本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛This is a list of phrases made of pairs of words that rhyme. In the most interesting cases, neither of the words is "really" a word, in the sense that they are never used except in this phrase, as in helter skelter. In other cases, one or both parts of the phrase have been modified to improve the meter or rhyme. In other cases, one of the words doesn't really add anything to the meaning of the phrase, but rather seems to have been used to allow the sound of the other word to be repeated, as in even steven.
The astounding preponderance of initial "H's" remains to be explained, almost as though the speaker was practicing defensive repetition for a listener with poor hearing. The technical term for the way many of these phrases are formed is "reduplication" which is itself an example of redundancy.
In the word game called "Crambo", the challenger gives a word, and the contestant must supply a rhyme. The same sort of rhyme matching seems to be going on here.
Ab Fab ("Absolutely Fabulous", a British sitcom)
Abe's cabe (a five dollar bill)
Aga saga (a popular novel form of the domestic and emotional lives
of semirural people)
age rage (anger among the old because of forced retirement;
anger at the loss of one's faculties and health)
air bear (a policeman in a helicopter)
air fare (the cost of an airplane ticket)
airy fairy (flighty, impractical)
Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace, once home to the BBC)
AmCham (The American Chamber of Commerce)
Am Drams (amateur drama presentations)
analysis paralysis (the endless series of self reviews into which any
sufficiently complex bureaucracy can be driven)
anchor clanker (a sailor)
Anglo-Banglo (a person of mixed English and Bangladeshi ancestry)
Anne's fan (a taunting gesture, thumb to nose and fingers
fanned out)
ant's pants (something stylish or fashionable)
antsy pantsy (restless; impatient)
ape drape (the mullet haircut, short in front, long in back)
argle bargle (jargon; gibberish)
argy bargy (noisy argument; a foul up)
arm charm (a beautiful woman, as the companion of a man)
arrive alive (a traffic safety slogan)
arsy farsy (backwards)
arsy varsy (backwards)
artsy fartsy (culturally pretentious)
arty farty (culturally pretentious)
ash cash (a doctor's fee for a cremation certificate)
at bat (opportunities to hit the ball)
[the] Aztec two-step (traveler's diarrhea, regarded as a
well-known dance)
[to] backjack (to inject a solution of opium)
backpack (a torture device designed to wreck your back; for some
reason, designed for two shoulders and usually worn over one only)
[to] back slack (to slacken; to stop trying; cheek or insolence)
[to] backtrack (to reverse one's steps)
bag drag (the dreary, burdensome, even murderous task of
guarding, transporting and stowing one's luggage)
Bahama mama (an unatractive heavyset woman; a drink made with rum)
bake break (the analog of a cigarette break for a marijuana user)
bandstand (a platform for musical performances)
banyan (a kind of tree)
bar car (the most popular car in the train)
barmy army (a group of cricket team supporters)
bash cash (a doctor's fee for completing an accident form)
battle rattle (military body armor)
bawling squalling
bean queen (one whose preferred sexual partners are Hispanic)
beanie weenies (hot dogs with baked beans)
beardie weirdie (a person whose inner eccentricity is conveniently
indicated by a beard)
[to] beat feet (to hurry; to depart; to walk)
beaucoup (very much)
beaver fever (a stomach disorder caused by the Giardia bacteria,
commonly attributed to wild animal feces in the water supply)
bed cred (bed "credibility", that is, sexual experience)
bed head (the irreparable hair disarray occuring during sleep)
bedspread (a thin decorative covering for a bed)
beddie weddie (baby talk for "bed")
bedstead (a bed frame)
[the] bee's knees (something stylish or fashionable)
belly telly (a television set small enough to sit on one's belly)
bhani ghani (a greeting)
big dig (the massive highway project undermining Boston)
big rig (a large tractor trailer)
big wig (an important person)
bird turd (an annoying person)
birth dearth (a sharp reduction in the birth rate)
bitchen twitchen (most excellent)
bit spit (an electronic communication)
black Jack (a nickname for General Pershing)
blackjack (a card game; a policeman's night stick)
blame game (the search for scapegoats)
bleacher creature (the raucous fans in the cheap seats)
Blow Joe (an enlisted man)
[to] blow snow (to snort cocaine)
blue flu (a fraudulent claim of illness for a sick-out)
bog wog (an Irish person)
Boho (a bohemian, a wild unconventional person)
Bo Jo (a nickname for Bob Jones University)
bon ton (the height of fashion; fashionable society)
bone dome ([approximate rhyme] a thick protective airman's helmet)
[the] boob tube (television)
boocoo (beaucoup for people who can't spell)
Boogie Woogie (a music and dance style)
boo hoo (the stylized representation of loud crying)
boomba loomba (a man's admiring comment on an attractive woman)
boon coon (a close companion)
booze cruise (a boat trip in which much alcohol is served)
boozy woozy (mildly intoxicated on alcohol)
boss hoss (the important person; the winner; the dominator)
bot spot (the user on a MUD with the longest connect time, who
appears at the bottom of the list)
Bott's dots (raised reflective pavement markers)
boulder holder (a bra)
bow wow (the sound a dog is supposed to make)
boy toy (a male who is kept for mild sexual interest)
boz woz (bragging)
bozo (a clown; a fool)
brace face (someone wearing braces)
brain drain (the emigration of talented, intelligent people)
brag rags (fancy clothes for show)
breadhead (someone whose only concern is amassing money)
breast fest (an opportunity for staring at many breasts)
breast rest (a prolonged stare at a woman's breasts)
brew crew (drinking buddies)
bright flight (brain drain; the transfer of intelligent children
to private schools)
brown pound (the purchasing power of nonwhites in England)
bull's wool (stolen clothes)
bully woolies (long underwear)
bum chum (a homosexual's partner)
bum numb (buttock anesthesia from prolonged sitting)
bumper jumper (a tailgater, that is, a car that follows other
cars too closely)
bunch punch (group sex; a gang bang)
bungdung (a large firecracker)
busy Lizzy (a kind of flower)
cafe au lait (coffee with milk)
cagmag (inferior, particularly of meat or a person; to argue)
[for] cake's sake (a mild exclamation)
cakes sakes (an order of hot cakes and eggs)
can man (the junior fireman whose job it is to lug heavy
canisters up stairs)
case ace (the last ace, after three have been dealt or exposed)
cater waiter (a waiter who is included as part of a
caterer's service)
cawquaw (the Canadian porcupine)
cellar dweller (a low-ranking team)
cellar smeller (a drunkard)
cell yell (the loud talking of a person on a cell phone in
a public place)
chalk talk (a straight lecture with no slides or overheads)
charivari (a ruckus, a tumult, a noisy celebration)
cheerful earful (good news)
cheat sheet (illicit written material smuggled into a test)
cherry merry (a gift of money)
chick flick (a movie full of relationships and devoid of
explosions)
chill pill (a joking reference to a mythical pill that will cure
one's nervousness)
Chill Wills (a movie actor of the 50's and 60's)
chiller diller (a scary thing)
chip clip (a clip that can be used to reseal a potato chip bag)
chip knip (a silicon chip embedded in a bank card)
cho mo (a child molester)
chocky jockey (a male homosexual)
chop shop (a junk yard; an illegal business that dismantles stolen
cars)
chopper copper (a greedy eater)
chow down ([approximate rhyme] to eat with determination)
chrome dome (a bald head; the name of the B52 nuclear alert
system, in which a number of B52's were on constant
airborne alert)
chuckluck (a banking game using three dice)
chummy wummy (very friendly)
clam jam (vaginal secretions)
claptrap (nonsense; a brothel where you're liable to get a
disease)
classy chassis (a desirable car; an attractive woman)
clean Gene (the nickname for Eugene McCarthy in 1968)
clean green (environmentally friendly)
clean queen (a homosexual who makes a practice of cruising whenever
doing laundry)
clone zone (a gay cruising area)
Clydeside (the area on the banks of the river Clyde in Glasgow,
the center of the shipping industry there)
coal hole (a small door into the basement, through which
coal is delivered)
cobber dobber (an informer)
[to] cock block (to interfere with a man's amatory pursuits)
cock gawk (a prolonged stare at a nude man's penis)
cock rock (rock and roll music with more than the usual macho
strutting)
coco-loco (crazy; an alcoholic drink; a beach in Ghana)
coddy-moddy (a gull)
coke stroke (a stroke brought on by use of cocaine)
cold gold (a can of beer)
colly molly (melancholy)
cookbook (a recipe book)
cop shop (a police station)
copper dropper (a gun)
county mounty (a highway patrol officer)
crack back (a retort; an outlawed football tackle aimed at the
knees; a cigarette made from crack cocaine and marijuana)
crack shack (a house that sells crack cocaine)
crawly-mawly (sickly)
creature feature (a horror movie)
creepie peepie (a handheld camera used for live action shots)
creepy weepy (a pop fiction genre combining gothic horror and
romance)
crisco disco (a gay nightclub)
criss miss (a pretentious woman)
crop top (a shirt that exposes the belly)
crow toe (any of several plants whose shape suggests a crow's toe)
crumb bum (a low despicable person)
crum bum (a low despicable person)
[for] cry eye (an exclamation of exasperation)
cuddle puddle (group grope and hug sessions induced by Ecstasy)
cugger mugger (whispered gossip)
culture vulture (a determined devourer of art)
cum chum (a homosexual)
cum drum (the "reservoir" in some condoms)
curl girl (a cute girl)
curliewurlie (any object which is twisted or curled)
cute ute (a smaller "utility" vehicle)
cutesy-wootsy (referring to excessive or affected cuteness)
Dada Nada (a moment of absurdity)
date bait (an attractive person)
date mate (a person of the same sex on a double date)
deadhead (idiot; a Grateful Dead devotee; to remove dead blooms;
a nonpaying passenger)
dead sled (an abandoned or nonworking car)
deep creep (a stealthy attack on another submarine at maximum
depth)
Delhi belly (traveler's diarrhea)
des res (a desirable residence)
[to] dick lick (to perform fellatio)
dim sim (the victim of a con man; a testicle)
dip slip (a kind of geological fault)
dirty Gertie (a lascivious, promiscuous, or filthy person)
ditch witch (a kind of excavator)
dizzie Lizzie (a scatterbrained person)
dizzy wizzy (a narcotic in pill form)
dope slope (a beginner's ski slope)
[to] dorm storm (to plaster the dormitories with invitations
to a party)
double bubble (double overtime; a fuselage whose cross-section
is halved by the floor; a difficult mathematical minimization
problem)
double trouble (a pair of difficulties)
downtown (the business area of a town)
drack sack (an unattractive woman)
draggin' wagon (a car used for racing; a tow truck)
drape shape (a severely draped garment, such as a zoot suit)
dream team (a group composed of the best players)
drink shrink (an alcoholic's therapist)
drip lip (a ridge or flange that diverts water)
droop snoop (the adjustable nose or wing flaps in a plane)
drop top (a convertible car; a desk with a lid)
dropper popper (a semi-spherical plastic shell toy that is everted,
and suddenly pops up)
drunk funk (a cabin situation requiring the captain to leave
the cockpit to sort out)
drunky skunky (very drunk)
dry fly (a fly fishing lure that is not meant to go below
the water)
ducky wucky (fine, OK)
dumb chum (an unperceptive friend or person; a pet)
dune coon (a pejorative term for an Arab)
eager beaver ([approximate rhyme], an eager person)
easel weasel (an unimaginative artist)
easy breezy (not difficult)
easy peasy (not difficult)
ecky-becky (a poor white)
eenie weenie (tiny)
eensy weensy (tiny)
eggy peggy (a code language in which "egg" is inserted before
each vowel)
emblem (a sign, symbol, token or marker)
etsi ketsi (feeble; indecisive)
even steven (a fair division of money or goods)
evo devo (evolutionary development theory)
exlex (an outlaw)
ex-sex (sexual intercourse with a former boyfriend or girlfriend)
fab lab (a fabrication laboratory)
face case (an ugly person)
face lace (whiskers)
fag bag (a woman married to a homosexual; a man's "purse")
fag drag (a fad for glitter, makeup and crossdressing in
rock and roll in the early 70's)
fag hag (a woman who prefers the company of homosexuals)
fag mag (a pornographic magazine for homosexuals)
fag stag (a heterosexual man who enjoys the company of
homosexuals)
fag tag (the loop on the back of a shirt)
fair share (a just division of goods)
fake bake ("bronzing" oils that darken the skin)
Fan Man (the nickname of a publicity seeker, who, in the early '90's,
parachuted into the middle of several sporting events)
fan tan (a card game)
fancy nancy (a teasing reference to a person who's dressed up)
fanny nanny (nonsense)
fat cat (a rich and pampered person)
fave rave (infatuation with a pop star; a special favorite)
fax wax (a neck ligament)
feebee (the FBI)
feel wheel (a wheel, divided into sectors labeled with various
feelings, such as "Suspicion", "Hurt", "Curiosity", in an
attempt to get the uncommunicative to point to their feelings.
