Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Was for many years the term of choice in the UK for describing the 'characteristic homosexual behaviours' such as assumed effeminacy but was supplanted by the US term 'gay'. Hence the expression to 'camp it up', and the 'hidden' joke in the film title 'Carry on Camping'. The word (and many other underground gay terms) was popularised and brought to general public attention and useage by the late 1950's radio show 'Round the Horne'.

Cigarette. And yet people still keep smoking. How anyone can say "It won't happen to me!" in the face of all the evidence still amazes me.

To be "told off" or to be badly beaten at something (not normally physically). Anything really bad, so to receive a caning is to get told off,, "He caned you!", "You got a real caning there!". In other words to cause/suffer physical/mental pain in some way

Person who indulges in excessive bouts of drug or alcohol use.

1. To travel at great speed. E.g."I caned it down the motorway and got there in record time." 2. To overindulge in drugs or alcohol. E.g."I've been caning whizz (amphetamine sulphate) all weekend and had no sleep for 3 days."

A leg (usually belonging to a female) when the calf goes directly into the foot with no definition of an ankle.

In Geordie as in Scots this means 'nice', or worthy of some attention, e.g. 'She's a canny lass.' It also carries a second meaning of 'Quite', as in 'That's canny good that like!'.

Term for a Canadian. Origin unknown possibly from a logger who played hockey, or from the comic "Johnny Canuck".

Lesbian From supposed similarity between texture of carpet and a womans pubic hair.

Person with red/ginger hair.

The carter coiff is the act of publicly exposing a person who coiffs (trims and shapes their pubic hair) in such a manner to shame them. CC is hence someone who has no inhibitions when exposing some one else secrets, and should generally not be trusted with your own.

Defined a person who was into "fashion", at the time it was used as a term for people who generally had kicker shoes, shirts etc (gelled hair also).

Whenever friends and I would be on the phone with each other, and someone would walk in the room that was the subject of what we are talking about, or otherwise would prevent us from saying what we wanted, we would say "the cat's on the roof" (since cats do that a lot around here) to signal that we couldn't respond without being busted. Unfortunatly, the saying spread around so much that everyone knew what it meant, and we had to stop using it. Its been a while, so now we can again. (ed: not sany more!!)

The slinky wiggly, sexy way a girl moves when she's decided she wants a man and needs to get his attention. IT's a fluid sort of strut with a pouty come hither look on the face.

Denotes display of great dexterity, especially in throwing, catching, jumping etc.

Used as an insult meaning your parents didn't have enough money to buy things for cash so had to buy on 'never-never' from catalogues which never had the best quality gear so even with 'new' clothes on you always looked like a saggy, daggy twat.

From the book (and film) of the same name - described by the contributor as follows "I need my school to process my student visa so i can be approved for my student loan, but the student loan company needs a copy of my student visa to approve my student loan. I need one to get the other but can't get either without the other. Known now as a 'Catch-22' situation.".

The one old-skool breakdance move that even a spacker can master.

Overly elongated burning end of a cigarette that's created when a group of people pass it round and smoke it very quickly. Imagine 5 or 6 lads in the boy's bogs passing round a Benson & Hedges, By the time it's almost finished the burning ember is about an inch long, and someone would always exclaim, "look at the fuckin' cat's prick on that!"

Something excellent or wonderful.