Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Heez means bad "gay", stupid,or scuzzy. it is used in many different ways, such as "that is heezed out to the maximum" or "I'll give that an AWwwww Heez" or "You're pretty heezy".

Insult. Can be substituted in places where you might use 'bitch' as a descriptor. "She is such a heffa".

Extremely, greatly, super, a lot, e.g. "Your mom is hella hot!", "He gets hella play!!", "That's hella cool.".

Used to decribe something/someone which is excellent, great, wonderful. ie "Darren has just got a Grifter bike. You should see it, it's ellish" , Was pronounced 'ellish in the contributers neck of the woods. Hartlepudlians are great 'H' droppers.

Pronounced 'helmet heed'. Basically a type of haircut, often inflicted by your own mum, not straight round like a basin head, but shaped as it describes. Reminiscent of a helmet worn by German soldiers in WWII.

Do you want to buy a Henry?, Refers to an eighth of an ounce of hashish, which has always been a popular drug in UK playgrounds.

(ed: really? I must've led a sheltered life) Named after Henry VIII (eighth).

Fashionable. Pursuant of the current trends. In the groove. Trendy.

Marijuana.

Taunt. No real meaning but said in a high whine of a voice, it just pisses people off which is the desired result.

Hermit means that you're somebody that sits in their house all day and wants to be alone. In a football match it can also mean somebody that never touchs the ball and just stands, usually a geeky boy.

Word used to describe a gypsy who lives in a house. These people often had 'ants in their pants' but most repressed the urge to tell them this for fear of a broken nose. word originated in Bushey, Hertfordshire, UK where there's a road full of them - the NOW famous Herne Road.

Anal sex. Current usage in USA, where "taking the Hershey Highway" carries the same meaning as "fudge packing." (One would suppose that Hershey, a major US chocolate maker, would be supplanted by Cadbury, Nestlé, or Souchard in other parts of the world.)

(ed: though maybe the others don't scan quite as well?).

To get angry with someone and tell them off, as in 'Divvent tek a hesh on uz man!'. i.e. 'Don't get angry with me'.

Used unkindly by punk rockers as "Look at that stupid hesher over there with the Megadeth album.", I have no idea where it comes from. (ed: any suggestions?)

One suggestion came from Michael:

In Los Angeles word was in use as early as 1980. I remember being a big "Tubes" fan and describing the people that wore "Rush" concert baseball shirts (black with white sleeves), drove Camaros and wore mullet haircuts as Heshers. If I had to guess the orgin; I would say it was because Heshers used to smoke a lot of hash (Hasher - Hesher?). Hash was very popular in Los Angeles in the late 70's.

(ed: Any advance on that?)

In the early/mid 90s I had a friend from York, PA (I was living in/near NYC at the time) who used the term "hessian" with basically the same meaning as hesher. I had always assumed that the metalhead hessian came from the original German mercenaries in the Revolutionary war, and I assumed that this word had stuck around in places where the war was fought, such as York, PA.

Female willing to perform oral sex on a male whenever it's suggested.

Bisexual, or one who is usually heterosexual, but 'open to persuasion' now and then.

Used to describe nipples being erect, using the idea of high-beam lights being right up in your eyes. Interchangeable with the phrase nipply. "Look at Pamela Anderson, she's on high-beam. You can tell the airconditioning's a bit nipply!".

An expression used when moving at a fast rate of speed. Probably derived fropm the habit of some animals, notably pigs, for raising their tails in the air when they are running from danger.