tailieunhanh - Slang and uncoventional english part 20

We were tempted, but finally chose not to include an appendix of gestures, although many serve the same function as slang. Examples include the impudent middle finger, Ralph Cramden's Raccoon greeting and handshake, the elaborate mimes that signal 'jerk-off or 'dickhead', Johnny Carson's golf swing, Vic Reeves' lascivious thigh rubbing and Arsenio Hall's finger-tip-touch greeting. Neither did we include an appendix of computer language such as emoticons or leet speak, although we have included throughout several of the more prominent examples of Internet and text messaging shorthand that have become known outside | 115 Cambodie canal boats Cambodie adjective Cambodian. Vietnam war usage us 1964 Camden Lock noun a shock. Rhyming slang based on a vibrant area of north London uk 1998 Camden rules noun poor table manners. A tribute to Camden New Jersey us 1986 came noun cocaine. Probably by misspelling or mishearing of cane cocaine uk 1953 camel noun 1 in twelve-step recovery programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous a person who maintains sobriety. From the sense of dry as a camel us 1998. 2 a poor performing racehorse Australia 1989. 3 a marijuana cigarette us 1976 camel driver noun an Arab us 1985 camelfucker noun an Arab. Offensive us 1998 camel jockey camel jock noun a Arab anyone mistaken for an Arab. Used with contempt us 1961 camel s hump noun an act of defecation. Rhyming slang for dump UK 2003 camel stop noun a taxistand. New York police slang an allusion to the preponderance of immigrants in New York s taxi-driving workforce us 2003 camel toe noun the condition that exists when a tight-fitting pair of trousers shorts bathing suit or other garment forms a wedge or cleft between a woman s labia accentuating their shape us 1994 camera noun a police radar unit us 1976 Camilla Parker-Bowles noun a Rolls Royce car usually called a rolls . Rhyming slang formed on the name of the mistress later wife of Prince Charles Prince of Wales. Variants are Camilla Parker Parker-Bowles and Parker uk 1998 Camille noun 1 a homosexual man who moves from one unfortunate failed love affair to another us 1972. 2 a melodramatic hospital patient who always feels on the verge of dying. From the novelby Alexandre Dumas us 1994 camisole noun a strait jacket used to restrain the violent or insane US 1949 cammies camies noun a camouflage uniform us 1971 camo noun camouflage us 1984 camouflage noun the disguise and staged personality assumed by an expert card counter playing blackjack in a casino in the hope of avoiding detection and ejection us 1991 camp noun 1 ostentation flamboyant behaviour .