go gentle into that good night

en-verb

go<goes,,went,gone> gentle into that good night

go gentle into that good night (third-person singular simple present goes gentle into that good night, present participle going gentle into that good night, simple past went gentle into that good night, past participle gone gentle into that good night)

goes gentle into that good night (present singular third-person)
going gentle into that good night (participle present)
went gentle into that good night (past)
gone gentle into that good night (participle past)

From the poem Do not go gentle into that good night (1947) by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.


hempen collar

(archaic, poetic or euphemistic) The hangman's noose.


pretty horsebreaker

en-noun

pretty horsebreaker (plural pretty horsebreakers)

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In reference to the prostitutes who used to ride horses near Hyde Park in London, then a fashionable place for young society men and ladies to go riding.

(euphemistic, obsolete) A courtesan; a female prostitute.


confound it

Confound it! I can't find my confounded keys!

(euphemistic, dated, minced oath) damnit or goddamnit (used when expressing anger, frustration or surprise)


chemically inconvenienced

Gentian de Barke fell downstairs—she denied being drunk or otherwise chemically inconvenienced—broke her leg, compound fracture apparently, and dislocated her shoulder. In a separate accident, Paradise, the drummer, broke her arm. […] She admits to being chemically inconvenienced at the time but didn't state the chemicals.

2019, C. A. Hope, The Barley Break, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 239:

(euphemistic, often humorous) Intoxicated by alcohol or recreational drugs.


ongoer

The Ongoer made me His Deputy here: Who payeth may pass, though he reckon it dear, — His quittance from clumsy, cumbering gear. You are Death? I am Death, Devourer and Foe Or Friend and Deliverer:

1934, Thomas Moult, The best poems of 1922, page 37:

Hasten O ongoer! Fear not the storm that darkens.

1976, Herman Arthur Voaden, Earth song, page 4:

Among the duties of a member of this fraternity is that of being a companion to an ongoer when necessary.

2002, Harold W. Percival, Thinking And Destiny, →ISBN, page 643:


liquid gold

liquid gold (countable and uncountable, plural liquid golds)

(figuratively) Any liquid that is yellow in color, such as beer, olive oil or a liquid cheese.


for fudge's sake

For fudge's sake, mate! Stop shooting at me!

(idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) for fuck's sake. An expression of anger or frustration.


romp in the hay

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Brenda (2019 June 20) “JUST BRENDA: He likes me but is scared of commitment”, in Daily Nation: “Don't let him waste your time like a rat on the highway if it isn't going anywhere. He knows you want a relationship when clearly what he wants is a romp in the hay.”

Nicole Pajer (2018 October 18) “Is It Normal To Cramp After Sex?”, in Huffington Post Life: “You just finished a nice romp in the hay and are feeling great. But then you notice a tightening sensation down below. What gives?”

Erin Celletti (2018 December 6) “How Much Sex Does It Take to Make a Baby?”, in Brides: “Some babies are conceived on the first try, with just one unprotected romp in the hay to thank. Others can take lots and lots of practice, medical interventions, procedures, and more. How can this be?”

(euphemistic) A session of sexual intercourse.


French safe

From French + safe. Compare earlier French letter. Attested from the mid 19th century.

The druggist examined the ets and the cuis in it, and felt sure he knew just what the doctor wanted — proceeded to fill the order, and a French safe was nicely folded up and put in a suitable box labelled “use as directed” and handed to the young lady

1877, “What a Latin prescription did”, in Cincinnati Lancet & Observer, volume 20, page 713:

Ashes, ashes. A used French safe / is blown across the city sidewalk.

1982, David Helwig, The Rain Falls Like Rain, page 183:

We had this daily tournament, to see who could snag, the most French safes with his stick. A French safe is a condom, don’t ask me where the name comes from.

2002, Wes Pipe, Memories of Mines, page 1:


rootless cosmopolitan

rootless cosmopolitan (plural rootless cosmopolitans)

Calque of Russian безро́дный космополи́т (bezródnyj kosmopolít).

calque

безро́дный космополи́т

(euphemistic, derogatory) A Jew, particularly in the context of the antisemitic campaign in the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1953.


bullcrud

(Canada, US, euphemistic) Bullshit; bullcrap.


scared spitless

(slang, euphemistic) Very frightened, terrified.


do you need to use the bathroom

(chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, euphemistic, interrogative) Used to ask if one's interlocutor needs to urinate or defecate.


get off at Redfern

en-verb

get off at Redfern (third-person singular simple present gets off at Redfern, present participle getting off at Redfern, simple past and past participle got off at Redfern)

gets off at Redfern (present singular third-person)
getting off at Redfern (participle present)
got off at Redfern (participle past)
got off at Redfern (past)

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When we asked if girls got pregnant, he said that occasionally that happened. How did most couples avoid it? He replied: The bloke would have to get off at Redfern instead of going on to Central.

1996, Peter M. West, Fathers, Sons and Lovers: Men Talk about Their Lives from the 1930s to Today, →ISBN, page 123:

get off at Haymarket
get off at Haymarket#English

(euphemistic, informal, Australia) Synonym of get off at Haymarket.


step out on someone

Nikki, who is stepping out on her main squeeze Lee,

1988 February 7, Elizabeth Pincus, “A Romp Through Lavender Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 7:

I could tell from the way she acted that night that she had never stepped out on her man.

(euphemistic) To cheat on someone; to be unfaithful to a lover.

jemanden betrügen

to cheat on someone; to be unfaithful to a lover


black ace

Blame her not poor Woman, she loves nothing so well as a black ace.

The poetess Afra next shew'd her sweet face, And swore by her poetry, and her black ace, The laurel by a double right was her own, For the plays she had writ, and the conquests she had won.

167?, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, A Trial of the Poets for the Bays:

Go, go, go to the dean's, and don't mind politicks, young women, they are not good after the waters; they are stark naught: they strike up into the head. Go, get two black aces, and fish for a manilio.

(obsolete, euphemistic) A woman's sexual favours, or a woman who gives them.


end one's life

end one's life (third-person singular simple present ends one's life, present participle ending one's life, simple past and past participle ended one's life)

ends one's life (present singular third-person)
ending one's life (participle present)
ended one's life (participle past)
ended one's life (past)

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smartsize

smartsize (third-person singular simple present smartsizes, present participle smartsizing, simple past and past participle smartsized)

smartsizes (present singular third-person)
smartsizing (participle present)
smartsized (participle past)
smartsized (past)


sexual marketplace

en-noun

sexual marketplace (plural sexual marketplaces)

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The chart that lists United Nations estimates of the number of persons under 18 working as prostitutes does not distinguish between freelance or professional girlfriends and those in an organized industry, between those who enter the sexual marketplace voluntarily or who are kidnapped, raped and exploited, and between sexually mature persons, adolescents and children.

1996, Far Eastern Economic Review, volume 156, page 6:

The third category envelops all the clients that women service in the sexual marketplace. These encounters are temporary sexual transactions that do not involve more familiarity than necessary.

1999, Amalia L. Cabezas, “Women’s Work Is Never Done: Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic”, in Kamala Kempadoo, editor, Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, →ISBN, page 100:

The Internet has become a clearing-house for information about the possibility of male sex work and on how to enter the sexual marketplace should one be interested in doing so.

2011, Michael D. Smith, Christian Grov, In the Company of Men: Inside the Lives of Male Prostitutes, →ISBN, page 45:

(euphemistic) Prostitution; the sex work industry.


protected democracy

protected democracy (plural protected democracies)

Pinochet, the Times reported, said he is “a lover of liberty, a right to which all men are born.” But he had no confidence “in orthodox democracy. It was too easy to infiltrate and destroy.” (He knew of what he spoke.) So he favored “a protected democracy” with a strong political role for the military. “He has managed to say in power,” the Times reported, “through what even his opponents recognize in political acumen…” (not terror, torture, and death squads.)

1986, Michael Parenti, chapter 10, in Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181:

(euphemistic, politics) An antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.


getting some

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Are you getting some?

(euphemistic) Having sex (habitually, not currently).


select out

en-verb

select out (third-person singular simple present selects out, present participle selecting out, simple past and past participle selected out)

selects out (present singular third-person)
selecting out (participle present)
selected out (participle past)
selected out (past)

During the past week employees of grade 13 and above in the Agency for International Development, which is seeking legislation to "select out" employees without regard to civil service laws, received invitations.

1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary, Privacy and the Rights of Federal Employees: Hearings:

Employees are, of course, never fired. They are selected out, placed out, non-retained, released, dehired, non-renewed.

1991, Elvio Angeloni, Annual Editions: Anthropology, 91-92, page 44:

(US, transitive, euphemistic) To fire (an employee).


low-T

In recent years, many in this world have become obsessed with the idea that conservative guys are jacked, masculine, high-T GigaChads while liberals are weak, emasculated, low-T Soy Boys.

2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:

(medicine, pathology, euphemistic, pharmacology marketing) Abbreviation of low testosterone (“A medical condition in men where testosterone levels are low, and associated with low physique, motivation and virility”).


slimwear

LATEX RUBBER SLIMWEAR and Leatherwear carefully made to measure.

1966, Time & Tide, volume 47, numbers 27-43, page 132:

SLIMWEAR AND RUBBERWEAR. Catalogues $1.

1968, Rod and Gun in Canada, volumes 70-71, page 68:

Perhaps more surprisingly for the 1960s, hidden under the euphemism of slimwear, ski-clothes, skin-diving suits, riding macs and rubber sheeting, fetish clothing was already being widely advertised in the Sunday press […]

1996, Nick Sinclair, David Mellor, Anthony Shelton, The Chameleon Body: Photographs of Contemporary Fetishism:

(dated, euphemistic) Fetishwear made from skintight materials such as latex.


f-slur

Think of how awful I felt, then, when she turned to me on that Omaha street corner and said, “Well, now I’ve had the f-slur shouted at me for the first time.”

2014 October 23, Ben Curttright, “Nebraska continues to be behind on race, LGBTQA issues”, in The Daily Nebraskan, archived from the original on 2020-03-08:

“They were using the ‘F’ slur and they were saying that if the gays get to wear the rainbow flag, then they should get to wear the Confederate flag, because it represents their heritage,” a different student added.

