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• D. A.
  
  ( abb ) A man's long hair style with the sides combed to the back of the head, then parted with a downward stroke of the comb. He has gorgeous blond hair that he combs in a D. A..
  1950s
• da bomb
  
  ( n ) Something excellent, outstanding. That raked 'Vette of his is da bomb!
  1990s
• dad-blamed
  
  ( adj ) An interjection of emphasis (euphemism for G. D.) That is none of your dad-blamed business.
  1940s
• daddy
  
  ( n ) A rich male protector who usually expects favors from his female charge. Tillie has a (sugar) daddy who takes care of all her bills.
  1920s
• daddy-o
  
  ( Int ) Term of address for males. OK, daddy-o, let's hit the road!
  1950s
• damage
  
  ( n ) The cost. Lets get the bill and find out the damage.
  1960s
• dame
  
  ( n ) A female (offensive). She's a swell dame; I like her a lot.
  1920s
• damn straight
  
  ( int ) Absolutely correct. You're damn straight, I'm never going to ride with him again.
  1960s
• dang
  
  ( int ) Emphatic adjective (euphemism for damn). I'll be dang if I didn't leave my watch at home!
  1940s
• Dang nabbit!
  
  ( int ) An interjection of disappointment. Dang nabbit! I dropped my chewing gum.
  1940s
• danged
  
  ( int ) Emphatic adjective (euphemism for damn). I'll be danged if I didn't leave my watch at home!
  1940s
• darn
  
  ( adj ) Emphatic adjective (euphemism for damn). Why are you so darn quiet?
  1780s
• darned
  
  ( adj ) Emphatic adjective (euphemism for damned). Why are you so darned quiet?
  1780s
• date
  
  ( n ) A person of the opposite sex you go out with. I have a hot date tonight, so I won't be able to go out with you guys.
  1920s
• date
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. He is such a soppy date, he should do well in politics.
  1910s
• dead
  
  ( adj ) Quiet. This disco is really dead tonight.
  1930s
• dead presidents
  
  ( n ) Money. Hey, ma, let me have some dead presidents.
  1980s
• dead soldier
  
  ( n ) An empty beer bottle. They were in the living room surrounded by a case of dead soldiers.
  1920s
• deadbeat
  
  ( n ) Someone who doesn't pay his or her bills. I wouldn't go out with that deadbeat; he will stick you with the bill every time.
  1860s
• deal
  
  ( n ) To date only one person. She's and Chad are still dealing after 2 years.
  1990s
• decent
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. That car is really decent!
  1980s
• deck
  
  ( v ) To knock down. He was decked in the fight.
  1950s
• deck out
  
  ( adj ) Dress up. Fred was really decked out for his date with Wendy.
  1940s
• deep pockets
  
  ( np ) Much money. Her boyfriend has deep pockets.
  1930s
• dern
  
  ( int ) Emphatic adjective (euphemism for damn). Oh, heck! I locked the dern keys in the car!
  1770s
• dibs
  
  ( n ) A claim. I have dibs on the shotgun seat.
  1930s
• dicey
  
  ( adj ) Risky. Since the weather is a little dicey, I won't go today.
  1950s
• dick
  
  ( n ) A private investigator. Sally hired a private dick to tail her husband.
  1920s
• dickens
  
  ( int ) Emphatic interjection. What the dickens do you think you're doing?!
  1590s
• diddly-squat
  
  ( n ) A small, worthless amount. Leslie doesn't know diddly-squat about football.
  1960s
• dig
  
  ( v ) To enjoy. Margie really digs jazz of the 40s.
  1970s
• dig
  
  ( v ) To study hard. He spent the night digging and still failed the exam.
  1860s
• dig
  
  ( v ) To understand. Can you dig this music, man?
  1960s
• digits
  
  ( n ) Telephone number Give me your digits and I'll holla back when I get home.
  2000s
• digs
  
  ( n ) Home or apartment. Let's go over to my digs and have a nightcap.
  1890s
• dike
  
  ( n ) A prissy, well-dressed male. He is something of a dike, which puts many of the boys off.
  1850s
• dilly
  
  ( n ) Something excellent, outstanding. Lester Workwithe just bought a dilly of a car from
  1910s
• dilly-dally
  
