Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Among the New Words choose

Quotation Text

[US] letter in J. Algeo Fifty Years Among the New Words (1991) 241: On two occasions, last year, I overheard students referring to a certain course as being a ‘no-brainer’.
at no-brainer, n.
[US] J. Algeo Fifty Years Among the New Words (1993) 241: 1990 Fall. Wedgy appears to be a term for a high-school prank [...] Connie Eble reports the synonyms melvin and murphy.
at melvin, n.
[US] J. Algeo Fifty Years Among the New Words (1993) 241: 1990 Fall. Wedgy appears to be a term for a high-school prank [...] Connie Eble reports the synonyms melvin and murphy.
at murphy, n.2
[US] J. Algeo Fifty Years Among the New Words (1993) 226: 1987 Winter. A recently newsworthy British form is Paki-bashing ‘beating up Pakistanis.
at Paki-bashing (n.) under Paki, n.
no more results