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[US] Slate 29 Apr. 🌐 An entire generation has grown up in a world of hair extensions, pneumatic hooters, and stripper poles.
at hooter, n.3
[US] Slate 20 Jan. 🌐 Your bazongas are the size and weight of cantaloupes?
at bazongas, n.
[US] Slate 20 Jan. 🌐 While I try desperately to catch a glimpse of Mick’s bottie, my pals focus on the chests of the two ladies.
at bottie, n.
[US] Slate 21 Nov. 🌐 White bread came to be associated with boring blandness, suburban sanitized white-picket-fence-ified phony gentility. A veritable curse upon a person or a work of art: ‘That's so white-bread’.
at white bread, adj.
[US] Slate 21 Nov. 🌐 Let me say at the outset, I don’t mean to be a buzz-kill. I’m happy for you if you like white-meat turkey.
at buzzkill, n.
[US] slate.com 28 May 🌐 A North African tyrant in hiding falls for a crunchy Brooklyn peace activist.
at crunchy, adj.2
[US] Slate 17 Dec. 🌐 These kids who do this are not playing with a full deck, but I'm wondering [...] how many of them were drug addicts.
at not play with a full deck (v.) under deck, n.4
[US] Slate 17 Dec. 🌐 Do you want gun control that works and isn’t just a symbolic wankfest or not?
at -fest, sfx
[US] Slate 20 Jan. 🌐 [headline] The Return of the Pert Knocker.
at knocker, n.1
[US] Slate 20 Jan. 🌐 My dude pals kvelled enthusiastically about Pallenberg’s modest knockers.
at kvell, v.
[US] Slate 20 Jan. 🌐 Radical rack augmentation is now ubiquitous, and to hell with the consequences.
at rack, n.2
[US] Slate 17 Dec. 🌐 Now we're supposed to praise the open-minded leadership of this representative of the white trash from West Virginia [...] This rube is one of the biggest reasons I never give a penny to the democratic party.
at rube, n.1
[US] slate.com 3 July 🌐 I support gay rights. I’m a “breeder.” Would you like me to end my support? Next time I get a fundraising pitch from a gay rights group should I just scrawl, ‘Breeder’ across the letter and send it back without a check?
at breeder, n.
[US] Slate 8 Feb. 🌐 I got a quarter chub just looking at the map.
at chubby, n.
[US] slate.com 19 June 🌐 Revealing men’s swim garments are, for the U.S. consumer, irrevocably associated with ‘foreigners’ and, most terrifying of all, friends of Dorothy.
at Dorothy’s friend, n.
[US] slate.com 22 June 🌐 Board shorts look stupid but speedos are just icky.
at icky, adj.
[US] slate.com 23 June 🌐 I’ve been to a nude beach a couple of times and been completely comfortable. Yet somehow I’d feel weird if I went to the beach with nothing but bright, eye-catching fabric stretched across my junk.
at junk, n.1
[US] Slate 24 Mar. 🌐 She demanded $500 or she was going to call the cops. I simply told her she was S.O.L. and drove off.
at s.o.l., adj.
[US] slate.com 22 June 🌐 Only complete scumbags would insult a woman's breasts, nipples, saddlebags or genitals in an argument.
at saddlebags (n.) under saddle, n.
[US] slate.com 3 July 🌐 Gays are cool. Live and let live. I just love women. Can’t see the attraction of switch hitting.
at switch-hitter (n.) under switch, n.1
[US] slate.com 19 June 🌐 Bikinis have never been smaller. Hoochies have never been hotter. Tramp stamps have never been trampier.
at tramp stamp (n.) under tramp, n.
[US] Slate 19 Mar. 🌐 Buckfast Tonic Wine, as it is officially known, has a number of colorful nicknames, like ‘Commotion Lotion,’ ‘Wreck the Hoose Juice,’ and ‘Cumbernauld Rocket Fuel,’ all of which give a pretty solid accounting of the drink’s effects.
at Cumbernauld rocket fuel, n.
[US] Slate 13 Nov. 🌐 All over this country, the deplorables are wilding. ‘US Hate Crimes Spark Anxiety in the Wake of Trump Win,’ says a [...] headline.
at wild, v.
[US] Slate 13 Feb. 🌐 ‘CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false’.
at suss out, v.
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