a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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member of this domain (usage)
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member of this domain (usage)
potted
living
come-at-able, get-at-able, getatable
un-come-at-able, un-get-at-able, ungetatable
dead-on
hot
fly
hot under the collar
mad, sore, huffy
livid
dinky
dishy
primo
yellow, chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied
bone-idle, bone-lazy
chancy, fluky, flukey, iffy
punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy
anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky
chummy, buddy-buddy, thick
togged
bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked
starkers
comfortable, comfy
bad, tough
flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled
jammed, packed, jam-packed
offbeat, far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out
boss-eyed
broken, busted
knocked-out
licked
plummy
gone, done for, kaput
tall
cushy, soft, easygoing
flat-footed, flatfooted
hopped-up, stoned
live
anxious, dying
ritzy
het up
crazy, wild, dotty, gaga
no-frills
crazy
big-ticket, high-ticket
cool
groovy, swagger
in
prehistoric
classy, posh, swish
snazzy
gammy
niffy
chummy, matey, pally, palsy-walsy
stuffed
sure-enough, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness
great, bully, swell, bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, old
hopeless
lousy, rotten, stinking, icky, crappy, shitty, stinky
rubber, no-good
shirty, snorty
straight
shady
killing, sidesplitting
dicky, dickey
big
little, trivial, fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune
potty
hep, hip, hip to
highbrow, highbrowed
walloping, humongous, banging, thumping, whopping
man-sized
whacking
wee, teensy, bitty, bittie, teentsy, teeny, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy
dinky, insignificant
hot
canned, transcribed
blue-eyed, fair-haired, white-haired
hexed, jinxed
blood-and-guts
bodacious
all-fired
decent
together
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
one, right
some
square
stuck
mind-bending, mind-blowing
dressy
cockamamie, cockamamy
beastly, hellish, god-awful
hot
crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded
high-flown, high-sounding, inflated
jumped-up
white-shoe
juicy, fat
kosher
cool
funny, suspect, suspicious, fishy, shady
lunatic, moonstruck
screw-loose, screwy
all right, fine, o.k., okay, ok, hunky-dory, cool
umpteenth, umteenth, umptieth
hot
clubbable, clubable
bad
shy
super, crack, first-rate, topnotch, ace, A-one, tiptop, top-notch, tops
boss, brag
crummy, cheap, bum, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny
ropey, ropy
gobsmacked
openmouthed, goggle-eyed, popeyed
jiggered
buttoned-up
pumped-up, pumped up, pumped, wired
economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting
dead, all in, beat, bushed
whacked
fuggy
knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out
silly, wacky, goofy, whacky, zany
boiling
plum, plumb
all right, okay, O.K., alright
anywhere, anyplace
somewhere, someplace
everywhere, all over, everyplace
anon
obviously, evidently, plainly, manifestly, patently, apparently, plain
terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully
by all means
by no means, not by a blame sight, not by a long sight
thoroughly, good, soundly
right, flop
forever, forever and a day
dingdong
way, right smart
at least, leastways, leastwise, at any rate
irregardless
certainly, sure, surely, sure enough, for sure, sure as shooting, for certain
easily, easy
soft, easy
slowly, slow, easy, tardily
in a pig's eye
like the devil, like hell, like thunder, like mad, like sin, like crazy
hopelessly
bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt
roughly, rough
heaps
plop, plunk
plump
sweetly, sweet
firewall
fix
heavy lifting
game, biz
no-brainer
crapshoot
snogging
wash
aggro
dickeybird, dickey-bird, dickybird, dicky-bird
bunny, bunny rabbit
bib-and-tucker
delf
funny wagon
ghetto blaster, boom box
lemon, stinker
long johns
main drag
put-put
rathole
rattrap
redbrick university
Ritz
security blanket
shooting gallery
Sunday best, Sunday clothes
war paint
smoke
class
setup
guts, backbone, grit, moxie, sand, gumption
way
number
enormity
drag
hot stuff, voluptuousness
eye, oculus, optic
peeper
proboscis
physiognomy, countenance, visage, phiz, kisser, smiler, mug
can of worms
hang-up
think
crosshairs
turn-on
turnoff, negative stimulation
plague
bare bones
pertainym
teaser
pickup
double Dutch
put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown
rap
bull session
huddle, powwow
pep talk
homestretch
barnburner
blessed event, happy event
creeps
blahs
banger
firewater
swad
mafia, maffia
turf
borscht circuit, borsht circuit, borscht belt, borsht belt
drink
number one
big shot, big gun, big wheel, big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, head honcho
cop, bull, copper, fuzz, pig
canary
fresh fish, cannon fodder, fodder
crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo
dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw
dimwit, nitwit, half-wit, doofus
dodo, fogy, fogey, fossil
don't-know
fence
flop, dud, washout
fuddy-duddy
gal
geezer
head
headhunter
operator, hustler, wheeler dealer
know-it-all, know-all
lazybones
man
middlebrow
mouthpiece, mouth
paperhanger
rainmaker
ringer, dead ringer, clone
shoofly
sourpuss, picklepuss, gloomy Gus, pouter
Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback
spoilsport, killjoy, wet blanket, party pooper
square, square toes
stuffed shirt
thrush
townee
wag, wit, card
woman
killing, cleanup
giveaway
meal ticket
swag
ice, sparkler
load
soup
size of it, size
state
frazzle
horniness, hotness, hot pants
charley horse, charley-horse
dumps, mopes
shot, crack
street
throw
fug
soup
sticks and stone
week from Monday
month of Sundays
blue moon
figure
foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it
keep one's eyes peeled, keep one's eyes skinned, keep one's eyes open
give it a whirl, give it a try
break
hypernym