feevee (pay television)
fem sem (a women's college)
fender bender (a minor car accident)
fight night (a boxing exhibition)
Fiji (a Pacific island)
fill mill (a bar)
fin-syn (a set of FCC rules on financial interests and syndication)
fine line (a border easily crossed by accident)
finger wringer (an overactor)
fire wire (a kind of computer communication protocol)
flag bag (a bag suitable for transporting flags, either
patriotic or photographic)
flagon wagon (a beer truck)
flapjack ([imperfect rhyme] a pancake)
flat chat (as fast or as quickly as possible)
[to] flat hat (to fly very low)
Flavr Savr (a trademarked name of a genetically engineered
tomato)
flec spec (flexible market specification)
Fleet Street (once the location of Britain's newspaper
publishers)
Fleeter Streeter (a low journalist)
flibberty gibberty (excitable; talkative)
fling wing (a helicopter)
FloJo (a nickname for the athlete Florence Johnson)
floor whore (a salesman who only works on the show floor)
flop whop (a heavy fall)
flopper stopper (a brassiere)
Floradora
flower power (a vague hippie belief in natural goodness)
flub dub (awkard amateurism; a printer's dingbat; overblown
language)
fluff stuff (snow)
flute mute (a condom)
flyby (a flight path that comes near some place)
fly guy (a pilot)
fly pie (Huckleberry pie)
fog bog (a foggy swamp; a misty and wet area)
fog dog (a "fog bow"; also, bright spots of light in fog)
Fogo (a volcano in the Cape Verde Islands)
food dude (someone preoccupied with cooking or good eating)
footsie wootsie (uncontrollable foot play by loving couples)
formal normal (the operator that arises from the formal use of the
adoint, to assert that <Lu,Lv>=<L*Lu,v>, for instance)
found sound (bits of audio information collected and formed into
a sort of sound collage)
four door (a car with four doors)
frame dame (a woman admired for her body)
frat brat (a member of a college fraternity)
frat rat (a member of a college fraternity)
freak beak (a big nose)
freaky deaky (very surprising or strange, unheard of)
freebie (an item of merchandise given away)
freevee ("free" television)
from go to whoa (from start to finish)
fronton (a pediment; the wall against which pelota is played)
froyo (frozen yogurt)
frozen Chosin (a nickname for Chosin during the Korean war)
frozen chozen (the Episcopalians, whose services seem relatively
formal; churchgoers at the US Antarctic base at the South Pole)
fruit boots (Beatle boots; pointy boots; Italian boots; white
tennis shoes)
fuck truck (the shuttle bus that connected MIT to the campuses
of various women's colleges)
[to] fuddle duddle (to leave; to depart)
fuddy duddy (an irrelevant superannuated relic)
fudge nudge (anal intercourse)
fun run (a race in which the competitive aspect is deemphasized)
fungus among us
funny bunny (an odd or unusual person)
funny money (counterfeit money; money not properly accounted for)
fusty dusty
fuzzbuzz (commotion; fuss; inconvenience)
fuzzy guzzy (a balsamweed)
fuzzy wuzzy (a nickname for someone or something that is fuzzy)
[the] Gabby Cabby (a New York cab driver who broadcasts his thoughts
and interviews)
gainpain (a kind of gauntlet)
gal pal (a female friend with no specific sexual role)
gang bang (a group rape; a gang fight)
garbar (nonsense)
gawky pawky
gay day (a day at Disneyland for gay visitors)
geek chic (when fashionable people pretend to admire technical
people)
geek speak (the slang used by computer programmers)
Geezer Squeezer (a male incontinence device, essentially a
clothes pin)
gender bender (someone of ambiguous gender; an electrical
adapter)
Georgie Porgie (a nursery rhyme hero)
get set (the last warning before a race begins)
[to] get wet (to perform a murder)
glad lad (an attractive young man)
glam sham (the tricks and pretenses used in celebrity culture)
Glaramara (a mountain in the Lake District of England)
glossy posse (the journalists who pursue Hollywood celebrities)
[to] go slow (to move at a reduced pace)
goat boat (a Norwegian flat-bottomed boat)
gob job (oral sex)
god pod (the corporate executive offices of Exxon, at
Irving Texas)
God slot ([approximate rhyme] a religious program on TV or radio)
God squad (a hospital ethics team)
gol-mol (a disturbance)
goo goo (a person who emphasizes the possibilities of good government)
goof proof (designed to withstand common errors)
gowrow (a dangerous monster that lives in the Ozark hills)
grandstand (raised seats for an audience)
[the] Grand Strand (the South Carolina seacoast that includes Myrtle Beach)
grass bass (the calico bass)
gray jay (a kind of bird)
Greek Week (a college fraternity celebration)
green bean (an inedible vegetable)
green queen (someone who prefers sex in the outdoors)
grit lit (literature that emphasizes a traditional Southern setting)
groantone (a ringtone that is sexually suggestive)
ground round (finely ground roundsteak)
gruesome twosome (a steady couple)
gum chum (an American soldier stationed abroad, who is apparently
an endless source of chewing gum)
guru (an exotic spiritual guide)
guy cry (a movie during which it is acceptable for a man to
cry, such as, apparently, "Ryan's Song")
habdabs (the heebie-jeebies; great anxiety)
hab nab (by one means or another; at random)
[to] habbie gabbie (to throw money into a crowd)
[to] habble gabble (to throw money into a crowd)
hack pack (tools or information for hacking; a cheat sheet; a group
of amateurs or hacks)
hack rack (a taxicab stand)
hairum scairum (harum scarum)
hairy Mary (a male homosexual)
half caff (a mixture of regular and decaffeinated coffee)
half staff (how flags are flown during a period of mourning)
ham scam (a difficult time)
ham scram (a difficult time)
hands off cocks, feet in socks (time to get up!)
handsome ransom (a large sum of money)
[to] handstand (to "stand" upside down, supporting oneself on the
hands)
handy andy (a person who is able to repair things, or who is
conveniently nearby)
handy dandy (convenient)
handy spandy (convenient)
[to] hang-slang (to loiter)
hanky panky (shenanigans; misconduct)
hanky spanky (dashingly well-dressed)
hap map (the current haplotype mapping project, for detailing
the huge blocks of DNA that have been inherited unchanged over
hundreds of generations)
happy clappy (Christian groups with enthusiastic and spontaneous
worship)
hapus capus (a self taught prison lawyer)
hard card (a permanent bingo card)
hardy dardy (foolhardiness)
hari-kari (a common misspelling of hara-kiri, meaning ritual suicide)
harum scarum (disordered; at random)
hash bash (a rally for marijuana legalization)
hashcash (an attempt to discourage spam by requiring the sender
to spend CPU time generating an ID for each message)
hatch back ([approximate rhyme] a car that opens in the back)
havey cavey (helter skelter)
the head Fred (the person in charge)
healie feelie (belief in healing through holding crystals)
healy feely (belief in healing through holding crystals)
heater-treater (a tank which removes water from oil that has just
been extracted from the ground)
[to] heat treat (to heat an object as part of its processing)
heavy bevvie (hard drinks; heavy drinking)
heebee jeebee (a feeling of dread or fear)
hell's bells (an exclamation)
helter skelter (all at once; chaotic)
hen pen (a girl's boarding school; a women's prison)
Herkimer Jerkimer (a humorous name, a rustic, a stupid man)
herky jerky (spasmodic)
he said, she said (a dispute between a man and a woman)
he-she (a transvestite)
Hey Day (an annual drunken silly holiday at the University
of Pennsylvania)
heyday (a time during which something flourishes)
hibble bibble (chatter; clamorous talk)
hibber gibber (gibberish)
hick dick (small town policeman)
hickery pickery (hiera picra, a purgative)
hickory dickory (a nonsense phrase from nursery rhymes, possibly
related to an old shepherd's system for counting)
hicra picra (hickery pickery)
hiddy giddy (giddy)
hifi (a high fidelity music system)
higgledy piggledy (chaotically, disordered)
high five ([imperfect rhyme] a sort of slapping handshake)
high rise ([imperfect rhyme] a tall building)
highty flight (presumptious; high flown; affected)
highty tighty (hoity toity)
hilty dilty (a cocktail)
hinch pinch (a rustic game in which the players trade blows
of ever increasing strength)
hinky pinky (a rhyming definition game)
hipper dipper (superb)
hipperty skipperty (frolicksome)
hippy dippy (moronic; dopy)
hippy trippy (characteristic of hippies)
hirdie girdie (topsy turvy)
hirdum dirdum (uproar)
hire 'em, fire 'em (descriptive of English labor laws, in contrast
to European ones)
hob job (a clumsy job; an odd job)
[to] hob nob (to socialize with)
hob's knob (the rich part of a town)
hobby bobby (a parttime policeman)
hobo (a vagrant; a shiftless wandering person)
hobson jobson (the process in which foreign words or phrases
are misheard, garbled, and adapted into English)
hocker mocker (hugger mugger)
hockey dockey (a shoe)
hocus pocus (a magical incantation>
hoddy doddy (an insignificant person; an awkward person; a small
snail shell)
hodge podge (mish mash)
hog-dog (a sport in which a detusked boar fights a pitbull)
hogan mogan (hogen mogen; a Dutchman)
hogen mogen (high and mighty)
hogo (a distinctively strong smell)
hoity toity (pretentious)
Hojo (a nickname for the Howard Johnson chain of restaurants
and hotels, as well as of a mild-mannered former president of MIT)
hoker moker (hugger mugger))
hokey cokey (a Cockney dance with lyrics prescribing body
movements)
hokey pokey (a dance; cheap candy for children)
holly golly (noise; nonsense)
holy Foley (an exclamation of wonder)
holy moley (an exclamation of wonder)
holus bolus (the whole thing at one time)
home phone ([imperfect rhyme] one's personal telephone)
Hong Kong (a port city in China)
hoodoo (mystification; voodoo; bad luck; a thin spire of rock)
hoop coop (bush clover)
hooper dooper (uproarious)
hoopoo (the hoopoe bird)
hooroo (goodbye)
hootchie kootchie (a mildly lascivious striptease show)
hootchy kootchy (hootchie kootchie)
hoovus-goovus
horror
hose nose (a person taking oxygen through a nasal tube)
hot boite ("boite" is French slang for "bar", so a hot boite is
is bar highly regarded by pretentious ninnies)
hot bot (a compulsively promiscuous person)
hot lot (a degenerate)
hotnot (a person of mixed race)
hot pot (an electrically heated pot for coooking and warming)
hot shot (a person for whom talent is exceeded by self-promotion)
hot spot (an unusually active place)
hot squat (the electric chair)
hotch potch (a jumbled mixture; a thick soup))
hotsie totsie (an expression of delight)
hotsy totsy (an expression of delight)
hottie tottie (a hot water bottle)
house mouse (a desk officer, one who does not walk a beat)
houtou (a South American motmot)
hubble bubble (a hookah; a dish of baked beans and leftovers)
hubbub (commotion)
hucker mucker (= hugger mugger)
huckmuck (a strainer used in brewing)
hudder mudder (= hugger mugger)
huddle duddle (a decrepit old man)
huff duff (High Frequency Direction Finder)
huff muff (a braggart)
huff snuff (a swashbuckler; a conceited person)
hufty tufty (bragging, swaggering)
hug drug (the drug Ecstasy)
hugger mugger (slovenly; confusedly; concealed; a pickpocket
who embraces women as he robs them)
hull gull (an Appalachian game of guessing the number of items
in someone's hand)
hully gully (a dance; nonsense; noise)
humdrum (rote; routine)
humstrum (a hurdy-gurdy; a roughly made musical instrument)
humble jumble (a muddle)
hummum (a Turkish bath; a brothel)
Humpty Dumpty (a nursery rhyme character who was NOT
originally an egg!)
humpty dumpty (worthless; flimsy)
humpy pumpy (sexual intercourse)
hunkie dunkie (fine, OK)
hunkum bunkum (fine, OK)
hunky dunky (fine, OK)
hurdy gurdy (a portable organ operated by a grinder)
hurly burly (disordered and chaotic activity)
hurr burr (the burdock)
hurry burry (hurried; in a hurry)
hurry durry
hurry scurry (a rapid and disorganized activity)
hustle bustle (rapid, purposeful, complex activity)
ill will (resentment)
incy wincy (= eensy weensy)
inky dinky (tiny; a very dark person)
intention invention (the conscious mind's attempt to construct
a plausible intention for an involuntary action)
itsi-gitsi (so-so; same old same old)
itsy bitsy (tiny)
itty bitty (tiny)
jail mail (letters received by prisoners)
[the] Jail Trail (the nickname of a Pittsburgh biking trail that
starts near the jail)
jam cam (a traffic camera)
Jap crap (a disparaging term for Japanese goods)
jake flake (a narcissist)
janga manga (a person of the lowest class)
jeepers creepers (an expression of surprise)
jeezy peezy (an expression of surprise or disgust)
jelly belly (a flabby stomach; a fat person)
jet set (rich fashionable people)
jiggledy wiggledy (in a state of confusion)
jingling (the sound of small bells ringing)
Joe Blow (a humorous name)
Joe Schmo (a humorous name)
jokeyokey (a variation of karaoke in which one performs
jokes from a comedy sketch displayed on a TV screen)
Jokkmokk (a village in Lapland)
jookerie cookerie (tricking, swindling)
joy boy (a person who pursues enjoyment)
jubu (a Jewish person who adheres to some Buddhist customs
or beliefs)
jug lugs (big ears)
jug mug (a convict)
June gloom ([imperfect rhyme] the overcast summer weather common in
coastal California)
June swoon (the flagging of performance of certain baseball teams
as summer advances)
kanban (a specification sheet used in manufacturing)
kegmeg (a tripe shop; an intimate conversation)
KenJen (the nickname for Kenneth Jennings, who won 75 games of
Jeopardy in a row)
ken ten (a lamp used to prepare opium for smoking)
khaki wacky (infatuated with soldiers)
kick flick (a martial arts movie)
kick stick (a marijuana cigarette)
kickie wickie (a wife)
kicksy wicksey (a made word in ridicule and disdain of a
wife [Johnson]; fantastic)
kicky wicky (the penis [Shakespeare])
kid vid (children's movies or television)
killer diller (the best)
kinchin (thieve's slang for children)
kingling (a petty king)
kiwi (a flightless bird of New Zealand)
kiyi (a noisy dog)
knob job (masturbation)
koffie moffie (a male flight attendant)
koodoo (an African antelope with spiraling horns)
kool toul! (look out! in back slang)
Kourou (a town in French Guiana)
[to] kowtow (to prostrate oneself as a sign of obedience)
kudu (an African antelope with spiraling horns)
kunumunu (a stupid man)
lame brain ([approximate rhyme] a stupid person)
lap clap (sex)
lap strap (a seat belt)
larbar (exhausted, worn out)
lardy dardy (affected; a variation of "lah-di-dah")
large charge (a thrill; an important person)
[the] late great (former; deceased)
later, tater (a joking farewell)
lay day (a day scheduled for loading or unloading of a ship)
lazy daisy (a common name for the detached chain stitch in
needlecraft)
lazy dazy (lazy)
lead head (a stupid, unimaginative person)
lead sled (a slow vehicle; a big heavy overbuilt car)
lean green (money)
legal beagle (a lawyer)
legal eagle (a lawyer)
Lei Day (a celebration on May first in Hawaii)
lex Rex (the doctrine that the King is the law; or seometimes
that the law is king!)
