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Call of the Weird choose

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[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 169: In its anorak quality, its hobbyism, the event felt oddly English.
at anorak, n.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 104: He was fooling around, too. He got into fornicating.
at fool around, v.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 180: Jeezy looked [...] thrillingly badass.
at bad-ass, adj.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 151: He’s got to be a kiss-ass to keep his job.
at kiss-ass, n.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 129: Mike is awesome. Very open-minded.
at awesome, adj.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 106: When you see your friends leave and go back into Babylon, it’s disheartening. I’ve seen a lot of them come and go, and they profess and believe the same things I believe.
at Babylon, n.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 214: This whole idea of it being a cult is so off-base.
at off base (adj.) under base, n.2
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 181: Feuding – ‘beefing’ as it’s called – was back, too. [...] the most prolific beefer of all was [...] 50 Cent. The inside sleeve of his latest album, The Massacre, contained coded death threats on rival artists.
at beef, v.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 200: Beefs in the hip-hop community are just the same as corporate beefs. Coke beefing with Pepsi.
at beef, n.2
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 93: The community had been founded by gun nuts and Bible thumpers.
at bible-thumper (n.) under bible, n.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 130: Is that such a big deal, having sex in the negotiating room?
at big deal, n.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 15: RV parks populated by the flock of itinerant elderly known as ‘snowbirds’.
at snow bird, n.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 127: I’m having a blast.
at blast, n.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 196: For every bling bling, every bling that was on my neck and on my homie’s neck, somebody died for that.
at bling, n.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 166: She had a nigger baby. [...] She had a boo baby.
at boogie, adj.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 181: He’d married his ‘boss bitch’.
at boss-bitch (n.) under boss, n.2
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 138: I can just show up because I’m the hottest one there. [...] But tonight they had eleven girls there and would’ve had to bump one.
at bump, v.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 44: I actually had my butt torn.
at butt, n.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 121: Okay, hon, follow my butt.
at butt, n.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 131: It would be a chance to see some of the old-style cathouses.
at cat-house, n.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 79: He reminisced about his tomcatting days in the fifties.
at tomcatting (adj.) under tom cat, v.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 214: We make awkward chit-chat.
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 200: If it ain’t got to do with me or my click, fuck a nigga!
at click, n.2
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 174: It was all cobblers.
at cobblers, n.2
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 129: Do you want some more cock?
at cock, n.3
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 62: Summer did her best to be enthusiastic, issuing bawdy come-ons.
at come-on, n.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 51: We were flying. We were cooking.
at cooking, adj.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 23: I could at least have a crack at Bob.
at have a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 13: Do your friends and family regard you as a little bit cracked?
at cracked, adj.
[UK] L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 130: Haley had been strung out on ‘crank’ – the street name for crystal meth, a particularly toxic form of speed.
at crank, n.2
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