Slang

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Slang adalah kata atau ekspresi tidak resmi yang dianggap tidak standart dalam dialek pembicara atau bahasa pembicaranya. Slang sering digunakan dalam situasi-situasi tidak resmi. Oleh karena itu hindari penggunaan slang dalam situasi formal. Bahasa Inggris tidak pernah luput dari slang. Apalagi dalam percakapan sehari-hari.

Di bawah ini adalah daftar kecil contoh-contoh slang dalam Bahasa Inggris:

• airhead: stupid person.
• ace: excellent, great.
• Adam and Eve - Rhyming Slang for 'believe'
• aggro - short for aggravation or violence
• amber fluid : beer
• anorak - geek, nerd.
• apples and pears - Rhyming Slang for 'stairs'.
• armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
• arse / ass [slightly offensive] (1): backside.
• arse / ass (2): an unworthy person.
• arse about/arsing about - to fool around
• arse-about-face: something that is in a mess or crooked
• arseholed: very drunk
• arvo : afternoon
• Aussie : Australian
• awesome: great and impressive.
• backhander (1): a payment given, normally in a secretive fashion.
• backhander (2): hit someone.
• ball (1): a fun time.
• ball [slightly offensive] (2): a testicle.
• ballistic - to go mad with rage
• bang [slightly offensive](1): to make love
• bang (2): a powerful effect.
• banged up - to be put in prison.
• bangers - another name for sausages.
• barbie : barbecue, grill.
• barf (1): vomit.
• barmy - a foolish person, mad.
• barney - row, violent argument.
• beans: money.
• beast [offensive] - an ugly woman.
• beat: tired.
• beemer: a BMW.
• bent (1): a 'gay man'
• bent (2): 'stolen'.
• biggie: something important.
• biker: a motorcycle rider.
• bikkie : biscuit
• bimbo - a young woman considered sexually attractive but of limited intelligence.
• bird -  woman/girl/girlfriend
• bitch [offensive] (1): a very unpleasant woman.
• bitch [offensive] (2): complain.
• bitchy [slightly offensive]: moody.
• bitzer : mongrel dog (bits of this and bits of that!).
• bladdered - very drunk
• blag -  a robbery
• bloke - man
• blotto -  'very drunk'
• blue (1) - XXX; dirty, hot, steamy, pornographic
• blue (2): domestic fight or row.
• bluey - pornographic film
• boat race - Rhyming Slang for 'face'.
• bod: body.
• bonkers; go bonkers: crazy.
• bonzer : great.
• booboo: a mistake.
• bovver - trouble, usually fighting.
• booze: alcohol.
• boozer (1): a pub
• boozer (2): someone who likes alcohol.
• Brahms and Liszt - Rhyming Slang for 'pissed' (drunk).
• brass monkeys - cold weather
• bread: money.
• brew (1): tea or coffee.
• brew (2): beer.
• brill - short for 'brilliant'.
• bull: bullshit; lie.
• bullshit [offensive]: lie; dishonesty.
• bugger - a mild form of abuse or an exclamation.
• bunk-off - to be absent without permission
• bunk-up - to make love.
• bushed: extremely tired.
• butt: the buttocks, bottom.
• cabbage -  someone who is a bit slow or stupid
• cakehole - mouth..
• catch some rays: get some sunshine.
• char / cha - tea.
• cheesy: cheap; lacking in good taste.
• chicken: coward.
• chook : a chicken
• chuck up: vomit
• chuck a sickie : take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy.
• ciggy - slang for cigarette.
• cock and bull story - a rubbish story, nonsense.
• (to) cop it - to die, to get into trouble.
• cool: excellent; superb.
• cooler, the: gaol; jail; prison
• couch potato: a person who watches too much television.
• cozzie : swimming costume
• cranky : in a bad mood, angry.
• crap [slightly offensive] (1): something worthless.
• crap [offensive] (2): excrement.
• crap [slightly offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies.
• crikey - an expression of astonishment.
• crust - money / wage.
• cushy - easy.
• dead cert - something that is definite.
• deck: to hit someone.
• dicey: unpredictable; risky.
• dickhead [slightly offensive] - an idiot, fool.
• dill : an idiot.
• ding-dong - argument or fight.
• dipstick - idiot, fool.
• dirt: extremely bad person.
• dirty: offensive; pornographic.
• div/divvy - stupid or slow person.
• doodle - something thats easy / no problem.
• dodgy - dubious person or thing.
• dog [offensive] - an ugly girl.
• done over - beaten up
• dope - a slow or stupid person.
• doobry - a nonsensical word used when you forget the name of something
• dorky: strange; peculiar.
• dosh - money.
• dosser - down-and-out, tramp.
• down under : Australia and New Zealand.
• Drongo : a dope, stupid person.
• dude: a male.
• dump [slightly offensive] - to defecate.
• dyke [offensive] - lesbian.
• dynamite: powerful; excellent.
• dinosaur: something out of date or old fashioned.
• earbashing : nagging, non-stop chatter.
• evil: great; excellent.
