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sack (hit the... ) v. go to bed UK

Sack wack v. Standing next to ya best mates, without notice you wack his scrotum really hard and yell out sack wack. c.f. fweep circa. 1990's AUS

sack, sac n. (1) Scrotum. Used as "I'm going to kick you in the sack.". (2) beanbag. Commonly on the television show South Park circa. 1990's USA

saddle v. At the contributors school, and outside, the "Saddle" was given to the passenger, always in response to the request to "give us a saddle"; particularly (as at that school they were not normally allowed to bring their bikes ). During that miraculous week of Cycling Proficiency Tests, where they WERE allowed (if taking part) to bring their bikes in. The 10 or so pupils undergoing the test would be harangued by the 490 others to "give us saddle" on the way home. circa. 1970's UK (SE)

saddler n. To ride on the back of someones bike while s/he pedalled in a standing position). c.f. backer UK (SE)

sad, saddo, sad case adj, n, n, Commonly used everywhere to describe people who don't fit in, don't have any style, or wear the right clothes to be part of any faction. These people are the nerds and geeks of the world. Sad people are not necessarily miserable, but are often picked on mercilessly, and so don't have a great time at school. (ed: looks like I had a sad time at school..... hey that's right!!) UK (SE)

saddle bag n. 1) girl (usu.) supposedly of "easy virtue", i.e. available for sexual purposes when required.2) used by women to describe extra layers of fat on their hips, e.g. "I've got to get rid of these saddle bags." cf. school bike 1) UK (SE), 2) CAN

Safe! n. greeting, or agreement. UK

safe n. (1) rectum (2) uterus or womb. These definitions mainly used amongst prison populations. (ed: a different sort of playground?) circa. current USA

safe pub n. The one of a small number of local pubs which serve children with alcohol without requesting identification. Minor customers are generally kept in a very cold backroom.

sag off n. bunk off school, i.e be absent without permnission. Kids sagging off often said to be suffering from "saggeritis disease".

salad dodger n. overweight person AUS

Salmon Arm Salut n. A term for giving the finger f. Started when then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 'fingered' protesters in Salmon Arm B.C. c.f. fingered CAN

salty adj. To feel stupid. Used as "Man after my pants split and my underwear where showing I felt salty!". circa. 20002 USA

Sam & Dave n. Police Officers. The expression is used as follows: "Can you see those Sam and Dave's in the Caddy??" i.e. "....those police officers in the Cadillac?. USA

Same-head adj. Insult. Based on the supposed similarity of features between people with Downs Syndrome. Used as an insult to peers with less than favourable looks or of low intelligence. ie 'you are a complete same-head'. circa. 1980's UK

sambo n. sandwich c.f. sarnie, sanger, Eire

sanger n. sandwich c.f. sarnie, sambo Aus

sannies n. Sand shoes worn for P.E. in primary school. They were made of black material with small upper elasticated bit, and had flat rubber soles; no laces! EVERYBODY had them in 1970s central Scotland! An early form of 'trainer' also known as deck shoes by some. c.f. daps circa. 1970's UK (Scot.)

Sanny Bag n. This is a sanitary towel bag. Only called a sanny bag at the contributors school. They were paper bags for used sanitary towels, before they went into the incinerator), They often used them as water bombs). circa. 1970's UK

sarnie n. sandwich c.f. sanger, sambo UK

sark n. Slang. Used as "My buddy always talks in sark when he's drunk." circa. 2002 USA (Tex)

sarky (.... git) n. abbreviation of sarcastic UK

Sarth Effrikan j. A list of words supposedly an 'introduction' to the language dialect used in South Africa (ed: in no particular order!):

Braai
A braai is the first thing you will be invited to when you visit South Africa. It is a backyard all-weather barbecue. So you will have to go even if it's raining like mad and you have a hang of a cold. At a braai you will be introduced to a substance known as "mieliepap".

Ag
This one of the most useful South African words. Pronounced like the "ach" in "achtung", it can be used to start a reply when you are asked a tricky question, as in: "Ag, I don't know." Or a sense of resignation: "Ag, I'll have some more mieliepap then." It can stand alone too as a signal of irritation or of pleasure.

Donner
A rude word, from the Afrikaans "donder" (thunder). Pronounced "dorner", it means "beat up." Your rugby team can get donnered in a game, or your boss can donner you if you do a lousy job.

Eina
It means "ouch". Pronounced "aynah", you can shout it out in sympathy when someone burns his finger on a hot mielie at a braai.

Hey
Often used at the end of a sentence to emphasise the importance of what has just been said, as in "Jislaaik boet, you're only going to stop a lekker klap if you can't find your takkies now, hey?" It can also stand alone as a question. Instead of saying "excuse me?" or "pardon?" when you have not heard something directed at you, you can say: "Hey?"

Isit?
This is a great word in conversations. Afrikaner etymologists labored for several years in sterile conditions to devise a way of attaching the word 'is' to the word 'it' and enable South Africans to make intelligent conversation around the braai. Example: "The Russians will succeed in developing capitalism once they adopt a work ethic and respect for private ownership." "Isit?"

Jawelnofine
This is another conversation fallback word. Derived from the four words: "yes", "well", "no" and "fine", it means roughly "how about that." If your bank manager tells you your account is overdrawn, you can say with confidence: "Jawelnofine." Jislaaik
Pronounced" Yis-like", it is an expression of astonishment. For instance,if someone tells you there are a billion people in China, a suitable comment is: "Jislaaik, that's a hang of a lot of people, hey?"

Klap
Pronounced "klup" - an Afrikaans word meaning smack, whack or spank. If you spend too much time at the bioscope at exam time, you could end up catching a sharp klap from your pa. In America, that is called child abuse. In South Africa, it is called promoting education.

Lekker
An Afrikaans word meaning nice, this word is used by all language groups to express approval. Gentlemen who spy someone of the opposite sex who is good-looking, may remark: "Lekk-errrrrrr!"

Tackies
These are sneakers or running shoes. Also used to describe automobile or truck tires. "Fat tackies" are big tires, as in: "Where did you get those lekker fat tackies on your Volksie, hey?"

Dop
This word has two basic meanings, one good and one bad. First the good. A dop is a drink, a cocktail, a sundowner, a noggin. If you are invited over for a dop, be careful. It could be one or two sedate drinks or a blast, depending on the company you have fallen in with. Now the bad: To dop is to fail. If you dopped Standard Two (Grade 4) more than once, you probably won't be reading this.

Sarmie
A sandwich. For generations, schoolchildren have traded sarmies during lunch breaks. If you are sending kids off to school in the morning, don't give them liver-polony sarmies. They are the toughest to trade.

Bakkie
This word is pronounced "bucky" and it is a small truck or pick-up. Young men can take their "cherrie" (girlfriend) to the drive-in bioscope in a bakkie but it is not always an appropriate form of transport because the seats don't recline and you may be forced to watch the film.

Howzit
A universal South African greeting, often used with the word "No" as in this exchange: "No, howzit?" "No, fine." "Isit?" Mrs Balls' Chutney
We don't know if the lady ever existed, but if she did she has earned a place of honour in South African kitchen history. South Africans eat it with everything, including fried egg.
S. Africa

satchel, satch n. 1) The male scrotum. 2) An excessively stupid or unpleasant person.

satchel, droopy n. flaccid scrotum

sausage jocky n. Homosexual

sausage sandwich n. sex between a woman and two men at the same time. c.f. Spit-Roast UK

Saw Blade n. Another name for a ten dollar bill. circa. current USA

scaboo n. Alternative name for cannabis. circa. 1999 IRE

scabs n. Potato crisps, or chips (as opposed to French Fries). As in "All we 'ad were a pint and a bag o' scabs". Actually first heard in Torremolinos, Spain on a coach excursion, uttered by a lad from Bradford to some mates. Also often overheard in Leeds in later years. Interestingly (?) - observed on the above mentioned Spanish coach trip - a cinema showing 'Adios Senor Chips'.

(ed: I vaguely remember a dreadful song from the 1960's - 70's of which only the refrain 'Torremolinos, Torremolinos' has stuck in my head. If anyone has the slightest idea what this song is or can provide lyrics etc I'd be very grateful! I wonder if it was a Monty Python song?) c.f. pig scabs circa.. 1970's UK (N)

Scabs/Scabby Queen, Scabby Bitches n. card game - If you lost you were rapped across the knuckles with the whole deck of cards - several times! cf. Scavvy Queen

scab, scabber n. Someone who would try and borrow money or food or PE kit off other people...it was common to hear "i'm going on the scab" at dinner time... probably from scavenge or "on the scav", f. scavenger cf. scavvy circa. 1990's UK (ME)

Scaffie n. Refers to garbage collectors, binmen, streetsweepers and other low status council workers. Used in a derogatory way about other childrens parents, eg "your dads a scaffie". f. scavenger. circa. 1970's UK

scalding dog v. To move along at a rapid and accelerating rate. Trucking slang. circa. 1970's USA

scally, scallies n. (stereotype) Name for a person who wears lots of sports clothes, often Adidas or Nike, and tend to hang out on streets drinking cider and usually likes to listen to dance music., The scally is a generalisation and usually a degrading word, often the scally isn't aware that they are one, of will at least not admit to it (usually they're not the sharpest tool in the box so probably wouldn't realise anyway.

We got a right telling off from 'JG' about the above definition, as you can see below. Trouble is even in the same area, different groups use the same word with a different meaning sometimes the difference is small, sometimes large. We just print 'em as we get 'em. Here's JG's definition. You can decide which definition applies to your area:

"Your definition is totally wrong!! The word scally comes from `scallywag´. `Scally´ is directly traceable to the Merseyside area. It denotes a person who is sharp and street wise, perhaps a a small time thief. Or used as an adjective can describe someone who is untrustworthy, but again sharp: `scally builder´.

In the mid- seventies a hardcore group of Liverpool supporters followed the team into and all over Europe. Along the way they stole and robbed from many sports goods stores. They brought these goods back to sell and wore them too. Hence the beginning of the `scally´ football fashion which began to spread nationwide in the very early eighties. Regional variations on the word to describe football supporters are easy to give: Manchester, Perry boys; SE, Casuals; Sheffield/ Yorkshire, Townies or Trendies. This most underrated of scenes eventually spliced into the warehouse party scene. The etymology of the word itself can be guessed at by looking at a word which covered the same meaning on Merseyside with an older generation. 'Buck´ or ``Bucko´ meant a young man who was wild and in trouble with the police for relatively petty offences. Its precise etymological history is Irish, brought over by the wave of immigrants into the area. The word is still used by Merseyside Police as a slang term to describe a young male offender of repute. This definition mirrors the meaning of `scally´. Which as a word again has Irish origins. In conclusion your definition is wrong for two reasons:1) You describe scallies as having low intelligence therefore showing an ignorance of this social group 2) Scallies are so famously Liverpudlian I am amazed you could attempt to locate the word as NE That is utter shite!! From reformed scally JG."

(ed: thanks for that JG - any comments from alternative viewpoints gratefully received!) c.f. meesh, townie circa. 1970's - 1990's UK (NW, NE)

scam v. To engage in close contact physical activities with a partner, usually sexual in nature, i.e. to 'make out' with someone. circa. current USA

scam v. To cheat, deceive, 'rip off', obtain by deception. circa. current USA

skank, scank adj. Someone who has offended you in some way. For example, if you had aranged with someone to meet up with you, you waited for them but they didn't turn up, you would call them a skank. circa. 1960's onwards UK (SE)

scanting n. Humiliation where the undepants are pulled sharply upwards from behind, causing them to wedge themselves tightly up the victim's arse. cf. wedgie UK (SE)

scants n. underpants cf. scanting UK (SE)

scaredy-cat n. coward cf. UK

scav, scavvy n. (derog.), adj. dimin. of scavenger. Calling someone a "scav" implied they were likely to take things which had been thrown away (eg 'scrambled' pennies), but more often used a general put down. 'Scavvy' (adj.) was a general word for below par, rubbish etc. cf. rocky, bag-person UK (SE)

Scavvy Queen n., adj. game, card used in game. Played more for the mildly painful punishment inflicted on the loser than its riveting gameplay. The scavvy queen was usually the Queen of Clubs. The entire deck was dealt out, minus the Queen of Spades. Each go you picked a card from your neighbours hand, if you had a pair, you could put them down. This cycle continued until one person was left with the scavvy queen. They would then cut the cards to determine their punishment. If they drew a black card it was 'hard slaps' ie having the back of your knuckles wrapped with the deck of cards, if red it was 'soft' and the cards were instead excrutiatingly scraped over the knuckles.