2016 October 30, Meka Beresford, “Confederate flag banned after students wearing it use homophobic slurs”, in Pink News, archived from the original on 2020-02-14:

Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, The Game and T.I. are just a few of the many rappers who have used the homophobic f-slur in their lyrics.

2018 January 28, Marcelo Garcia, “From Eminem to Offset, an analysis of hip-hop’s history of homophobia”, in The Highlander:

I heard Dave used the f-slur last week


decruit

decruit (third-person singular simple present decruits, present participle decruiting, simple past and past participle decruited)

decruits (present singular third-person)
decruiting (participle present)
decruited (participle past)
decruited (past)

(business, euphemistic) To reduce the workforce; to make (an employee) redundant.


fruit and flowers

Such illicit purchases might be explained away in a budget as spending on fruit and flowers.

Most journalists I know are actually rather scrupulous with their expenses – although I do know of one who tried to pass off one of their children's birthday parties as a networking opportunity (hats off!). However, I've been thinking of some of the things I might have been able to claim myself: getting my driving gloves dry-cleaned, for instance, medicinal single malts, ‘back rubs’ in foreign hotels, or that great music-industry euphemism, ‘fruit and flowers’.

2009 May 23, Dylan Jones, “Who's pinched all the paper clips?”, in Daily Mail:

Mr Hands was criticised for his robust managerial style, forcing through redundancies and highlighting excessive costs such as the £200,000 spent annually on "fruit and flowers" and £20,000 a month on candles.

2010 September 28, Cahal Milmo, “A bad buy – with a little help from his friends?”, in The Independent:

Don’t be thinking the record companies are getting all complacent and haemorrhaging all of that new cash on exorbitant executive bonuses, plush new offices and an endless supply of fruit and flowers though. Oh no. They are investing.

2019 April 3, Chris Cooke, “Streaming boom and emerging markets drive fourth year of growth for global recorded music industry”, in Complete Music Update, archived from the original on 2020-08-14:

(euphemistic, jargon, especially in the music business) Illicit purchased items such as recreational drugs or prostitutes.


low-information

en-adjective

low-information (comparative more low-information, superlative most low-information)

more low-information (comparative)
most low-information (superlative)

Among low information voters, attitudes are less ideologically consistent and hence do less to tie voters to parties.

2004, William E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman, Studies in Public Opinion: Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change., Princeton University Press:

The upshot is that low-information whites linked their racial attitudes to their partisan attachments at nearly the same high rates as their better-educated counterparts did in these two 2012 surveys.

2016, Michael Tesler, Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama Era, University of Chicago Press:

Republicans' entire approach to distracting low-information working-class whites with "dog whistle, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans" will have to change.

2018, Val Atkinson, Distractions, Distortions, Deceptions, and Outright Lies: Diversiont that Keep the SOuth Red, Poor People Poor, and Plutocrats and Oligarchs in Power, Trafford Publishing:

(politics, euphemistic) Ignorant, out of the loop, acting without an extensive or sophisticated understanding of a political situation.


nibba

nibbas (plural)
ni🅱🅱a (alternative)
[[#Usage notes]] (alternative)

From nigga. Exact origin uncertain, but supposedly related to or originating from the practice of members of the Bloods that avoid using words that begin with 'C', or replacing word-initial 'C' with 'B' (compare boolin' and coolin'). The substitution of the "B blood type" emoji (see "Usage notes" below) arose fittingly with the assumed "Blood" origins of the term and was perpetuated into common usage by internet meme culture.


jerkin the gherkin

en-noun

jerkin the gherkin (plural jerkin the gherkins)

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Sexual intercourse
sexual intercourse#English

(figurative, euphemistic, idiomatic) Sexual intercourse.


holy doodle

(idiomatic, humorous or euphemistic) An expression of surprise.


beat the poop out of

en-verb

beat<,,beat,beaten:beat􂀿colloquial􂁀> the poop out of

beat the poop out of (third-person singular simple present beats the poop out of, present participle beating the poop out of, simple past beat the poop out of, past participle beaten the poop out of or (colloquial) beat the poop out of)

beats the poop out of (present singular third-person)
beating the poop out of (participle present)
beat the poop out of (past)
beaten the poop out of (participle past)
beat the poop out of (colloquial participle past)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To beat (someone) severely.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To defeat (someone) decisively in a fight or a competition.


does a bear poop in the woods

does a bear shit in the woods?
does a bear shit in the woods#English

(Canada, US, euphemistic, rhetorical question) Synonym of does a bear shit in the woods?.


built like a brick shipyard

en-adj

built like a brick shipyard (not comparable)

built like a brick shithouse
built like a brick shithouse#English

(euphemistic, simile, idiomatic) Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.


anticipatory retaliation

(military, euphemistic) The carrying out of a preemptive strike.


at liberty

(euphemistic, theater) Unemployed; out of work.


heck of a

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He's a heck of a party-thrower, I will join the party together.

(euphemistic) Alternative form of hell of a.


get one's a into g

en-verb

get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> one's a into g

get one's a into g (third-person singular simple present gets one's a into g, present participle getting one's a into g, simple past got one's a into g, past participle (UK) got one's a into g or (US) gotten one's a into g)

gets one's a into g (present singular third-person)
getting one's a into g (participle present)
got one's a into g (past)
got one's a into g (UK participle past)
gotten one's a into g (US participle past)

/ˈeɪ ɪntə ˈd͡ʒiː/

C'mon Geoffrey, we're already five minutes late, so get your a into g!

get one's ass into gear
get one's ass into gear#English

(slang, euphemistic) Abbreviation of get one's ass into gear.


farm upstate

What do parents tell their kids when they have to put their pet dog down? “We had to send li'l Fido to a farm upstate, honey....” Maybe that's where I'm going. The farm upstate. “We had to send li'l Spencer to the farm upstate, honey.

2014, Clay McLeod Chapman, Academic Assassins:

The convenience of online shopping is "irresistible," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. "It's frankly no wonder that e-commerce is gradually chipping away at brick-and-mortar retail sales, and it can seem like the retail jobs are shifting, too," with warehouse jobs apparently "absorbing America's lost retail employees." And that "initially sounds kind of nice," Oliver said. "It's like hearing that there's actually a farm upstate where Borders, Circuit City, and Tower Records employees can run around and be free."

2019 July 1, “John Oliver dispels your happy, convenient illusions about shopping on Amazon”, in The Week, Johnsplaining:

The iconic palm trees that line Park Avenue in downtown San Jose are pulling up roots and moving off the street. / No, they're not going to a farm upstate or retiring to a sunny beach somewhere. They're not heading off to the wood chipper, either — they're going around the corner to a new home on Almaden Boulevard.

2019 November 22, Rosellen "Rosie" Downey, Silicon Valley Business Journal:

Turns out Betsy Ross is the biggest lie your kindergarten teacher ever told you (except that Bubbles the class gerbil was moving to a farm upstate).

2020 June 14, Josh Axelrod, Saeed Ahmed, “It's Flag Day. Here are some fun facts about the American flag you may not have known”, in CNN:

(US, euphemistic) The place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead; used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.


pet stain

(euphemistic) A stain on flooring, carpets, or rugs, as a result of a pet urinating, defecating, vomiting, etc.


freaking gosh

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Minced oath of the expletive fucking God!

(minced oath, euphemistic) Used to express surprise


rip someone a new one

rip someone a new one (third-person singular simple present rips someone a new one, present participle ripping someone a new one, simple past and past participle ripped someone a new one)

rips someone a new one (present singular third-person)
ripping someone a new one (participle present)
ripped someone a new one (participle past)
ripped someone a new one (past)

Euphemism for rip someone a new asshole.

tear someone a new one
tear someone a new one#English

(euphemistic) Synonym of tear someone a new one.


SOAB

(derogatory, slang, vulgar, offensive, euphemistic) son of a bitch


authority issues

(euphemistic) Disobedience, a disinclination to obey.


down there

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And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch^([sic]) with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 2020-11-11:

Then she put her hand on my pants, you know, down there.

2005, Annie Fox, Elizabeth Verdick, The Teen Survival Guide to Dating & Relating, page 44:

It may seem a bit strange to squirt yourself with warm water from a squirt bottle every time you use the restroom for a few weeks, but I'm pretty sure we can all agree that getting an infection down there doesn't sound fun.

2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Baby's First Year, page 15:

(euphemistic) In the genital area; often used of and/or by females


angel baby

Yet concentration on the healthy baby to the exclusion of the stillbirth or neonatal death may encourage the mother to idealise the dead child (her angel baby) and hence alienate her from the survivor, […]

2012, Janet M. Rennie, Rennie & Roberton's Textbook of Neonatology E-Book, page 401:

(informal, euphemistic) A stillborn baby.


humanly challenged

en-adj

humanly challenged (comparative more humanly challenged, superlative most humanly challenged)

more humanly challenged (comparative)
most humanly challenged (superlative)

Robert: It's time we came clean about all our wrongdoings, Johnny. They're monsters now.
Johnny: Rgh!
Sanguinex: Hold it! We prefer the term "humanly challenged." Sigh, it's hard getting respect as a Dark Blader.

2002, Beyblade, "A Majestic Battle... a Majestic Victory?" (episode 39)

... And who was it that gave you to our humanly challenged parents?”

2012, E R Byrt, The Alien Within: A Hero for Humanity, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 281:

When humanity is in doubt, as both values and rights are debatable due to an apparent gross dissimilarity between the idea of acceptable personhood and its stark negation, freaks, monsters, and other humanly challenged beings are seldom ...

2015, Haim Hazan, Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(humorous, euphemistic, of an entity) Nonhuman; alien, paranormal, or supernatural.


go at it

en-verb

go at<goes at,going at,went at,gone at> it

go at it (third-person singular simple present goes at it, present participle going at it, simple past went at it, past participle gone at it)

goes at it (present singular third-person)
going at it (participle present)
went at it (past)
gone at it (participle past)

/ˌɡoʊ ˈæt ɪt/

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I walked into my dorm room and caught my roommate and his girlfriend going at it.

