colloquialism

1. A colloquial expression;
   Characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (synset 107089193)
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   • firewall - (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust
   • fix - something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
   • heavy lifting - difficult work
   • biz, game - your occupation or line of work
   • no-brainer - anything that requires little thought
   • crapshoot - a risky and uncertain venture
   • snogging - (British informal) cuddle and kiss
   • wash - any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
   • aggro - (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
   • dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird, dickybird - small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds
   • bunny, bunny rabbit - (usually informal) especially a young rabbit
   • bib-and-tucker - an attractive outfit
   • delf - an excavation; usually a quarry or mine
   • funny wagon - an ambulance used to transport patients to a mental hospital
   • boom box, ghetto blaster - a portable stereo
   • lemon, stinker - an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
   • long johns - warm underwear with long legs
   • main drag - the main street of a town or city
   • put-put - a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)
   • rathole - a small dirty uncomfortable room
   • rattrap - filthy run-down dilapidated housing
   • redbrick university - (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University
   • ritz - an ostentatiously elegant hotel
   • security blanket - anything that an adult person uses to reduce anxiety
   • shooting gallery - a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
   • sunday best, sunday clothes - the best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday
   • war paint - full ceremonial regalia
   • smoke - something with no concrete substance
   • class - elegance in dress or behavior
   • setup - the way something is organized or arranged
   • backbone, grit, gumption, guts, moxie, sand - fortitude and determination
   • way - the property of distance in general
   • number - a clothing measurement
   • enormity - vastness of size or extent
   • drag - something tedious and boring
   • hot stuff, voluptuousness - the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)
   • eye, oculus, optic - the organ of sight
   • peeper - an informal term referring to the eye
   • proboscis - the human nose (especially when it is large)
   • countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage - the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
   • can of worms - a source of unpredictable trouble and complexity
   • hang-up - an emotional preoccupation
   • think - an instance of deliberate thinking
   • crosshairs - a center of interest
   • turn-on - something causing excitement or stimulating interest
   • negative stimulation, turnoff - something causing antagonism or loss of interest
   • plague - an annoyance
   • bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements
   • pertainym - meaning relating to or pertaining to
   • teaser - an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
   • pickup - a warrant to take someone into custody
   • double dutch - an incomprehensible talk
   • put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown - a crushing remark
   • rap - voluble conversation
   • bull session - an informal discussion (usually among men)
   • huddle, powwow - (informal) a quick private conference
   • pep talk - a speech of exhortation attempting to instill enthusiasm and determination in a team or staff
   • homestretch - the end of an enterprise
   • barnburner - an impressively successful event
   • blessed event, happy event - the live birth of a child
   • creeps - a feeling of fear and revulsion
   • blahs - a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction
   • banger - (British informal) pork sausage
   • firewater - any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum)
   • swad - a bunch
   • maffia, mafia - any tightly knit group of trusted associates
   • turf - range of jurisdiction or influence
   • borscht belt, borscht circuit, borsht belt, borsht circuit - (informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests
   • drink - any large deep body of water
   • number one - a reference to yourself or myself etc.; `take care of number one' means to put your own interests first
   • big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho - an important influential person
   • bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig - uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
   • canary - a female singer
   • cannon fodder, fodder, fresh fish - soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
   • crazy, looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo - someone deranged and possibly dangerous
   • dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw - someone who is a detective
   • dimwit, doofus, half-wit, nitwit - a stupid incompetent person
   • dodo, fogey, fogy, fossil - someone whose style is out of fashion
   • don't-know - a person who responds `I don't know' in a public opinion poll
   • fence - a dealer in stolen property
   • dud, flop, washout - someone who is unsuccessful
   • fuddy-duddy - a conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance
   • gal - alliterative term for girl (or woman)
   • geezer - a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric
   • head - a user of (usually soft) drugs
   • headhunter - a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)
   • hustler, operator, wheeler dealer - a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
   • know-all, know-it-all - someone who thinks he knows everything and refuses to accept advice or information from others
   • lazybones - a lazy person
   • man - a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
   • middlebrow - someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
   • mouth, mouthpiece - a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
