tailieunhanh - Slang and uncoventional english part 106

Tham khảo tài liệu 'slang and uncoventional english part 106', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Zz z noun 1 in hip-hop culture used for replacing the letter s when creating plurals us 2002. 2 an outcast a despised person us 1963 Z noun an ounce of narcotics us 1975. the Z the demilitarised zone us 1976 -z suffix used in the abbreviating of a forename by truncating the given name to its first open syllable which is then closed with -z. Examples Gary or Gareth becomes Gaz Jeremy Jez Terry or Terence Tez Sharon Shaz uk 1984 za noun pizza us 1996 zac noun a six-month or six-year prison sentence. From zack six pence Australia 1919 Zacatecas purple noun a potent variety of marijuana originating in Mexico. Named after the location and the colour of the buds us 1974 Zachary Scotts Zacharys noun diarrhoea. Rhyming slang for trots formed on the name of US film actor Zachary Scott 1914-65 uk 1992 zack zac noun a sixpence the sum of six pence. Origin unknown. Perhaps from Scottish dialect saxpence sixpence or possibly Yiddish from German sechs six . After the introduction of decimal currency in 1966 it came to mean a five-cent piece or its value a similar coin with about the same comparative value dying out from the 1980s now seldom heard Australia 1898. not have a zack to be broke Australia 1989. not worth a zack worthless AUSTRALIA 1962 zaftig zoftig adjective sexy buxom. From German Yiddish for juicy US 1932 zag verb when faced with two courses of action to take the right one. Most commonly used in variations of I zigged when I should have zagged us 1948 zags noun thin papers used for rolling cigarettes. From the branded name Zig Zag the dominant rolling papers during the hippie years us 1970 zambi noun marijuana presumed to originate in the Republic of Zambia us 1998 zambuck noun a member of St John Ambulance Brigade. From a proprietary name of an antiseptic ointment commonly used by them AUSTRALIA 1918 zami noun a lesbian. From a misplaced juncture of the French les amies women friends TRINIDAD and tobago 2003 Zanussi noun on Zanussi drug-intoxicated wildly excited