As go + at it; spoken emphasis typically on 'at'.

(slang, euphemistic, intransitive) To have sex.


built like a brick outhouse

en-adj

built like a brick outhouse (not comparable)

As for the '66', the HSE noted that because of its "robust construction and mass" it sustained comparatively "minor structural damage". Built like the proverbial brick outhouse, it nevertheless had "no energy-absorbing design features".

2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 42:


Old Gentleman

Adieu, Madam, I am your most humble and most obedient Servant, or may the Old Gentleman in Black hurry me to his Dominions.

1700, Paul Scarron, The Whole Comical Works of Monsr. Scarron, page 13:

AS the Devil is not so Black as he is Painted, so neither does he appear in so many Shapes as we make for him; we Dress him up in more Suits of Cloaths, and more Masquerade Habits, than ever he wore; and I question much, if he was to see the Pictures and Figures which we call Devil, whether he would know himself by some of them or no.
IT would require more Skill than, I doubt, I am Master of, to bring you all to a right Method of thinking upon this Subject; however I shall venture upon it by way of Essay, that you may form such Images of the old Gentleman in your Mind, that you may not be cheated about him, may know him when you see him, may not call him out of his Name, or bestow his Right Wor∣shipful Titles upon another.

1725, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions:

`Oh Lord, sir,' answered Job, who now perceived the object for the first time, `I think that the old geneleman ^([sic]) must have been sitting for his portrait on them rocks.'

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:


mother's little helper

en-noun

mother's little helper (plural mother's little helpers)

Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.

2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 58:

(slang, euphemistic) A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.


take care of business

en-verb

take care of business (third-person singular simple present takes care of business, present participle taking care of business, simple past took care of business, past participle taken care of business)

takes care of business (present singular third-person)
taking care of business (participle present)
took care of business (past)
taken care of business (participle past)

The facilities at the Esso Super Station, located on the outskirts of the town 180 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, have been named among the best places to take care of business in Canada.

2016 September 20, Wallis Snowdon, “Edmonton: A luxurious loo: Whitecourt washrooms named national finalist”, in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada, retrieved 2020-10-29:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To urinate or defecate.


bullspit

The teacher is giving out A's for no reason? Bullspit!


sumbuck

(US, regional, euphemistic) son of a bitch


testilie

testilie (third-person singular simple present testilies, present participle testilying, simple past and past participle testilied)

testilies (present singular third-person)
testilying (participle present)
testilied (participle past)
testilied (past)

Blend of testify + lie. Possibly a back-formation from the noun testilying, which appeared a few years earlier and is more common.

In Manhattan, grand jury prosecutors are urged to interview police officers separately if there is any possibility they may be fabricating evidence or about to testilie.

1999 January, Larry Cunningham, “Taking on Testilying”, in Criminal Justice Ethics, volume 18, →DOI, pages 26–40:

Higher rank officers in New York advocated that those officers who testilied should not be prosecuted because testilying was a police tradition.

2007, Jack R. Greene, “Courtroom testimony and ‘testilying’”, in The Encyclopedia of Police Science, volume 1, page 274:

(US, law, informal, euphemistic) To commit perjury (as a police officer).


lady of the evening

en-noun

lady of the evening (plural ladies of the evening)


nymph of the pavement

nymph of the pavement (plural nymphs of the pavement)


PR-friendly

en-adj

PR-friendly (comparative more PR-friendly, superlative most PR-friendly)

more PR-friendly (comparative)
most PR-friendly (superlative)

a PR-friendly blog

(Internet, euphemistic) Willing to be approached by brands in order to endorse goods and services.


From the similar pronunciation of ninja and nigga.

I bring a sort of “I love you” to the situationship that 🥷s don’t really vibe with.

2023 December 11, @palesa_moloto, Twitter:

(euphemistic, Internet slang) nigger or nigga


dash it

A party of his friends had met in the evening to talk over his merits, and to drink, in Scottish phrase, his Bonallie. While, about the witching hour, they were crowning a solemn bumper to his health, a figure burst into the room, muffled in a seaman's cloak and travelling cap covered with snow, and distinguishable only by the sharpness and ardour of the tone with which he exclaimed, "Dash it, boys, here I am again!"

1811, Walter Scott, “John Leyden, M.D.”, in The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [Stevenson & Co. for] Robert Cadell; London: Houlston & Stoneman, published 1843, →OCLC, pages 174–175:

Dash it all! I thought to myself, they can’t trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh water - steam-boats!

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:

"Where did you pick that up?" "I see it before me, now." "Why, dash it, man, that is what my mother always wore! D'you tell me you can see her?"

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:


blessed assurance

en-noun

blessed assurance (plural blessed assurances)

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/ˈblɛsɪd əˈʃʊɹəns/

From blessed + assurance, in reference to the 1873 hymn “Blessed Assurance”, with the second element taken as a minced oath for ass.

I'm just going to sit here on my blessed assurance until Jesus comes.

(euphemistic, US Southern) buttocks, ass.


give a rats

en-verb

give a rats (third-person singular simple present gives a rats, present participle giving a rats, simple past gave a rats, past participle given a rats)

gives a rats (present singular third-person)
giving a rats (participle present)
gave a rats (past)
given a rats (participle past)

“He doesn’t represent the views of the government,” Littleproud said. “I couldn’t give a rats what he said, it’s irrelevant, let’s just focus on those people that are out there that need our help.”

2020 January 7, Sarah Martin, The Guardian:

(euphemistic) A shortened form of give a rat's arse.


tip someone's velvet

tip someone's velvet (third-person singular simple present tips someone's velvet, present participle tipping someone's velvet, simple past and past participle tipped someone's velvet)

tips someone's velvet (present singular third-person)
tipping someone's velvet (participle present)
tipped someone's velvet (participle past)
tipped someone's velvet (past)

A faux-Victorian expression invented by novelist Sarah Waters in Tipping the Velvet (1998).

Then we fell to kissing furiously and I tipped her velvet […]

1999, Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam), page 181:

[…] not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.

(euphemistic) To give oral sex to someone (female).


great balls of fire

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

1957, Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer, Great Balls of Fire:

(idiomatic, euphemistic, dated) Expressing great surprise.


I'll be dipped

I'll be dipped in shit
I'll be dipped in shit#English

(euphemistic, colloquial) Ellipsis of I'll be dipped in shit (“expression of astonishment”).


self-stimulation

From self- + stimulation. Autism-related sense common since around 1970, before which other terms were also used.

[see title]

(psychology, euphemistic, rare) Masturbation.


oh my lanta

A play on Mylanta, a brand of over-the-counter drugs for digestive problems.

Shannon Gardner soon took the stage for her valedictorian speech after an introduction that described her as having a positive attitude which shone through in her speech.
“Oh my lanta, we made it y’all,” Gardner started her speech, leaving the audience laughing.

2019 May 27, Brittney Melton, “Southview graduates dared to take on future challenges”, in Statesville Record & Landmark:

(US, euphemistic, humorous) An exclamation of surprise, excitement or astonishment: oh my God!


the last favour

A Portugueze gentleman, resident at Goa, sleeping with his wife at his side, dreamt that she had granted the last favour to her lover.

1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation:

(archaic, euphemistic) sexual intercourse (as permitted by a woman)


on the beat

Well if she did blend in, she easily looked like the oldest prostitute on the beat.

2020, Mark Hughes, A Greater Passion: Lessons on Living Large in Life and Love:

(slang, euphemistic) Synonym of on the game (“working as a prostitute”).


soiled dove

1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Idalia
[…] thought the telegraphist, with a yawn, returning to his dog-eared green-covered shilling novel, relating the pungent adventures of a soiled dove of St. John's Wood, […]

(obsolete, euphemistic) A disreputable woman, sometimes a prostitute.


soft ordnance

Some of the planes were loaded with "soft" ordnance—cluster bombs or napalm—others with "hard" ordnance such as high explosives. The planes were scrambled according to what the troops on the ground called for. If enemy soldiers were in the open, soft ordnance was on the menu; […]

2000 December 31, Dale Andradé, America's Last Vietnam Battle: Halting Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 364:

(US, military, euphemistic) Napalm or cluster bombs (for use against soft targets), as opposed to high explosives (for hardened targets).


correctional center

en-noun

correctional center (plural correctional centers)

correctional centers (plural)
correction center (alternative)
corrections center (alternative)
correctional centre (alternative)
correction centre (alternative)
corrections centre (alternative)

(formal, euphemistic) A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.


corrections center

corrections center (plural corrections centers)

correctional center
correctional center#English

(formal, euphemistic) Alternative form of correctional center.


correction center

correction center (plural correction centers)

correction centers (plural)
correction centre (alternative)


corrections centre

corrections centre (plural corrections centres)

(Commonwealth, formal, euphemistic) Alternative form of correctional center.


correction centre

correction centre (plural correction centres)

correction centres (plural)
correction center (alternative)


correctional centre

correctional centre (plural correctional centres)


hempen cravat

I am no prophet, yet am not unwilling to say that if he has not yet graced a hempen cravat, he either will at some future time, or his deserts will not be meted out to him.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22:

(archaic, euphemistic) The hangman's noose.


tract of land

From a Monty Python sketch in which it is said of an eligible young woman that "she's got huge... tracts of land".

(humorous, euphemistic, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.


protective reaction

protective reaction (countable and uncountable, plural protective reactions)

(military, euphemistic) The bombing of enemy targets, ostensibly in self-defense.


horsepoop

(US, euphemistic) The manure of a horse.


mothertrucking

en-adj

mothertrucking (comparative more mothertrucking, superlative most mothertrucking)

more mothertrucking (comparative)
most mothertrucking (superlative)
mothertruckin' (alternative)

Returning to Chicago, he did easel paintings of clowns, Parisian scenes, landscapes, still lifes and longnecked Caribbean women for interior decorators. The tape recounts the painting of the Wall of Respect, "the mothertrucking wall," that the local addicts opposed.

Then she pinched my arm and hissed, “If you make me late, I will stuff my mothertrucking pocket protector down your mothertrucking throat.”