   • paperhanger - someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money
   • rainmaker - executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm
   • clone, dead ringer, ringer - a person who is almost identical to another
   • shoofly - an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
   • gloomy gus, picklepuss, pouter, sourpuss - someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression
   • greyback, johnny, johnny reb, reb, rebel - `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
   • killjoy, party pooper, spoilsport, wet blanket - someone who spoils the pleasure of others
   • square, square toes - a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
   • stuffed shirt - a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned
   • thrush - a woman who sings popular songs
   • townee - townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller
   • card, wag, wit - a witty amusing person who makes jokes
   • woman - a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man
   • cleanup, killing - a very large profit
   • giveaway - a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group
   • meal ticket - a source of income or livelihood
   • swag - valuable goods
   • ice, sparkler - diamonds
   • load - an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
   • soup - an unfortunate situation
   • size, size of it - the actual state of affairs
   • state - a state of depression or agitation
   • frazzle - a state of extreme exhaustion
   • horniness, hot pants, hotness - a state of sexual arousal
   • charley horse, charley-horse - a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise
   • dumps, mopes - an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
   • crack, shot - a chance to do something
   • street - a situation offering opportunities
   • throw - a single chance or instance
   • fug - (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
   • soup - any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
   • sticks and stone - a general term for building materials
   • week from monday - a time period of a week or more
   • month of sundays - a time perceived as long
   • blue moon - a long time
   • figure - understand
   • foot, hoof, hoof it, leg it - walk
   • keep one's eyes open, keep one's eyes peeled, keep one's eyes skinned - pay attention; be watchful
   • give it a try, give it a whirl - try
   • break - happen or take place
   • potted - (British informal) summarized or abridged
   • living - (informal) absolute
   • come-at-able, get-at-able, getatable - capable of being reached or attained
   • un-come-at-able, un-get-at-able, ungetatable - difficult to reach or attain
   • dead-on - accurate and to the point
   • hot - marked by excited activity
   • fly - (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked
   • hot under the collar - very angry
   • huffy, mad, sore - roused to anger
   • livid - furiously angry
   • dinky - (British informal) pretty and neat
   • dishy - (informal British) sexually attractive
   • primo - the best of its kind
   • chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied - easily frightened
   • bone-idle, bone-lazy - constitutionally lazy or idle
   • chancy, flukey, fluky, iffy - subject to accident or chance or change
   • punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy - dazed from or as if from repeated blows
   • anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky - having or revealing stupidity
   • buddy-buddy, chummy, thick - (used informally) associated on close terms
   • togged - dressed especially in smart clothes
   • bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, raw, stark naked - (used informally) completely unclothed
   • starkers - (British informal) stark naked
   • comfortable, comfy - providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
   • bad, tough - feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
   • flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled - thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
   • jam-packed, jammed, packed - extremely crowed or filled to capacity
   • far-out, kinky, offbeat, quirky, way-out - (informal) strikingly unconventional
   • boss-eyed - (British informal) cross-eyed
   • broken, busted - out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')
   • knocked-out - damaged
   • licked - having been got the better of
   • plummy - very desirable
   • done for, gone, kaput - destroyed or killed
   • tall - impressively difficult
   • cushy, easygoing, soft - not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
   • flat-footed, flatfooted - forthright and explicit
   • hopped-up, stoned - under the influence of narcotics
   • live - abounding with life and energy
   • anxious, dying - eagerly desirous
   • ritzy - luxuriously elegant
   • het up - worked up emotionally by anger or excitement
   • crazy, dotty, gaga, wild - intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
   • no-frills - characterized by the absence of inessential features
   • crazy - possessed by inordinate excitement
   • big-ticket, high-ticket - very expensive
   • cool - fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept
   • groovy, swagger - (British informal) very chic
   • in - currently fashionable
   • prehistoric - no longer fashionable
   • classy, posh, swish - elegant and fashionable
   • snazzy - flashily stylish
   • gammy - (British informal) sore or lame
   • niffy - (British informal) malodorous
   • chummy, matey, pally, palsy-walsy - (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
   • stuffed - crammed with food
   • honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, sure-enough - (used informally especially for emphasis) real or genuine
   • bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell - very good
   • hopeless - (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
   • crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky - very bad
   • no-good, rubber - returned for lack of funds
   • shirty, snorty - (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