  ( v ) Waste time. Hurry up! Don't dilly-dally!
  1740s
• dime
  
  ( n ) A 10-cent piece. I can't go anywhere; I don't have a dime in my pocket.
  1780s
• dime
  
  ( n ) An attractive female. Lucy's I perfect dime; I really dig her.
  1990s
• dimwit
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. That dimwit thinks the Gettysburg Address is where Robert E. Lee lived.
  1920s
• dinero
  
  ( n ) Money. Let's go with Fred; he has much dinero.
  1980s
• ding-bat
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. Archie Bunker always called his wife a ding-bat.
  1910s
• dingbat
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. Archie Bunker always called his wife a ding-bat.
  1910s
• dingy
  
  ( adj ) Dirty, grimy. Leave your dingy clothes in the garage.
  1730s
• dip
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. The guy who flunked four out of five classes is really a dip.
  1930s
• dipstick
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. The dipstick has her dress on backwards.
  1960s
• dirty
  
  ( adj ) Morally bad, dishonorable. I hear that the dirty rat went to a dirty movie last night.
  1590s
• dis
  
  ( v ) To say something disrespectful. I went out of my way to help her but she dissed me anyway.
  1980s
• dish
  
  ( n ) Pretty woman. Now, that Bobby Sue, she's a real dish!
  1940s
• dish
  
  ( n ) Something you like. Playing quoits on a Sunday afternoon is not quite my cup of tea.
  1930s
• dish (out)
  
  ( v ) To serve, to do something hard or harsh. Tommy isn't afraid of flamers; he can dish it out with the best of them.
  1930s
• ditch
  
  ( v ) To leave someone who is with you. I'll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother.
  1940s
• ditty
  
  ( n ) A short song. Since me a little ditty before you go to bed.
  1300s
• ditty
  
  ( n ) A trinket. Give me that ditty, will you?
  1990s
• ditz
  
  ( n ) A scatterbrain. The ditz drove her car through the back of the garage!
  1980s
• ditzy
  
  ( adj ) Scatterbrained. She is a beautiful woman but a little ditzy.
  1980s
• dive
  
  ( n ) A cheap bar. I wouldn't drink any of the hooch they serve in that dive.
  1920s
• dive
  
  ( n ) A disreputable eating or drinking establishment. Prudence avoided the kind of low dives Curly liked to frequent.
  1870s
• dizzy
  
  ( adj ) Goofy, crazy. Some dizzy blonde at the station sold me the wrong ticket and I ended up in Schenectady instead of New York.
  1500s
• do in
  
  ( v ) To kill or destroy. His business was doing well until the hurricane destroyed his store and did him in.
  1900s
• do-hickey
  
  ( n ) An object for which a name is unavailable. Gert, do you know what this do-hickey on my tricycle is for?
  1910s
• docker
  
  ( n ) A party located in a remote area. Greg's having a docker on Saturday.
  1980s
• dodge water under the bridge
  
  ( n ) Ruse, deceptive maneuver. He didn't use that old dodge about his old war wound preventing him from mowing the lawn, did he?
  1840s
• dodge the bullet
  
  ( vp ) To luckily avoid misfortune. When the draft was around, I dodged the bullet because I was flat-footed and my dad was the mayor.
  1960s
• doe
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. Which one of you does locked the keys in the car?
  1990s
• dog
  
  ( n ) A foot. Boy, are my dogs tired!
  1920s
• dog
  
  ( n ) A guy. He doesn't have much upstairs but I love the dog.
  1990s
• dog
  
  ( n ) An ugly female (offensive). Nobody asks her out because she is such a dog.
  1970s
• dog
  
  ( int ) Form of address to a male. Hey, dog, what cracking?
  1990s
• dog
  
  ( np ) Problem. It's too bad she broke her leg but that's not my dog.
  1990s
• dog
  
  ( v ) To follow relentlessly. She dogged me all the way home.
  1940s
• dog-gone
  
  ( adj ) Emphatic adjective. I don't know a dog-gone thing about the girl.
  1850s
• doggone
  
  ( int ) Emphatic adjective. I don't know a doggone thing about that.
  1850s
• dogpack
  
  ( n ) A circle of male friends, a clique. Your dogpack always watches your back, no matter what you do.
  1990s
• doke
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. Your new car is doke!
  1990s
• doll
  