Behind concerns about people on welfare using it up and mothertrucking Mexican immigrants draining Medicaid (even though undocumented immigrants did not qualify for the program in the first place) lay anxieties about limited funds, support services, and other essential commodities for which they might have to contest, should equal distribution become the law of the land.

2019, Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness:


closet of decency

en-noun

closet of decency (plural closets of decency)

(obsolete, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


lose one's cookies

en-verb

lose one's cookies (third-person singular simple present loses one's cookies, present participle losing one's cookies, simple past and past participle lost one's cookies)

loses one's cookies (present singular third-person)
losing one's cookies (participle present)
lost one's cookies (participle past)
lost one's cookies (past)
toss one's cookies (alternative)

(informal, euphemistic, figurative) To throw up; vomit.


not Pygmalion likely

A reference to the then-scandalous use of the phrase "not bloody likely" in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.

(informal, euphemistic, humorous) not likely; under no circumstances; absolutely not


necessary room

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Four bedrooms and a necessary room upstairs and one down, a formal dining room, a large parlor ...

2005, June M. Woodring, The Skittish Bride, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 252:

At various times, that place also has been called a privy chamber, a necessary room, the smallest room in the house, and even “where the queen goes alone.

2012, Justin Cord Hayes, The Unexpected Evolution of Language: Discover the Surprising Etymology of Everyday Words, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Master baths are as big as a real room, spacious and a decorator's dream, more than a necessary room.

2006, Ejay Wyndesh, The Empty Nest the Second Time Around, iUniverse, →ISBN:

She had a sleeping chamber complete with a necessary room attached and a hot tub in the corner.

2005, Larry W. Miller, The Conquest of New Eden/Sins of the Father, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 157:

... near the main hall in a small room that might have been a necessary room. It's probably someone relieving himself.

2019, John Bede, Freedom Because of the Brave: Book 3 The Patriots Abound Trilogy, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN:

The beach hut provided shelter from the sun, a place to change, and a necessary room.

2012, Harry Carter, The Life and Loves of a United States Naval Aviator, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144:

(euphemistic) A toilet, a lavatory (the room, not the fixture).


darnfool

(euphemistic) Alternative form of damnfool.


durnfool

(US, euphemistic) Alternative form of damnfool.


binch

Humorous alteration of bitch that emerged on Twitter in the late 2010s in response to profanity filters.

If possible, give those binches some serious tea to spill.

2017, Gisela Factora, "How Millennials Killed Me", Nonsense (satirical magazine of Hofstra University), September 2017, page 9

“Sorry I was a binch yesterday. Ooh, I like those earrings.”

2018, Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things, page 34:

An important part of sexual health is respecting yourself enough to cut out any binches if they don't respect your sexual boundaries.

2019, Jessica Lanyadoo, T. Greenaway, Astrology for Real Relationships: Understanding You, Me, and How We All Get Along, page 95:

(slang, euphemistic, humorous or derogatory) A bitch.


swash someone's buckle

swash someone's buckle (third-person singular simple present swashes someone's buckle, present participle swashing someone's buckle, simple past and past participle swashed someone's buckle)

swashes someone's buckle (present singular third-person)
swashing someone's buckle (participle present)
swashed someone's buckle (participle past)
swashed someone's buckle (past)

I still wouldn't mind having my buckle swashed by a nice taut blond.

He could swash my buckle any time.

“Gonna make you swash my buckle later, m'lady,” he growled against her throat.


surplus to requirements

(UK, formal) No longer needed, redundant.

(euphemistic) Laid off; having one's employment terminated.


what the what

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(African-American Vernacular, euphemistic, informal) What the hell.


clusterball

clusterballs (plural)
cluster-ball (alternative)

I'd known it was going to be a giant cluster-ball when everyone saw me, but... I still wasn't prepared for how angry they all were.

(slang, euphemistic) Synonym of clusterfuck.


let's go, Brandon

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From a 2021 interview with racing driver Brandon Brown when a reporter incorrectly described NASCAR fans chanting "fuck Joe Biden" as chanting "let's go, Brandon".

When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening.

[2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press:

“A sieve of a southern border, the supply chain massacred, food prices rising by the day, crime rampant in big cities and being browbeaten continuously by Beijing. Yes, he is a real success.” Flanagan then adds sarcastically, “One more thing, ‘Let's Go Brandon.’”

2021 November 11, Mark Bonokoski, quoting Steve Flanagan, “BONOKOSKI: ‘Let's go Brandon! Let's go Brandon!’”, in Toronto Sun:

State Rep. Dave Williams, who is challenging eight-term GOP congressman Doug Lamborn in an intraparty contest, sued Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold last week after her office rejected allowing his name to appear on the ballot as Dave “Let's Go Brandon” Williams.

2022 April 30, John Dorman, “Colorado Supreme Court says GOP lawmaker can't use ‘Let's Go Brandon’ nickname on congressional ballot”, in Business Insider:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited a D.C. jail to check on conditions for the Jan. 6 defendants, with Republican lawmakers handshaking and high-fiving the prisoners, who chanted “Let's Go Brandon!” – a coded vulgarity against President Joe Biden – as the group left.

2023 March 27, “X, y, z: News from around our 50 states”, in USA Today, page B3:

(US, slang, US politics) A euphemism for “fuck Joe Biden”.

Bill Posey
Brandon Brown (racing driver)
United States House of Representatives


last roundup

last roundups (plural)
final roundup (alternative)

An allusion to herding of cattle into a group.

So Duke is 66. But don't kid yourself that he's headed for the last roundup—even though it may have looked that way a while back when he surrendered a lung to cancer.

1973 December 30, Guy Flatley, “Cowboy or Cop, Wayne Never Wanes”, in New York Times, retrieved 2021-11-01:

[H]e swears that Jelf is going to beat him to the last roundup in the sky.

1977, Bill Reed, Dogod, Thomas Nelson (Australia) (reprinted 2015 by Reed Independent)

[N]ot everyone who runs with the bulls is young, male, drunk and stupid. […] It also is a way for people of a certain age to do something extraordinary before their last roundup.

2006 July 8, “Bullish on life”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2021-11-01:

(chiefly US, idiomatic, euphemistic) Death.


let's go Brandon

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let's go, Brandon
let's go, Brandon#English


land shrimp

en-noun

land shrimp (usually uncountable, plural land shrimps)

(euphemistic) An insect, when considered as food.


not the sharpest crayon in the box

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not the sharpest knife in the drawer#English

(humorous, euphemistic) Synonym of not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


show oneself

en-verb

show oneself (third-person singular simple present shows oneself, present participle showing oneself, simple past showed oneself, past participle shown oneself)

shows oneself (present singular third-person)
showing oneself (participle present)
showed oneself (past)
shown oneself (participle past)

He told her to show herself to him.

(euphemistic) To expose one's genitalia, especially in an inappropriate setting; to expose oneself.


have it away

have it away (third-person singular simple present has it away, present participle having it away, simple past and past participle had it away)

has it away (present singular third-person)
having it away (participle present)
had it away (participle past)
had it away (past)

I went into his office and found him having it away with his secretary.

(informal, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse.


help along

help along (third-person singular simple present helps along, present participle helping along, simple past and past participle helped along)

helps along (present singular third-person)
helping along (participle present)
helped along (participle past)
helped along (past)

Max could no longer move his hind legs and was defecating all over the floor, so Jeff thought it was time to help him along.


self-delete

self-delete (third-person singular simple present self-deletes, present participle self-deleting, simple past and past participle self-deleted)

self-deletes (present singular third-person)
self-deleting (participle present)
self-deleted (participle past)
self-deleted (past)

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(Internet slang, humorous, euphemistic, intransitive) To commit suicide; to take one's own life.


self-deletion

en-noun

self-deletion (countable and uncountable, plural self-deletions)

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taking one's own life
taking one's own life

(Internet slang, humorous, euphemistic) An act of suicide; an act of taking one's own life.


become one with one's inner self

From a scene in the Babylon 5 episode “The Parliament of Dreams.”

(euphemistic, humorous) To lose consciousness, especially as a result of alcohol consumption.


drop off the hooks

en-verb

drop off the hooks (third-person singular simple present drops off the hooks, present participle dropping off the hooks, simple past and past participle dropped off the hooks)

drops off the hooks (present singular third-person)
dropping off the hooks (participle present)
dropped off the hooks (participle past)
dropped off the hooks (past)

"You'd do harm if you dared to," the woman said. "You'd like to kill him. […] We don't want him to drop off the hooks. Not much!'

1921, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Great Pearl Secret:

(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die.


angel maker

(historical, euphemistic) An illicit abortionist.

But the angel maker usually mistreated the child, giving it almost no food […]

1994, Bill Rolston, Anna Eggert, Abortion in the New Europe: A Comparative Handbook, page 237:

When her mother left to the angel maker, she said goodbye as if she would never return.

2020, Ana Cravid, What If You Had Been Aborted?, page 15:

(historical, euphemistic) A person who took in unwanted children and usually mistreated them.


in the racket

Their answer is that they are "put wise" by other girls already in the racket.

Many are literally being plundered by their landlord - sex capitalists who often specialize in letting out rooms, flats, or apartments to people in the racket.

1997, Lori Gruen, George E. Panichas, Sex, Morality, and the Law, page 99:

Janet R. is in her late twenties, and has been “in the racket”—prostitution, for twelve years; […]

2013, David P. Ausubel, Martin Meyer Grossack, Mental Health and Segregation, page 104:

(slang, euphemistic) Synonym of on the game (“working as a prostitute”).


on the turf

Are you sorry for the one who put you on the turf?

2013, David Bradshaw, Rachel Potter, Prudes on the Prowl, page 130:

And this in turn will surely not only cost her her job, but possibly also land her in jail or, at the best, put her out on the turf as a prostitute.

2016, Margot Norris, The Value of James Joyce, page 16:


domestic engineer

en-noun

domestic engineer (plural domestic engineers)

[W]e are now to teach a vocation — the trades of the household and the professions of the domestic engineer and homemaker.

1914, United States. Bureau of Education, Bulletin, page 26:

I am not saying it is the calling of all women to be permanent full time domestic engineers.

