clothes

26、 make her look like a hooker. MEANING: prostitute hot The police stopped them because they though the car was hot. MEANING: stolen huffy I will do it soon so please dont get huffy. MEANING: angry hungry If you are not hungry, you wont get ahead in the business. MEANING: eager to make money hustle If

27、 you dont hustle, we will be late again. MEANING: hurry up hyped The fans were all hyped up for the football game. MEANING: excited hyper Dont get hyper about what she told you. You know it isnt true. MEANING: over excited .D. Can you show me some .D. please? MEANING: identification in The tie you a

28、re wearing is really in. MEANING: fashionable in deep They are really in deep with each other. MEANING: deeply involved in the bag Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about. MEANING: settled intense This is a very intense situation we are discussing. MEANING: serious jam I am glad yo

29、u got yourself out of that jam. MEANING: trouble jerk someone around Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around. MEANING: wasting my time and causing me trouble jock My roommate is a jock for the basketball team. MEANING: an athlete john The john really smells. MEANING: bathroom joint Wher

30、e is the closest joint to here. MEANING: cheap bar joint He is good at rolling joints. MEANING: marijuana cigarettes junkie Sam is a junkie. MEANING: rug addict just off the boat He acts like he is just off the boat. MEANING: naive keep ones cool He kept his cool when his house burned down. MEANING: remained calm kegger I hear there is a kegge