• eyeball: to stare long and hard at someone or something.
• eyepopper: something or someone visibly astounding.
• fab: fabulous.
• face-off: confrontation.
• fag [offensive] (1): homosexual
• fag (2): cigarette
• family jewels - Rhyming Slang for testicles.
• far out - splendid.
• fart [offensive] (1): an escape of gas from the bowels.
• fart [slightly offensive] (2): an unpleasant person
• fat head - an idiot or dull person.
• fender-bender: small accident.
• filth [offensive] - the police.
• fit - sexually attractive.
• five finger discount - shoplifting.
• flaky: unpredictable.
• flashback: sudden memory.
• flick (1): film; movie.
• flick (2): to give something or somebody the flick is to get rid of it or him/her
• floating : intoxicated
• floozie - a mistress or girlfriend.
• flommox - confuse
• flutter - a bet (on horse racing or football)
• footie - Abbreviated form for football.
• for crying out loud ! - a expression of frustration or anger.
• forty winks - a short sleep or nap.
• fox: attractive, alluring person.
• freebie: something that does not cost money.
• French kiss : kissing with the tongue.
• full monty - 'the whole lot', everything.
• full-on - powerful, with maximum effort.
• funny farm - mental hospital or institution.
• funny money - counterfeit money.
• gaff - house or flat.
• gander - to look at.
• geek: an unattractive person who works too hard.
• get it: to understand something.
• glitch: flaw.
• gobshite [offensive] - someone who talks rubbish all the time.
• go bananas: go slightly mad.
• good onya : good for you, well done
• goof (1): make a mistake.
• goof (2): a silly and foolish person.
• goof off: waste time.
• goof up: make a mistake.
• goofy: silly.
• Gordon Bennet - an exclamation.
• grand: one thousand dollars.
• grass: marijuana.
• greaser - slang name for a 1950's style man.
• grog : alcohol, beer.
• grub: food.
• grubby: not clean.
• grungy: unclean and stinky.
• gut: a person's stomach; belly.
• guts: courage.
• gyno - gynaecologist
• hacked off - fed up, annoyed.
• hairy: difficult; dangerous.
• ham-fisted - clumsy.
• hammered - drunk.
• handcuffs: an engagement ring or wedding ring
• hang a left: make a left turn.
• hang a right: make a right turn.
• headcase - mad
• hep: sensible; informed.
• her ('er) indoors - wife, girlfriend.
• hickey: a love bite on the skin.
• hip: sensible; informed.
• hole in the wall -  a cashpoint machine or bankomat.
• hoo-ha - trouble; commotion.
• hooker: prostitute.
• horny:  in the mood for sex, sexually stimulated;.
• hot (1):  sexy.
• hot (2):popular.
• hottie : hot water bottle
• huff - bad mood.
• humungous: really big.
• hump (1) - to have sex.
• hump (2) - bad mood.
• hyper: overly excited.
• icky: unpleasant.
• I.D.: identification.
• iffy - dubious, doubtful.
• I'm outta here: I'm leaving; I'm departing.
• in: fashionable.
• ivories: teeth.
• jack around: waste time.
• jam (1): trouble.
• jam (2): improvise (musically).
• jamming, to be : going well.
• jammy - lucky.
• jerk: stupid or annoying person.
• jock: someone good at sports.
• K : a thousand.
• keep your hair on - "keep calm".
• kick back: relax and enjoy.
• kick the bucket: die.
• kip - sleep.
• knackered - exhausted.
• knees up - party.
• knock: condemn, criticise.
• knockout: beautiful woman; handsome man.
• knock back : refusal (noun), refuse (transitive verb)
• kook: peculiar person.
• kraut [slightly offensive] -  German
• laid back: relaxed; calm.
• lairy - loud, brash.
• lame: incompetent.
• legless - very drunk.
• limp wristed - a  gay man.
• lip: cheeky talk.
• loaded - someone with a lot of money.
• loo : toilet
• loser: a bungling and worthless person.
• lost the plot - crazy/mad.
• love handles: excess fat around the waist.
• luvverly jubberly - wonderful, great, all is well.
• make waves: cause problems.
• malarkey - nonsense.
• mate - friend
• max, to the : maximum.
• mega: big.
• megabucks: a large amount of money.
• mellow: relaxed.
• mickey-mouse: unimportant; time-wasting.
• minger [offensive] - an unattractive person (usually female).
• mongrel : despicable person
• moonie [offensive!] - to show one's bottom (arse) to unsuspecting onlookers.
• moose [offensive] -  an ugly girl.
• mozzie : mosquito
• mug : a gullible person.
• naff - something which is cheap and nasty.
• naff off - a milder version off fu*k off.
• nancy (nancy boy) - a homosexual.
• nark - a police informer.
• narked - to be annoyed.
• neat: cool; great.
• nick - to steal.
• nipper - a small child.
• no-hoper - somebody who'll never do well
• nosh - food.
• not cricket - not normal or correct.
• not all there - someone who is stupid, not bright intellectually
• not half! - cetainly, for sure.
• not the full quid - someone who is stupid, not bright intellectually.