LexisNexis (a company providing web-based research services
to academic, legal, and government professionals)
lie-by (an area alongside a road for emergency parking)
lilly pilly (an Australian hardwood tree of the myrtle family)
lit crit (literary criticism)
local yokel (a rude unlettered idiot populating the burg)
lock box ([imperfect rhyme] - a locked storage box)
Locke's socks (philosopher John Locke's socks were frequently
darned; at what point were they no longer the same socks?)
loco foco (a self-lighting cigar; a friction match; a radical NY
Democrat in 1835)
long johns ([approximate rhyme] long underwear)
long thongs (skiing pants)
loop group (in movie-making, the technical group responsible
for looping)
loosey goosey (informal; slipshod; freeform)
loud shroud (colorful clothing)
louse house (a bed-bug infested dwelling)
loutou (a crested black monkey of Java)
love dove (the drug Ecstasy)
love glove (a condom)
lovely jubbly ([approximate rhyme] money)
lovey dovey (romantically affectionate)
low blow (a devious or unfair attack)
low mow (a variety of slowly growing grass that requires little
mowing)
lowpo (low spirits)
low pro (a low profile)
lum tum (a person in fashionable society)
lunch bunch (a group of people who meet for lunch)
lush flush (the florid skin of a drinker)
lush mush (good food)
lush thrush (a very attractive young woman)
main drain (a central sewer pipe)
[the] main vein (the penis)
[to] maintain (to preserve or keep steady)
Malay (a native of Malaya)
mall crawl (a slow walk through a mall looking for friends,
or hanging out)
mall sprawl (the gradual spread of subsidiary stores, restaurants
and shops near a large mall)
mama jama (a woman)
Manunka Chunk (a town in New Jersey)
manny hanny (Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Company)
master blaster (a large amount of cocaine; a good shooter;
a boombox)
Maui wowie (a potent brand of marijuana)
May Day (the first of May; a distress signal)
mean bean (an expert)
mean gene (a postulated gene for violent behavior)
mean green (money)
melee (trouble; commotion)
mellow yellow (dried banana skins, which was more than enough
to get Donovan a good buzz)
meter reader ([imperfect rhyme] someone employed in
checking meters)
mewling puling (the normal state of babies)
mifky pifky (hanky panky, fooling around)
milly jilly (willy nilly; all in a jumble)
mind blind (the characteristic inability of sufferers of
Asperger's syndrome to interpret the behavioral cues of others)
Miss Priss (a fussy, snooty person)
missy sissy (effeminate)
mock croc (imitation crocodile leather, used for shoes)
mock doc (also called a "mockumentary", a film that uses
the conventions of a documentary, employed for parodic or
other comic purposes)
mock rock (a manufactured rock that can be used to conceal
a house key)
mod squad (an interracial couple or group)
moegoe (a lazy fellow)
Moho (the Mohorovicic geological discontinuity)
mojo (a voodoo talisman)
moldy oldie (music once popular, then having mostly nostalgic value,
and now verging on the archaic)
mole hole (a darkroom)
molo (drunk)
Mondo Condo (of the people who live in condominiums, their
habits, opinions, eating preferences)
monkey's uncle ([imperfect rhyme] an outlandish person)
monton (a heap of ore)
moo poo (cow manure)
moofky poofky (hanky panky, fooling around)
mop chop (a type of haircut)
moptop (a boy with a Beatle haircut)
Moss Bross (the nickname of Moss Brothers, a Covent Garden dress
clothes store)
motel no-tell (a seedy motel used for nooners and other flings)
motion lotion (a lubricant for those personal activities)
motor voter (a law allowing voter registration at the DMV)
mouse house (a car dealership in which a customer is handled
by an "assembly line" succession of service people)
mubblefubbles (depression; melancholy)
mucluc (a variant of "mukluk")
muckluck (a variant of "mukluk")
mud bud (homegrown marijuana)
muddle huddle (a football term)
mukluk (a soft boot made of reindeer skin)
multi culti (multicultural)
mumbo jumbo (mysterious nonsense)
mushy gushy (sentimental)
Mutt's nuts (something that is excellent)
my eye! (an exclamation of disbelief)
nablab ("near beer", "Non Alcoholic Beer, Low Alcohol Beer")
Nader's Raiders (activists working with Ralph Nader)
nag drag (a three month prison term)
Nagger Staggers (a nickname for "The New Statesman")
namby pamby (for Ambrose Phillips, poet mocked for verses to
babies)
name game (a competition to name impressive friends; a rhyme song
using a person's name)
nastie pastie (a despicable person)
[to] naysay (to deny or refuse)
near beer (low alcohol beer)
neater eater (a fastidious eater)
nelly kelly (the belly)
neo creo (a neo-creationist)
neo-Geo (a style of abstract art, emphasizing geometric shapes)
neon Deion (the nickname for the football player Deion Sanders)
nerd bird (a plane flight frequented by computer programmers)
nerd herd (a pack of nerds)
nibby jibby (by a narrow margin)
nifty fifty (masturbation; 50 dynamic companies of the 1960's)
nifty gifty (an upscale gift shop)
[to] niggle piggle (to haggle; to be concerned about minor details)
night flight (nocturnal aviation; a much-missed show on the old
USA network)
night light (a dim light for use at night)
nimbly bimbly (with agility)
nimbly pimbly (with agility)
niminy piminy (finicky)
nip slip (an accidental exposure of a nipple)
nipperty tipperty (silly, trifling)
nippity tippity (silly, trifling)
nipple cripple (a nipple-twisting torture beloved by school kids)
nit shit (second rate)
nit wit (moron, idiot)
nitty gritty (rough, low level)
niz priz (a legal writ of nisi prius)
no fuss, no muss (a tidy operation)
no go (a cancellation; a prohibition)
no pain, no gain (progress has a cost)
no show (an absent person)
no tell motel (a seedy motel used for nooners and other flings)
nolens volens (willy nilly; whether one wants to or not)
non-com ([imperfect rhyme]: a noncommissioned officer)
noncon (a science fiction meeting too small to be a convention;
a religious nonconformist)
nookie bookie (a pimp)
no pay, no play (pay first or you won't be served)
no-tell Motel (a seedy motel, with a reputation for facilitation
assignations)
no way, Jose (it ain't gonna happen)
the nude dude (a nickname for Christian Curry, an investment analyst
fired after his nude pictures appeared in a magazine)
nudie cutey (a movie featuring naked women)
[the] Nun Bun (a cinnamon roll with a purported likeness to the
face of Mother Teresa, now preserved under glass in a coffee
shop in Nashville)
[to] nut cut (to castrate; the fundamentals of a subject)
nut gut (the fundamentals of a subject)
[the] nut hut (an insane asylum)
nutter butter (an inattentive person)
occ doc (an occupational disease and injury doctor)
odd bod (a strange person: what are YOU looking at?; an odd
man out)
oingo boingo (an expression of surprise; also the name of a
rock band)
okey dokey (yes)
okie dokie (yes)
okle dokle (yes)
old gold (a color reddish-yellow in hue, low in saturation, and
medium in brilliance)
ooey gooey (disgustingly slimy)
ooey pooey (the nickname for IUPUI, Indiana University -
Purdue University Indianapolis)
oofty goofty (the state name of a circus sideshow performer who
appeared as a wild man in the late 19th century)
ooly drooly (puppy love)
Oshkosh (a town in Wisconsin)
ouch pouch (a wad of cushioning used in ballet shoes)
pack rack (a car roof rack)
packsack (a travel carryall)
pail mail (pell-mell, violently or boisterously)
Pale Male (a popular red-tailed hawk whose nest on the ledge of a New
York building was destroyed by management)
Pall Mall (a part of London containing many clubs)
pall mall (an early form of croquet)
palsy walsy (warm and friendly)
pan man (a drummer in a steel band)
party hearty (the high school creed)
passion ration (a boy friend)
pax wax (a neck ligament)
paxy waxy (a neck ligament)
pay day (when salaried workers get paid)
pay tray (the place where coins land when tumbling out a
slot machine)
pecker checker (a urologist)
Pee Dee (a river in North Carolina)
peek freak (a voyeur)
peepie creepie (a portable TV camera used for closeup shots)
peer queer (a gay voyeur)
peetweet (the spotted sandpiper)
peewee (a small creature or person)
peg leg (a wooden leg)
pell mell (in a jumble; suddenly and awkwardly)
pen yen (opium)
pentimenti (plural of "pentimento", part of a painting that
has been changed by the artist)
peter beater (a masturbator)
peter eater (a fellator)
peter meter (a device for measuring penis size)
[to] phone home ([imperfect rhyme] make contact with home)
phonus balonus (fake; fraudulent)
phony baloney (fraudulent)
pick six (a lottery or other bet in which six choices
must be made)
pickwick (a device for extinguishing an oil lamp)
Pickwick (the central character of Dicken's "The Pickwick
Papers")
picnic (an outdoor meal)
picric (a strong toxic yellow crystalline acid used in
explosives)
piggy wiggy (a childish term for a pig)
piney winey (smelling of pine)
ping wing (an injection of narcotics into the arm)
pink ink (romance novels)
pinyin (a system for transliterating Chinese)
placket racket (the penis)
plain Jane (a plain-looking woman)
plaster caster (groupies who recorded rock star penises)
plumbum (lead [Latin])
pocket rocket (a penis; an erection; a short surfboard; any
small but surprisingly fast or powerful thing)
pogamoggan ([imperfect rhyme] an Indian war club)
pogo (a presidential possum; a hopping stick)
polehole (the vagina)
PoMo (PostModern)
pookoo (a large red African antelope)
poopsie woopsie (a sappy term of endearment)
pop hop (watered down, popularized hip hop music)
pop shop (a pawnshop)
pop top (an easy-open can)
poppa stoppa (a smart or effective old man; one who commits sex
with their father)
pot shot (a careless or idle attempt)
pout out (engine failure in a hot rod)
pow wow (a conference)
power hour (a newly-turned twenty-one-year-old goes to the bar at
midnight and tries to drink 21 shots before the bar closes at 1.;
someone tries to drink a shot a minute for an hour)
power shower (a high tech shower facility)
power tower (the function x^x^x^x...)
