h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Looking through this list of English slang words, I noticed that 26 of them are also American slang terms and most have been for a very long time:

--bun in the oven, to have a
--chronic (I believe this is used in the northeast primarily, although it also means very potent marijuana)
--doing time
--family way, to be in the
--flicks
--geezer (although it means specifically an elderly man)
--hen's teeth, rare as
--malarkey (usually as "That's malarkey" or "What a bunch of malarkey")
--munchies (to be hungry for snack, especially after smoking dope)
--nookie
--nutcase (but not nutter)
--one for the road
--pee
--pig in a poke
--plastered
--powder your nose (both as euphemism for going to the toilet and to snort cocaine)
--puke (can also be an insult in noun form)
--rag (generally a newspaper specifically; calling a paper a rag is to put it down, but "local rag" means the local newspaper and is not pejoritive)
--raining cats and dogs
--stag night (any men only gathering (well, straight men); a stag party typically involves a stripper; a bachelor party is specifically the night for a groom)
--take a leak
--trashed
--up for it (no specific sexual connotation)
--visit the little girls'/boys' room
--wee/wee wee
--wrecked

Thanks,
Brick
Los Angeles, CA USA