Contributor grew up in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK and played the game regularly and thinks it spread to several schools and other parts of the area too. (ed: anyone like to confirm and/or add more rules?)

For example, this from Gary: As well as the aforementioned punishments diamonds were when you twisted the skin on the back of the hand and spades were scraping the pack, also if you bottled it and pulled your hand away cries of the whole pack were eliceted and you had to take every card. N.B. this was shouted a lot and was not always fairly applied, cf. Scabby Queen circa. 1980's UK (SE)

schlong n. penis. From Yiddish (I think?) c.f. wang, dick, cock, bitch splitter, tallywhacker, rod, pole, sword, lizard(to drain one's lizard,urinate), snake. etc. circa. current USA

schmaltz n. over sugary and sweet sentiment f. Yiddish. Made popular by Fran Dresher in "The Nanny". UK

Schmoby, Schmobied v. Shouted immediately prior to pressing your forearm to your forehead (palm facing out). All previously initiated, within earshot, must reciprocate the action and press their forearms to their foreheads (if even just for a second). If they do not, their universe will simply implode with all the dreaded consequences that go with universal implosion. For the un-initiated, if they do not return the Schmoby, they may look on with wonder and facination. Schmobies may not divulge the secret until a Schmoby is returned. It is your duty to trap these innocents into the world of Schmoby underworld. For those who innocently return the Schmoby, they must forever after carry the burden of returning the Schmoby - at anytime, anywhere. Beware the Schmoby!, The word was created by the gentleman of "The Table" at BMHS, Torrance California. The word has carried forward for almost 2 decades now. I have been Schmobied at the altar for my wedding, during award ceremonies, graduation commencements - you name it. It is sick, stupid and a lot of fun. circa. 1980's - current USA (Calif)

schmooze n. to "oil" relationships by use of flattery. cf. Yiddish. Made popular by Fran Dresher in "The Nanny". UK (SE)

schmuck n. Refers to one who is useless, clueless, or generally an idiot. Example usage: "Look at him... what a schmuck"., f. Yiddish. Made popular by Fran Dresher in "The Nanny". US

school bike n. girl (usu.) of "easy virtue", i.e. could be "ridden" by anyone cf. saddle bag

school dinners poem Here's one about school dinners, sung at Tirphil Primary School, many years back:

If you have school dinners
you sit at the side.
Many have sat there,
many have died.

Look at the gravy
so lumpy and still.
If that doesn't get you
the custard will.

circa. 1970's UK (Wal)

schmee n. "it refers to a "slow" person, like somone does something stupid you say "you are a schmee" i dunno i think i made it up but it needs to be in here, this needs to become a reconigized slang term because my girlfriends nickname her parents gave her is schmee and i want to prove to her thats her parents way of calling her retarded. thanx" (ed: added verbatim) USA

schtoupped v. To stuff or screw someone in a nonsexual way (Jewish slang) circa. current USA

schwabb n. Contributor says this is used to describe a small jewish child, for example in "Slack me some skin you schwabb". (ed: Any comments on what this REALLY means??) cf. saddle bag

schucks-woman n. (contribution included verbatim) Pyrford first/middle school through the 80's (a wonderful time to be alive), The schucks-woman was a crazy lady who used to walk her dog round the playing field. She was (among others) an escaped convict, an undercover policeman looking for bad kids, a dog kidnapper, an ex-teacher come to wreak revenge etc. If she so much as glanced in your direction you were pretty much done for. Actually, if she's reading this now I'd just like to say "Sorry. Us kids can be utter bastards when we try..." circa. 1980's UK (SE)

scit n. to mock. e.g. "Miss... Johnny's scitting me!!!" UK (NW)

scoff v. to eat heartily; i.e. eat everything in sight - like a pig. UK (NW)

scone n. (pronounced, 'scone' as in 'gone' - to belt someone with ferocity (for usage, see 'dullion') UK

sconner n., adj. A 'sconner' was a person who had failed to begin the growth of pubic hair. This word was only really got used by the nine to twelve age group, as everyone over that age had pretty much got over of puberty, and had moved on to the sexual frustration and terminal boredom of adolescence. I'd love to know if kids at my old school still say it, I do hope the pubeless baton has been passed down through the years. In extreme cases, boys who were targetted as 'sconners' would pull down their trousers in order to display their repost. Kids are fucking barmy aren't they?

Also : General term of abuse to describe kids in your class who were known to have not yet developed pubic hair. Ie: "you know that Bob Smith, he's a right sconner". It would seem that this word is exclusively used within the Black Country, not even venturing as far as Birmingham or Coventry! circa. 1987 - 92 UK (NE)

Scooby-Door n. rhyming slang for 'I don't have a clue" UK (Scot)

scoofee n. A bastardisation of "school field" and the general site of games and warfare, such as the tap on the shoulder on a snowy playtime, swiftly followed by eyes, nose and mouth full of ice, snow and dog crap as the hapless victim turned to see his 'chums' (who were usually crippled with laughter once they (the victim) could see and breathe again), great days, great times to be had on the old scoofee, buried under haystacks, mauled at rugby, finding porn, ahhh good times! UK

scoop adj. Pint of berr circa. 1990's UK

scooter n. any one who wore glasses and had freckles, based on the character from the muppets! UK

scoper, scopey adj. A euphemism for a person with cerebral palsy, motor disablement, or spasticity.; i,e a 'spastic', This word was coined as a result of the charity 'The Spastics Society" changing their name to Scope in 1994, to avoid continued association with the common usage of the word 'spastic' as a general term of abuse. However it didn't take long for 'scoper' or 'scopey' to become a common euphemism in place of 'spastic' c.f. spazz, flid etc. circa. 1990's UK

scopie n. In the sixth form, the contributor would frequent a pub called the Cross Keys. For some reason (unspecified)they adopted a law called "keys rules" which meant that if anyone left their seat for any reason a person sat in an inferior or less comfortable position could say "keys rules" and claim the empty pew.

This held unless the absentee was a "scopie throner" and sat in a "scope throne". If they did, they could rightly expect their throne to be ready for them upon their return. A "scope throne" is a chair with two arms and a high back or even better, two arms which rise out of the middle of a long bench in a pub for no reason other than to give one lucky divvil out of the seven or so people on the bench full use of armrests. As a postscript he added that the process of using "keys rules" is called "keysing", the present tense is "to keys" and after the deed the victim would be "keysed". The contributor was also proud to say that for that summers England vs Germany match (in Euro 2000), he got to the pub early to occupy a "scope throne" and was not "keysed" once despite having the best seat in the house and spending most of the game chatting to his mates girlfriend 'cos he doesn't like football much. circa. 1999 UK

score n. (1) To get ones leg across; i.e. to initiate a sexual liaison with a desirable partner. To have had sexual intercourse. Usually used by males to impress their friends. (2) to make contact with a drug dealer and obtain the supplies of choice. USA, UK

scramble n. shouted immediately prior to scattering of (usually somebody else's) money/packed lunch/articles of clothing/rare Panini collection was tossed skywards, thus causing a mass "bundle" as greedy classmates scrambled for the treasure... often a single penny. cf. bundle, grimble UK

Scramble Goalie adj. In playing football if it was decided it was "scramble goalie" anyone in the team could save the ball with their hands if they were in the penalty area. When it was "rush" goalie , it was only the named rush goalie from each team who could do it!, Well that was our rules in West London. c.f. Rush Goalie circa. 1980 UK (SE)

scrap n. fight. as in "There was a scrap in the gym. John got a broken nose!" Also a shout when fight was about to start UK

scrav n. v. 1) borrow or steal from someone (usually money). 2) the person who does this. f. prob contraction of scavenge. UK

(two pot.... )screamer n. (1) someone who is unbable to "hold their liquor", (2) someone who panics easily i.e. goes to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel AUS

screwball n. a cone shaped plastic container filled with ice cream that had a bubble gum at the pointy end. UK

screwball adj. A person considered to be thick, stupid and have no brains. Also someone who produces unexpected responses to standard situation. Insane. circa. 1990's USA

screwed adj. (1) Being in a difficult situation with no solution (2) the state of being after having had sex. circa. current USA, UK

screwnut n. Someone who messed up bad. Used as a joke. Often used to describe the 'cool guys' by other 'cool guys' e.g. Lenny! You screw-nut!!! You failed english again!! UK

screw the arse off (....) v. to have enthusiastic sexual relations such that the person with whom you indulge, is incapacitated thru over stimulation UK

(going for a...) schwoz n. going for a piss

scribs, (skribs, skribsies) n. The crossing of the fingers to provide immunity. An infinitely better word than pax or faynights. It's origins are lost in the mists of time but it's *known* to be one true truce word. circa. 1980's - to date c.f. cribs UK (SE)

scrot rot n. med. The sweaty, itchy clamminess around one's testicles caused by adverse amounts of heat and humidity, aggravated by walking into school, wearing nylon underpants and sitting on hard plastic chairs or science stools. f. scrotum UK (SE)

scrot box n. box filled with pieces of sportswear lost by other unknown pupils, that had to be delved into if a person forgot their sports kit or part of it. UK (SE)

scrubber n. someone (usually female) who is free and easy in her sexual availability.note: in recent years the term "slapper" has displaced this word. c.f. slapper UK

scruds n. new pupils at school. used particularly of new first formers(year 7) in secondary school - "The scruds", UK

Scrumdiddliumptious adj. excessively tasty or delicious UK

scrump v. to steal apples... as in "You going scrumping tonight??".... "Aye if the old bastard hasn't left the dogs in the orchard!". (ed: there must be some connection between this and the old word for rough cider... i.e. "scrumpy"... so if you know what it is please tell me!!) UK (SE)

scrump v. to have sex, e.g. "I'm gonna get my scrump tonight!" USA (SE)

scrut n., v., adj. The good food or drink, to ingest good food or drink, or describe good food or drink. Used as "These hamburgers are scrut!", "I scrutted that beer.", "This whiskey is scrut!". circa. 1994 USA

scully n. Oral sex. circa. current UK

scully monster n. Someone who prefers to give oral sex than have sex by more traditional methods. circa. current UK

scungee, scungy, scungies adj. Dirty or badly worn and daggy underwear. Prob. originated as a tradename for a brand of 'sporting briefs'. Also has a 'surfie' context but this is probably because the underdaks are worn beneath board shorts. c.f. daggy, underdaks circa. 1950's onwards AUS

scunt v. When one is in a night club and wishes to look for some female talent. Used as "Come on boys lets go for a scunt?". f. combination of 'scout' (look for) and cunt (potentially sexually available female), i.e. scout for cunt = scunt. circa. 1990's UK

scut n. a young slut: promiscuous 14-16 year old girls (ed: best kind... ah my youth...where DID it go??!) UK