[to] prick lick (to perform fellatio)
prime time (the time during which the greatest television audience
is available)
proddy woddy (a Protestant)
projo (a projectile)
[the] prom mom (newspaper designation of a high school girl who gave birth
during her senior prom)
pseudi tudie (a fake Tudor architectural style)
ptomaine domain (a cafeteria)
pub grub (the salty, greasy, crispy food served in a bar)
pub/sub (a designation for systems of publication and
subscription)
puddle muddler (a derisively small boat)
[to] pull bull (to run an unlicensed cab service)
punk funk (a style of music)
purple nerple (a nipple-twisting torture beloved by school kids)
Quake Lake (a lake formed by a landslide into the Madison River,
in Yellowstone park, after an earthquake)
queen ween (someone who backs out of an agreement)
queer beer (bad beer)
quick fix (a temporary repair)
quiet riot (a subliminal protest)
quintin (an upright post with a swinging cross post having a
shield at one end and a sandbag at the other, used for
jousting practice)
quite right (exactly!)
rabbit habit (sexual intercourse)
racket jacket (a zoot suit)
rag bag (a bag for rags)
rag mag (a fashion magazine)
rag tag (tattered and threadbare)
the ragin' Cajun (Clinton thug James Carville's nickname)
raggle taggle (slovenly)
rare pair (two objects that are rarely seen together)
rake jakes (a villain)
Rambam (a Jewish philosopher; a town in Israel)
ram jam (to stuff with food)
ram stam (headlong; obstinate)
randan (noisy, disorderly)
random tandem (three horses driven in tandem)
randy dandy (a prostitute)
range change (a kind of gearbox)
rangle dangle (any dangling ornament)
rantan (a loud banding noise)
rantum scrantum (sexual intercourse)
ranty tanty (a prostitute)
Rap Lap (a town in the Philippines)
rape tape (a tape recording of a description of a rape,
supposedly given to Princess Diana, and now missing)
rasher splasher (a rash person)
raw jaw (the act of stealing narcotics from a pusher; to ignore)
raw jaws (a novice at fellatio)
razzle dazzle (glitter; spectacle)
real deal (a genuine article)
RealFeel (a copyrighted attempt by Accuweather to produce an improved
version of the "wind chill factor")
reave sleeve (a fancy sleeve, one of the components of a
zoot suit)
red bed (a geological layer of iron oxide)
red bread (money made by selling one's blood)
Red-Dead (a nickname for a plan to pipe water overhill from
the Red Sea to the Dead Sea)
red fed (a left-winger)
red lead (ketchup)
red ned (cheap red wine)
reet pleat (a long narrow pleat in a zoot suit)
reg jeg (a rag)
reg neg (regulatory negotiation)
Ren Cen (Detroit's Renaissance Center building)
rep dep (a military personnel replacement depot)
repple depple (a military personnel replacement depot)
reppo depot (a military personnel replacement depot)
reverse the curse (motto of the Boston Red Sox)
rich bitch (an unpleasant moneyed woman)
ricky ticky (repetitive, dull music)
ridgie didgie (genuine)
righty tighty (a mnemonic for the direction of screw tightening)
rinky dinky (cheap; low-class; unsophisticated)
ring ding (a fool)
ring ting (the genuine article)
ringy dingy (a ring of the telephone; hence, a telephone call)
ripe stripe (a large stripe, a component of a zoot suit)
roach coach (a snack truck; a flight to the tropics)
rock block (a sequence of rock songs on the radio, uninterrupted
by ads)
rock jock (a mountain climber)
rock 'em sock 'em (violent; action-filled)
rocket docket (the expeditious federal courts of eastern
Virginia)
roger dodger (yes)
rogum pogum (the goat's beard plant)
roley poley (quite fat)
rolle bolle (a lawn game combining some features of bowling
and horseshoes)
rolly polly (quite fat)
roly poly (quite fat)
rom com (a romantic comedy)
ronyon (an animal with bald patches, raw and crusted patches
of skin)
rootin' tootin' (boisterous; adventurous; daring)
rory tory (dashing; gay; showy)
rosy posy (cheerful; optimistic)
rough stuff (rowdy or rude behavior or material)
round pound (the penis)
row dow (jazz or ragtime played with exaggerated syncopation)
rowdy dowdy (boisterous; rowdy)
rubby dubby (cheap alcohol)
rude dude (an importunate fellow)
rug bug (a crawling child)
rugger bugger (a tough soccer/rugby/football player)
rum bump (the Adam's apple)
rum dum (a drunkard; a run-of-the-mill)
rum fun ([imperfect rhyme] a clever trick)
rum strum (a long wig)
rumba numba (a performance of the highly stylized rumba dance)
rumble tumble (a stage coach)
Rummie's dummies (a disparaging nickname for the Defense Department
officials associated with Donald Rumsfeld)
rumpy pumpy (sexual intercourse)
rusty dusty (the buttocks)
Ryukyu (an island chain near Japan)
sag bag (a bean bag)
san man (a sanitation worker)
sardar (a leader)
Sark lark (the proliferation of company directorships on Sark,
a channel island with little corporate regulation)
say hey (Willy Mays's motto)
[the] Say Hey [kid] (Willy Mays)
scagbag (a low or contemptible person)
scag hag (a fag hag)
scene queen (someone who enjoys dominating public events)
scifi (science fiction)
screamie meemie (a screaming child)
scream queen (a female star of horror movies)
screen queen (a female film star)
screw loose ([imperfect rhyme] to be mentally defective,
unreliable, or unusual)
screw you (a common imprecation)
screwy Louie (a scatterbrain)
scrub club (a group of ineffectual people)
scrub dub (a group that has had many failures)
scud stud (a nickname for Arthur Kent during the Gulf War)
Sea Bee (a member of the Navy Construction Brigage)
self help ([imperfect rhyme] doing things for one's self)
semen demon (a homosexual)
seventh heaven ([imperfect rhyme] supreme happiness)
sewer chewer (a butt licker)
sey trey (nine)
shady lady (a mysterious or unseemly woman)
shagbag (a promiscuous woman; a worthless person)
shaggin' wagon (a car much used for sexual intercourse)
shaggle baggle (an affectionate nickname)
shagrag (ragged, rascally, shaggy, unkempt)
shako mako (a transliterated Arabic phrase meaning "what's up?"
shame game (stylized actions or words meant to shame another)
shareware (software distributed freely, but with a recommended
payment)
she he (a lesbian; a transexual)
sheep creep (an opening in a wall allowing sheep but not cattle
to pass)
shit fit (blind fury or exasperation)
Shit Lit (a college course in popular American fiction)
shit pit (the lavatory)
shit wit (a stupid person)
shock jock (a radio host famous for outrageous behavior)
shop drop (the opposite of shoplifting: one brings articles into a
store and secretly leaves them to be sold)
short snort (a quick drink from a flask)
shout out (a message of support or complaint)
Show Low (a town in Arizona, named for a card game)
shrewd dude (a well-dressed man)
shy Di (a nickname for Lady Diana in her earlier years)
shy guy (a withdrawn or bashful man)
sigh guy (an unattainable male idol)
silly billy (a foolish person)
sin bin (the penalty box in hockey; a car used for sexual
intercourse)
single mingle (an activity arranged to facilitate the mixing
and meeting of unmarried people)
skag hag (a woman who associates with heroin users)
Skategate (the 2002 Winter Olympic ice skating scandal)
skid bid (a time served in prison)
skid lid (a motorcycle helmet)
skill drill (a repetitive learning exercise)
skinflint ([approximate rhyme] a miser)
skinnie Minnie (a very thin girl)
skirty flirty (girl crazy)
skunk drunk (very intoxicated)
sky high (very high, very much)
slabdab (a glover)
slam bam (violent, brutal)
slam bang ([imperfect rhyme] violent, brutal)
slam jam (a melee or tussle)
slampamp (a medley; a confusion)
[to] slangwhang (to assail via harsh or biting language)
slapdab (immediately; abruptly; slapdash)
sleeper leaper (a prostitute at a truck stop)
slick chick (an attractive woman)
slick dick (a derisive term for a man who can finagle his
way)
slick trick (an impressive flashy performance)
slim jim (a thin metal tool)
slime line ([imperfect rhyme] the "production" line in a
factory fishing boat)
sling ink ([imperfect rhyme] to write professionally)
slo mo (a slow motion effect in movies)
slug bug (what you shout when you see a Volkswagen; then you are
allowed to slug your brother in the arm)
slum gun ([imperfect rhyme] a field kitchen)
slum scum (people who live in decrepit housing)
slumdom (slums; the physical world of the urban poor)
slut hut (a gay brothel)
small ball (to play a game cautiously, for small advantages; golf)
[to] smell hell (to face danger)
smitten kitten (a young girl in love)
smock frock (an outer garment worn by rural workers in England)
Smurf Turf (the mocking nickname for the blue-turfed playing field
of the Boise State Broncos in Boise, Idaho)
snack pack (the male genitalia in a jockstrap or tight underwear)
snail mail (the Postal Service)
snail trail (a trail of slime; a very slow walk)
snatch blatch (the vagina)
snatch thatch (pubic hair)
sneak peek (an advance or unauthorized look)
sneaker freaker (a person who has made a fetish out of
high-priced or collectable tennis snoes)
sneaky peaky (a hidden video camera)
sniffy Liffy (a nickname for Dublin's Liffy river in its
malodorous incarnations)
snit fit (a sulk or fit of petty anger)
snitch bitch (an informer)
snob nob (the self-appointed rural "aristocracy")
snooze cruise (the tactic of riding a baby in a car to get it
to fall asleep)
sock frock (one's best set of clothes)
[the] Sod Squad (a group that monitors illicit watering of lawns during
water shortages)
soft loft (an expensive condo that has been designed to suggest
the severity of a loft apartment)
Soho (a district of London; part of New York City south of Houston street)
soogie moogie (a soap and caustic soda mix used to clean painted
surfaces)
sordor (that whose nature is sordid)
soul roll (intensely emotional sexual intercourse)
space base (a combination of crack and PCP)
space case (a "space cadet", an airhead, a fool)
space race (the US/Soviet astronatutical competition of the 60's)
spag-fag (a gay person who prefers Italian partners)
Spam Jam (a festival, at Waikiki, honoring Spam)
spank bank (the collection of images and fantasies that are mentally
reviewed while masturbating)
spasm chasm (the vagina)
sped ed (special education)
[to] speed read (to read rapidly)
sphukupuku (a fool)
Spillville (a town in Iowa where Antonin Dvorak spent a
happy summer)
spit bit (smooth, persuasive talk)
spit kit (an ashtray)
split bit (a prison sentence of 2 to 10 years)
spodiodi (a mixture of cheap port and generic whiskey)
spring fling (manic, romantic behavior, blamed on spring)
[the] Spruce Goose (the huge wooden plane that Howard Hughes built)
squab job (a task that suits young women)
squaw law (a law restricting the use of the word "squaw" in place
names)
squawk box (one of those tinny speakers in high schools or airplanes
which "reproduce" the human voice)
squawky-talkie (a walkie-talkie)
squee gee (a sponge, often on a stick, for cleaning)
stage rage (fury, during a theatrical performance, at noisy or
unruly patrons; a current fad)
stag mag (a pornographic magazine)
stall ball (a kind of defensive football or basketball, in which the
aim is to play slowly and cautiously, so as to protect a lead and
let the clock run out)
steady Eddie (a calm, reliable person)
steady Freddy (a policy at the government mortgage bureau known as
"Freddie Mac" of doctoring profit statements so as to report
steady progress)
steel wheel (in poker, a straight involving the ace through
the five; a record player)
[to] steer clear (to avoid)
stench trench (the vagina)
stew zoo (an apartment where stewardesses live)
stibber gibber (an habitual liar)
sticker licker (a traffic cop)
sticky icky (a square, a conventional person)
still hill (the cemetery)
stinkin' thinkin' (bad thought patterns)
stinky pinky (a rhyming definition game; manual stimulation of
female genitals)
stock lock (a lock fixed in a wooded frame or door)
stormin' Norman (General Norman Schwarzkopf's nickname)
straight bait (an elaborate but straightforward ruse in which
an e-mail scammer is enticed by responses from an apparently
willing but cautious or clumsy respondent, who is always about
to produce a great deal of money or useful information, but
never quite can)
straight eight (an engine in which the cylinders are in two
parallel rows; an eight hour police shift with no overtime;
eight hours of sleep with no interruption)
stress test ([imperfect rhyme] a measurement of the body,
or a system, while working under a load)
strictly dickly (gay, if you're a man; heterosexual, if you're
a woman)
strike bike (a bicycle to be used during a transit strike)
stubble trouble (difficulty shaving)
study buddy (a fellow student with whom one studies)
stuff cuff (a padded cuff on the pants of a zoot suit)
stumble bumble (barbiturates)
[to] stump jump (to masturbate with a dildo)
stun gun (a gun that delivers a paralyzing shock)
sudsy dudsy (a laundromat)
Suggan Buggan (a town in Australia)
sujee mujee (a soap and caustic soda mix used to clean painted
surfaces)
sump pump (a pump for emptying septic tanks or drains)
super dooper (a variant of "super duper")
super droopers (baggy or saggy pants)
super duper (excellent; thrilling)
sure cure (a certain remedy)
swag bag (a large bag for booty)
swap shop (a thrift store)
sweetmeat (a candy or sweet item to eat)
swing wing (a plane with movable wings)
tabnab (a cake or pastry)
Tacoma aroma (the repulsive smell of wood pulp factories near
Tacoma Washington)
tambo bambo (Caribbean music played on bamboo rods)
Tamiami
tarra warra (a phrase substituted for impolite words)
tec spec (technical specifications)
tech mech (an engineer who sold out to the military or a
large corporation)
tech wreck (the collapse of technology stocks in 2000/2001)
TED-MED (a conference on technology, entertainment, design
and medicine)
teen queen (an imperious or spoiled teen-age girl)
teenie weenie (tiny)
teensy weensy (tiny)
teeny weeny (tiny)
teenzine (a magazine targeted at teenagers)
teepee (an Indian shelter)
Testy Festy (the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival, held in
Missoula, Montana)
Tex-Mex (a hybrid Texan/Mexican cooking style)
thick dick (a fool)
thigh-high (a kind of high boot)
threat bet (a disparaging name for a proposed terrorist threat
"futures" market
three trees (a gallows)
thrill kill (a murder done for its own excitement)
thrill pill (a barbiturate)
thriller diller (exciting)
Thule coolie (military personnel stationed at Thule, Greenland)
thuzzy muzzy (enthusiasm)
tib fib (the tibia and fibula, the pair of bones in the lower leg)
tidbit ([imperfect rhyme] - a small item or treat)
tiddy iddy (tiny)
tie dye (a method of dyeing colorful patterns on fabric)
tin grin (a person wearing braces)
tirly whirly (the vagina)
tirra lirra (nonsense words used as a musical refrain; the sound
of a lark)
titbit (a small item or treat)
tittle tattle (idle gossip)
tizz whizz (a tizzy, a flurry of excitement)
todo (ado; excitement)
Togo (an African country)
tohu bohu (a Hebrew term from the opening of Genesis, meaning
utter chaos (but isn't the correct citation "tohu wa bohu"?)
