Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Kids who attach poles to the front axle of their bikes so they can bounce up and down on the front wheel - a bit like a pogo stick on steroids.

An activity practiced mostly by females who are trying to ensure their male partners aren't aware that they are in fact more intelligent than them. The easiest way to do this is to pretend to know nothing and be unable to perform the simplest tasks.

Water. (ed: extensive definition this one!)

Adverts; i.e. those noisy sales pitches that appear *just* at the crucial part of a film on the tv. Now usually lasting long enough to let you make tea or coffee... grr...

A nineteenth century word meaning angry or agitated.

Australian Rules Football in which players often make huge leaps into the air to hit the ball towards a player with a scoring chance.

Girl with bleached/blonde hair but who still has a 'black box'.

A style of haircut based around the tight curls of traditional african hair. When the hair has grown and is well 'teased' it forms a large halo or 'bush like' growth on the head. This style has been adopted by white people as well and in that guise is often referred to as a curly perm.

The 'sweet' course of a meal.

An event. Little gatherings of people, generally your friends and friends of friends, that occur after the bars close.

Contraction of afternoon.

Testicles. Used as "Tom was kicked in the aggots during a game of footy.", which means Tom was kicked in his testicles during the game of football.

(ed: had lots of comments informing me that aggots should read 'agates'(i.e. stones). I just tellem as I gettem! - but amended it for all that)

Overt aggression, e.g. a fight, or the beginnings of one, e.g. "You looking for aggro mate?? You'll get a knuckle sandwich!", "Esh, the guy is heavy aggro!".

Contraction of 'aggravate'. When someone was irritating, you would say 'S/He really ags me up'. Developed into a general expression of derision to be shouted at someone having any sort of bad time. Hence, if someone fell off the climbing frame head first on to the tarmac, the correct response was 'Haha! Ag!'.

Sheer terror could be instilled to anyone in the contributors school, By one simple shout-aloud sentence: Ah'mer! I'm telling off you! Whence the girl who's pencil sharpener you'd just borrowed but because it was made in Taiwan, broke in contact with with the merest pressure of hand, so young girl would wander off to teacher after saying that immortal line. This was mid-80's, the arse end of the capital punishment era, which meant your bot was slapped and you were made to stand with your back to the class until dinner, which in this case was a very long time! The case in hand happened early that morning. and the word and that humiliation can still be felt 17 years later!

Variation of alright, ok, fine. In the USA "ai'ight" is used by African-Americans, especially those who lived in poorer neighborhoods, in hip hop, rap, and gangsta rap music.

Gap between the tyres and the ground when both wheels are in the air (having one tyre on the ground doesn't count). You "catch air (space)" when you jump.

Would-be hard kid, named after brand of footwear.

The little paved area, below pavement level, usually surrounded by railings, outside the basement of a posh terraced house. The Contributor writes "My mum and dad also used this one, thirty years before me (I'm 24), and my mum thinks it's short for 'area'. Heard in the words chanted along to a ball-bouncing game.

One, two, three, O'Lairey
My ball went down the airey'.

She has no idea who O'Lairey was or what he had to do with the airey.