   • straight - not homosexual
   • shady - of questionable honesty or legality
   • killing, sidesplitting - very funny
   • dickey, dicky - (British informal) faulty
   • big - significant
   • fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial - (informal) small and of little importance
   • potty - (British informal) trivial
   • hep, hip, hip to - informed about the latest trends
   • highbrow, highbrowed - highly cultured or educated
   • banging, humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping - (used informally) very large
   • man-sized - very large; appropriate to the size of a man
   • whacking - (British informal) enormous
   • bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny - (used informally) very small
   • dinky, insignificant - small and unimpressive
   • hot - recently stolen or smuggled
   • canned, transcribed - recorded for broadcast
   • blue-eyed, fair-haired, white-haired - favorite
   • hexed, jinxed - (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune
   • blood-and-guts - marked by great zeal or violence
   • bodacious - incorrigible
   • all-fired - extreme
   • decent - sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public
   • together - mentally and emotionally stable
   • awful, frightful, terrible, tremendous - extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
   • one, right - (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
   • some - remarkable
   • square - leaving no balance
   • stuck - baffled
   • mind-bending, mind-blowing - intensely affecting the mind especially in producing hallucinations
   • dressy - in fancy clothing
   • cockamamie, cockamamy - informal term for ridiculous and implausible
   • beastly, god-awful, hellish - (informal) very unpleasant
   • hot - very popular or successful
   • crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded - foolish; totally unsound
   • high-flown, high-sounding, inflated - pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
   • jumped-up - (British informal) upstart
   • white-shoe - denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative
   • fat, juicy - lucrative
   • kosher - proper or legitimate
   • cool - used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis
   • fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious - not as expected
   • lunatic, moonstruck - insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
   • screw-loose, screwy - not behaving normally
   • all right, cool, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay - being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
   • umpteenth, umptieth, umteenth - last in an indefinitely numerous series
   • hot - performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
   • clubable, clubbable - inclined to club together
   • bad - nonstandard
   • shy - short
   • a-one, ace, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops - of the highest quality
   • boss, brag - exceptionally good
   • bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny - of very poor quality; flimsy
   • ropey, ropy - (British informal) very poor in quality
   • gobsmacked - utterly astounded
   • goggle-eyed, openmouthed, popeyed - with eyes or mouth open in surprise
   • jiggered - (British informal expletive) surprised
   • buttoned-up - (British colloquial) not inclined to conversation
   • pumped, pumped up, pumped-up, wired - tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
   • economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting - avoiding waste
   • all in, beat, bushed, dead - very tired
   • whacked - (British informal) exhausted or worn out
   • fuggy - (British informal) poorly ventilated
   • knock-down-and-drag-out, knockdown-dragout - extremely violent
   • goofy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany - ludicrous, foolish
   • boiling - extremely
   • plum, plumb - exactly
   • all right, alright, o.k., okay - in a satisfactory or adequate manner
   • anyplace, anywhere - at or in or to any place
   • someplace, somewhere - in or at or to some place
   • all over, everyplace, everywhere - to or in any or all places
   • anon - (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while
   • apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly - unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
   • awful, awfully, frightfully, terribly - used as intensifiers
   • by all means - definitely or certainly
   • by no means, not by a blame sight, not by a long sight - definitely not
   • good, soundly, thoroughly - completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly')
   • flop, right - exactly
   • forever, forever and a day - for a very long or seemingly endless time
   • dingdong - heartily or earnestly
   • right smart, way - to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)
   • at any rate, at least, leastways, leastwise - if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)
   • irregardless - regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously
   • certainly, for certain, for sure, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely - definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')
   • easily, easy - with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
   • easy, soft - in a relaxed manner; or without hardship
   • easy, slow, slowly, tardily - without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
   • in a pig's eye - absolutely not; never
   • like crazy, like hell, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder - (informal) with great speed or effort or intensity; used for emphasis
   • hopelessly - in a hopeless manner
   • bang, bolt, slap, slapdash, smack - directly
   • rough, roughly - with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
   • heaps - very much
   • plop, plunk - with a short hollow thud
   • plump - straight down especially heavily or abruptly
   • sweet, sweetly - in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
   is a type of: expression, formulation - the style of expressing yourself

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