tol-lol (pretty good; tolerable)
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Ab Fab ("Absolutely Fabulous", a British sitcom)
Abe's cabe (a five dollar bill)
Aga saga (a popular novel form of the domestic and emotional lives
of semirural people)
age rage (anger among the old because of forced retirement;
anger at the loss of one's faculties and health)
air bear (a policeman in a helicopter)
air fare (the cost of an airplane ticket)
airy fairy (flighty, impractical)
Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace, once home to the BBC)
AmCham (The American Chamber of Commerce)
Am Drams (amateur drama presentations)
analysis paralysis (the endless series of self reviews into which any
sufficiently complex bureaucracy can be driven)
anchor clanker (a sailor)
Anglo-Banglo (a person of mixed English and Bangladeshi ancestry)
Anne's fan (a taunting gesture, thumb to nose and fingers
fanned out)
ant's pants (something stylish or fashionable)
antsy pantsy (restless; impatient)
ape drape (the mullet haircut, short in front, long in back)
argle bargle (jargon; gibberish)
argy bargy (noisy argument; a foul up)
arm charm (a beautiful woman, as the companion of a man)
arrive alive (a traffic safety slogan)
arsy farsy (backwards)
arsy varsy (backwards)
artsy fartsy (culturally pretentious)
arty farty (culturally pretentious)
ash cash (a doctor's fee for a cremation certificate)
at bat (opportunities to hit the ball)
[the] Aztec two-step (traveler's diarrhea, regarded as a
well-known dance)
[to] backjack (to inject a solution of opium)
backpack (a torture device designed to wreck your back; for some
reason, designed for two shoulders and usually worn over one only)
[to] back slack (to slacken; to stop trying; cheek or insolence)
[to] backtrack (to reverse one's steps)
bag drag (the dreary, burdensome, even murderous task of
guarding, transporting and stowing one's luggage)
Bahama mama (an unatractive heavyset woman; a drink made with rum)
bake break (the analog of a cigarette break for a marijuana user)
bandstand (a platform for musical performances)
banyan (a kind of tree)
bar car (the most popular car in the train)
barmy army (a group of cricket team supporters)
bash cash (a doctor's fee for completing an accident form)
battle rattle (military body armor)
bawling squalling
bean queen (one whose preferred sexual partners are Hispanic)
beanie weenies (hot dogs with baked beans)
beardie weirdie (a person whose inner eccentricity is conveniently
indicated by a beard)
[to] beat feet (to hurry; to depart; to walk)
beaucoup (very much)
beaver fever (a stomach disorder caused by the Giardia bacteria,
commonly attributed to wild animal feces in the water supply)
bed cred (bed "credibility", that is, sexual experience)
bed head (the irreparable hair disarray occuring during sleep)
bedspread (a thin decorative covering for a bed)
beddie weddie (baby talk for "bed")
bedstead (a bed frame)
[the] bee's knees (something stylish or fashionable)
belly telly (a television set small enough to sit on one's belly)
bhani ghani (a greeting)
big dig (the massive highway project undermining Boston)
big rig (a large tractor trailer)
big wig (an important person)
bird turd (an annoying person)
birth dearth (a sharp reduction in the birth rate)
bitchen twitchen (most excellent)
bit spit (an electronic communication)
black Jack (a nickname for General Pershing)
blackjack (a card game; a policeman's night stick)
blame game (the search for scapegoats)
bleacher creature (the raucous fans in the cheap seats)
Blow Joe (an enlisted man)
[to] blow snow (to snort cocaine)
blue flu (a fraudulent claim of illness for a sick-out)
bog wog (an Irish person)
Boho (a bohemian, a wild unconventional person)
Bo Jo (a nickname for Bob Jones University)
bon ton (the height of fashion; fashionable society)
bone dome ([approximate rhyme] a thick protective airman's helmet)
[the] boob tube (television)
boocoo (beaucoup for people who can't spell)
Boogie Woogie (a music and dance style)
boo hoo (the stylized representation of loud crying)
boomba loomba (a man's admiring comment on an attractive woman)
boon coon (a close companion)
booze cruise (a boat trip in which much alcohol is served)
boozy woozy (mildly intoxicated on alcohol)
boss hoss (the important person; the winner; the dominator)
bot spot (the user on a MUD with the longest connect time, who
appears at the bottom of the list)
Bott's dots (raised reflective pavement markers)
boulder holder (a bra)
bow wow (the sound a dog is supposed to make)
boy toy (a male who is kept for mild sexual interest)
boz woz (bragging)
bozo (a clown; a fool)
brace face (someone wearing braces)
brain drain (the emigration of talented, intelligent people)
brag rags (fancy clothes for show)
breadhead (someone whose only concern is amassing money)
breast fest (an opportunity for staring at many breasts)
breast rest (a prolonged stare at a woman's breasts)
brew crew (drinking buddies)
bright flight (brain drain; the transfer of intelligent children
to private schools)
brown pound (the purchasing power of nonwhites in England)
bull's wool (stolen clothes)
bully woolies (long underwear)
bum chum (a homosexual's partner)
bum numb (buttock anesthesia from prolonged sitting)
bumper jumper (a tailgater, that is, a car that follows other
cars too closely)
bunch punch (group sex; a gang bang)
bungdung (a large firecracker)
busy Lizzy (a kind of flower)
cafe au lait (coffee with milk)
cagmag (inferior, particularly of meat or a person; to argue)
[for] cake's sake (a mild exclamation)
cakes sakes (an order of hot cakes and eggs)
can man (the junior fireman whose job it is to lug heavy
canisters up stairs)
case ace (the last ace, after three have been dealt or exposed)
cater waiter (a waiter who is included as part of a
caterer's service)
cawquaw (the Canadian porcupine)
cellar dweller (a low-ranking team)
cellar smeller (a drunkard)
cell yell (the loud talking of a person on a cell phone in
a public place)
chalk talk (a straight lecture with no slides or overheads)
charivari (a ruckus, a tumult, a noisy celebration)
cheerful earful (good news)
cheat sheet (illicit written material smuggled into a test)
cherry merry (a gift of money)
chick flick (a movie full of relationships and devoid of
explosions)
chill pill (a joking reference to a mythical pill that will cure
one's nervousness)
Chill Wills (a movie actor of the 50's and 60's)
chiller diller (a scary thing)
chip clip (a clip that can be used to reseal a potato chip bag)
chip knip (a silicon chip embedded in a bank card)
cho mo (a child molester)
chocky jockey (a male homosexual)
chop shop (a junk yard; an illegal business that dismantles stolen
cars)
chopper copper (a greedy eater)
chow down ([approximate rhyme] to eat with determination)
chrome dome (a bald head; the name of the B52 nuclear alert
system, in which a number of B52's were on constant
airborne alert)
chuckluck (a banking game using three dice)
chummy wummy (very friendly)
clam jam (vaginal secretions)
claptrap (nonsense; a brothel where you're liable to get a
disease)
classy chassis (a desirable car; an attractive woman)
clean Gene (the nickname for Eugene McCarthy in 1968)
clean green (environmentally friendly)
clean queen (a homosexual who makes a practice of cruising whenever
doing laundry)
clone zone (a gay cruising area)
Clydeside (the area on the banks of the river Clyde in Glasgow,
the center of the shipping industry there)
coal hole (a small door into the basement, through which
coal is delivered)
cobber dobber (an informer)
[to] cock block (to interfere with a man's amatory pursuits)
cock gawk (a prolonged stare at a nude man's penis)
cock rock (rock and roll music with more than the usual macho
strutting)
coco-loco (crazy; an alcoholic drink; a beach in Ghana)
coddy-moddy (a gull)
coke stroke (a stroke brought on by use of cocaine)
cold gold (a can of beer)
colly molly (melancholy)
cookbook (a recipe book)
cop shop (a police station)
copper dropper (a gun)
county mounty (a highway patrol officer)
crack back (a retort; an outlawed football tackle aimed at the
knees; a cigarette made from crack cocaine and marijuana)
crack shack (a house that sells crack cocaine)
crawly-mawly (sickly)
creature feature (a horror movie)
creepie peepie (a handheld camera used for live action shots)
creepy weepy (a pop fiction genre combining gothic horror and
romance)
crisco disco (a gay nightclub)
criss miss (a pretentious woman)
crop top (a shirt that exposes the belly)
crow toe (any of several plants whose shape suggests a crow's toe)
crumb bum (a low despicable person)
crum bum (a low despicable person)
[for] cry eye (an exclamation of exasperation)
cuddle puddle (group grope and hug sessions induced by Ecstasy)
cugger mugger (whispered gossip)
culture vulture (a determined devourer of art)
cum chum (a homosexual)
cum drum (the "reservoir" in some condoms)
curl girl (a cute girl)
curliewurlie (any object which is twisted or curled)
cute ute (a smaller "utility" vehicle)
cutesy-wootsy (referring to excessive or affected cuteness)
Dada Nada (a moment of absurdity)
date bait (an attractive person)
date mate (a person of the same sex on a double date)
deadhead (idiot; a Grateful Dead devotee; to remove dead blooms;
a nonpaying passenger)
dead sled (an abandoned or nonworking car)
deep creep (a stealthy attack on another submarine at maximum
depth)
Delhi belly (traveler's diarrhea)
des res (a desirable residence)
[to] dick lick (to perform fellatio)
dim sim (the victim of a con man; a testicle)
dip slip (a kind of geological fault)
dirty Gertie (a lascivious, promiscuous, or filthy person)
ditch witch (a kind of excavator)
dizzie Lizzie (a scatterbrained person)
dizzy wizzy (a narcotic in pill form)
dope slope (a beginner's ski slope)
[to] dorm storm (to plaster the dormitories with invitations
to a party)
double bubble (double overtime; a fuselage whose cross-section
is halved by the floor; a difficult mathematical minimization
problem)
double trouble (a pair of difficulties)
downtown (the business area of a town)
drack sack (an unattractive woman)
draggin' wagon (a car used for racing; a tow truck)
drape shape (a severely draped garment, such as a zoot suit)
dream team (a group composed of the best players)
drink shrink (an alcoholic's therapist)
drip lip (a ridge or flange that diverts water)
droop snoop (the adjustable nose or wing flaps in a plane)
drop top (a convertible car; a desk with a lid)
dropper popper (a semi-spherical plastic shell toy that is everted,
and suddenly pops up)
drunk funk (a cabin situation requiring the captain to leave
the cockpit to sort out)
drunky skunky (very drunk)
dry fly (a fly fishing lure that is not meant to go below
the water)
ducky wucky (fine, OK)
dumb chum (an unperceptive friend or person; a pet)
dune coon (a pejorative term for an Arab)
eager beaver ([approximate rhyme], an eager person)
easel weasel (an unimaginative artist)
easy breezy (not difficult)
easy peasy (not difficult)
ecky-becky (a poor white)
eenie weenie (tiny)
eensy weensy (tiny)
eggy peggy (a code language in which "egg" is inserted before
each vowel)
emblem (a sign, symbol, token or marker)
etsi ketsi (feeble; indecisive)
even steven (a fair division of money or goods)
evo devo (evolutionary development theory)
exlex (an outlaw)
ex-sex (sexual intercourse with a former boyfriend or girlfriend)
fab lab (a fabrication laboratory)
face case (an ugly person)
face lace (whiskers)
fag bag (a woman married to a homosexual; a man's "purse")
fag drag (a fad for glitter, makeup and crossdressing in
rock and roll in the early 70's)
fag hag (a woman who prefers the company of homosexuals)
fag mag (a pornographic magazine for homosexuals)
fag stag (a heterosexual man who enjoys the company of
homosexuals)
fag tag (the loop on the back of a shirt)
fair share (a just division of goods)
fake bake ("bronzing" oils that darken the skin)
Fan Man (the nickname of a publicity seeker, who, in the early '90's,
parachuted into the middle of several sporting events)
fan tan (a card game)
fancy nancy (a teasing reference to a person who's dressed up)
fanny nanny (nonsense)
fat cat (a rich and pampered person)
fave rave (infatuation with a pop star; a special favorite)
fax wax (a neck ligament)
feebee (the FBI)
feel wheel (a wheel, divided into sectors labeled with various
feelings, such as "Suspicion", "Hurt", "Curiosity", in an
attempt to get the uncommunicative to point to their feelings.
