MAC-Gyver's definitions

backwards slang

The practice of reversing the letters in a word and pronouncing the result phonetically (often changing the original spelling). A popular code used by London's lower classes and the criminal element to make their speech unintelligible to outsiders.

Police = Esclop.
Beer = Reeb.
Woman = Nammo.
Weed = Dew.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

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

thrustbucket

1) A person whose rectum is worn out and distended from overuse due to rough or frequent anal sex. So-called because having sex with them is like thrusting into a bucket.
2) Gay male slang for a promiscuous person, their equivalent of a 'slut'.

Gary is going out with a biker pack? What a cheap little thrustbucket!

by MAC-Gyver June 2, 2003

daisies

1) American slang (circa 1990s) for a pair of tight, short-cut blue-jean shorts worn by women to emphisize their legs and buttocks. Eponymously derived from the clothing worn by the character Daisy Duke on the popular(?)80s hicksplotation show _The Dukes of Hazzard_.
2) British rhyming slang for shoes. Derived from boots (shoes)= daisy roots, shortened to daisies.

1) "Man, those daisies are so tight on her ass they must've been painted on."
2) "Check out the flash daisies I got. I found 'em in the tube on a dead buskerwho was lying next to a broken guitar and a sheaf a' sheetmusic labeled 'The Best of Stryper'..."

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

sotto voce

From the Italian, meaning 'low voice'. To speak quietly out of the corner of your mouth so that the subject of your speech can't hear your insult or know that you are speaking.

"Oh, what a beautiful creature your daughter is", said Mrs. Mulroy saccarinely to Mrs. Katz at the Bat-mitzvah.
"Too bad the zoo can't identify what kind of creature she is", Mrs. Jackson said sotto voce to Mrs. Mulroy as they plastered wide smiles on their faces.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

raccoon tan

A slang term for the pale parts of a person's face left by sunglasses, goggles or facemasks when the person has been sunburned or tanned by being out in the direct sun for long periods of time. So-called from the person's facial resemblance to the black 'mask' pattern of a raccoon.

After climbing to the top of the mesa, Jan took off his glasses to clean them and was puzzled by Jane and Louis' howls of laughter. Although his face was burnt a deep brown by their day-long trek in the desert, his pallid eye-sockets underneath revealed a nasty raccoon tan.

by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003