MAC-Gyver's definitions

rhyming slang

1) The use of a rhyming word in the place of the original word to obscure the meaning.
2)The chaotic blur that is the soul of the Cockney dialect.

"Take a butcher's" (butcher's hook = look)
Daisies (shoes) (daisy roots = boots).
"She's a pretty twist" (twist and twirl = girl)
"He's ginger" (ginger beer = queer / homosexual. Derogatory unless uttered by fellow travellers)
"I took the lift to the apples"(apples and pears = upstairs, though not even pensioners use that phrase anymore)

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

Gargoyles

A US military slang term dating back to Desert Storm I (circa 1991) for a kind of wraparound sunglasses issued to personnel in the desert to reduce glare and prevent sun-blindness. May be derived either from a brand name or from the odd appearance they gave the wearer.

"When we returned from Saudi Arabia, the colonel gave a directive that we were to ditch our Gargoyles to maintain security. Our raccoon tansgave us away though."

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

Ray-Ban Bandit

1) American military slang for adolescent hit-and-run thieves in occupied countries who grab anything not well-secured or well-guarded. The most common item stolen are soldier's sunglasses (like Ray-Bans and Gargoyles, thus the term.
By extension, the term is also used for adolescent refugees and beggars.

"The locals have a trick where they leave a string of Ray-Ban Bandits by the convoy routes to beg for food or steal anything that falls off the trucks. Then they beat the poor starving bastards and take the stuff away from them so they can sell it on the black market..."

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

reeb

A Cockney backwards slang term for beer.

"A pint of reeb, and be nippy!"

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

Flash

British slang for fancy or expensive-looking.

"That's a flash fawney ya got mate. It'd be a shame if I ha' tae break yer finger af tae get it."

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

believer

Military slang for a corpse.

A string of 'believers' lay inside the belly of the transport plane, ready to fly home.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

do-mes

Womens' high heeled shoes or boots, from the fact that they advertise that the wearer is looking for someone to 'do her' ('do me')

The skeezer wore daisies and do-mes to her junior high graduation.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003