feevee (pay television)
fem sem (a women's college)
fender bender (a minor car accident)
fight night (a boxing exhibition)
Fiji (a Pacific island)
fill mill (a bar)
fin-syn (a set of FCC rules on financial interests and syndication)
fine line (a border easily crossed by accident)
finger wringer (an overactor)
fire wire (a kind of computer communication protocol)
flag bag (a bag suitable for transporting flags, either
patriotic or photographic)
flagon wagon (a beer truck)
flapjack ([imperfect rhyme] a pancake)
flat chat (as fast or as quickly as possible)
[to] flat hat (to fly very low)
Flavr Savr (a trademarked name of a genetically engineered
tomato)
flec spec (flexible market specification)
Fleet Street (once the location of Britain's newspaper
publishers)
Fleeter Streeter (a low journalist)
flibberty gibberty (excitable; talkative)
fling wing (a helicopter)
FloJo (a nickname for the athlete Florence Johnson)
floor whore (a salesman who only works on the show floor)
flop whop (a heavy fall)
flopper stopper (a brassiere)
Floradora
flower power (a vague hippie belief in natural goodness)
flub dub (awkard amateurism; a printer's dingbat; overblown
language)
fluff stuff (snow)
flute mute (a condom)
flyby (a flight path that comes near some place)
fly guy (a pilot)
fly pie (Huckleberry pie)
fog bog (a foggy swamp; a misty and wet area)
fog dog (a "fog bow"; also, bright spots of light in fog)
Fogo (a volcano in the Cape Verde Islands)
food dude (someone preoccupied with cooking or good eating)
footsie wootsie (uncontrollable foot play by loving couples)
formal normal (the operator that arises from the formal use of the
adoint, to assert that <Lu,Lv>=<L*Lu,v>, for instance)
found sound (bits of audio information collected and formed into
a sort of sound collage)
four door (a car with four doors)
frame dame (a woman admired for her body)
frat brat (a member of a college fraternity)
frat rat (a member of a college fraternity)
freak beak (a big nose)
freaky deaky (very surprising or strange, unheard of)
freebie (an item of merchandise given away)
freevee ("free" television)
from go to whoa (from start to finish)
fronton (a pediment; the wall against which pelota is played)
froyo (frozen yogurt)
frozen Chosin (a nickname for Chosin during the Korean war)
frozen chozen (the Episcopalians, whose services seem relatively
formal; churchgoers at the US Antarctic base at the South Pole)
fruit boots (Beatle boots; pointy boots; Italian boots; white
tennis shoes)
fuck truck (the shuttle bus that connected MIT to the campuses
of various women's colleges)
[to] fuddle duddle (to leave; to depart)
fuddy duddy (an irrelevant superannuated relic)
fudge nudge (anal intercourse)
fun run (a race in which the competitive aspect is deemphasized)
fungus among us
funny bunny (an odd or unusual person)
funny money (counterfeit money; money not properly accounted for)
fusty dusty
fuzzbuzz (commotion; fuss; inconvenience)
fuzzy guzzy (a balsamweed)
fuzzy wuzzy (a nickname for someone or something that is fuzzy)
[the] Gabby Cabby (a New York cab driver who broadcasts his thoughts
and interviews)
gainpain (a kind of gauntlet)
gal pal (a female friend with no specific sexual role)
gang bang (a group rape; a gang fight)
garbar (nonsense)
gawky pawky
gay day (a day at Disneyland for gay visitors)
geek chic (when fashionable people pretend to admire technical
people)
geek speak (the slang used by computer programmers)
Geezer Squeezer (a male incontinence device, essentially a
clothes pin)
gender bender (someone of ambiguous gender; an electrical
adapter)
Georgie Porgie (a nursery rhyme hero)
get set (the last warning before a race begins)
[to] get wet (to perform a murder)
glad lad (an attractive young man)
glam sham (the tricks and pretenses used in celebrity culture)
Glaramara (a mountain in the Lake District of England)
glossy posse (the journalists who pursue Hollywood celebrities)
[to] go slow (to move at a reduced pace)
goat boat (a Norwegian flat-bottomed boat)
gob job (oral sex)
god pod (the corporate executive offices of Exxon, at
Irving Texas)
God slot ([approximate rhyme] a religious program on TV or radio)
God squad (a hospital ethics team)
gol-mol (a disturbance)
goo goo (a person who emphasizes the possibilities of good government)
goof proof (designed to withstand common errors)
gowrow (a dangerous monster that lives in the Ozark hills)
grandstand (raised seats for an audience)
[the] Grand Strand (the South Carolina seacoast that includes Myrtle Beach)
grass bass (the calico bass)
gray jay (a kind of bird)
Greek Week (a college fraternity celebration)
green bean (an inedible vegetable)
green queen (someone who prefers sex in the outdoors)
grit lit (literature that emphasizes a traditional Southern setting)
groantone (a ringtone that is sexually suggestive)
ground round (finely ground roundsteak)
gruesome twosome (a steady couple)
gum chum (an American soldier stationed abroad, who is apparently
an endless source of chewing gum)
guru (an exotic spiritual guide)
guy cry (a movie during which it is acceptable for a man to
cry, such as, apparently, "Ryan's Song")
habdabs (the heebie-jeebies; great anxiety)
hab nab (by one means or another; at random)
[to] habbie gabbie (to throw money into a crowd)
[to] habble gabble (to throw money into a crowd)
hack pack (tools or information for hacking; a cheat sheet; a group
of amateurs or hacks)
hack rack (a taxicab stand)
hairum scairum (harum scarum)
hairy Mary (a male homosexual)
half caff (a mixture of regular and decaffeinated coffee)
half staff (how flags are flown during a period of mourning)
ham scam (a difficult time)
ham scram (a difficult time)
hands off cocks, feet in socks (time to get up!)
handsome ransom (a large sum of money)
[to] handstand (to "stand" upside down, supporting oneself on the
hands)
handy andy (a person who is able to repair things, or who is
conveniently nearby)
handy dandy (convenient)
handy spandy (convenient)
[to] hang-slang (to loiter)
hanky panky (shenanigans; misconduct)
hanky spanky (dashingly well-dressed)
hap map (the current haplotype mapping project, for detailing
the huge blocks of DNA that have been inherited unchanged over
hundreds of generations)
happy clappy (Christian groups with enthusiastic and spontaneous
worship)
hapus capus (a self taught prison lawyer)
hard card (a permanent bingo card)
hardy dardy (foolhardiness)
hari-kari (a common misspelling of hara-kiri, meaning ritual suicide)
harum scarum (disordered; at random)
hash bash (a rally for marijuana legalization)
hashcash (an attempt to discourage spam by requiring the sender
to spend CPU time generating an ID for each message)
hatch back ([approximate rhyme] a car that opens in the back)
havey cavey (helter skelter)
the head Fred (the person in charge)
healie feelie (belief in healing through holding crystals)
healy feely (belief in healing through holding crystals)
heater-treater (a tank which removes water from oil that has just
been extracted from the ground)
[to] heat treat (to heat an object as part of its processing)
heavy bevvie (hard drinks; heavy drinking)
heebee jeebee (a feeling of dread or fear)
hell's bells (an exclamation)
helter skelter (all at once; chaotic)
hen pen (a girl's boarding school; a women's prison)
Herkimer Jerkimer (a humorous name, a rustic, a stupid man)
herky jerky (spasmodic)
he said, she said (a dispute between a man and a woman)
he-she (a transvestite)
Hey Day (an annual drunken silly holiday at the University
of Pennsylvania)
heyday (a time during which something flourishes)
hibble bibble (chatter; clamorous talk)
hibber gibber (gibberish)
hick dick (small town policeman)
hickery pickery (hiera picra, a purgative)
hickory dickory (a nonsense phrase from nursery rhymes, possibly
related to an old shepherd's system for counting)
hicra picra (hickery pickery)
hiddy giddy (giddy)
hifi (a high fidelity music system)
higgledy piggledy (chaotically, disordered)
high five ([imperfect rhyme] a sort of slapping handshake)
high rise ([imperfect rhyme] a tall building)
highty flight (presumptious; high flown; affected)
highty tighty (hoity toity)
hilty dilty (a cocktail)
hinch pinch (a rustic game in which the players trade blows
of ever increasing strength)
hinky pinky (a rhyming definition game)
hipper dipper (superb)
hipperty skipperty (frolicksome)
hippy dippy (moronic; dopy)
hippy trippy (characteristic of hippies)
hirdie girdie (topsy turvy)
hirdum dirdum (uproar)
hire 'em, fire 'em (descriptive of English labor laws, in contrast
to European ones)
hob job (a clumsy job; an odd job)
[to] hob nob (to socialize with)
hob's knob (the rich part of a town)
hobby bobby (a parttime policeman)
hobo (a vagrant; a shiftless wandering person)
hobson jobson (the process in which foreign words or phrases
are misheard, garbled, and adapted into English)
hocker mocker (hugger mugger)
hockey dockey (a shoe)
hocus pocus (a magical incantation>
hoddy doddy (an insignificant person; an awkward person; a small
snail shell)
hodge podge (mish mash)
hog-dog (a sport in which a detusked boar fights a pitbull)
hogan mogan (hogen mogen; a Dutchman)
hogen mogen (high and mighty)
hogo (a distinctively strong smell)
hoity toity (pretentious)
Hojo (a nickname for the Howard Johnson chain of restaurants
and hotels, as well as of a mild-mannered former president of MIT)
hoker moker (hugger mugger))
hokey cokey (a Cockney dance with lyrics prescribing body
movements)
hokey pokey (a dance; cheap candy for children)
holly golly (noise; nonsense)
holy Foley (an exclamation of wonder)
holy moley (an exclamation of wonder)
holus bolus (the whole thing at one time)
home phone ([imperfect rhyme] one's personal telephone)
Hong Kong (a port city in China)
hoodoo (mystification; voodoo; bad luck; a thin spire of rock)
hoop coop (bush clover)
hooper dooper (uproarious)
hoopoo (the hoopoe bird)
hooroo (goodbye)
hootchie kootchie (a mildly lascivious striptease show)
hootchy kootchy (hootchie kootchie)
hoovus-goovus
horror
hose nose (a person taking oxygen through a nasal tube)
hot boite ("boite" is French slang for "bar", so a hot boite is
is bar highly regarded by pretentious ninnies)
hot bot (a compulsively promiscuous person)
hot lot (a degenerate)
hotnot (a person of mixed race)
hot pot (an electrically heated pot for coooking and warming)
hot shot (a person for whom talent is exceeded by self-promotion)
hot spot (an unusually active place)
hot squat (the electric chair)
hotch potch (a jumbled mixture; a thick soup))
hotsie totsie (an expression of delight)
hotsy totsy (an expression of delight)
hottie tottie (a hot water bottle)
house mouse (a desk officer, one who does not walk a beat)
houtou (a South American motmot)
hubble bubble (a hookah; a dish of baked beans and leftovers)
hubbub (commotion)
hucker mucker (= hugger mugger)
huckmuck (a strainer used in brewing)
hudder mudder (= hugger mugger)
huddle duddle (a decrepit old man)
huff duff (High Frequency Direction Finder)
huff muff (a braggart)
huff snuff (a swashbuckler; a conceited person)
hufty tufty (bragging, swaggering)
hug drug (the drug Ecstasy)
hugger mugger (slovenly; confusedly; concealed; a pickpocket
who embraces women as he robs them)
hull gull (an Appalachian game of guessing the number of items
in someone's hand)
hully gully (a dance; nonsense; noise)
humdrum (rote; routine)
humstrum (a hurdy-gurdy; a roughly made musical instrument)
humble jumble (a muddle)
hummum (a Turkish bath; a brothel)
Humpty Dumpty (a nursery rhyme character who was NOT
originally an egg!)
humpty dumpty (worthless; flimsy)
humpy pumpy (sexual intercourse)
hunkie dunkie (fine, OK)
hunkum bunkum (fine, OK)
hunky dunky (fine, OK)
hurdy gurdy (a portable organ operated by a grinder)
hurly burly (disordered and chaotic activity)
hurr burr (the burdock)
hurry burry (hurried; in a hurry)
hurry durry
hurry scurry (a rapid and disorganized activity)
hustle bustle (rapid, purposeful, complex activity)
ill will (resentment)
incy wincy (= eensy weensy)
inky dinky (tiny; a very dark person)
intention invention (the conscious mind's attempt to construct
a plausible intention for an involuntary action)
itsi-gitsi (so-so; same old same old)
itsy bitsy (tiny)
itty bitty (tiny)
jail mail (letters received by prisoners)
[the] Jail Trail (the nickname of a Pittsburgh biking trail that
starts near the jail)
jam cam (a traffic camera)
Jap crap (a disparaging term for Japanese goods)
jake flake (a narcissist)
janga manga (a person of the lowest class)
jeepers creepers (an expression of surprise)
jeezy peezy (an expression of surprise or disgust)
jelly belly (a flabby stomach; a fat person)
jet set (rich fashionable people)
jiggledy wiggledy (in a state of confusion)
jingling (the sound of small bells ringing)
Joe Blow (a humorous name)
Joe Schmo (a humorous name)
jokeyokey (a variation of karaoke in which one performs
jokes from a comedy sketch displayed on a TV screen)
Jokkmokk (a village in Lapland)
jookerie cookerie (tricking, swindling)
joy boy (a person who pursues enjoyment)
jubu (a Jewish person who adheres to some Buddhist customs
or beliefs)
jug lugs (big ears)
jug mug (a convict)
June gloom ([imperfect rhyme] the overcast summer weather common in
coastal California)
June swoon (the flagging of performance of certain baseball teams
as summer advances)
kanban (a specification sheet used in manufacturing)
kegmeg (a tripe shop; an intimate conversation)
KenJen (the nickname for Kenneth Jennings, who won 75 games of
Jeopardy in a row)
ken ten (a lamp used to prepare opium for smoking)
khaki wacky (infatuated with soldiers)
kick flick (a martial arts movie)
kick stick (a marijuana cigarette)
kickie wickie (a wife)
kicksy wicksey (a made word in ridicule and disdain of a
wife [Johnson]; fantastic)
kicky wicky (the penis [Shakespeare])
kid vid (children's movies or television)
killer diller (the best)
kinchin (thieve's slang for children)
kingling (a petty king)
kiwi (a flightless bird of New Zealand)
kiyi (a noisy dog)
knob job (masturbation)
koffie moffie (a male flight attendant)
koodoo (an African antelope with spiraling horns)
kool toul! (look out! in back slang)
Kourou (a town in French Guiana)
[to] kowtow (to prostrate oneself as a sign of obedience)
kudu (an African antelope with spiraling horns)
kunumunu (a stupid man)
lame brain ([approximate rhyme] a stupid person)
lap clap (sex)
lap strap (a seat belt)
larbar (exhausted, worn out)
lardy dardy (affected; a variation of "lah-di-dah")
large charge (a thrill; an important person)
[the] late great (former; deceased)
later, tater (a joking farewell)
lay day (a day scheduled for loading or unloading of a ship)
lazy daisy (a common name for the detached chain stitch in
needlecraft)
lazy dazy (lazy)
lead head (a stupid, unimaginative person)
lead sled (a slow vehicle; a big heavy overbuilt car)
lean green (money)
legal beagle (a lawyer)
legal eagle (a lawyer)
Lei Day (a celebration on May first in Hawaii)
lex Rex (the doctrine that the King is the law; or seometimes
that the law is king!)