  ( n ) An attractive female. Maria was quite a doll when she dressed up.
  1920s
• doll up
  
  ( v ) Dress up, dress stylishly. So where are you going, all dolled up?
  1900s
• dolly
  
  ( n ) A girl or a woman. He liked to pick up dollies at the local bars.
  1940s
• dolt
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. Simon is a dolt who though Finland was an aquarium.
  1540s
• dome
  
  ( n ) The head or skull. Look at old chrome dome (bald guy) over there.
  1940s
• Don't take any wooden nickels
  
  ( phr ) Don't do anything stupid. When you go to the big city, Luke, don't take any wooden nickels.
  1920s
• done for
  
  ( adj ) In big trouble, finished. I just let the car roll into the lake. I'm done for when the rents find out.
  1940s
• doobs
  
  ( adj ) Bad, of poor quality. That song is totally doobs.
  1990s
• doodad
  
  ( n ) Decorative article. Maybelle's house is full of fancy doodads she brought back from her world travels.
  1900s
• doodly-squat
  
  ( n ) A small, worthless amount The president doesn't know doodly-squat about running a country.
  1930s
• doofus
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. That doofus studied for the wrong exam and failed.
  1960s
• doofus
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. Sunny Day is such a dufus; she thinks Minnesota is a soft drink.
  1960s
• doohickey
  
  ( n ) An object for which a name is unavailable. There is something wrong with some little doohickey on my car engine.
  1910s
• doozy
  
  ( n ) Something excellent, outstanding. He came home with a doozy of a knot on his head.
  1920s
• dope
  
  ( n ) A narcotic. There are a lot of dope dealers around here.
  1880s
• dope
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. That dope doesn't know if he is coming or going.
  1850s
• dope
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. Check out this dope ride.
  1980s
• dope
  
  ( n ) Information. So what's the latest dope on Jamie?
  1940s
• dork
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. He is such a dork he spends his time downtown watching the parking meters.
  1970s
• dotty
  
  ( adj ) Silly, crazy. Wearing a polka dot dress to a funeral is not surprising for someone as dotty as Maude Lynn Dresser.
  1880s
• double-cross
  
  ( v ) To betray. He promised to pay me for painting his room but double-crossed me and didn't.
  1900s
• douche bag
  
  ( np ) A weak, indecisive person. That old douche bag does whatever his wife tells him to do.
  1960s
• dough
  
  ( n ) Money. Horace has a lot of dough, let's ask him to lend us some.
  1850s
• down
  
  ( adj ) Agreeable to. I'm down for going to the movies tonight!
  1970s
• down
  
  ( adj ) Depressed. I've been down ever since I got the 'D' in physics last week.
  1960s
• down
  
  ( v ) To drink quickly, to gulp down. Let's go to a bar and down a few beers.
  1860s
• down the tubes
  
  ( ap ) In deep trouble or out of business. My English grade is down the tubes; I missed the final.
  1950s
• down to
  
  ( adv ) Up to, depends on, is their responsibility. I'm afraid the choice is down to you, now, Lucy.
  1970s
• downer
  
  ( n ) A depressant. My life is enough of a mess; I don't need to take downers.
  1960s
• downer
  
  ( n ) Something depressing or disappointing. Flunking my home ec test is such a downer!
  1960s
• downsize
  
  ( v ) To fire people. They are downsizing the company by 1000 jobs.
  1980s
• drag
  
  ( n ) A draw (on cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.). Hey, man, give me a drag on that pipe so I can see if that tobacco is any good.
  1910s
• drag
  
  ( n ) A squelcher. Sunny is such a drag I would never invite her to my parties.
  1850s
• drag
  
  ( v ) To race another car a short distance. He loved to drag (race) until the cops picked him up.
  1950s
• drag
  
  ( n ) Something depressing or disappointing. Sunny is such a drag I would never invite her to my parties.
  1950s
• dragnet
  
  ( n ) A widespread seach. The police put out a dragnet for the guy who beat you up.
  1900s
• dragon
  
  ( n ) Bad breath. Do you have a breath mint? I have a bad case of the dragon.
  1990s
• dragster
  
  ( n ) A car designed for drag racing. You'll never beat his dragster on the quarter mile.
  1950s
• drain
  
  ( n ) A place from which there is no return. I can see all my efforts to get into a good college going down the drain.
  1950s
• drain
  
  ( v ) To tire, exhaust, wear out. That girl had totally drained me; I wish she'd leave.
  1950s
• drape
  
  ( v ) To consume or overcome. I'm totally draped by this final project.
  1990s
• Drat!
  