Scutter adj. A Scutter, or 'Scutter From The Gutter' to give it it's full title, was a title bestowed upon any person who was a little bit smelly, a little bit dirty, and generally wore clothes too small for them and lived in the council flats with their crack whore mom and wife beating dad. If you wore trousers that ended 4 inches above your socks, you were a scutter. If you'd worn the same 80's tracksuit top that was 4 sizes too small for you (ironically, back in fashion now!) for the last 12 years, you were a scutter. If you had a grade 1 all over haircut to prevent catching fleas off your rabid mongrel, you were a scutter. And you were from the gutter - Probably! circa. 1990's UK (Mid)

seater n. used as a term for hitchin a lift on the back-or handlebars of someones bike (same use as the Eire term mentioned) c.f. backer UK (NW)

sea of legs n. A game played by boys at school using many legs and two tables. The tables were placed side by side, with a gap in between them. Those creating the "sea of legs" would sit in two rows along the tables, and kick out furiously, thereby creating a dangerous passage between the two tables. Fellow pupils would then attempt to pass between the tables from one end to the other, whilst being kicked hard from both sides. Usually, the lone crusader would fall down about half way and then be subjected to a good few minutes of severe kicking. Hours of fun, although had a tendency to make people over-excited. UK (NW)

secret smile n. Clitois, female genital area circa. 1990's UK

sed adj. (1) Great, magic, wicked good. Used as (That MP3 was sed!" (2) Sexual relations "I got some sed last night!" circa. 1990's USA (Minn)

see a man about a dog (got to... ) v. am on my way to urinate UK

Seen my arse id. Expression used to demonstrate emotion when upset or annoyed at someone or something. circa. 2000 UK (NW)

Sefton n. Halfwit, moron, idiot, cretin, person of low general intelligence. Used as "Fuck off, Rogers, You're a right sefton!" Term coined after Sefton Bedford a local halfwit of the Gypsy Hill area of London. Who was often to be found standing by the roudabout in the middle of the road eating Cheese & Onion crisps (always cheese & onion) in a somewhat vacant manner), circa. 1975+ UK (SE)

semi-phlegmy adj. A mouthful of saliva, frothed into 'spit, with some, but not much snot in it (Gob/yocker/spit) c.f. meaty, snot, gob circa 1970's - 80's UK (NW)

send to Coventry (to .... ). id. To stop talking to someone - literally. Came from the old story about Lady Godiva riding naked through the streets of Coventry in the Middle Ages to protest about the taxes her husband was laying on the serfs. Most of the townsfolk spared the ladies blushes by staying indoors on the day of the ride, but one man - called Tom - 'peeped' and was apparantly blinded by the sight of her naked body, but either way was shunned and ignored by his neighbours for evermore. circa. 1200 onwards UK (Mid)

seppo adj. a citizen of the Good ol' US of A: f. abbreviated rhyming slang; septic tank = yank AUS

sesh adj. cool, highly satisfactory UK

sex lord n. A playground game half-based on Doomlord (a photo comic-strip from the early-80s revamp of the Eagle comic, which featured an alien who could "consume" someone's personality by grabbing their head in both hands), and half-based on a ten year old's preconceptions of sex.

One person was nominated "Sexlord" and the rest would scatter. Sexlord would stomp around the playground in a "slow, but menacing" fashion, arms outsretched, tongue waggling from side-to- side. Sexlord would claim his/her victim by embracing them and making exaggerated noises. This victim would then become a Sexlord and so the game continued until the playground was full of dozens of Sexlords trying to track down the lone survivor.

The game was enjoyed by many for quite some time, until one lad made the mistake of shouting out, "Last one into the netball court is Sexlord!" at the top of his voice, just as one of the strictest, most easily-offended teachers was walking by. I think just about every class in the school was given a severe telling-off after lunch, but everyone still continued to play the game. (created at St Joseph's RC in Bishop's Stortford.

There were reports that the game spread to a few other local schools and it was being played at least a year or two after most of us had left. circa. 1982 UK (SE)

sfinkta n. derog anus. used as "Get your finger out of your sfinkta!", "Fuck off you dirty sfinkta!" f. mis-spelling of Sphincter NZ

shag n. (1) To have sexual intercourse quickly and often painfully
because of the speed - "Wham, bam and thank you mam." (2) Sea-going bird of the Cormorant family (3) A type of 'rough cut' tobacco.
UK (NE)

shag. n. Friend, mate, close associate. Uses aaaas "Ay up. shag. Woss 'appening like?" Note there are no sexual connotations to this unlike the other more vulgar meaning. circa. current UK (Mid)

shaggable n. a person considered to be sexually desirable UK

shagged n. Tired, exhausted, knackered c.f. knackered, zonked UK

shaggy n. One of the characters in the 'Scooby-Doo' cartoon series, but also means a member of a hard rock band. No idea WHY though! UK

shake spunk from a stick (she could... ) ph. Used to describe a very attractive girl, i.e. could even make a piece of would ejaculate. circa. 1990's UK (SE)

shakey n. Shakey, a person whose intellectual and physical capacities are markedly below what is currently accepted as 'normal'. This name arose from the observation that these 'special' people have a tendency not to dance but to stand around 'shaking'at parties and Butlin's holidays. c.f. windowlicker, spacka etc. UK

shame, showings n. Shout meaning "You got shown up". Use of East Midlands vowel pronunciation means 'shame' is transformed into "shaaaaaaayme! UK (ME)

shamk n. funny c.f. fesize USA

shan n. Shocking or disagreeable (context: "That's shan, that is like..") UK (NE)

Sharon and Tracy n. names used together or singly and supposed to belong to girls who are often amoral, usually working class, and always vulgar. Made infamous due to The Fat Slags through the "adult comic" Viz.. UK

shed n. A very poorly maintained motor vehicle UK (Wa)

shed load n. A large quantity; e.g. "You'll need a shed load of concrete to fill that 'ole!" UK (Wa)

Sheen adj. A wide boy with a greasy French crop, football shirt and gold chains (ed: what does a French crop look like?) circa. 1990's UK

sheepshagger n. person deemed to copulate with sheep because they comes from a "rural area" and (thus) are short of woman. The result being an invariable desire/need to copulate with sheep. Used by any city dweller for anyone from the suburbs and beyond. UK (NW)

sherbert n. originally a carbonated sugary drink, now transferred to any alcoholic dring; as in "I'm just off for a pint of sherbert dear!" UK (S)

sherbert dab n. a small bag of sherbert with a sweet lolly on a stick. Dip the lolly in the sherbert and suck it off. Mmmmmm..... nice (Ed: I've spent too long on this dictionary - I keep wanting to rephrase that) UK (W)

shibby n. (1) marijuana (2) sweet, cool, pleasant, 'with it' circa. 1990's USA

shift To kiss (note: rural Ireland only - *not* Dublin. In Dublin the equivalent would be to 'get off with' someone). c.f. get off with circa. 1990's Eire

shimmies n. Shimmies is the dialect word for a particular flower in the West Country, England. So one can have an expression such as: Look at those lovely shimmies over there., Apparently the same flower is known as 'a smock' in Dorset. UK (SW)

shiner n. Appearance of an eye that has become bruised, normally following a punch. Otherwise knows as a 'black eye'. circa. 1930's+ UK

shindig n. a crowded noisy party f. shin + dig, caused by too many people in too small a space. UK

shirt lifter n. a male homosexual

shit, shite n. faeces UK

shit bricks n. to be extremely scared UK

Shit Christ! ex. Usually used in a time of disgusted disbelief, "Shit-Christ Steve, what were you thinking?" or "Shit-Christ, what am I supposed to do now?" Originally used by a legendary college football coach in Minnesota, USA, when his players would make mistakes., circa. 1990's USA (Minn)

shit creek n. a place of misfortune UK

shit creek (up, ..., without a paddle) n. a place of misfortune from which there is no escape UK

shit-faced n. disgustingly drunk UK

shitfuck, shitefuck, shitefuk ex. The word is versitile, and useful in any unpleasant situation occurs. Used as, "Oh, shitefuck, I forgot my wallet!". Can also indicate extreme disbelief as "Oh, shitefuck, I don't believe he said that!". When used, the word and sentence is usually spoken with a terrible Scottish accent - much like Shek's! When around children, teachers and others with delicate sensibilities, a garbled version, 'fiteshuck', is used instead. circa. 1990's USA (Cal.)

shit hits the fan (when the... ) n. the moment when an unpleasant outcome can be ascertained by the occurrence of an event; as in "The shit hit the fan when the police arrived and caught us red handed!" UK

shit-hot n. excellent. very good UK

shit kickers n. Boots. Usually referring to Doc Martin's with steel toe-caps, but equally appropriate to any really tough boot as worn by genuine hard-cases, or wannabe ones. So named because, they, propelled by the wearer's foot, proceed to kick the shit out of anyone foolish enough to stand in their way. This nickname has, as far as I know, been going for ages, everywhere. UK

shit liner, bog liner adj. Describes a kid deliberately standing near the goalkeeper (in football) to try to score an easy goal or tap in and claim all the glory. Contributor said he was guilty of this and almost changed his name to Gary Lineker! circa. 1990's UK

shit-stabber n. a homosexual

shit-stirrer n. somone who enjoys causing trouble for others c.f. wind up merchant UK

shittered adj. Very drunk. circa. 1990's UK

shit-tickets Toilet tissue., So-called because of the similarity between a roll of toilet paper and a perforated coil of tickets. USA

(You gotta be...) shitting me! "I don't believe a word you say.", Probably stems from the word "bullshit," an outright lie or at least a gross exaggeration. "Don't give me any of your bullshit" ==> "Don't bullshit me" ==> "You're shitting me" ==> "You gotta be shitting me." c.f. bullshit USA (NE)

shizzle n. semen - no idea of it's origins tho. circa. 1990's USA

shizznocka adj. Cool, groovy, trendy, fashionable etc (ed: or so I'm told) circa. 2002 USA

schnazz ex. A politer way of saying 'shit' in any place where 'shit' might otherwise be used. circa. 2000 USA

shonky adj. cheap, of bad quality, inferior manufacture, is about to break etc.

shoo-in, shoe-in n. a certainty; e.g. "Will Labour win the next election? Of course - they're a shoo-in!" AUS

shoots blanks (he.... ) n. Term often used for ejaculate ekected by a may who has had a vasectomey, i.e. ejaculate from a sterile male. UK

shooting the bird v. 'flicking' the middle finger, usually accompanied with a "Fuck you!" c.f. flipping the finger, flicking the vees USA

shoot ones load (to.... ) v. to ejaculate UK

short and curlies /font> n. pubic hairs; i.e. to "have someone by the short and curlies" is to have total power over that person since any on their part move to extricate themselves from the predicament would be certain to cause them immense pain. UK

short arse n. A derogatory term for someone with "ducks disease"; i.e. their bum is too close to the ground. Otherwise defined as a person of diminished stature. c.f. ducks disease UK

shorty, shortie n. Pet name. Used to speak of, or to, one's girl or boy friend.e.g. "C'mon, shortie, let's go!", "Yeah, Jess. She's Kyle's shortie". Probably derived from close proximity of shortstop in ball games. circa. 2000 USA (S)

shotgun n. Person sitting next to the driver in a car - a favoured site and much fought over! Shouting this word is laying claim to the best seat in the car. Similar to "dibs", f. old stagecoach days where guard carrying shotgun sat next to the driver in case of bandits cf. dibs US

shout (your.... ) n. phrase used to signify who's turn it is to buy a round of drinks. Aus

Shred v. To kick a footbag. To play "hackysack". To play (freestyle) the game of footbag., Common word among many footbag players. (ed: never heard of hackysack as a game tilI came to Australia. Until then I thought it was a euphamism for the scrotum, similar to 'happy sack'!) circa. current USA

shreddies n. extreme wedgie: the act of several boys gathering round a chosen victim, reaching into said victims waistband and all hauling up victim underpants until they ripped. This was (is) extremely painful when the kecks were St. Michael as they would never rip. cf. wedgie-gang UK (SE)

shreddies . Underpants circa. 1950's onwards AUS

Shreddie n. hairstyle used by (and insult used for) men whose hair is thinning, in a vain attempt to make it look as if it has some "body". In shape and form it has the unfortunate result of looking like they have a Shredded Wheat* on their heads thus rendering them a laughing stock to all and sundry - except that of course to themselves.

A famous "Shreddie" is Andrew O'Neill sometime editor of The Times Newspaper.