LexisNexis (a company providing web-based research services
to academic, legal, and government professionals)
lie-by (an area alongside a road for emergency parking)
lilly pilly (an Australian hardwood tree of the myrtle family)
lit crit (literary criticism)
local yokel (a rude unlettered idiot populating the burg)
lock box ([imperfect rhyme] - a locked storage box)
Locke's socks (philosopher John Locke's socks were frequently
darned; at what point were they no longer the same socks?)
loco foco (a self-lighting cigar; a friction match; a radical NY
Democrat in 1835)
long johns ([approximate rhyme] long underwear)
long thongs (skiing pants)
loop group (in movie-making, the technical group responsible
for looping)
loosey goosey (informal; slipshod; freeform)
loud shroud (colorful clothing)
louse house (a bed-bug infested dwelling)
loutou (a crested black monkey of Java)
love dove (the drug Ecstasy)
love glove (a condom)
lovely jubbly ([approximate rhyme] money)
lovey dovey (romantically affectionate)
low blow (a devious or unfair attack)
low mow (a variety of slowly growing grass that requires little
mowing)
lowpo (low spirits)
low pro (a low profile)
lum tum (a person in fashionable society)
lunch bunch (a group of people who meet for lunch)
lush flush (the florid skin of a drinker)
lush mush (good food)
lush thrush (a very attractive young woman)
main drain (a central sewer pipe)
[the] main vein (the penis)
[to] maintain (to preserve or keep steady)
Malay (a native of Malaya)
mall crawl (a slow walk through a mall looking for friends,
or hanging out)
mall sprawl (the gradual spread of subsidiary stores, restaurants
and shops near a large mall)
mama jama (a woman)
Manunka Chunk (a town in New Jersey)
manny hanny (Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Company)
master blaster (a large amount of cocaine; a good shooter;
a boombox)
Maui wowie (a potent brand of marijuana)
May Day (the first of May; a distress signal)
mean bean (an expert)
mean gene (a postulated gene for violent behavior)
mean green (money)
melee (trouble; commotion)
mellow yellow (dried banana skins, which was more than enough
to get Donovan a good buzz)
meter reader ([imperfect rhyme] someone employed in
checking meters)
mewling puling (the normal state of babies)
mifky pifky (hanky panky, fooling around)
milly jilly (willy nilly; all in a jumble)
mind blind (the characteristic inability of sufferers of
Asperger's syndrome to interpret the behavioral cues of others)
Miss Priss (a fussy, snooty person)
missy sissy (effeminate)
mock croc (imitation crocodile leather, used for shoes)
mock doc (also called a "mockumentary", a film that uses
the conventions of a documentary, employed for parodic or
other comic purposes)
mock rock (a manufactured rock that can be used to conceal
a house key)
mod squad (an interracial couple or group)
moegoe (a lazy fellow)
Moho (the Mohorovicic geological discontinuity)
mojo (a voodoo talisman)
moldy oldie (music once popular, then having mostly nostalgic value,
and now verging on the archaic)
mole hole (a darkroom)
molo (drunk)
Mondo Condo (of the people who live in condominiums, their
habits, opinions, eating preferences)
monkey's uncle ([imperfect rhyme] an outlandish person)
monton (a heap of ore)
moo poo (cow manure)
moofky poofky (hanky panky, fooling around)
mop chop (a type of haircut)
moptop (a boy with a Beatle haircut)
Moss Bross (the nickname of Moss Brothers, a Covent Garden dress
clothes store)
motel no-tell (a seedy motel used for nooners and other flings)
motion lotion (a lubricant for those personal activities)
motor voter (a law allowing voter registration at the DMV)
mouse house (a car dealership in which a customer is handled
by an "assembly line" succession of service people)
mubblefubbles (depression; melancholy)
mucluc (a variant of "mukluk")
muckluck (a variant of "mukluk")
mud bud (homegrown marijuana)
muddle huddle (a football term)
mukluk (a soft boot made of reindeer skin)
multi culti (multicultural)
mumbo jumbo (mysterious nonsense)
mushy gushy (sentimental)
Mutt's nuts (something that is excellent)
my eye! (an exclamation of disbelief)
nablab ("near beer", "Non Alcoholic Beer, Low Alcohol Beer")
Nader's Raiders (activists working with Ralph Nader)
nag drag (a three month prison term)
Nagger Staggers (a nickname for "The New Statesman")
namby pamby (for Ambrose Phillips, poet mocked for verses to
babies)
name game (a competition to name impressive friends; a rhyme song
using a person's name)
nastie pastie (a despicable person)
[to] naysay (to deny or refuse)
near beer (low alcohol beer)
neater eater (a fastidious eater)
nelly kelly (the belly)
neo creo (a neo-creationist)
neo-Geo (a style of abstract art, emphasizing geometric shapes)
neon Deion (the nickname for the football player Deion Sanders)
nerd bird (a plane flight frequented by computer programmers)
nerd herd (a pack of nerds)
nibby jibby (by a narrow margin)
nifty fifty (masturbation; 50 dynamic companies of the 1960's)
nifty gifty (an upscale gift shop)
[to] niggle piggle (to haggle; to be concerned about minor details)
night flight (nocturnal aviation; a much-missed show on the old
USA network)
night light (a dim light for use at night)
nimbly bimbly (with agility)
nimbly pimbly (with agility)
niminy piminy (finicky)
nip slip (an accidental exposure of a nipple)
nipperty tipperty (silly, trifling)
nippity tippity (silly, trifling)
nipple cripple (a nipple-twisting torture beloved by school kids)
nit shit (second rate)
nit wit (moron, idiot)
nitty gritty (rough, low level)
niz priz (a legal writ of nisi prius)
no fuss, no muss (a tidy operation)
no go (a cancellation; a prohibition)
no pain, no gain (progress has a cost)
no show (an absent person)
no tell motel (a seedy motel used for nooners and other flings)
nolens volens (willy nilly; whether one wants to or not)
non-com ([imperfect rhyme]: a noncommissioned officer)
noncon (a science fiction meeting too small to be a convention;
a religious nonconformist)
nookie bookie (a pimp)
no pay, no play (pay first or you won't be served)
no-tell Motel (a seedy motel, with a reputation for facilitation
assignations)
no way, Jose (it ain't gonna happen)
the nude dude (a nickname for Christian Curry, an investment analyst
fired after his nude pictures appeared in a magazine)
nudie cutey (a movie featuring naked women)
[the] Nun Bun (a cinnamon roll with a purported likeness to the
face of Mother Teresa, now preserved under glass in a coffee
shop in Nashville)
[to] nut cut (to castrate; the fundamentals of a subject)
nut gut (the fundamentals of a subject)
[the] nut hut (an insane asylum)
nutter butter (an inattentive person)
occ doc (an occupational disease and injury doctor)
odd bod (a strange person: what are YOU looking at?; an odd
man out)
oingo boingo (an expression of surprise; also the name of a
rock band)
okey dokey (yes)
okie dokie (yes)
okle dokle (yes)
old gold (a color reddish-yellow in hue, low in saturation, and
medium in brilliance)
ooey gooey (disgustingly slimy)
ooey pooey (the nickname for IUPUI, Indiana University -
Purdue University Indianapolis)
oofty goofty (the state name of a circus sideshow performer who
appeared as a wild man in the late 19th century)
ooly drooly (puppy love)
Oshkosh (a town in Wisconsin)
ouch pouch (a wad of cushioning used in ballet shoes)
pack rack (a car roof rack)
packsack (a travel carryall)
pail mail (pell-mell, violently or boisterously)
Pale Male (a popular red-tailed hawk whose nest on the ledge of a New
York building was destroyed by management)
Pall Mall (a part of London containing many clubs)
pall mall (an early form of croquet)
palsy walsy (warm and friendly)
pan man (a drummer in a steel band)
party hearty (the high school creed)
passion ration (a boy friend)
pax wax (a neck ligament)
paxy waxy (a neck ligament)
pay day (when salaried workers get paid)
pay tray (the place where coins land when tumbling out a
slot machine)
pecker checker (a urologist)
Pee Dee (a river in North Carolina)
peek freak (a voyeur)
peepie creepie (a portable TV camera used for closeup shots)
peer queer (a gay voyeur)
peetweet (the spotted sandpiper)
peewee (a small creature or person)
peg leg (a wooden leg)
pell mell (in a jumble; suddenly and awkwardly)
pen yen (opium)
pentimenti (plural of "pentimento", part of a painting that
has been changed by the artist)
peter beater (a masturbator)
peter eater (a fellator)
peter meter (a device for measuring penis size)
[to] phone home ([imperfect rhyme] make contact with home)
phonus balonus (fake; fraudulent)
phony baloney (fraudulent)
pick six (a lottery or other bet in which six choices
must be made)
pickwick (a device for extinguishing an oil lamp)
Pickwick (the central character of Dicken's "The Pickwick
Papers")
picnic (an outdoor meal)
picric (a strong toxic yellow crystalline acid used in
explosives)
piggy wiggy (a childish term for a pig)
piney winey (smelling of pine)
ping wing (an injection of narcotics into the arm)
pink ink (romance novels)
pinyin (a system for transliterating Chinese)
placket racket (the penis)
plain Jane (a plain-looking woman)
plaster caster (groupies who recorded rock star penises)
plumbum (lead [Latin])
pocket rocket (a penis; an erection; a short surfboard; any
small but surprisingly fast or powerful thing)
pogamoggan ([imperfect rhyme] an Indian war club)
pogo (a presidential possum; a hopping stick)
polehole (the vagina)
PoMo (PostModern)
pookoo (a large red African antelope)
poopsie woopsie (a sappy term of endearment)
pop hop (watered down, popularized hip hop music)
pop shop (a pawnshop)
pop top (an easy-open can)
poppa stoppa (a smart or effective old man; one who commits sex
with their father)
pot shot (a careless or idle attempt)
pout out (engine failure in a hot rod)
pow wow (a conference)
power hour (a newly-turned twenty-one-year-old goes to the bar at
midnight and tries to drink 21 shots before the bar closes at 1.;
someone tries to drink a shot a minute for an hour)
power shower (a high tech shower facility)
power tower (the function x^x^x^x...)