2001, William Rossedahl, Julia Rossedahl, Russian Wife: Your Greatest Blessing Or Your Biggest Mistake?, page 98:

Bob questioned whether Ravay suited the title of a homemaker more than a domestic engineer, since he stayed home. Ravi told Bob that he preferred the title of domestic engineer.

2008, Rajni Mala Khelawan, The End of the Dark and Stormy Night, page 98:


NatSoc

NatSoc (countable and uncountable, plural NatSocs)

Abbreviation of National Socialism or National Socialist.

Also this site does attempt to define NatSoc. How much is truth(all political philosophies do attempt to make 'theirs' look as clean as possible, however the enemies of these political philosophies attempt to make them look as dirty as possible; witness McVay's one sided view of NatSoc)is up for debate although the e-pamphlet is mostly opinion and therefore almost impossible to argue against.

2007 December 12, perfumeTheMovie, “Voigt questions holocaust deaths and claims land back”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

First of all, the term 'Nazi' is used in a derogatory sense by holoProms and most of the population. i.e. 'The Soup Nazi' on Seinfeld. Second of all, are deniers necessarily National Socialists? I'm sure that some are, and some aren't. But then, how do you define a National Socialist? The different NatSoc parties throughout the world do not necessarily have the same agenda. Some are quite benign to races other than their own; some aren't. Now if you equate the word 'Nazi' with National Socialist, you'll find that National Socialists are not necessarily such a bad lot. Therefore, Nazis are not such a bad lot either.

2009 February 16, Bent Attorney Esq., “"Cramer" mourns Hitler's defeat”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

I believe in my version of natSoc. There is no room for racisim.

2015 May 10, Zaire, “How to tell a Jew”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(uncountable, sometimes euphemistic) Nazism.

Most people in Germany supported the NatSocs just as most people support the US government just now.

2002 December 3, d@ve, “Many people were against Germany before WWII”, in soc.culture.scottish (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

I've stated on this NG that what the natSocs did to the Jews and others was immoral. Whether or not there was a plan to exterminate them all, I don't know; ask Penn Jillette.

2009 September 12, Bent Attorney Esq., “Re: Churchill's role in war”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

For now, let us hope that the government will act on the advisory committee's recommendations. It's unlikely, however, that the National Socialists will have the will or guts to take on the Greens, who will be backed by Labour and the Apartheid Aotearoa Party. Today's news that the NatSocs have just assigned $1.5 million of taxpayers' money to new "environmental initiatives" doesn't bode well.

2012 July 5, Liberty, “Eco-Fascism in NZ-Beginning of the End”, in nz.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(countable, sometimes euphemistic) A Nazi.


vajay

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Alteration of vagina, compare veejay, va-jay-jay.

Your loss...we are cutting peepees and vajays today. Actually, I don't think we are dissecting anything so don't worry about it:)

2008 March 12, Julia Barrett Kendrick, “Re: hey guys”, in Google Groups, retrieved 2022-04-08:

Ex On The Beach bombshell Melissa Reeves decided it would be a wise idea to join in on the vajay flashing trend by quite literally revealing her lady parts to everyone.

2016 November 11, Regan Okey, “From knicker flashing to full on vajay exposing - celebs can't stop flashing their bits”, in Daily Star, Express Newspapers, archived from the original on 022-04-08:

In the process, her bushy vajay became bare and because she was aware of it, she edited it by using a big emoji to cover that part after filming.

2022 February 1, Kpakpo, “Married woman mistakenly displays her vajay while filming fun moment probably to entertain her husband- Watch”, in Ghbase, archived from the original on 2022-04-08:


the measles

What the measles do you think you're doing?

Why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine...

1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

interrogative pronoun
interrogative pronoun#English

(euphemistic, obsolete) Used after interrogative pronouns as an intensifier to express anger, frustration, incredulity, or other strong emotion.


packaged goods

(euphemistic, regional, idiomatic) Synonym of alcoholic beverages: booze.


street pharmacist

street pharmacist (plural street pharmacists)

drug dealer (aka street pharmacist :) I can't get a real job yet, so yeah that's my job. I get it from my dad and sell it myself. :)

1999 February 5, chase, “What's your day job?”, in alt.guitar (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

Joe, being sick of Bob's BS, and constant sucking up, bludgeons Bob about the head with his Prayer Book. Bob arrives at the Pearly Gates and Joe inherits all of Bob's worldly possessions. God no longer loves Joe, but mearly likes him. Joe becomes a pimp and street pharmacist.

1999 October 18, John Kozin, “OT: THEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EXAM 1”, in alt.toys.gi-joe (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

They are not a prostitute, they are" Social Workers ".The same is for the drug dealers, they are not a drug dealers, they are "Street Pharmacist!!!!

2000 March 1, firefly, “Street prostitution in Bratislava”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:


recreational medicine

Who am I? Just a middle-aged guy, who enjoyed the fruits of ill gotten wealth, as an entrepreneur of recreational medicine.

1996 July 1, Princess, “I've got time for you”, in alt.personal.ads (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

> I wonder if people go to rec.medicine and ask for advice about open heart
Recreational medicine is mostly illegal in the U.S. these days. ;-)

1999 January 8, John Byrnes, “Climbers who've had knots named after them”, in rec.climbing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

That's how you always answer when you don't have the truth on your side. Next time, withdraw slowly from your recreational medicine so you don't become hostile and delusioned.

2007 August 12, larry moe 'n curly, “Re: OT Clinton: Get educated, drop the rhetoric”, in alt.autos.toyota (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

I'm a little older than you and started earlier. I started smoking pot at 16. I was in graduate school in the early 80s and had reduced my practice of recreational medicine by quite a bit.

2010 November 3, David J. Martin, “Cocaine, mirrors, and US currency”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

FYI: metformin; janumet; pravastatin; lisinipril. digoxin; verapamil; trulicity; amlodopine; aspirin. I do not smoke; I do not drink at all (not even a tsp of wine on Shabbos evening); nor do I use any kind of 'recreational' medicine. I daven three times a day; keep kosher; do not even wish for NaziGene and PaedoBarney to perish an early, painful biological death (albeit even if deserved).

2018 June 29, Chafetz Chayim ha'Yehu'di, “Harlan Ellison z"l...27 May 1934-28 June 2018”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

(euphemistic, humorous) Recreational drugs.


Cupid's disease

"Yes, Cupid's Disease—syphilis, you know. I was in a brother in Salonika, nearly seventy years ago. I caught syphilis—lots of the girls had it—we called it Cupid's Disease. My husband saved me, took me out, had it treated. That was years before penicillin, of course. Could it have caught up with me after all these years?"

1985, Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales:

Post-syphilic syndrome is reputedly rather fun. You get to experience lots of luscious sexy sensations. That's why it's called Cupid's Disease.

2006 May 10, Elixirbet, “how many STDs are there?”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-22:

As the word "syphilis" took on the taint of the malady, however, vaguer tems such as special disease, social disease, secret disease, vice disease, Cupid's disease, a certain disease, blood disease, and blood poison emerged.

2010, Ralph Keyes, Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms:

It wasn't Cupid's disease, as the gossipmongers charged. It was radium.

2017, Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women:

In the past, syphilis was called the French disease but was also known as the Christian disease, the Great Pox, Cupid's disease, and the Black Lion; it was most well-known as lues, lues venereal, or venereal plague.

2017, Thomas P. Habif, M. Shane Chapman, James G. H. Dinulos, Kathryn A. Zug, Skin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment:

Given the horror with which 'Cupid's disease' was regarded in 1900 Mary must have told as few people as possible of the real cause of her husband's decline into insanity.

2018, Susanna de Vries, To the Ends of the Earth: Mary Gaunt, Pioneer Traveller:

Other names for syphilis were the "Spanish disease," with a similar story to its French counterpart, and "Cupid's disease," which really needs no explanation, as well as other descriptives.

2020, John Fox Bershof, MD, The First History of Man:


Cupid's Disease

(dated, euphemistic) Alternative letter-case form of Cupid's disease.


rhymes-with-rich

From a reporter’s 1984 conversation with Barbara Bush, who said of Geraldine Ferraro, “I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.” Despite Bush’s later assertion that the word she had been avoiding was witch, the phrase has been generally interpreted as a euphemism for bitch.

for a list of words that rhyme with rich


mass debate

en-verb

mass debate (third-person singular simple present mass debates, present participle mass debating, simple past and past participle mass debated)

mass debates (present singular third-person)
mass debating (participle present)
mass debated (participle past)
mass debated (past)


pink oboe

Another of our friends once walked into the communal showers to find a boy tootling on the pink oboe of another of the same age.

2015, Michael Volpe, Noisy at the wrong times, page 178:

Thus, for as long as mankind was unable to finger his pink oboe correctly, the entire galactic orchestra would forever fail in its attempt to play the orgiastic cosmic symphony.

2017, S. D. Tucker, Space Oddities: Our Strange Attempts to Explain the Universe:

Right about the time I'd decided my life was crap and I was drinking too much, I'd stumbled onto the neighbor's visiting niece playing a solo on his pink oboe. These are the crazy things you see when you spy on your boyfriend through a skylight.

(slang, humorous, euphemistic) The penis.


go f oneself

(euphemistic) Alternative form of go fuck oneself.


pattern up

pattern up (third-person singular simple present patterns up, present participle patterning up, simple past and past participle patterned up)

patterns up (present singular third-person)
patterning up (participle present)
patterned up (participle past)
patterned up (past)

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A ‘debt enforcer’ made a series of lurid threats of violence to someone who owed a drugs gang money, a court has heard.
Louis Tyler Hall warned his target he was going to “pattern him up” and “chef him up” – references to inflicting wounds with a knife – unless he paid.

2021 March 18, Jason Evans, “Drug gang enforcer jailed for threatening to ‘pattern up’ indebted user with a knife”, in WalesOnline:

And I know some people tried to pattern me up. Boy, you gotta lose weight, else we'll fatten you up.