*For those unfamiliar with the term, Shredded Wheat is a kind of breakfast 'biscuit' that looks feels and tastes like knitted straw. cf. Brillo UK (SE)

shrimper adj. (1) Anal sex. "John is such a shrimper, his little dick is never out of Emily's ass!" (2) Someone who performs digital penetration of a vagina in order to be able to lick and sniff his fingers afterwards. circa. 1990's USA, AUS

shower (.... of shit) n. Term "borrowed" from the Army and used to describe an individual or group of people felt to be beneath contempt. In modern use, the phrase has been sanitized by restricting it to use of the first word. i.e. "You're a right shower!" UK

shuftie v. To look, used as in "Have a shuftie at these pics... gorgeous ain't she??" UK

shwaddapete n. Used as a substitute for any word between two people if they want to keep a secret e.g. "Have you any shwaddapete?". circa. 1990's IRE

sick n. Cool, sweet, trendy. Another from the school of 'reverse meanings' in the mode of 'bad' = 'good'. e.g. "Those sunglasses are great... really sick!". circa. 1990's (very) UK

silent violent, silent but deadly (SBD) n. the silent farts that are always the most smelly. Used to decribe a lush anal aroma when no aural experience was encountered. Normally associated with "He who smelt (smelled) it dealt" and "He who denied it supplied it".

Another rhyme used after someone said 'the one who smelt it dealt it' was the secret farter to quickly retort 'the one who did the rhyme did the crime', and would bask in the joy of having 'won' the debate over the identity of the emitter, oblivious to the tautologically incriminating nature of the statement. circa. 1978+ UK (SW)

silver dolphin n. A glass marble with a reflective internal crack. These were more highly prized than normal marbles but could be easily produced by boiling in a kettle. cf. alley, bomper alley, bottle washer circa. 1970's - 80's UK (S)

siphon the python, syphon the python v. to urinate UK

sippin' on da syrup n. Drinking beer or liquor, UK, US

sin (ugly as.... ) n. not facially attractive. UK,

Sitting Ducks game. A (usually) harmless game whereby a number of lower school pupils would gather in a quieter playground and one unfortunate boy was made to stand against an eight-foot wall atop a four foot bank of grass (or mud, if it was raining). The rest of the group would take turns to hurl a tennis ball (often wet and muddy) at him as hard as they could. Moving was allowed, and should the thrower miss, they would join the unfortunate child on the bank. This continued until either all but one of the participants was stood on the bank. Particular pleasure would be gained from causing so much pain to one of the 'sitting ducks' that he fell off the bank, resulting in the playground's most common injury, the grazed knee.

This game was often marred when a sixth former (often a member of the Cricket 1st XI) would pick up a loose tennis ball and would hurl it with all his might at the fattest child. This was a bittersweet moment, as often the fattest child was only tolerated, not actually liked, but the "them and us" ideal would often result in said sixth former being attacked by a handful of eleven-year olds. Strangely enough, the same fat kid would often be used as a shield (quite legitimate) to prevent the ball hitting the less principled 'sitting ducks'.

circa. 1990 - 92 UK (SE)

siver, syver n. Bascially a drain in the road. A "gulley" or drain at kerb edge for rainwater collection. Watching Dr. Who was onsidered amusing when they bought on the "Siver-men" episodes. (Cybermen) but also produced some quite horrific nightmares. This was the place where you dropped your 10p for the ice-cream man or disposed of your dead goldfish. circa. 1970's UK (Scot)

69 (sixty-nine) v. Performing mutual oral sex.

sixes n. A good smacking. When the shout 'Taxi!" went up after someone had farted, someone else would call 'sixes all round'. The 'sixes' were punches from anyone in the vicinity dished out to the farter. c.f. taxi circa. 1980's UK (Corn.)

sk8 n. 1) car 2) Escalade cadillac, mostly used by rapers & or gangsters. circa. 1990's USA

skag-nasty, scag-nasty n. some one doing something disgusting or mean "don't be such a skag-nasty". UK,

skank n. 1) to steal. e.g. "Did you skank my ruler?" 2) marijuana. e.g. "Did you skank my skank?" 3) mercenary or thrifty (in a 'picking pennies out of the bin' kind of way) You skanky b*****d, you are such a skank! UK (M)

skank n. To dance to Ska musinc - similar in usage to 'mosh', e.g. "skank pit". AU

skank v., n. (1) Run away from or desert someone. Used as "Don't skank me?". (2) a slutty or promiscuous female often used as "Some skank skanked my skank" circa. 1990's USA

skank n., v. (ed: Entered this almost verbatim. I suppose I should separate out all the terms but I think it says more like this than if I chopped it up!)

Relates to the purchace of cannabis. For example, "I got skanked" would mean that the person who sold me my cannabis misrepresented it's weight/quality.

I guess if someone's a skank they would skank you so it's just the verb form, but still, I've never heard skank used to describe cannabis as such. Skunk maybe, but not skank.

"That skanky guy flexed me a shy Henry. dry!" would mean that said skank had sold me an underweight eighth. (Henry = 8th, Louis = 16th or 'teenth' as in the kings of France and an ounce). A 'q' is a quarter of an ounce.

Skunk (being a particularly potent form of weed), can also be called punk or monk. Hash is called ash.

To bun is to smoke cannabis (from burn) hence, "I'm bunning a zoot", or "lets have a bunnage - I've got a q of this buff monk!". A zoot is a spliff, which i believe comes from 'zoot suit' a kind of suit with wide shoulders tapered down to thin trousers, which was popular in the 30s. i think zoot suits were often white, and so the name comes from their similar appearance to a spliff.

I could go on all day! ". I bunned this huge L-skin... I'm so lean!". Lean means stoned, an L-skin is a way of putting two Rizlas together to form an L-shape, enabling you to create a longer spliff. A two-skin is where two Rizlas have been stuck together using another to make an even longer spliff. any number can be combined with '-skin', although users should be careful - a mate of mine once said 'I like nothing better than to sit on my sofa with a fat four-skin hanging out of my mouth' rest assured he was labelled 'batty' (gay).

Oh yeah, and a skin is a Rizla or 'cigarette paper' as in 'have you got any skins?'.

The origin of some of the words may be rasta, or anything really. By the way, a bong is specifically a pipe that involves bubbling smoke through water. circa. 1990's UK (SE)

skater adj. Describes someone who skateboards all the time and is never without his/her skateboard and chains fastened to their baggy jeans. circa. 1990's UK

skeet adj. Small, illfitting. used as "Yo shirt is skeet son!" circa. 2000 USA

skeg, skeggy n. someone who smelt like a tramp and looked filthy.

Skeg ex. To look at. Used as "Give us a skeg at that magazine?". circa. 1980's UK (NE)

Skeleton Goalie n. Similar to 'Rush Goalie' but extended to include any member of the team who would be allowed to use their hands in the area as any normal keeper would, and also play out field. This benefit would apply to a particularly poor team who needed this added ability to even up the competiton. The opposite would be stick goalie who would not be able to leave the area. c.f. rush goalie, fly goalie UK

sketch Look out or watch it (Always used when a teacher appeared on the horizon) People were often posted to "keep sketch" (ie keep an eye out for teachers if something of questionable legality was going on)

sketch v. To sketch something is to take risk in the hope that it might just work, but knowing that it is unlikely. "I am going to try and sketch it". circa. 1990.s USA

skewiff n. awry, out of alignment UK

skid, skidmark n. 1) Faecal deposit causing stain of excrement in the gusset of underwear. This is usually the result of by improper bowel control, a wedgie or most often a lack of cleanliness following defecation. 2) An excessively stupid or unpleasant person.

skiddy n. Used in similar fashion to 'gross', i.e. to describe something disgusting. NZ

skill adj. good, excellent, great.

skill n. Apparantly, skill is also an African "bum" disease" (ed: anyone else confirm this - please??). The common retort to a primary school child's self acclamation of being "skilled" in a particular faculty, would be a chorus of "Skill's an African bum disease". (used mostly during the height of the famine in Ethiopia around the area of Morecambe, Lancs, UK), The contributor says they are often shocked at the number of people who haven't heard of this definition of "Skill". To this day, aged 20, and not in Morecambe, they find themselves uttering it in a childlike manner whenever "skill" is mentioned.

I'm informed that the use of "skill" to refer to "...an African bum disease" started well before the big african famines of the early/mid 80s - and was used in schools around Loughborough/Leicesterchire UK) at least as early as circa 1978.

Leo of Dorset tells us that whilst he certainly can't confirm whether Skill is an actual anal infection of the African sub-continent, he can indeed confirm that the same definition was also prevalent in his school in Southern Dorset at least between 1984 to 1989. Also "confirmed" by 'Henry' in respect of his school in SW London during 1980's.

I'm also informed that when playing football, if somebody pulled off a particularly tasty move, people would say 'skill' in low deep voices. If the move involved making somebody look bad (e.g. a nutmeg) then the person on the shamed end of the skill could reply 'African bum disease' to save face. (ed: nutmeg definition - aha!! Thanks Pete)

Yet another definition, this one is from Joe Mcvey: "Camel or dolphin shit, used in retort to make out you had superior knowledge and that 'skill' had an actual meaning rather than its true and proper meaning. Also often suffixed with magill eg. skill magill., The provenance of this word derives from St. Josephs, Thame, Oxfordshire, although regional variations apply. Other schools such as John Hampden claim they made it up but they never."

Since then we've had yet another definition, this one saying where they went to school 'skill' was always a 'disease on a sheep's backside.'

And now we learn 'skill' has been defined in Leicestershire as meaning 'cabbage brain'!!

And now it seems not only is 'skil' (with one 'l'), an african bum disease, but it was featured on John Cravens Newsround (A kids 'news' program in the UK). c.f. nutmeg circa. 1978 - 84 UK (SE, NE)

Skilly-Wompus n. Used to characterize a mentally disabled or mental retarded individual. (ex: Didn't you used to sit at the skilly (or skilly-wompus) table back in elementry?). Also can be used to describe a idiot or jack-ass, e.g. "Darren's being a fucking skilly-wompus today!" circa. 1990's USA (Tex.)

skinny marinc(k?) n. Heard the phrase "skinny marink" used in a song, The radio DJ said that he had heard the term "skinny as a marink" as a youngster, but knew nothing about its origin or what it meant. (ed: any help possible on this please??).

Caroline writes the following:
Skinnamarink is from a song sang during the Vaudeville era in the USA (and after) by the comic Jimmy Durante. There is also a children's show in the US called Sharon, Lois and Bram: Skinnamarink TV. They sing a Skinnamarink song that goes something like "Skinnamarinkadinkadink, Skinnamarinkadoo... I... love... you..."
UK (NE), USA

skinchies a "shout" (often accompanied by crossed fingers) created temporary immunity from being made "it" when playing sticky toffee, stuck in the mud, tag, etc. cf. faynights UK (NE)

skin flute n. Penis. "My girl has the painters in so she played my skin flute for me last night." (i.e. masturbated him) circa. 1990's UK

skin head n. Person with a shaven head (bovver boy look) normally wearing ox blood Doc Martin boots (air wear, 18 holes) bleached jeans and Ben Sherman shirts and red braces. A taunt used towards skin heads went as follows:

Hey you skin head over there
Whats it like to have no hair
Is it hot or is it cold
Whats it like to be bald.

circa. 1980's = 90's UK

skin roll n. Insult. A word for a total tosser. Or as we liked to call them; "A walking length". Generally used when someone has performed an act of incredible ineptitude., Very. UK

skint n. short of cash, penniless f. skinned UK

skinny malink, n. very thin. f. old Scottish song

Skinny Malinky lang legs, umbrella feet
Went to the pictures (cinema) and couldna find a seat
When the picture (film) started
Skinny Malinky farted
When the picture ended
Skinny Malinky fented (fainted)

Ed: Had a few more verses in on the song. If anyone can remember more they'd be appreciated:

Whilst ive never heard of skinny malink we had quite a few verses at primary school called fatty and skinny:

Fatty and skinny went to a dance,
Skinny got lost in fattys pants.

or:

Fatty and skinny went to bed
Fatty farted and skinny was dead

Contributor said there were LOADS more but couldn't remember them. (for the linguistically challenged... pictures = cinema, picture = film) - (ed: contributor felt unable to fully explain the verse.Any more information or verses would be appreciated). UK (Scot)

skip n. to be absent from school without leave c.f. mitch, cut, bunk off, wag USA

skip-rat n. Insulting term for a female (usu.). Labels her as absolute trash, i.e. a rat which lives in a skip. Usually aimed in the direction of cock-teasers. c.f. cock-teaser USA

skirt traffic adj. Sexist remark obout a kind of traffic aused by women drivers cruising along at 55 mph on highways in such a bizzare formation that nobody can pass them by. Its annoyingly noticeable during office hours. circa. 1990's USA

skit v. To take the piss out of someone. Used as, "Stop skitting me!", i.e. "Stop taking the mickey out of me" circa. 1990's UK (NW)

skite n. Skite means boaster. Used as "You are such a skite - just because your dad owns the entire free world, you think you're hot'"., etc. circa. 1970's AUS, NZ

skitter n. Derogatory term for gipsy or tramp (ed: as if putting those two groups together in the first place wouldn't be!) circa. 1980's UK

skitter-jap n. person with freckled face circa. 1950's UK (NI)

skive off n. be absent from school without permission cf. slam off, truant (play), mitch, bunk off

skivies n. underpants cf. daks circa. 1980's UK (NE)

skull-fuck v. force someone to perform oral sex. Term usually used in prisons in the USA USA

skunk adj. Describes a specific form of Cannabis circa. 1990's USA

slack adj. Used to describe a girls who's morals seem to indicate she is willing to perform sexual favours on demand. Used as "That Jenny's a bit slack. All I did was nibble her ear and she went down on me like Oprah on a ham!" circa. 19760's - current UK (Wal)

slack adj. Mean, 'tight as a ducks arse'. Used as "Don't be slack, La!", or, "That was dead slack". circa. 1970's UK (NW)

slack-bellied adj. Slack bellied is used in Southern Mississippi to mean hungry. If someone is slack-bellied they are reaaly hungry and need something to eat. circa. current USA (Miss.)

Slack Knacker adj. A lazy good for nothing layabout, circa. 1980's UK (NW)

slacker-slaney n. A stupid thing to say when you can't think of anything else. UK (SE)

slag n. girl (usu.) of "easy morals" c.f. school bike, saddle bag Sharon and Tracy UK

slag n. phlegm; i.e. the grotty stuff in the back of your throat, not the spittle stuff in your mouth. UK

slag off n. to ruin the reputation of someone by gossiping about them in a vindictive manner cf. UK

slam off n. be absent from school without permission cf. skive off, play truant, mitch, bunk off

slammin' adj. extremely desirable, normally attached to character or physical appearance, e.g. "She's really slammin'!!" USA

slap and tickle n. gentle cuddling where girl pretends to be outraged by the groping attentions of her suitor and retaliates in a mock aggresive fashion cf. UK

Slap Head, slaphead adj. derog. A bald guy or person with remarkably high forhead. Also used to take the piss out of girls if they wore their hair up too tight with no fringe. This could be added to by phyically slapping your head with the palm of your hand while chanting "SLAPHEAD! SLAPHEAD!". cf. Mekon, Tefal, Spam Head

slapper adj. derog. usu. a woman person with what are regarded as "loose" morals, an 'easy lay" - hence it's application to the Duchess of York after the "toe sucking" incident. cf. scrubber UK

slaps, slapsies n. Back of the classroom game. Two people put their palms together horizontally, fingertips touching. In turn one person would try to slap their opponents hands before they could move them out of the way. If they missed there opponent would have a go. You could also ‘twitch’ and try to get your opponent to move their hands before you did. If they did you got a free slap. Once a persons hands were sufficiently red they were deemed to have lost. Bullies always cheated. Wearing rings was generally not allowed. The more lethal option was Knuckles.

Alternate rules:

Two player game: players hold hands flat in front of each other one with palms up and the other with palms down the person with palms up has their hands underneath the other player this person take five turns trying to slap the other persons hands before they move them then they switch.

And then again there's this offering:

Thought you might be interested to know that we played the Free Slap rule in Slapsies gaining a free slap if your opponent flinched three times. I now play slapsies with my cat but he doesn’t understand all the rules. c.f. knuckles, tipsies UK (NE)

slash v. To urinate. Usually used by men and boys as "I'm going for a slash." meaning to urinate or go for a wee. One kid at school had the nickname of "Slasher", because he was always weeing! circa. 1960's - current UK (NW)

slavver n. 1) saliva 2. to tell a lie or outrageous exaggeration as in "You're talking slavver" and "Wipe that slavver off your chin" (accompanied by chin- wiping motion)

slider n. Anyone who didn't listen to mod, punk or new wave. They were "rockers" or "greasers. but worse, they were rockers that had become so "greasy" they slid! Contributor thinks they could have lifted the word from the film version of Quadraphinia. c.f. mods, rockers, greasers circa. 1980's CAN (Ont)

slick, slickin' it up adj. Being immensly cool, something that is the height of cool and the best. Slickin' it up, said to show approval of oneself or someone who is being cool. circa. 1990's UK (S)

slip gear n. Familiar to anyone who owned, or knew someone who owned, a Grifter. The bike had three gears, all accessible via a twisty handlebar (very cool): red (for power sprints whilst racing around the block), yellow (normal) and blue (to get you up that steep hill with minimum effort). If you managed to jam the gear between red and yellow, the chain wouldn't connect properly to the cogs, resulting in "slip gear". You could booby-trap a mate's Grifter and laugh your arse off as he frantically attempted to pedal away, only to get nowhere and eventually fall over. c.f. BMX, Grifter UK

slipper adj. Dirty, badly dressed person who usually looks older/younger than they are eg. 12 year olds with stubble, or 40 year old that looks about 12. Classic looking slipper Jack Wilde in Oliver - he is 12 yet he has a full chin of stubble or Steve Marriot from the Small Faces (the opposite) - used as in "I'm not going in there it's full of slippers" - "He's a right slipper he is", Derived from the 'pooper estates' in towns where there are always 3 shops - a chip shop, a video shop and a offie. People from the estate would shop, rent a video but mostly play the bandit in the chip shop wearing their slippers - never shoes, they'd walk to the shops in their slippers Slippertown - the part of town would be then named. UK (Mid)

slippy, slip, sliz, slizzy, slipknot n., adj. A girl who acts promisciously, acting promisciously. circa. 1994 USA (W)

slogs n. A rather painful treatment involved a whack on the upper arm for any reason imaginable - from playing cards, farting or seeing a gas van! c.f. beats circa. 1984-89 UK (Mid)

slope adj. Insulting term for Vietnamese people. circa. 1960's onwards USA, AUS

sloshed adj. very drunk cf. bolloxed, langered, ossified UK

sluff To be away from school without permission. c.f. mitch, bunk off f. slough - 'to shed' circa. 2000 USA (Utah - Salt Lake City)

sluggos n. Underpants circa. 1960's onwards AUS

Slug Graveyard adj. Derogatory term for female genital area. circa. 1980's USA

smack-dab adj. precisely, exactly - but who can say where this originated and how? Maybe it has something to do with the little fish called dabs?? But why would you be smacking it? UK

smack-head n. (1) heroin user, (2) Insult based on comparing person to someone suffering from mental illness that causes them to self harm (3) similar to '2' but with the implication the person is in fact below normal intellegence levels by virtue of being 'punch drunk' from too many smacks to the head. circa. 1970's UK

smart adj. cool

smear-the-queer n. "Smear the Queer" describes the game of "British Bulldog" as played in the USA, except... 1 guy is deemed the "queer" and immediately he must run the length of the field with a football.....against all other players trying to tackle him.. The tackler is then the "Queer" USA

smeekit n. Extremely inotxicated circa. 1980's onwards UK (Scot.)

smeg n. exclamation of surprise or disappointment f. contraction of "smegma" (a white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin). Current useage encouraged by "Lister" (Craig Charles) from the T.V series Red Dwarf who used it and the associated expression "You smeg-head!", and used in many a playground since. Often used insted of the word "fuck" when teachers were around. circa. 1990's UK

smelly belly adj. person acting stupidly cf. dumbum circa. 1987 UK (NE)

'smell yer maw!' id. Used as an indication of disbelief, or sometimes as an insult. Is supposed to indicate the person using the expression has digitally penteated the vagina of the mother of the person who's veracity is in question. Bascially passes on the implication that there is as much chance of the statement being true as the user having obtained sexual access to the female in question; in other words; "I've had your maw!" (mother). Currently, this is often shortened in use to "Yer maw!" circa. 1970's onwards UK (Scot.)

smelly-welly adj. used to describe person from "poor" background, anyone with old, worn or dishevelled clothing - i.e. "like a tramp" UK (M)

Smiling Slut game. Rules are easy. You smile at the teacher - female preferably - so that she smiles back uncertainly, then still smiling at her, you hiss "slut" at her through your teeth. Points are scored based upon how confused she looks. Points are lost for being kicked out of class. Mind you, she got her own back by failing our GCSE classwork. (ed: missed something here too!) circa. 1980's UK

smim n. cross between a highly conformist person and a flid. UK (We)

smoke-a-boal (Mr... ) n. a person who uses a bong regularly, USA

smurf n. Smurf is the politically correct word used to describe a despondent Communist. It was first started in Russia around 1930's. It was used to describe all those who either did not like or openly revolted against communism.

(ed: this seems a bit far fetched but I'm sure someone will contradict it if it's wrong. Oddly enough however, SMURF is also an acronym for 'Socialist Men Under Red Father'). circa. 1930's RUS

snag n. sausage (ed: anyone got any idea how this originated?) USA

snag (to ... ) v. To spit, usually the green nasty phlegm type. circa. current USA

s.n.a.g. n. Acronym for "sensitive new age guy" - i.e. one who is "in touch with his feminine side". Was once a compliment for guys who treated women as real people instead of sex objects, but has now become something of an insult since guys realised that adopting this as a facade was just another good way of getting into a girls knickers. circa. 1980-90's UK

snake charmer adj. Used to describe a person who seems to defecate large amounts such that it curls up in the bottom of the bowl and sticks out of the toliet water. circa. 180's USA

snap n. A general reference to food e.g. "I'm gonna go home and get some snap". circa. 1960's onwards UK (NE)

snap n. Used to express that one is particularly impressed with an insult that they have just heard. For edample:

Person 1 to person 2: "You smell!"
Bystander: "Oh, Snap!"

Used almost exactly like "Dee-bo". c.f. dee-bo circa. 1990's USA

snatch n. (1) to quickly grap something (2) female genitalie c.f. pussy, cunt USA

snazzy adj. smart, fashionable, full-featured, new (and similar) UK

Sniff n. Said while holding your middle finger up at someone (giving the bird). It was popular at primary school for a couple of years, after somebody learnt it off their older and more worldy brother. (ed: I think I can guess why - but am always open to alternate suggestions.) circa. 1980's UK (SE)

snitch n. (1) nose (2) to inform on someone to the authorities (esp. police) (3) snitch (golden) the manufactured version of the snidge that wizards use when they play Quidditch. UK

snooch n. adj. Fun game whereby protagonists attatch a clothes peg to their unknowing victims, thus rendering them "snootched". The more pegs you can get on a person without them noticing, the more hilarity (and paranoia) ensues. The word can be used however you want. "I have snootched you." Or " The snootch is strong with this one.". The word originates from the film "Mallrats", in which a character refers to some bags of weed as "Snootchie Bootchies." Friends of the contributor and the contributor invented this game when they went to Bristol (UK) for the weekend earlier this year(1999) but have since played it at every social gathering since, in their home area of Ceredigion, West Wales, UK. At certain rock festivals they managed to "snootch" hundreds of people before handing them Snootch business cards UK (Wa)

snot n. hardened nasal mucus c.f. bogey UK

snot rag n. handkerchief UK

snow angels adj. Shapes made by lying in fresh snow and forming 'wings' by waving the arms up and down. Fun for kids but a mothers nightmare! circa. 1950's USA

snowbird v. A term used in basketball in an instance such as this: One's team is playing offense and turns the ball over (loses it to the other team by losing control, etc.) and one, out of laziness or for strategy, does not run to the other end to play defense. Usually the person snowbirding does so in order to recieve a long pass from the opponent's end in order to score before the opposing team knows what's going on. Or one is too tired to run to the other end and is just being lazy.