[to] prick lick (to perform fellatio)
prime time (the time during which the greatest television audience
is available)
proddy woddy (a Protestant)
projo (a projectile)
[the] prom mom (newspaper designation of a high school girl who gave birth
during her senior prom)
pseudi tudie (a fake Tudor architectural style)
ptomaine domain (a cafeteria)
pub grub (the salty, greasy, crispy food served in a bar)
pub/sub (a designation for systems of publication and
subscription)
puddle muddler (a derisively small boat)
[to] pull bull (to run an unlicensed cab service)
punk funk (a style of music)
purple nerple (a nipple-twisting torture beloved by school kids)
Quake Lake (a lake formed by a landslide into the Madison River,
in Yellowstone park, after an earthquake)
queen ween (someone who backs out of an agreement)
queer beer (bad beer)
quick fix (a temporary repair)
quiet riot (a subliminal protest)
quintin (an upright post with a swinging cross post having a
shield at one end and a sandbag at the other, used for
jousting practice)
quite right (exactly!)
rabbit habit (sexual intercourse)
racket jacket (a zoot suit)
rag bag (a bag for rags)
rag mag (a fashion magazine)
rag tag (tattered and threadbare)
the ragin' Cajun (Clinton thug James Carville's nickname)
raggle taggle (slovenly)
rare pair (two objects that are rarely seen together)
rake jakes (a villain)
Rambam (a Jewish philosopher; a town in Israel)
ram jam (to stuff with food)
ram stam (headlong; obstinate)
randan (noisy, disorderly)
random tandem (three horses driven in tandem)
randy dandy (a prostitute)
range change (a kind of gearbox)
rangle dangle (any dangling ornament)
rantan (a loud banding noise)
rantum scrantum (sexual intercourse)
ranty tanty (a prostitute)
Rap Lap (a town in the Philippines)
rape tape (a tape recording of a description of a rape,
supposedly given to Princess Diana, and now missing)
rasher splasher (a rash person)
raw jaw (the act of stealing narcotics from a pusher; to ignore)
raw jaws (a novice at fellatio)
razzle dazzle (glitter; spectacle)
real deal (a genuine article)
RealFeel (a copyrighted attempt by Accuweather to produce an improved
version of the "wind chill factor")
reave sleeve (a fancy sleeve, one of the components of a
zoot suit)
red bed (a geological layer of iron oxide)
red bread (money made by selling one's blood)
Red-Dead (a nickname for a plan to pipe water overhill from
the Red Sea to the Dead Sea)
red fed (a left-winger)
red lead (ketchup)
red ned (cheap red wine)
reet pleat (a long narrow pleat in a zoot suit)
reg jeg (a rag)
reg neg (regulatory negotiation)
Ren Cen (Detroit's Renaissance Center building)
rep dep (a military personnel replacement depot)
repple depple (a military personnel replacement depot)
reppo depot (a military personnel replacement depot)
reverse the curse (motto of the Boston Red Sox)
rich bitch (an unpleasant moneyed woman)
ricky ticky (repetitive, dull music)
ridgie didgie (genuine)
righty tighty (a mnemonic for the direction of screw tightening)
rinky dinky (cheap; low-class; unsophisticated)
ring ding (a fool)
ring ting (the genuine article)
ringy dingy (a ring of the telephone; hence, a telephone call)
ripe stripe (a large stripe, a component of a zoot suit)
roach coach (a snack truck; a flight to the tropics)
rock block (a sequence of rock songs on the radio, uninterrupted
by ads)
rock jock (a mountain climber)
rock 'em sock 'em (violent; action-filled)
rocket docket (the expeditious federal courts of eastern
Virginia)
roger dodger (yes)
rogum pogum (the goat's beard plant)
roley poley (quite fat)
rolle bolle (a lawn game combining some features of bowling
and horseshoes)
rolly polly (quite fat)
roly poly (quite fat)
rom com (a romantic comedy)
ronyon (an animal with bald patches, raw and crusted patches
of skin)
rootin' tootin' (boisterous; adventurous; daring)
rory tory (dashing; gay; showy)
rosy posy (cheerful; optimistic)
rough stuff (rowdy or rude behavior or material)
round pound (the penis)
row dow (jazz or ragtime played with exaggerated syncopation)
rowdy dowdy (boisterous; rowdy)
rubby dubby (cheap alcohol)
rude dude (an importunate fellow)
rug bug (a crawling child)
rugger bugger (a tough soccer/rugby/football player)
rum bump (the Adam's apple)
rum dum (a drunkard; a run-of-the-mill)
rum fun ([imperfect rhyme] a clever trick)
rum strum (a long wig)
rumba numba (a performance of the highly stylized rumba dance)
rumble tumble (a stage coach)
Rummie's dummies (a disparaging nickname for the Defense Department
officials associated with Donald Rumsfeld)
rumpy pumpy (sexual intercourse)
rusty dusty (the buttocks)
Ryukyu (an island chain near Japan)
sag bag (a bean bag)
san man (a sanitation worker)
sardar (a leader)
Sark lark (the proliferation of company directorships on Sark,
a channel island with little corporate regulation)
say hey (Willy Mays's motto)
[the] Say Hey [kid] (Willy Mays)
scagbag (a low or contemptible person)
scag hag (a fag hag)
scene queen (someone who enjoys dominating public events)
scifi (science fiction)
screamie meemie (a screaming child)
scream queen (a female star of horror movies)
screen queen (a female film star)
screw loose ([imperfect rhyme] to be mentally defective,
unreliable, or unusual)
screw you (a common imprecation)
screwy Louie (a scatterbrain)
scrub club (a group of ineffectual people)
scrub dub (a group that has had many failures)
scud stud (a nickname for Arthur Kent during the Gulf War)
Sea Bee (a member of the Navy Construction Brigage)
self help ([imperfect rhyme] doing things for one's self)
semen demon (a homosexual)
seventh heaven ([imperfect rhyme] supreme happiness)
sewer chewer (a butt licker)
sey trey (nine)
shady lady (a mysterious or unseemly woman)
shagbag (a promiscuous woman; a worthless person)
shaggin' wagon (a car much used for sexual intercourse)
shaggle baggle (an affectionate nickname)
shagrag (ragged, rascally, shaggy, unkempt)
shako mako (a transliterated Arabic phrase meaning "what's up?"
shame game (stylized actions or words meant to shame another)
shareware (software distributed freely, but with a recommended
payment)
she he (a lesbian; a transexual)
sheep creep (an opening in a wall allowing sheep but not cattle
to pass)
shit fit (blind fury or exasperation)
Shit Lit (a college course in popular American fiction)
shit pit (the lavatory)
shit wit (a stupid person)
shock jock (a radio host famous for outrageous behavior)
shop drop (the opposite of shoplifting: one brings articles into a
store and secretly leaves them to be sold)
short snort (a quick drink from a flask)
shout out (a message of support or complaint)
Show Low (a town in Arizona, named for a card game)
shrewd dude (a well-dressed man)
shy Di (a nickname for Lady Diana in her earlier years)
shy guy (a withdrawn or bashful man)
sigh guy (an unattainable male idol)
silly billy (a foolish person)
sin bin (the penalty box in hockey; a car used for sexual
intercourse)
single mingle (an activity arranged to facilitate the mixing
and meeting of unmarried people)
skag hag (a woman who associates with heroin users)
Skategate (the 2002 Winter Olympic ice skating scandal)
skid bid (a time served in prison)
skid lid (a motorcycle helmet)
skill drill (a repetitive learning exercise)
skinflint ([approximate rhyme] a miser)
skinnie Minnie (a very thin girl)
skirty flirty (girl crazy)
skunk drunk (very intoxicated)
sky high (very high, very much)
slabdab (a glover)
slam bam (violent, brutal)
slam bang ([imperfect rhyme] violent, brutal)
slam jam (a melee or tussle)
slampamp (a medley; a confusion)
[to] slangwhang (to assail via harsh or biting language)
slapdab (immediately; abruptly; slapdash)
sleeper leaper (a prostitute at a truck stop)
slick chick (an attractive woman)
slick dick (a derisive term for a man who can finagle his
way)
slick trick (an impressive flashy performance)
slim jim (a thin metal tool)
slime line ([imperfect rhyme] the "production" line in a
factory fishing boat)
sling ink ([imperfect rhyme] to write professionally)
slo mo (a slow motion effect in movies)
slug bug (what you shout when you see a Volkswagen; then you are
allowed to slug your brother in the arm)
slum gun ([imperfect rhyme] a field kitchen)
slum scum (people who live in decrepit housing)
slumdom (slums; the physical world of the urban poor)
slut hut (a gay brothel)
small ball (to play a game cautiously, for small advantages; golf)
[to] smell hell (to face danger)
smitten kitten (a young girl in love)
smock frock (an outer garment worn by rural workers in England)
Smurf Turf (the mocking nickname for the blue-turfed playing field
of the Boise State Broncos in Boise, Idaho)
snack pack (the male genitalia in a jockstrap or tight underwear)
snail mail (the Postal Service)
snail trail (a trail of slime; a very slow walk)
snatch blatch (the vagina)
snatch thatch (pubic hair)
sneak peek (an advance or unauthorized look)
sneaker freaker (a person who has made a fetish out of
high-priced or collectable tennis snoes)
sneaky peaky (a hidden video camera)
sniffy Liffy (a nickname for Dublin's Liffy river in its
malodorous incarnations)
snit fit (a sulk or fit of petty anger)
snitch bitch (an informer)
snob nob (the self-appointed rural "aristocracy")
snooze cruise (the tactic of riding a baby in a car to get it
to fall asleep)
sock frock (one's best set of clothes)
[the] Sod Squad (a group that monitors illicit watering of lawns during
water shortages)
soft loft (an expensive condo that has been designed to suggest
the severity of a loft apartment)
Soho (a district of London; part of New York City south of Houston street)
soogie moogie (a soap and caustic soda mix used to clean painted
surfaces)
sordor (that whose nature is sordid)
soul roll (intensely emotional sexual intercourse)
space base (a combination of crack and PCP)
space case (a "space cadet", an airhead, a fool)
space race (the US/Soviet astronatutical competition of the 60's)
spag-fag (a gay person who prefers Italian partners)
Spam Jam (a festival, at Waikiki, honoring Spam)
spank bank (the collection of images and fantasies that are mentally
reviewed while masturbating)
spasm chasm (the vagina)
sped ed (special education)
[to] speed read (to read rapidly)
sphukupuku (a fool)
Spillville (a town in Iowa where Antonin Dvorak spent a
happy summer)
spit bit (smooth, persuasive talk)
spit kit (an ashtray)
split bit (a prison sentence of 2 to 10 years)
spodiodi (a mixture of cheap port and generic whiskey)
spring fling (manic, romantic behavior, blamed on spring)
[the] Spruce Goose (the huge wooden plane that Howard Hughes built)
squab job (a task that suits young women)
squaw law (a law restricting the use of the word "squaw" in place
names)
squawk box (one of those tinny speakers in high schools or airplanes
which "reproduce" the human voice)
squawky-talkie (a walkie-talkie)
squee gee (a sponge, often on a stick, for cleaning)
stage rage (fury, during a theatrical performance, at noisy or
unruly patrons; a current fad)
stag mag (a pornographic magazine)
stall ball (a kind of defensive football or basketball, in which the
aim is to play slowly and cautiously, so as to protect a lead and
let the clock run out)
steady Eddie (a calm, reliable person)
steady Freddy (a policy at the government mortgage bureau known as
"Freddie Mac" of doctoring profit statements so as to report
steady progress)
steel wheel (in poker, a straight involving the ace through
the five; a record player)
[to] steer clear (to avoid)
stench trench (the vagina)
stew zoo (an apartment where stewardesses live)
stibber gibber (an habitual liar)
sticker licker (a traffic cop)
sticky icky (a square, a conventional person)
still hill (the cemetery)
stinkin' thinkin' (bad thought patterns)
stinky pinky (a rhyming definition game; manual stimulation of
female genitals)
stock lock (a lock fixed in a wooded frame or door)
stormin' Norman (General Norman Schwarzkopf's nickname)
straight bait (an elaborate but straightforward ruse in which
an e-mail scammer is enticed by responses from an apparently
willing but cautious or clumsy respondent, who is always about
to produce a great deal of money or useful information, but
never quite can)
straight eight (an engine in which the cylinders are in two
parallel rows; an eight hour police shift with no overtime;
eight hours of sleep with no interruption)
stress test ([imperfect rhyme] a measurement of the body,
or a system, while working under a load)
strictly dickly (gay, if you're a man; heterosexual, if you're
a woman)
strike bike (a bicycle to be used during a transit strike)
stubble trouble (difficulty shaving)
study buddy (a fellow student with whom one studies)
stuff cuff (a padded cuff on the pants of a zoot suit)
stumble bumble (barbiturates)
[to] stump jump (to masturbate with a dildo)
stun gun (a gun that delivers a paralyzing shock)
sudsy dudsy (a laundromat)
Suggan Buggan (a town in Australia)
sujee mujee (a soap and caustic soda mix used to clean painted
surfaces)
sump pump (a pump for emptying septic tanks or drains)
super dooper (a variant of "super duper")
super droopers (baggy or saggy pants)
super duper (excellent; thrilling)
sure cure (a certain remedy)
swag bag (a large bag for booty)
swap shop (a thrift store)
sweetmeat (a candy or sweet item to eat)
swing wing (a plane with movable wings)
tabnab (a cake or pastry)
Tacoma aroma (the repulsive smell of wood pulp factories near
Tacoma Washington)
tambo bambo (Caribbean music played on bamboo rods)
Tamiami
tarra warra (a phrase substituted for impolite words)
tec spec (technical specifications)
tech mech (an engineer who sold out to the military or a
large corporation)
tech wreck (the collapse of technology stocks in 2000/2001)
TED-MED (a conference on technology, entertainment, design
and medicine)
teen queen (an imperious or spoiled teen-age girl)
teenie weenie (tiny)
teensy weensy (tiny)
teeny weeny (tiny)
teenzine (a magazine targeted at teenagers)
teepee (an Indian shelter)
Testy Festy (the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival, held in
Missoula, Montana)
Tex-Mex (a hybrid Texan/Mexican cooking style)
thick dick (a fool)
thigh-high (a kind of high boot)
threat bet (a disparaging name for a proposed terrorist threat
"futures" market
three trees (a gallows)
thrill kill (a murder done for its own excitement)
thrill pill (a barbiturate)
thriller diller (exciting)
Thule coolie (military personnel stationed at Thule, Greenland)
thuzzy muzzy (enthusiasm)
tib fib (the tibia and fibula, the pair of bones in the lower leg)
tidbit ([imperfect rhyme] - a small item or treat)
tiddy iddy (tiny)
tie dye (a method of dyeing colorful patterns on fabric)
tin grin (a person wearing braces)
tirly whirly (the vagina)
tirra lirra (nonsense words used as a musical refrain; the sound
of a lark)
titbit (a small item or treat)
tittle tattle (idle gossip)
tizz whizz (a tizzy, a flurry of excitement)
todo (ado; excitement)
Togo (an African country)
tohu bohu (a Hebrew term from the opening of Genesis, meaning
utter chaos (but isn't the correct citation "tohu wa bohu"?)
tol-lol (pretty good; tolerable)
toner phoner (a telemarketer who offers an apparently attra更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net