Slang: A
Created | Updated Mar 10, 2002
aardvark- NOUN, British--
hard work, onerous tasks. A probably ephemeral pun heard among university students in the late 1980s.
eg.:'They're giving us too much bloody aardvark, that's the problem.' (Recorded, undergraduate, London University, 1988)...
Abdul- NOUN--
a pejorative nickname for a Turk or other person of middle-eastern origin. The term is particularly prevalent in Australia where it is used to refer to immigrants...
abo- NOUN, Australian--
an Aboriginal. A standard shortening used by whites which is now considered condescending or abusive: it is often part of offensive comparisons, as in 'to smell like an abo's armpit/abo's jockstrap'...
A.C.A.B.- PHRASE, British--
an abbreviation of the catchphrase 'All coppers are b******s!' which appeared in graffiti, football and demonstration chants and on tattoos, leather jackets, etc., especially in the 1950s and 1960s...
Acapulco Gold- NOUN--
a strain of marihuana or grass from the foothills above Acapulco in West-central Mexico. The golden leaves, imported into the USA in large quantities from the late 1960s, are sought after for their supposed potency and quality...
the letter 'A' will be resumed in my next page, thank you.
hard work, onerous tasks. A probably ephemeral pun heard among university students in the late 1980s.
eg.:'They're giving us too much bloody aardvark, that's the problem.' (Recorded, undergraduate, London University, 1988)...
Abdul- NOUN--
a pejorative nickname for a Turk or other person of middle-eastern origin. The term is particularly prevalent in Australia where it is used to refer to immigrants...
abo- NOUN, Australian--
an Aboriginal. A standard shortening used by whites which is now considered condescending or abusive: it is often part of offensive comparisons, as in 'to smell like an abo's armpit/abo's jockstrap'...
A.C.A.B.- PHRASE, British--
an abbreviation of the catchphrase 'All coppers are b******s!' which appeared in graffiti, football and demonstration chants and on tattoos, leather jackets, etc., especially in the 1950s and 1960s...
Acapulco Gold- NOUN--
a strain of marihuana or grass from the foothills above Acapulco in West-central Mexico. The golden leaves, imported into the USA in large quantities from the late 1960s, are sought after for their supposed potency and quality...
the letter 'A' will be resumed in my next page, thank you.