(ed: anyone have a better explanation - step right up!) circa. current USA

snowblowing v. Snorting tubes of cocaine. circa. 1990's USA

snubbed n. used to describe a situation where someone "does you wrong", e.g. someone might say, when a car cuts in from of you.."That car snubbed you!" I like your web page definently dope!! (ed: errr.... thanks... I think.) UK

Snuffleupagus (Aloysius ..... a.k.a. Snuffy) n. Actually a character out of Sesame Street, but as nobody else will give him the respect he deserves by adding him to a dictionary, we've added him in just for the sake of it. circa. 1971 (Sesame Street debut: October 13) Worldwide

snuggybindo n. Wedgie (in Chicago) - Note: Bindo is pronounced with a long "i", c.f. wedgie circa. 1990's USA (Ill)

soap dodger n. immigrant from the UK, anyone of recent UK descent Aus

socco Contributor says he first came across this word in a juvenile novel entitled "Go Saddle The Sea", by Joan Aiken. It was used by English schoolboys in the earlier part of this century in the same context as "crazy"; as in having a crush/infatuation. Illustration: "I'm quite socco over the new Maths teacher.". He doesn't know if this word is still in use, if it was ever in use at all, outside of that boarding school which might or might not have ever existed. (ed: don't call us and we won't call you - ok??) circa. who knows! UK (maybe?)

sod n. (1) a clod (clump) of earth and grass (2) abbr. of sodomite, i.e. one who indulges in anal intercourse. circa. 1300 onwards UK

Soggy Biscuit game. A (probably mythical) game in which a group of boys masturbated onto a biscuit, with the last boy to ejaculate having to eat the biscuit. No-one has ever admitted to having played soggy biscuit (the homosexual connotations of group masturbation being highly self-evident) yet the legend lives on. circa. current UK

s.o.l. ac. Acronym meaning 'shit outta luck'. Used when someone has had a misfortunate occurence. Used as "He's s.o.l." circa. 2002 USA

solid n. extraordinarily beneficial occurrence. e.g. If something is extraordinarily good or if something went your way it was "Solid". can be used two ways: "That shot was solid" or when informed, e.g. that you and the boys are having a drinking party on the weekend, "Solid.", CAN

solid (Do me a... ? n. Favour, an act of help or kindness. used as "Do me a solid mate?" circa. 1990's UK

solo (flying.... ) n. masturbating UK

souping n. To give someone a good souping:- Someone fell or more usually was pushed over into (preferably deep) snow. With a cry of "Soup him" or "Souping" a gang would surround them and kick snow all over them, especially the face and head, until they were soaked. Not pleasant c.f. whitewashing circa. 1980's UK (NE)

sow ones wild oats n. to indulge in behaviours whilst young that are frowned on when adult, such as fequent changes in sexual partners. Hence the expression "To sow ones wild oats all Saturday night and spend all day Sunday praying for crop failure!" UK

Space Invaders n. Game for masochistics. A row of younger kids would line up against a wall, while the shooter would throw a tennis ball or kick a football at them. Each 'hit' would kill off that kid until one smarmy and quick footed twerp would survive until the bell. (Variety: World Cup: knockout and progressive football competition, either single player or 2 player teams). UK

spac(k), spaz, spazmo, spacker, spanner, spadge n. derog. 1) a person suffering from cerebral palsy with spasm of the muscles. 2) An excessively stupid or unpleasant person. ( also adj. spasticated, spazzy, spazzed )

Spac Attack Describes a fit of erratic or foolish behaviour. To behave briefly albeit very noticeably in the manner of a Spac.e.g. "My word Bunters having a blooming spac attack said Harry Wharton" from Billy Bunter and the Soggy Biscuit Game by R. Crompton, (ed: bearing in mind the entry for 'soggy biscuit' I think this title is highly dubious to say the least!) circa. 1990's UK

spacco adj. "Gone spacco"- behaving in a hyperactive or strange manner circa. 1980's UK

spacksavers n. The sort of glasses worn by 'spackers', 'divs' and 'flids' who happened to have 'double glazing'. Derived from the high street opticians 'Specsavers'. circa. 1990's UK

spag, spagga n. variations on spacka

spam n. (1) playground punishment consisting of a hard slap on the forehead. )2) somebody who displayed a rather overly prominent forehead would be subjected to a rather vicious slapping accompanied by the slappers exclaimed war cry of "SPAM!". cf. Tefal UK (SE)

Spam Head adj. derog. A person with a large forehead. cf. spam UK (SE)

spank the monkey n. male masturbation cf. any one of a dozen or more references to the same thing! US

Spangle v. (1) a very stupid person, i.e. "You're a right spangle!" (2) a "square tube" of sweets in various flavours. (ed: Liquorice was best, and Old English - they were best too!) circa.. 1980's UK (Scot)

Spanish Root n. sweet liquorice flavoured piece of stick one bought from the chemist and chewed until it was a soggy mess in your mouth. In retrospect it was probably the root of the liquorice plant, but if anyone has other ideas - please let me know. UK (Wa)

spanner n. disabled person. For example "That Lionel Starkey, he's such a spanner" (Mr Starkey was spesh),(Contributor asks "jesus, did we ever used to say stuff like this?" (ed: afraid so... kids are nasty, horrible, sadistic little bastards usually - I know - I used to be one!)

Had more on this one. Seems the terms now mutated into an almost 'affectionate' admonition for someone who has done something 'daft. Used as "God did you really do that? You are such a spanner!!" (ed: on the other hand, its origins are the same so... ?) c.f. spaz, joey, wally, mong, spacko circa. 1980's UK (I.of Man)

spare adj. A condition of extreme annoyance usually associated with one's mother who might be reported to have "gone spare" at hearing of your latest attempt to bring shame and humiliation on the family, e.g. "My mam went spare when she heard I'd been nicked! UK Wales)

sparks n. Colloquialism for electrician. circa. current (ed: heh!) UK

sparky n. Idiot, fool, mentally incapacitated circa. 1990's UK

spawney adj. Lucky, jammy, flukey. Usually associated with 'get' as in "That spawney get is so jammy he'd lose 10p and find a fiver!" circa. 1960's - current UK (Wal)

spaz chariot n. Derogatory term for wheelchair e.g I saw a great window licker cruising in his spaz chariot, c.f. window licker circa. 1980's UK

spaz cut n. A haircut which makes the wearer look like a spaz. cf. Barney cut

spazmerrack game. Boys-only playground game played for one year only! An especially contrived derivation of 'spastic'., The game would be played with as many people as possible from one's peer group. One unfortunate child would be appointed 'spazmerrack' through the 'ip dip dog shit' selection process. All other protagonists would then scatter across the football field and, when suitably far away from the said individual, would shout "spazmerrack!".

The spazmerrack would then engage in much flailing of arms and legs, brushing of ears, screaming of non-words and touching of elbows with his tongue in his bottom lip. At the same time he would have to catch members of his peer group who if caught would act in a similar manner.

If the spazmerrack failed to properly demonstrate the stereotyped behaviour expected of him he would be assigned the title of 'hyper-spazmerrack' and would have to lie on his back and perform spazmerrack actions while a new spazmerrack was nominated. Mrs Wright banned the game for its derogatory content and the way children returned home covered in grass stains. circa. 1988 - 89 UK (NE)

"spear the queer" n. Playground game, somewhat akin to Rugby, where one lad runs around with a ball while pursued by his classmates who try to tackle him. There are no end zones, no scoring, any type of ball will do, The entire width and breadth of the playground is the field. Upon being tackled, the "Queer" throws the ball to the lad of his choosing who then becomes the "Queer" and must run to evade being tackled for as long as possible. f. UK

specials n. often a synonym for "disabled" (mentally or physically) people f. possibly from phrases such as "He's a special person", "He goes to the special school".

sped n. stupid, educationally or mentally retarded, deficient in some way. f. Abbreviation of SPecial EDucation, (or anyone riding the "small bus". The contributor lived and schooled in Cicero, IL, circa. 1985 - 87 US

speed bumps adj. This phrase indicates inadequate breast size or shape in the female sex. Often used to taunt 'late bloomers', skinny girls, or any female particularly sensitive to their breast size. circa. 1980's - 90's USA

spence n. money f. 'pence' - that's the old UK £.s.d type pence not this "new pence" rubbish!

spend n. ejaculate. UK

sperm wail v. outburst of sound from male during orgasm UK

spew 1) v. 2) n. 1) to projectile vomit, often noisily. 2) The results of this. cf. chuck, chunder

spice n. A term for sweets or candy. e.g. "Can I have some SPICE please mam?" , I used this term in school around Sheffield in the late 70's/ early 80's, and it seems to be still in use.(term may have spread out into Yorkshire) circa 1970's - 80's cf. swats, spog UK (M, NE)

spider goalie n. Same principle as 'fly goalie' c.f. fly goalie circa. 1990's

spidermonkey game. Sort of game anyway. Basically you screamed this and jumped on your friends (victims) back. They would usually stagger a few more yards or fall to the floor. The 'trick' for the victim is to continue as long as possible as if ignoring the sudden large weight that's landed on your shoulders. How long this went on depended more on the on the strength of the victim than the size of the spidermonkey! circa. 1980's UK

spiders legs n. the stray hairs that "escape" from the edges of a girls bikini or underwear. UK

Spidoinks n. The back page of your school jotter was designed for spidoinks, tear off a piece, chew it up and fire it at the blackboard with a ruler when the teacher's back was turned. c.f. spit balls, stolges, wasp shit circa. 1980's UK (Scot)

spiffy, spiffing adj. Describes as thing as wonderful, top hole, cool, nifty. Pretty damn good! circa. 1930's+ UIK

spij n. chewing gum. e.g. gimme spij circa. late 1980's UK (S)

spillage n. Used in anticipation of a fight. Relates to blood loss when someone is cut by whatever means, as in 'spilled blood'. "There's going to be a fight...we want spillage!". , circa. 1980's UK

spill-yer-guts v. 1) to empty the stomach contents in a particulary gruesome way, 2) to tell tales, confess cf. 1) chuck, chunder, spew 2) dob 1) UK 2) US

spin, spin on it n. You would give someone the finger and say spin. Therefore suggesting they should then be able to spin on it. We would say this to each other in junior school. circa. 1980's UK

spiney biff n. derog. stupid or clumsy person f. spina bifida circa. 1980's UK (S)

spinner n. Used to describe an extremely short girl. So short in fact, thatif you had sex with her you could spin her around on your dick while standing up without her touching the ground. Used as "That chick is a real spinner!". circa. 2000 USA

spit n. to expel saliva forcefully from the mouth (not slang but closely relates to other words for a similar action) c.f. gob, semi-phlegmy, meaty UK (S)

Spit game Spit was also a card game played in school I was similar to patience with two people, the quickest person to get rid of all their cards wins. So-called because you were supposed to spit when you got rid of all your cards.

Another name for this game was Slam but instead of spitting (I think it got banned) you had to slam your hand down on the top of your pile of cards., circa. 1980's UK

spit balls n. Paper wads chewed up into an icky mass. Kids would usually use the body of an ink pen with the ink cartridge removed to shoot them like blowguns at each other, or even better, at the back of a teacher's head. Whatver they hit, they stuck to like glue.