2021, “DRIP_DROP_DRIP.wav”, performed by RJLDiablo:

(MLE, transitive, euphemistic) To inflict unlawful physical violence upon.


yarbles

en-noun

yarbles pl (normally plural, singular yarble)

yarble (singular)
yarblockos (alternative)

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Green's Dictionary of Slang
Nadsat
rhyming slang

Yarbles was coined by Anthony Burgess in 1962, when he introduced it within the invented slang Nadsat found in his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. The word is generally understood to be a derivation from Russian яблоко (jabloko, “apple”), owing to the variant form "yarblockos" used within the same novel. Jabloko does not have the equivalent vulgar connotation among Russian speakers, although яйца (jajca, literally “eggs”) does, which may have influenced the word. Green's Dictionary of Slang posits possible alternate origins as yarb + balls: a combination of the antiquated, sometimes-derogatory English dialect word yarb with the vulgar colloquialism balls. Others have suggested a connection, via the methods of English rhyming slang, to marbles.

Well, my droogs, this is a load of yarbles. Right now at New World Stages, a risible British adaptation of A Clockwork Orange is doing a bit of the old ultraviolence to its audience.

2017 September 25, Helen Shaw, “A Clockwork Orange”, in Time Out, New York:

(slang, mildly vulgar, euphemistic, uncountable) Nonsense; something of unacceptably poor quality.

James Brown looked a tool on C4's Withnail Weekend. Brown's crew at Loaded was credited with inventing the Withnail drinking game "I Demand to Have Some Booze". Utter yarbles. Fact: the game, where viewers simultaneously enjoy beverages identical to those consumed by characters on screen, was introduced by a journalist on the Evening Standard's London Life section in the mid-1980s.

1999 August 1, “Pandora”, in The Independent, London:

(slang, mildly vulgar, euphemistic, uncountable) Information that is false or otherwise misleading.


yarbles

"God knows, does He?" grinned Andy, unfazed. "Why hasn't He struck me dead then, kiddo?"
Chris looked at him. "Just because He hasn't yet doesn't mean He won't. I hope I'm not standing next to you when it happens, that's all."
"Yarbles!"

1996, Robert Swindells, Last Bus, London: Puffin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, pages 53–54:

"Oh, yarbles," Micky whispered. "This really is a bitch, isn't it?"

1999, Marjorie Dorner, Seasons of Sun & Rain: A Novel, 1st edition, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 96:

(colloquial, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) Expressing disgust, annoyance, frustration, or disapproval.


newfriend

From new + friend, as a euphemism for newfag.

(Internet slang, euphemistic) Synonym of newfag (“newbie; inexperienced user”).


slime tutorial

Named for a popular genre of YouTube videos in the late 2010s that instructed viewers on how to make slime; by sharing a name with a popular search term, illicit videos of copyrighted productions were less likely to be flagged for copyright infringement or otherwise removed from video-sharing sites.

Can anyone send me the link for a Phantom of the Opera slime tutorial?

"Hamilton" proved that audiences can still fantasize about one day seeing the rotating stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre or Elphaba taking flight at the Gershwin Theatre while streaming those same shows in their living room — no slime tutorial required.

2020 August 28, Sydny Long, “'Hamilton' on Disney+ is a step in the right direction for musical theater”, in The Chronicle, archived from the original on 2020-09-26:

A couple of days later, I got a call back. My first callback. For this, I watched the movie, I saw the slime tutorial, I had the cast recording on repeat.

2021 December 1, Mariana Elosúa, “Student Blog: My First Musical”, in BroadwayWorld, archived from the original on 2021-12-02:

You can watch a bootleg or a slime tutorial of Heathers, but it's never gonna be the same as sitting in a theater with people.

2022 February 28, Kat Mokrynski, “Student Blog: An Up-Close Look at Broadway Up Close”, in BroadwayWorld, archived from the original on 2022-05-20:

(euphemistic) A bootleg video recording of a theatrical production, especially of a Broadway musical.


pee on someone's cornflakes

en-verb

pee on someone's cornflakes (third-person singular simple present pees on someone's cornflakes, present participle peeing on someone's cornflakes, simple past and past participle peed on someone's cornflakes)

pees on someone's cornflakes (present singular third-person)
peeing on someone's cornflakes (participle present)
peed on someone's cornflakes (participle past)
peed on someone's cornflakes (past)

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(idiomatic, euphemistic, often humorous) Alternative form of piss in someone's cornflakes.


red day

For fifteen years, every month, red days. I have my period; it belongs to me.

1994, Verena Stefan, Shedding and Literally Dreaming, page 68:

Is there any harm, if we indulge in sex during red days?

2019, Dr. Gajanan V. Madiwal, Contraceptives Hygiene and Pregnancy Care:

(euphemistic) A day during which a woman is menstruating.


gosh all hemlock

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youthful indiscretion

en-noun

youthful indiscretion (plural youthful indiscretions)

(euphemistic) A minor mistake of a romantic or sexual nature, made by a young person.


the bad place

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gamer word

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From a now-deleted tweet in 2018 defending YouTuber PewDiePie's use of the word nigger during a livestream of the video game PUBG: Battlegrounds, which asserted that he had merely uttered a "gamer word".

“It’s just a gamer word, Arthur. Chill.”

2019 May 3, JackUTS, Twitter, archived from the original on 2018-12-30:

2019 June 3, AGoodOleGhost, “scuse me, i have the riGHT TO SAY GAMER WORDS”, in Reddit, Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

I submitted video evidence of gamer words from a toxic crew about 3 weeks ago. Offenders GTs and in game audio were both very visible/audible. As of last night, both offenders were still sailing the seas. Reported to both Rare and Xbox. Very frustrating, indeed.

2020 July 2, 37yeti, “Gamer words need to stop!”, in Reddit, Seaofthieves, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

Ohm misunderstands and assumes everything. It's actually incredible.
Moo, 407, and other guys in the group didn't unfollow you bc I accused of some James acct.
They unfollowed you bc you literally went off the rails trying to cancel Marcel for gamer words. Moron.

2021 May 26, I_AM_WILDCAT, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

2022 May 1, Winters1482, “guy threatens to call someone a gamer word over master cheeks”, in Reddit, ShitHaloSays, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:


pick flowers

en-verb

pick flowers (third-person singular simple present picks flowers, present participle picking flowers, simple past and past participle picked flowers)

picks flowers (present singular third-person)
picking flowers (participle present)
picked flowers (participle past)
picked flowers (past)

"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.

(euphemistic) To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.


special military operation

en-noun

special military operation (plural special military operations)

Calque of Russian специа́льная вое́нная опера́ция (speciálʹnaja vojénnaja operácija), a phrase used by Vladimir Putin upon launching an attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022:
In this regard, in accordance with Article 51 of Part 7 of the UN Charter, with the approval of the Federation Council of Russia and in pursuance of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Duma on 22 February with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, I decided to launch a special military operation.

cal

специа́льная вое́нная опера́ция

blockquote

By undermining the effectiveness of the sanctions regime being imposed on Russia, China clearly hopes to weaken the compliance mechanism that keeps that order working and under American control. Beijing probably also has an eye on blunting the effectiveness of this particular mechanism so that it can’t be effectively deployed against China in the event that Beijing feels compelled to conduct its own “special military operation” against Taiwan.

2022 March 25, Andrew Latham, “Three reasons why the China-Russia alliance is deepening”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 2022-03-25:

China could be planning its own Russia-style “special military operation” in Taiwan, an island that the Chinese Communist Party insists is Chinese territory, according to reports from China.

2022 June 17, Jack Buckby, “A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could Unleash an Economic Disaster”, in RealClearDefense, archived from the original on 2022-06-17:

China's "special military operation" will not take place now. Before that happens, China would have to carry out at least one major military maneuver with live fire in exercises that could end up taking place tomorrow according to a few posts ago highlighting the tuning between 2022 and 1995/1996.

2022 August 2, Suetham, “Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis”, in SinoDefenceForum, archived from the original on 2022-09-08:

Medvedev cited these supposed “Western analysts” in order to propagate Russia’s colonial fantasy: envisioning Ukraine’s territory reduced to just the Kyiv region, while the remainder of Ukraine would be divided among Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Such a narrative recalls Putin’s February 2022 speech questioning Ukraine’s statehood and accompanies intensifying Russian calls to expand its “special military operation” to realize its imperial map.

2022 August 24, “Russia’s War on Ukraine: Six Months of Lies, Implemented”, in United States Department of State, archived from the original on 2022-08-24:

Beijing expresses understanding of reasons that made Russia begin the special military operation for protection of Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters Monday.

2022 September 5, “China expresses understanding of reasons behind Russia’s special military operation — aide”, in TASS, archived from the original on 2022-09-05:

When asked if Beijing considers a special military operation against Taiwan possible, Liu Xiaoming said that the Chinese government reserves the right to take all necessary measures to ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country.

2023 April 27, “CHINESE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE LIU XIAOMING GAVE AN INTERVIEW TO TASS”, in Center for International Security and Strategy Tsinghua University, archived from the original on 2023-05-06:

Repeated clashes between the two warring parties would threaten more Chinese people and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor if they expand, with displaced people fleeing toward the Chinese frontier. If that happens, Beijing could be forced to conduct its own “special military operation” in Myanmar’s territory to reestablish the buffer.

2024 January 10, Emanuele Scimia, “How multiple global challenges may limit Beijing’s options on Taiwan”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-10, Opinion:

(euphemistic, neologism) A military situation resembling a war; especially the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

hoạt động quân sự đặc biệt (loose translation)


r-slur

r-slurs (plural)
"R" slur (alternative)
'r' slur (alternative)
R slur (alternative)
r slur (alternative)
R-slur (alternative)

admittedly as a kid/teen i would say the r-slur without second thought, as a synonym for “stupid” or “ridiculous.” the first time it was brought to my attention how insensitive that is, i stopped saying it immediately.

2019 March 11, laneloveslipstick, “Plouise’s response to being called a racist after singing the N word at a Drake concert”, in Reddit, BeautyGuruChatter, archived from the original on 2022-09-09:

You can't say the n-word, we're not black. You shouldn't use f-slur, you're not gay. Or the r-slur, that's ableist.