• nuke (1): nuclear weapon.
• nuke (2): destroy; delete.
• nuke (3): cook something in the microwave oven.
• nut (1): odd or crazy person.
• nut (2): someone passionate about something.
• nutter - crazy person.
• nuts [slightly offensive]: testicles.
• nutty - eccentric.
• off your face - to be very drunk.
• out of your tree - crazy, drunk or stoned.
• pad: someone's home.
• pants (1) -  an exclamation of frustration.
• pants (2) -  bad or rubbish.
• party: celebrate.
• party animal: someone that loves parties.
• paws: hands.
• peanuts: very little money.
• pee: to urinate.
• pickled: drunk.
• pig out: eat too much.
• pigs ear: to make a mistake with something.
• piss [slightly offensive] - to urinate.
• pissed - drunk.
• pissed (off): angry; upset.
• piss-head - a habitual drinker or alcoholic.
• piss-up - a big drinking session.
• plank - an idiot.
• plastered: drunk.
• plonker - an idiot
• pad: someone's home.
• plonk (1) : cheap wine
• plonk (2): sit down - as in "plonk your arse down there".
• poop [offensive]: defecation; shit.
• poop out: get tired and quit.
• postie : postman
• pot: marijuana.
• prezzy : present, gift
• pro - someone who's good at something; professional.
• psycho: crazy person.
• puke: vomit.
• pumped (up): excited.
• queer [slightly offensive] - a homosexual.
• rabbit - talk.
• racket (1): noise.
• racket (2): an occupation.
• racket (3): something that's dishonest or deceptive.
• rat: a despicable person.
• rat-arsed - drunk.
• rear (end): buttocks.
• (a) riot - something or someone very funny.
• rip off (1): stealing.
• rip off (2): fraud.
• ripper : great, fantastic
• rocking: great; excellent.
• roll up - a hand rolled cigarette.
• rosie lee - tea
• rubbish: nonsense; not true.
• ruck - a fight.
• rug - wig, toupee.
• rug rat: a child.
• rum - odd, strange.
• runs, the: diarrhoea.
• scoff: to eat.
• screw up: to make a mistake.
• screw-up: a person who makes a mistake.
• scum (offensive] - a despicable individual.
• shades - sunglasses.
• shag [slightly offensive] - to make love.
• shagged-out - to feel tired.
• shed-load - a huge amount.
• shite - milder variation of the word shit.
• shitfaced [slightly offensive] - very drunk.
• shithead [slightly offensive]: a stupid, impolite person.
• skint - to have no money
• skosh - a little bit.
• slapper [offensive] - a loose or easy woman.
• smeghead - an idiot.
• snog - to kiss
• snookered: cheated, stuck.
• solid (1): really good; cool.
• solid (2): consecutive.
• specs: eyeglasses.
• split: to leave.
• spunk [offensive] (1): semen
• spunk (2): spirit.
• spunk (3): an attractive man.
• stoned: drunk from drugs or alcohol.
• stunner - a very good looking woman.
• street smart: knowledgeable about city life.
• strewth : exclamation
•  (I'll be) stuffed : expression of surprise
• suck: to be bad and unacceptable.
• sunnies : sunglasses
• swagman : tramp
• sweet - excellent, cool.
• ta - thanks.
• tacky - something of poor taste or style.
• tanked (up) - to get very drunk.
• tea leaf - Rhyming Slang for thief.
• telly - television.
• thick as shit [offensive]- very stupid.
• thick as two short planks [offensive] - very stupid.
• thingo : Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit, something you don't know the name of!
• thou: thousand.
• threads: clothing.
• ticker (1): the heart.
• ticker (2): a watch.
• tiddly - slightly drunk.
• toss-pot [slightly offensive] - idiot.
• totally: really; completely.
• to the max: maximum.
• troll -  an ugly girl.
• (the) trots - diarrhoea.
• trouble and strife - Rhyming Slang for 'wife'.
• trout [offensive] - unattractive woman
• turkey (1): failure; flop.
• turkey (2): dumb person.
• turn-off: something that repulses a person.
• umpteen: many; countless.
• up for it - to be willing to have a good time.
• up the duff - to be pregnant.
• Uncle Tom Cobley and all - a phrase meaning 'everyone'.
• uptight: nervous; anxious.
• veg out : relax in front of the TV (like a vegetable)
• wad: a lot of money.
• wanker - an idiot or an unpleasant person.
• wasted: killed.
• weed (1): marijuana.
• weed (2): someone who is weak.
• wheels: car; motorcycle.
• whiz: someone who shows a special talent for something.
• wicked - excellent, cool.
• wimp: weak; feeble.
• wimpy: weak.
• wind up - to tease.
• winks: sleep.
• wuss : coward
• x-rated - pornographic.
• yabber : talk (a lot)
• Yank: an American.
• yob - a horrible or uncouth young man.
• zeds - sleep.
• zero - an unimportant person.
• zilch - nothing
• zip (1) -nothing.
• zip (2) - energy; vigor.
• zip it - shut up.
• zit: pimple; acne