The bathrooms were covered with similar but much larger paper wads made from wetting balls of toilet tissue and casting it at the ceilings, hoping it would stick. The contributor graduated High School in 1980 and I'm sure they were doing it long before then... there are references to "pea shooters" from over a hundred years ago, which were hollow tubes you blew peas or spit balls through. (ed: I used them to shoot 'pigeon peas' through - I wish I'd known about spit balls!)

c.f. stolges, wasp shit USA

spit roast adj. situation where someone performs oral sex on a man while being penetrated sexually from the back (ed: wasn't Gommorrah destroyed for doing this??) USA

spliff n. cigarette made from mixture of tobacco and marijuana cf. grass UK

split n. to inform an authority (teacher, parent, police etc ) of a rule transgression, used as 'to split on someone, e.g. "don't split on me - don't tell teacher!!" cf. grass UK

split arse n. homosexual male USA

split arse n. Uncomplimentary term for female. circa. current UK (NE)

split the kipper, splitsey n. (1) kicking a person in the testicles while two people held each leg akimbo (2) a game played by "big lads." It involved standing facing each other, about 3 - 5 feet apart, on a grassy area and taking a knife (usually a pen-knife), which you would then throw at your opponent's feet. He would have to (without walking) plant his foot where the knife landed and pull it out of the ground without falling over. He would then throw the knife at YOUR feet and you would have to do the same. The first person to flinch or fall over when trying to retrieve the knife was the loser. It was basically like a game of Twister, but with the added thrill of possibly being wounded included. (ed: I remember playing this game in Caerffili, Wales during the 50's - 60's but I think it had a different name... any ideas??) (2) circa. 1955-80 (1) UK (M) (2) UK (NE) (Wa)

spogs n. sweets, lollies, confectionery cf. swats UK (NW)

spoggy n. chewing gum circa. current UK (NE)

spold adj. Corruption of 'spaz'. Pronounced as in (S)Bold c.f. spaz circa. 1980's UL (NW)

spong n. A Spong was basically a bit of a spazz. After a mongy pupil who caused us to be two hours late home from a trip to Windsor Safari Park when he couldn't find the coach.He got a severe kicking from every kid on the coach as he walked to his seat in the 2nd from last row, when he finally turned up (crying and in company of a lion keeper). "What a fucking Spong!" circa. 1975 UK (SE)

spoof n. (1) Lying, winding up, bullshitting, As used at Ashcroft High School, Luton, Bedfordshire, from before I arrived in my 2nd year in 1980. By that time all the kids had already got to know each other and more importantly were LOCAL to each other. I was a total newcomer, and green as grass from my village existence. You can guess the rest... (contribution added verbatim (g)) (2) Ejaculate, semen (ed: or as the contributor put it "The white stuff that comes out of your penis when it ejaculates.". UK (SE)

spoof tube n. An empty paper towel roll stuffed with fabric softener sheets Used to exhale smoke into when smoking marajuana because it covers the smell. c.f. flube tube USA

spoon n. a person so dense they were not allowed to use a sharp object, they could only have a spoon c.f. joey, spaz UK (SE)

spooner n. Term to describe the result when a player in a lunch/ break time football kickabout would strike the ball with the shin or 'flick' with the shoe, causing the ball to arc gracefully miles over the goal/fence resulting in all players shouting "SPOONER!!!"

Commonly used to describe Alistair Sykes of Lavington School, Wiltshire., circa. mid 1980's UK (W)

spooner roundcap n. Every school had one - the briefcase-carrying gimpy kid, usually the mummy's boy type. The sort of person who nowadays might be likened to Duane Dibley (from an episode of Red Dwarf) or Normal Norm off the Twix adverts. As used at Ashcroft High School, Luton, Bedfordshire UK (SE)

spoony, spoonies n. Unfashionable shoes.Spoonies applied only to shoes, not to any other garment.e.g. "'Ee used ter wear spoonies burr'eez gorra pair of Pod now". circa. 1970-80's UK (NW)

sport billy adj. derogatory term for someone interested in sport to the expense of smoking fags/getting hammered on our mate's dad's homebrew etc. From excellent cartoon of same name. 80s UK(N), circa. 1980's UK (N)

spot n. Football based game for 2 to however many players. Participants take it in turn to kick ball against a wall. Only one touch was allowed and missing the wall or hitting the ball above a certain height (determined by some kind of mark on the wall) would result in the offender being on 's' - this would continue until a player had collected all letters to make the word 'spot'. At this point they would have to stand against the wall to become a target for the remaining players. Your reward for hitting one of the boys against the wall was the loss of one of the letters you were on e.g a boy on 's-p-o' would go back to 's-p', The game in this guise only seems to be known by people at school in the South of England. Variations were played elsewhere but were known by different names circa. 1980's UK (S)

spot keeper, spot goalie n. Game. version of Rush Goalie, but with no specifically designated keeper. Any one who was on "the spot" at the time, ie in a position to save the ball, could act as goalkeeper. c.f. fly goalie, skeleton goalie, rush goalie UK

sprag v. & n. to alert a teacher or "grown up" of a misdemeanor a "tell-tale" or liar UK (NE)

Springtime in the Rockies poem. Silly poem picked up in the uk.local.south-wales newsgroup but something I remember my mother saying several times when I was a child:

It was springtime in the Rockies
The snow was falling fast
A bare footed man with clogs on
went slowly whizzing past

He went round a straight crooked corner
to see a dead donkey die
He pulled out a gun and stabbed him
and then began to cry.

I went to the pictures tomorrow
I took the front seat at the back
I fell from the floor to the ceiling
and broke the front bone in my back

They took me to Cardiff Infirmary
and starved me with plenty to eat
They fed me plain cake with currants in
and whipped me and tickled my feet.

circa. 1950's+ UK (Wal)

sprog 1)n. 2)v. 1) a semi-affectionate term for a child 2) expulsion of production of bronchial congestion, e.g. "I sprogged on the floor." UK (NE)

spuds game. This was a method used to determine who would be 'It' first. You could have big spuds, or little spuds. Little spuds you just held out two fists, big spuds both hands clasped together. Then whoever was in charge would say the following whilst counting around the extended 'spuds':

One Potato, Two Potato
Three Potato, Four.
Five Potato, Six Potato
Seven Potato, More...
One - bad - spud - means - you - are - not - it.

This would continue until only one person was left. circa. 1960's - onwards UK

spunk (1)n. (3) adj. (1) male ejaculate. (2) courage (3) an attractive male (4) worthless individual, eg; "Now listen here, spunk!" (ed: it's odd how the word has opposite meanings in UK and AUS, i.e. Aussie girls LIKE their men to be "spunks") (1, 2, 4)UK (3) AU

spunk bubble adj. An gentle insult or 'argument winner' with friends. It's not too harsh, just funny to people around you when you call someone a spunk bubble. Used, for example, in the middle of an argument when all of a sudden you call the other person a "Spunk bubble" and they dont know what to say leaving you the winner of the argument.

Also defined by Vince Gazy as: General term of abuse for a fellow worthless and hapless school mate if they had done something stupid. I remember it being used by my Roman Catholic mate Nick in Nottingham, England in the very early Eighties. circa. 1960's onwards UK (NE)

square n. cigarette circa. 1990's USA

square-go... (1) widely used playground precursor to a sound "kicking" - usually followed by "...pal", "...Jimmy" etc., "be frightened....be very frightened!" (2) Always as a shout, 'Square Goes!' was a call to battle. After a brief exchange of abuse, when a fight was obviously called for you would challenge your opponent with the phrase 'Square Goes!" and usually leave a time."Right then ya cunt - square goes - you and me - after maths!", commonly used around 1985-86 (for our school anyway, but we were a bunch of windy-lickers!) circa. mid 1970's during Scottish non-pacifist era extending roughly (very) -300 B.C. to present day Note: ok, both def's are really the same... but who's gonna argue with a mad Scot?? UK (Scot)

squeeze-cheese v. To fart, flatulate loudly. circa. 1980 - 85 UK

squibs, squibsies, squibsy n. Indicate immunity from being "it" or "tag". e.g., "No, no, I'm squibs!"; "Can't get me, I've got squibsies!" If you were squibs, you could show it by crossing the fingers of both hands. circa 1984 cf. tag, tig UK (SE)

squids n. Pounds, money in general. Derived from 'quid'.

squits, squirts n. diarrohea c.f runs UK

squits n. Mutation of 'quits' with the added benefit of it's connotations with diarrhoea, e.g. "If you give back the fiver you owe me we'll call it squits?" circa. 1990's UK

squitsies n. to be made exempt from being "it" or "had" in chase games. fleas-inject, twixies

S.S.D.M. ph. Acronym for (s)chizophrenic, (s)pasticated, (d)emented, (m)ongol, which are people that do not how to behave properly and when don't get their own way act like a spoilt brat., circa. 1980's UK

stagutz n. Expression used when someone does something stupid and frustrating. Akin to "gee whiz?!" Used as "sta-gutz with 'gutz' elongated. fleas-inject, twixies

stains n. Greeting between friends. Used as "eh up stains - you orrite?" circa. 2001 UK (Mid)

stain adj. Used to describe a scrub. (ed: it's odd how one slang term is used to refer to another. But also we don't have a definition for 'scrub' so if someone would oblige please?) circa. 990's USA

stall n. a game where the stallholder would lean valuable football cards or stickers (like teams or club badges) against a wall and the player(s), squatting at a certain distance, would attempt to knock them over by skimming less valuable cards at them. Cards knocked over were kept by the player, missing cards were kept by the stallholder. UK

Stamp Out game. Kids would tag each other to give or get rid of "Cooties," and sometimes the kids would try to tag the tagger right back, so Stamp Out was invented. The kid would shout Stamp Out! and punch his fist into his palm repeatedly. It was also used right before a kid tried to tag you, so the kid with cooties had to be quick! circa. 1990's USA

stamps, stampsies n. an occasional rule of a game of conkers: if someone's conker came off their string, or they dropped it, the opponent would be allowed to stamp on the conker if the owner didn't pick it up in time. So kids would say "Are we playing stamps ?" - sensible kids said no cf. conkers

stay ad. Substitue for 'still. Used as "You stay wearin that?", "Oh my god you stay be sayin that?" circa. 1990's USA

steamer n. Oral sex on a male; blow job. Used as "She usually doesn't go all the way, but she'll definitely give you a steamer!" circa. 1990's UK

STD grab bag adj. Describes a male that has had may sexual partners, and has had a sexualy transmitted dieases from one of his partners. If one has sex with this guy you recieve a STD. (ed: for us virgins, STD = sexually transmitted disease) circa. 1990's USA

steely n. a "marble" made of stainless steel instead of glass. They ranged in size from tiny ball-bearings to huge 'tenners'. c.f. dobber, alley bomper, tenner UK

stellar adj. Similar to "amazing", "awesome", "mega" etc. e.g. "That haircut is great - really stellar!". circa. 1980's - 90's USA

stench trench adj. Uncomplimentary description of a womans genital area. circa. 1990's UK (Scot)

stenner n. Shortened version of Frankenstein - Used to describe a person with a large forehead. Tefal was also used as the word is based on the large foreheaded characters featured in the Tefal advert in the UK in the mid 80's.

D. Young of Lavington School was the original source of the "Stenny!" term, c.f. Tefal circa mid 1980's UK (W)

step v. To fight, brawl. Used as "Wanna step?", and when a battle is won, the victor could say, "Step down." circa. 1990's USA

stick goalie n. goalie cannot leave penalty area (soccer) UK (SE)

Sticking it to v. To have sexual intercourse with. circa. 1940's onwards USA

stiffie n. an erection

stig n. In one 'middle school' it became common practice for the 4th years to read a book called 'Stig of The Dump' in lesons. Stig was a hairy Neanderthal man who lived in a rubbish dump and made his house out of such treasure as coathangers, and vaccum cleaners. thus anybody felt lived in a dump or made their house out of cardboard became known as a 'stig'. Thus included any smelly person dressed in Oxfam style dress, possibly wearing Tesco trainers, and possibly having fleas too. Probably. f. Stig of The Dump (UK TV series) cf. fleabag circa. 1980's UK (SE)

stig-bin n. In PE class when u forgot your kit u would have to borrow some from the "stig-bin". like a lost & found collection of manky shorts, t-shirts and lovely plimsolls. f. Stig of The Dump (UK TV series) circa. 1980's UK

stinger n. This was exclaimed when some one was whacked in the nuts with a football, or received any kind of pain in the ballbag area. The word was used in Plymouth when someone was smacked in the nuts with a wet tennis ball when playing bulldog. circa. 1980's UK (SW)

stinger n. An exclamation used to acknowledge the pain or anguish of a second party, though often that pain may well have been brought about by the first party themselves. For example, when changing after PE, when some amount of bare skin was inevitable, a person might issue a resounding and painful slap to the bare back of a contemporary, leaving a large red hand mark and bringing about a squeal of pain. "Stinger!" the slapper might then say, as if to sympathise with their agony.