2020 August 14, blinking...@gmail.com, “Bandit batteries (')”, in alt.alt (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-09:

Did you know that 70% of social media posts about intellectual disabilities are negative?
The R-word, also known as the R-slur, is a hurtful term that remains prevalent throughout social media. Practice Inclusion: End the Use of the R-Word.

2021 August 22, SOAustralia, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-09:

(euphemistic) The word retard or retarded.


return to dust

en-verb

return to dust (third-person singular simple present returns to dust, present participle returning to dust, simple past and past participle returned to dust)

returns to dust (present singular third-person)
returning to dust (participle present)
returned to dust (participle past)
returned to dust (past)

Alexander died: Alexander was buried: Alexander returneth into dust

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:


r-slurred

en-adj

r-slurred (comparative more r-slurred, superlative most r-slurred)

more r-slurred (comparative)
most r-slurred (superlative)

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From r-slur + -ed. Came into common use on Reddit beginning around 2019 in response to increasing censorship of the words retard and retarded.

Phillip called my friend "r-slurred" yesterday.

whether the conclusion is prima facie r-slurred does indeed have an effect on how people respond to it, let this be a lesson to you

2020 December 29, @sonyasupposedly, Twitter:

That's probably still semantically wrong but at least it's not an entirely r-slurred argument.

2022 March 27, @AugustaKlumpke, Twitter:

you know that children's book with the r-slurred little bird that looks for its mother and asks like, a pig a cow a construction crane etc. if it's its mother?

(Internet slang, euphemistic, offensive) Retarded; extremely stupid or deranged.


nightwalking

Lee Lynn Pierce, an ex-prostitute active in the Prostitutes' Union of Massachusetts (PUMA), discussed the night walking law, which states that any woman walking at night unaccompanied by a man can be considered to be soliciting for sex and can be arrested and charged with prostitution.

1979 August 11, Kathy MacDonald, “King 'On Trial' for Rape in Women's Street Court”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 1:

(archaic, euphemistic) The activity of a prostitute who looks for clients on the streets.


suck cheese

en-verb

suck cheese (third-person singular simple present sucks cheese, present participle sucking cheese, simple past and past participle sucked cheese)

sucks cheese (present singular third-person)
sucking cheese (participle present)
sucked cheese (participle past)
sucked cheese (past)

Anna assured me that the band was pretty bad, as jazz bands went—in fact, her exact words were that they “sucked cheese"—but I'd never felt so sophisticated in my entire life. “This is the life,” I said. “Hanging out in the city,[…]

2008 April 8, Adam Selzer, Pirates of the Retail Wasteland, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 196:

... stories about people who remember walking in and thinking, “This place is a death trap,” but I've never run across an anecdote of someone saying, “I was just whispering to the person next to me that the show really sucked cheese.

2013 September 8, Adam Selzer, The Ghosts of Chicago: The Windy City's Most Famous Haunts, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 19:

(stative, euphemistic, slang) To be of terrible quality.


diphead

“He's too young to learn tricks, you diphead.” “He ain't neither, donkey face."

1992, D. A. Fowler, The Devil's End, →ISBN:

My name's Jason, you diphead.

2013 June 11, Jean Davies Okimoto, To Jaykae: Life Stinx, Tor Books, →ISBN:

(rare, slang, derogatory, euphemistic) An idiot; a moron.


skunkbag

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(slang, derogatory, euphemistic) A despicable or stupid person.


drinkologist

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mommy juice

en-noun

mommy juice (countable and uncountable, plural mommy juices)

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(euphemistic) Liquor, mainly wine, consumed by tired and stressed moms.


what the cuss

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(humorous, euphemistic) An interjection to express surprise or amazement, typically in place of what the fuck.


rarted

en-adj

rarted (comparative more rarted, superlative most rarted)

more rarted (comparative)
most rarted (superlative)

Derived from a misspelling of the word retarded.

What the hell man? Are you rarted?

(Internet slang, euphemistic, humorous) Retarded; extremely stupid or deranged.


shut the fridge

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"Shut the fridge! You're kidding?" "I wish I was." "Details. What happened?" He let out a long breath, sagging against the side of his car. "Look, it wasn't entirely her fault. We'd been growing apart for months.

2015 February 19, Gemma Halliday, Hollywood Confessions: Hollywood Headlines Mysteries book #3, Gemma Halliday Publishing, →ISBN:

(minced oath, euphemistic, slang) shut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)


funny boy

They already had some gay friends, though I can't say I liked them very much. My Dad just took it in stride. It'd didn't make any difference between us. My Mom, after about fifteen minutes of silence, said, 'Oh, good, a fruiter—a funny boy. My sister has one.

2009, Donald H. Clark, Loving Someone Gay, page 179:

Tony was pegged as a “funny boy,” bullied and criticized by peers and extended family members alike. As a child, Tony was highly intelligent but not academically motivated. Like many bullied gay kids, he skipped school with some frequency.

2013, Derald Wing Sue, Miguel E. Gallardo, Helen A. Neville, Case Studies in Multicultural Counseling and Therapy:

So Dr. Burlingham was a funny boy...er...gay? Angela would love to get her claws into that news. Sadly, he probably couldn't divulge it without Dr. Burlingham being able to trace the source back to him.

2016, Addison Albright, To Love and To Cherish, page 22:

(slang, euphemistic, derogatory) A homosexual man.


born sleeping

(UK, euphemistic) Stillborn; having died in utero in the middle to late part of a pregnancy, usually after 20-28 weeks.


bump purses

en-verb

bump purses (third-person singular simple present bumps purses, present participle bumping purses, simple past and past participle bumped purses)

bumps purses (present singular third-person)
bumping purses (participle present)
bumped purses (participle past)
bumped purses (past)

(gay slang, euphemistic) To have sex, especially when participants involved are bottoms.


NQR

(informal, often euphemistic) Abbreviation of not quite right, chiefly used to denote a person, object, etc. that is abnormal in some way.


pain in the backside

en-noun

pain in the backside (plural pains in the backside)

Perry can undoubtedly be a pain in the backside but in Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing he wears his big, bruised heart on his sleeve. The overwhelming sense is of a lonely, disappointed man in desperate need of a hug.

2022 November 16, Fiona Sturges, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry review – being Chandler Bing”, in The Guardian:

(euphemistic) Synonym of pain in the ass.


fboy

fboys (plural)
f boy (alternative)
f-boy (alternative)
f. boy (alternative)
f.boy (alternative)

From f + boy.
From the use of "f" as a censored form of "fuck".


cheese pizza

cheese pizza (countable and uncountable, plural cheese pizzas)

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* (child pornography): From the shared initialism CP, and associated with the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

Despite being one himself, he did technically produce and possess, uh... cheese pizza.

2022 March 5, Blooms, How Long Would Cartman's Prison Sentence Be?:

Child pornography
child pornography#English

(Internet slang, uncountable, euphemistic, humorous, neologism) Child pornography.


cement shoes

(crime, euphemistic) A largely-apocryphal method of execution or dead-body disposal said to be used by the Mafia or other similar organized crime groups, wherein a block of concrete is poured around the victim's feet and allowed to set before the victim is thrown into a body of water (to drown if still alive).


kick someone's butt

en-verb

kick someone's butt (third-person singular simple present kicks someone's butt, present participle kicking someone's butt, simple past and past participle kicked someone's butt)

kicks someone's butt (present singular third-person)
kicking someone's butt (participle present)
kicked someone's butt (participle past)
kicked someone's butt (past)

kick someone's ass
kick someone's ass#English

(Canada, US, euphemistic) Alternative form of kick someone's ass.


part-time girlfriend

en-noun

part-time girlfriend (plural part-time girlfriends)

part-time girlfriends (plural)
part time girlfriend (alternative)
PTGF (alternative)
ptgf (alternative)

(Hong Kong, euphemistic) A female who works part-time in prostitution, usually in additional to the above.


BSer

Study participants were asked to assess their knowledge of 16 math topics on a five-point scale ranging from “never heard of it” to “know it well, understand the concept.” Crucially, three of those topics were complete fabrications […]. Those who said they were knowledgeable about the fictitious topics were categorized as BSers.

2019 April 26, Christopher Ingraham, “Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests”, in The Washington Post:


give someone the time

en-verb

give someone the time (third-person singular simple present gives someone the time, present participle giving someone the time, simple past gave someone the time, past participle given someone the time)

gives someone the time (present singular third-person)
giving someone the time (participle present)
gave someone the time (past)
given someone the time (participle past)

I don’t think he gave that girl the time that night—but damn near. Damn near.

1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 64:

(slang, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with.


inspect the plumbing

inspect the plumbing (third-person singular simple present inspects the plumbing, present participle inspecting the plumbing, simple past and past participle inspected the plumbing)

inspects the plumbing (present singular third-person)
inspecting the plumbing (participle present)
inspected the plumbing (participle past)
inspected the plumbing (past)

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(euphemistic, humorous) Synonym of use the toilet.


OGA

(politics, euphemistic) Initialism of other government agency.


mercy sake's alive

Mercy sake's alive, looks like we got us a convoy

1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:

(idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) A mild oath.


let one loose

let one loose (third-person singular simple present lets one loose, present participle letting one loose, simple past and past participle let one loose)

lets one loose (present singular third-person)
letting one loose (participle present)
let one loose (participle past)
let one loose (past)

Uh oh. I gotta let one loose.


male organ

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The male organ of the eel was recognized, also by an Italian naturalist, Dr. Syrski, in small individuals of the species , and a previous idea that the eel was hermaphroditic thereby dispelled.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, The Riverside Natural History, page 104:

When man and woman conjoin they insert the male organ into the female organ.

2014, James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, Masatoshi Nagatomi, Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 162:


angel date

(euphemistic) The anniversary of the death of a child.


clap cheeks

clap cheeks (third-person singular simple present claps cheeks, present participle clapping cheeks, simple past and past participle clapped cheeks)

claps cheeks (present singular third-person)
clapping cheeks (participle present)
clapped cheeks (participle past)
clapped cheeks (past)
clap someone's cheeks (alternative)
get one's cheeks clapped (alternative)

From the sound made by one's buttocks as they are having sex.

They've been getting together secretly at night to clap cheeks.

He likes to come by every now and then so he can clap her cheeks.

She won't admit that she goes out every weekend just to get her cheeks clapped.

I pull’d out my purſe of five hundred pounds, / I pour’d them out on the table; / This glitt’ring ſight they no ſooner beheld, / Than they began to ſnigle and gigle; / And turning me round, would ſit in my lap, / And ſmerking and laughing, my cheeks they would clap; / I told them that I would have no more of that, / It was it that brought me to limbo.

c.''' 1782, “The Spendthrift clap't into Limbo”, in Five Exccllent New Songs, [Edinburgh?]: Entered According to Order, page 5:

(slang, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) To have sex or have sex with.

(slang, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) To twerk.


research chemical

en-noun

research chemical (plural research chemicals)


meat crayon

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Possibly popularized by the subreddit r/meatcrayon (created December 15, 2018).

People who don't wear all their gear when riding motorcycles stress me out. Do you want to become a meat crayon? Because that's how you become a meat crayon.

The 600W peak motor, located in the front wheel, is double the peak output from the Mi Electric Scooter Pro 2 but it'll still only manage up to 25km/h. That might not sound that fast but take a tumble at that speed and you'll still end up as a meat crayon.

2022 June 29, Duncan Pike, “Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter 3 review – Because pedalling is for chumps”, in Stuff South Africa, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

Got rear ended by a semi truck at a red light, he didn't even notice and pushed me through the intersection as my car was in park. was like half a second away from being a meat crayon

After receiving a ride from a random car and confirming the best path down, Zak promptly sent it, shooting down Baldwin in about 10 seconds. Despite to Matt's fears, he did not turn himself into a "meat crayon" in the process.

2022 August 15, Keegan Wells, “Aussie Skateboarder First in World To Hill-Bomb Baldwin”, in Critic Te Ārohi, number 19, Otago, New Zealand: Otago University Students' Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:

(Internet slang, euphemistic) Someone who gets injured in an extremely gory manner as a result of rubbing or impacting the ground at high speeds (comparing one's injuries to the marks left by a crayon).


I'll be a son of a gun

Digging her hands excitedly down into the pockets of her dress Ardita stared at him, speechless with astonishment. […] “Well, I’ll be a son of a gun!” she said dazedly.

1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 11:

(euphemistic) Expressing surprise or disbelief.


accommodation house

accommodation house (plural accommodation houses)

Subsequently, being recalled, he testified that "the phrase 'is keeping an accommodation-house,' when applied to a woman, in Jasper county, in his opinion, mean the same as a house of ill-fame, or house of prostitution." On cross-examination, he said, "the phrase 'is keeping an accommodation-house,' when applied to a woman, means the same in Jasper county as it would in Newton county, or anywhere else. […]"

1883, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, Indiana: Supreme Court, page 276:

[…] it provides what is now accepted as a clearly authentic and valuable record of the Victorian sexual underworld and the people who frequented it. His descriptions are often vivid, such as his account of a visit to an accommodation house one summer morning […]

1972, Michael Pearson, The Age of Consent: Victorian Prostitution and Its Enemies, page 27:

(historical, euphemistic) A building offering rooms to prostitutes and their clients for a short period in exchange for payment.


dog's dangly bits

(euphemistic) The dog's bollocks; something outstandingly good.


aardvarking

Coined in 1980s by film critic Joe Bob Briggs.

There is a good bit of aardvarking [gratuitous sex] around the quarry by the lead characters.

1993, Rapa Nui Journal, volumes 7-10, page 7:

It looks like it was written by a thirteen-year-old who just discovered sex, gore, and magic. Brad Sykes is that man boy. He writes and directs yet another Witchcraft movie about a serial killer, detectives, strippers, aardvarking, and witchcraft.

2023, Steve Hutchison, The Worst Horror Movies 2:

(slang, euphemistic, humorous) Sexual intercourse.


corrective facility

corrective facility (plural corrective facilities)

correctional facility
correctional facility#English

(formal, euphemistic) Synonym of correctional facility.


sanitation engineer

sanitation engineer (plural sanitation engineers)


liquid refreshment

liquid refreshment (countable and uncountable, plural liquid refreshments)

When one goes to the store to procure liquid refreshments, one does not want to be told that the only thing available is coffee.

2012, Duane Andry, Blogosphere Madness: Dogmasphere 2011, page 84:


have one's moons

en-verb

have one's moons (third-person singular simple present has one's moons, present participle having one's moons, simple past and past participle had one's moons)

has one's moons (present singular third-person)
having one's moons (participle present)
had one's moons (participle past)
had one's moons (past)

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“Excuse me,” I yelled to the front seat. They ignored me. “Excuse me,” I increased the volume. “We have an emergency back here. […] We need to stop. My friend has her moons.

2017, Sarah Milledge Nelson, Jade Dragon:

I have wasted gallons of sperm on her, yet she still has her moons. She came to me today in that condition each time her body rejects me I will beat her until she misses her moon.

2013, “Cash”, in In Quest of the White Mandan, page 16:

(euphemistic, rare) To undergo menstruation.


crimson wave

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All the girls are surfin’ the wave / Surfin’ the crimson wave today

2014, “Crimson Wave”, in NVM, performed by Tacocat:


I'll be darned

(euphemistic) Synonym of I'll be damned.


dodgasted

"Do you think I'm going to stand here on one foot all night like a dodgasted cigar store Indian?"

1912 Dec, Modern Electrics, page 913, column 2:


dodgast

"Dodgast you!" he bellowed. "I've missed my supper, I've missed the opry, and I'm missing my sleep!"


pignus amoris

In 1435 he visited Scotland, and left behind him a pignus amoris which fortunately died

1929, Flora Grierson, The Tale of the Two Lovers (Introduction):


snippy snip

So then, women get to force you guys to have a vasectomy. Fair is fair, right? Legally *force* you to go in for a little snippy snip?

2003 January 31, Sharon B, “Martha's quest for male abandoners, was Re: Father abandons newborn; was Re: Abandonment or Death”, in soc.men (Usenet):

Imagine having an unwanted baby while unemployed or stretched to the max with bills. That would suck big time.... far worse than having a small snippy snip.

2005 December 14, John van Gurp, “Vasectomy”, in hfx.general (Usenet):

Dr. Warren also suggested that if I'm not thinking of having anymore children, then Bill should go for the snippy snip.

2010, Sharon S. Hart, Becoming Part of the Ribbon: My Personal Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 33:

Coitus interruptus moments. Got me thinking I need a snippy snip. Vasectomy.

2018 May 2, David Schneiderman, Beast Mode, act 1:

(specifically, euphemistic) A vasectomy.


putt from the rough

putt from the rough (third-person singular simple present putts from the rough, present participle putting from the rough, simple past and past participle putted from the rough)

putts from the rough (present singular third-person)
putting from the rough (participle present)
putted from the rough (participle past)
putted from the rough (past)

If Tom Selleck is "effeminate", or "light in the loafers", or "putting from the rough", or "gay" -- then I really really REALLY hope I could become as much of a pooftah as Tom is.

1996 February 10, Matthew Jotham Millheiser, “Julia Roberts on "Friends"”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Or is he still putting from the rough?

2008 February 7, Imam Widdershins, “Has Carl rogers found a girlfriend...”, in rec.autos.driving (Usenet):

(slang, euphemistic) To have (usually homosexual) anal sex.


field wife

(euphemistic) A woman taken as a lover by a man in the military, during a period of military action.


Aztec two-step

Montezuma's revenge
Montezuma's revenge#English

(humorous, euphemistic) Synonym of Montezuma's revenge (“diarrhea experienced by tourists in Mexico”).


compliance strike

en-noun

compliance strike (plural compliance strikes)

(euphemistic, law enforcement) A punch or kick.


female dog

“She called her a female dog. Leastwise she hinted it.”

1945, James Street, The Gauntlet, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., page 210:

I don’t like the way he spoke to my wife and called her a female dog.

2000, Mark McCrum, Castaway: The Full, Inside Story of the Major TV Series, Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 227:

You just called her a female dog in heat.

2010, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Xlibris, →ISBN, page 64:

And he called her a female dog.

2012, Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 34:

Then the blond guy called her a female dog and sat down in his seat.

2014, Paul Gardiner, A Light in a World of Darkness, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

My eyes rolled and called her a female dog.

2014, Okisha Jackson, A Successful Failure: The Complete Series, →ISBN:

Mr. Ertz called her a female dog, you know, the ‘B word.’

2015, Terrie Farley Moran, Caught Read-Handed, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 247:

Perhaps she’d think I called her a female dog.

2015, Amanda Laureano, Sirena, Xlibris, →ISBN:

So she did what any girl would do: called her a female dog and raised her fist to punch her on the jaw line.

2015, L.S.C. Fernandes, Vampire Slayer, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:


human biodiversity

Of course, racism has a long and inglorious history in US politics. But it now has a very new iteration in the nerdy tech-savvy generation of the alt right. Racism 2.0. They don't speak of eugenics but rather of maintaining "human biodiversity". And they have a thing about IQ tests showing that white people are cleverer than others.

2016 August 25, Giles Fraser, “The alt right is old racism for the tech-savvy generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

Eugenic thinking is not safely in the past. Today, members of the "human biodiversity movement" enthusiastically tweet and blog about discoveries in molecular genetics that they mistakenly believe support the ideas that inequality is genetically determined; that policies like a more generous welfare state are thus impotent; and that genetics confirms a racialized hierarchy of human worth.

2018 July 24, Kathryn Paige Harden, “Why Progressives Should Embrace the Genetics of Education”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-17:

The appearance underlines past incidents in which Pinker has encountered criticism for his association with advocates of so-called “human biodiversity”, which other academics have called a “rebranding” of racial genetic essentialism and scientific racism.

2025 June 7, Jason Wilson, “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(alt-right, euphemistic) A dogwhistle for eugenics, racial purity, and similar pseudoscientific theories.


Emergency

Sense 2 referred to the conflict between the British and Malaysians against communist guerillas, because London-based insurers would not pay out in instances of civil wars.

(historical, Malaysia, euphemistic) the Malayan Emergency as experienced in Malaysia.