It was also used to acknowledge pain that was merely witnessed, not caused. Say, for example, if you saw someone go over their handle bars at 30mph or take a cricket ball full pelt to the bridge of the nose, "Stinger!" you'd announce, with a heavy emphasis on the first syllable.

"Stinger" was also used in constructions such as: "Stinger for you!" and the stranger "Stinger for YOUR head!!!". circa. 1990's UK (NE)

Stinky Pinky, stinky finger adj. The aroma lingering on the skin after "fingering" a girl circa. 1970's+ UK, USA

Stoked adj. To be really pleased with something, or the way a situation eventuated. circa. 1960's - onwards AUS

stonker, stonk-on n. erection

stolges n. chewed up bits of paper flung against a wall (or each other) using a ruler to give extra propulsion. cf. wasp shit UK

stoked adj. To be excited, or happy. "I'm so stoked right now!" Used mostly by surfers in the Southern California region of USA, circa. 1980's+ USA (Calif)

Stomach thinks the throats been cut id. Extremely hungry circa. 1950's onwards AUS

stoned v., n. Someone getting drunk or high. e.g: "Mike's getting stoned in the back room". circa. 1980's USA (Central)

stoner n. a person who uses a lot of Marijuans, e.g. "John is a stoner". USA

stonker n. (1) an erection (2) excellent, really good, impressive "The party was great - a real stonker!" UK (NE)

stonking n. excellent, really good, impressive "The party was great - I had a stonking good time!" UK (NE)

stoof n. Stoof, used in replacement of weed or dope in various forms. Stoofling, meaning a spliff, stoofed, to be stoned. Stooflington, an imaginary place full of stoofed people containing a potent mix of cartoon animation and interesting catchphrases, ie small running leaves proclaiming "Shite" when raked up, also highly muffin based as it is the primary feeder of the munchies and also the main power source. These terms never failed to baffle our bemused teachers and peers alike. (ed: I can see why!) circa. 1990's UK

stooge n. An idiot. Used when a person is being hella annoying. "Ian, don't be a stooge!". circa. 1990's AUS

stott on n. an erection UK (NE)

stowed adj. When the finger is hit on the end with a ball, the finger jammed was said to be stowed. circa. 1980's UK

straight floungin n. acting normally according to by social circumstances. For example "I'm straight floungin to the mall", means "I'm chillin at the mall" or "hangin out" USA

strapped (.... for cash) n. without money "Gawd I'd love a pint but I'm strapped for cash." UK

street adj. For kids who aren't from the 'streets' (like homies who get to say Eastside/Westside, but try to be anyway. No rules as to what is street, but when the group do something different which gets the approval of everyone else, it gets labelled 'street', and is therefore acceptable. Typical street things: one leg up and the other one down on jeans, bandanas Rambo style, listening and dancing to Old Skool Hip Hop. street! circa. 2002 UK (SE)

stress n. a mocking exclamation for any expression of ire circa. 1990's UK (NE)

Stretton Hall or Hall-ey n. A word used to describe someone of lower than average intelligence. Stretton Hall was then a hospital which was closed down on the late 80s. No-one is quite sure whether it was a home for metally disabled people or not, but the fact that it was down an incredibly long driveway and the buiding itself was not visible from the road, most people just assumed it was. circa. 1990's UK (Mid)

strides n. trousers Aus

Striker n. Model of bicycle manufactured by Raleigh during the 1970s, The Striker was part of the Grifter line (largest to smallest) was: Grifter, Striker, Boxer, but unique in that it had a coaster (pedal-back) brake (info. on Raleigh bikes courtesy Wayne Ryder). circa. 1990's UK

strobing n. masturbation f. the speed of the hand movement. UK

stroke n. to steal

stroker n. A person who masturbates excessively. c.f. wanker circa. 1990's UK

strotter n. A young child with no pubic hair, as in "Har har, Smiffy's still a strotter", usually followed by vehement, red-faced denial on the part of the strotter. c.f. sconner circa. 1979 - 84 UK (NE)

stubble n. similar to chinny-reck-on etc, but accompanied by rubbing of chin and a noise of disagreement along the lines of "neigh", but sounding more like "naiii". c.f. Jimmy Hill, chinny-reck-on etc. UK (NE)

stuck in the mud n. combination of tag and simulated oral sex. When tigged one must stand still with legs apart, and wait for a member of the opposite sex to crawl between them, thus 'releasing' you from being stuck. c.f. tag

studly n. studly is buff, tuff, kool, good looking, popular, just allreayd good. it's studly. "This site is studly" (ed: added verbatim. Sometimes you just HAVE to), USA

stuffer n. Used to imply a person who is extremely self satisfied, egotistical, arrogant, pompous who, will certainly boast about their sexual conquests, but most likely would like to partake in a relationship with themselves.,

stun, stunner n. Basically a word used to laugh at other peoples misfortunes, e.g. "My dogs just died" - hahah Stun! "I just got a case of crabs off Shirley Jones" - STUNNER!. circa. 1985-95 UK (SW)

stunt nuts n. elongated nuts that went on the back wheel of your bmx allowing you to stand on them to concoct bmx trickery of some sort

stupe n. contraction of stupid USA

suck adj. To hurt oneself and whinge about the pain experienced. Used as "So you fell over? Don't be such a suck!" circa. 1990's CAN

suck (you.... ) derog. insult implying you perform fellatio, which must in turn therefore imply a negative attitude towards performing oral sex! UK

suck spit n. mouth to mouth contact involving the exchange of saliva. A kiss c.f. french kiss, tonsil hockey UK

sucky adj. Bad, ugly, stinky, stupid - not cool! circa. current USA

sugar n. To kiss. "Give some sugar honey!" circa. 1990's UK

sugar daddy . An 'older' man who has a 'younger' girlfriend on whom he lavishes gifts, money and lots of affection. Used as a derogatory term by older women who wish they had one, and younger men who wish they were one. circa. 1930's onwards USA

suffering barnet n. An unfortunate haircut. The style usually being a result of having been taken to the barbers by one's mother (she may have even done it herself). circa. 1980 UK (NW)

sure bill! n. exression of disbelief: often combined with stroking the chin cf. Jimmy Hill, chinney reck-on UK (W)

sussed n. figure out, understand, an assertion of correctness, to find error in another person i.e."I'm right, you're wrong"

Suzy had a steamboat... n. Julie Hoverson sent this and said: "I haven't yet browsed all over to see if you have this one (mostly because it starts with a name and it could start with any name, you know?), but seeing one that started with "arsehole" that was similar in style brought this one back to me and I thought you might like to add it (I'm from the U.S.). I have no idea where it might come from, just that I learned it in grade school.

Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell,
The steamboat went to heaven, and Lucy went to...
Hell-o operator, please give me number nine,
And if you disconnect me, I'll cut off your...
Behind the frigerator, there was a piece of glass,
When Suzy fell upon it, she cut her little...
Ask me no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies,
The boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their...
Flies are in the country, bees are inthe park,
The boys and girls are kissing after D-A-R-K dark.
Darker than the meadow
Darker than the sea
Darker than the black boy
That's chasing after me, me, me!,

(ed: I expect there is a lot more. So if anyone has more verses, please send them it!)

swabby n. Someone who enjoys wiping his/her whole face over the womans clitoris whilst muff diving (oral sex). circa. 1990's USA

swag n. cannabis UK (Wa)

swamp donkey n. unattractive person of the opposite sex UK (SE)

swamp ass n. the effect of sitting and sweating a lot. i.e. trousers/ shorts etc get wet and smell. USA

swankalishious The epitome of good looking and sexy; beautiful. Used as "She is one swankalishious babe!". circa. 1980's+ USA

swaps n. When collecting football cards or stickers (and similar) to go in albums, you always had some duplicate cards, or didn't get others. You used these to "swap" i.e. exchange for other cards etc. which you didn't have yet. UK

swap spit n. french kissing c.f. suck spit, french kissing, tonsil hockey UK

swass adj. Working or sitting and sweating and your but gets sweaty you have swass (sw-ass) (sweaty ass). Mostly a male canadian term c.f. swamp ass circa. 2000 CAN

swats n. Noun. Pronounced like "HATS". A term for sweets and candy.e.g. "Gis' a SWAT!", when the contributor was at school - but seems to have fallen out of favour. circa 1980 UK (NE)

swat, swot n. smart-arse, goody-goody, know-all, pupil cleverer than the others - maybe cos s/he was the only who actually did any work... and not only DID homework, but handed it it in too! UK (SE)

sweater meat b. Breasts, There is something about big tits accentuated by a nice furry sweater to keep your imagination in overdrive. (ed: don't get me started - I have work to do!) circa. 1990's UK

sweat(y) adj. something or someone you found particularly ugly/unsavoury/ horrible; e.g. "He is SO sweaty!". (sounds best when pronounced in braod Yorkshire accent (with silent 't') circa. early 1990's UK

Sweaty n. Alternate name for Scots person from rhyming slang 'sweaty sock = Jock'. circa. 1980's + UK (SE)

sweaty betty n. From the song:
Sweaty betty, she's like a lump of lard
Sweaty betty, she makes yer willy hard'
as sung in Leeds playgrounds. Also used outside the song, as in: 'she were a proper sweaty betty'.

Note: "Sweaty Betty" is apparently the title of a song by the Macc Lads, an obscure UK band. Not knowing their work intimately, the contributor can't be sure of details but there are probably other songs of theirs that have inspired playground slang. Probably because the Macc Lads use rude words. (ed: all very well, but the implied insult 'Sweaty Betty' has been around for a long, long time! Probably since the name 'Elizabeth' was first contracted to Betty.) circa. 1980's UK (N)

sweaty giblets p. nonsense phrase to say when all else fails UK

sweenies n. Very prominant sideburns. Derives from the British cop show 'The Sweeny' Where the main stars sported fantastically groomed sideburns. circa. 1980 - 85 UK

sweet adj. really good, cool, tight, dope. e.g. "That 180 snowboard was sweet!" circa. 1990's - to date USA

sweet f.a., s.f.a. ph. Semi acronym meaning 'sweet fuck all' - felt to be less offensive when used as s.f.a. than in full version. circa. 1960's onwards UK

swick v. Getting into a queue at the front instead of at the back, primarily because you were older than the rest of the people in the queue and/or you knew the prefect at the front was called 'swicking the queue' prompting cries of "Hey min, get back ye swick!", ' from brave people, or chanting 'swicker' if you weren't going to get away with it. circa/ current UK (Scot)

swifty v. To pull someone's hair back from the forehead (using your hands pressed against their head) backwards across the top of the head, causing pain to the hairline region in particular. Particularly effective if done from behind, on Tefals, or on girls with big spams (foreheads).

When teachers discovered that this was going on in our Essex comp our surly Welsh head of year stood up in front of everyone in assembly and said "There is a practice going around this school called swiftying" to which we all dissolved into laughter. c.f. Tefal circa. 1990's UK (SE)

swinger n. A person who moves from sexual partner to sexual partner with no intention of settling into a permanent relationship. These people would be insulted if you called them 'sluts'!

A feature of the 'social scene' that developed in the 1970's was the 'wife-swapping party' (not it was wives that were swapped not husbands!) where 'swinger couples' would get together to have sex with each others partner - usually male-female. (ed: how come I never get invited to that sort of party!) circa. 1970's UK

sword fighter p. (1) homosexual(2) Situation where two males both attempt to be pleasured orally (to have a sword fight) by a woman. (ed: there are times I think some contributors make these up on the spur of the moment!) UK