  ( int ) Interjection of frustration. Drat! I think I lost my lucky cat's foot!
  1810s
• Drats!
  
  ( int ) Interjection of frustration. Drats! I just broke my watchband!
  1820s
• dreamboat
  
  ( n ) An extremely attractive person. Buster is such a dreamboat he had Sally snowed on the first date.
  1940s
• drill
  
  ( v ) To tease. I don't know why you are drilling me when you are wearing your little brother's shirt.
  1990s
• drink
  
  ( n ) Large body of water: sea, ocean, lake, river. Gill and Fish were goofing off on the pier and fell in the drink.
  1830s
• drip
  
  ( n ) A weak, indecisive person. That drip doesn't know how to tie his shoes.
  1930s
• drop
  
  ( v ) To kill. Don't move or I'll drop you in your tracks.
  1940s
• drop
  
  ( v ) To knock down. Say another word and I'll drop you.
  1930s
• drop
  
  ( v ) To take drugs. Are you going to drop that pill or not?
  1960s
• drop a dime
  
  ( vp ) To inform or tattle. Man, he dropped the dime on Tommy.
  1960s
• Drop dead!
  
  ( int ) Absolutely not! Drop dead! I'll never go out with you.
  1930s
• druthers
  
  ( n ) Preference, choice. If I had my druthers, I would stay home tonight.
  1880s
• dry up
  
  ( v ) To stop talking. Why don't you dry up? Nobody cares what you think.
  1850s
• dub
  
  ( n ) 20 inch chrome rims or wheels. I saw him riding on dubs yesterday.
  1970s
• dubdub
  
  ( n ) WWW, the URL prefix. So yo, check Jenny McCarthy out at dubdub dot mtv dot com.
  1990s
• duck
  
  ( n ) A snobbish, a conceited female. I can't stand that duck; I don't care how much money her dad has.
  1990s
• duck soup
  
  ( np ) Crazy, insane. Man, you're duck soup if that's the way you think.
  1990s
• duck soup
  
  ( np ) Excellent, outstanding. Wow, Granger is duck soup at everything he does.
  1970s
• duck soup
  
  ( np ) Something easy. All her courses are duck soup.
  1910s
• duckets
  
  ( n ) Money. That car must have cost somebody some serious duckets.
  1980s
• duckies
  
  ( n ) Money. I'm low on duckies; can you loan me $5 till Friday?
  1990s
• ducktail
  
  ( n ) A man's long hair style with the sides combed to the back of the head, then parted with a downward stroke of the comb. He is a cool cat with a ducktail, pegged pants, an blue suede shoes.
  1950s
• ducky
  
  ( adj ) OK, alright. Everything was just ducky between them.
  1890s
• dud
  
  ( n ) Something that doesn't work properly. He bought a new refrigerator but it is a dud--it doesn't keep anything cold.
  1940s
• dude
  
  ( n ) A guy. The dudes are in the living room and the gals, in the kitchen.
  1970s
• dude
  
  ( int ) Form of address to a male. Hey, dude, what's happening?
  1970s
• duds
  
  ( n ) Clothes. I see you got some new duds for the dance.
  1930s
• duffer
  
  ( n ) An incompetent person. Les Fairway is just a duffer when it comes to golf.
  1840s
• Duh!
  
  ( int ) An interjection indicating the listeners must be stupid. You don't know Jenny McCarthy? Duh! Everybody knows who she is.
  1980s
• dumb Dora
  
  ( np ) A stupid female. What a dumb Dora she is: when her husband asked if she like the new China, she replied, 'No, I hate the communists.'.
  1920s
• dumps
  
  ( n ) Depression, melancholy. His girl left him and now he is in the dumps.
  1920s
• dust
  
  ( v ) To kill. I could have you dusted (off) tomorrow, you rat.
  1940s
• dust off
  
  ( v ) To kill. The mob dusted him off when he ratted on them.
  1930s
• dust off
  
  ( v ) To reactivate, resurrect. Why not dust off your old tap dance routine for the show.
  1950s
• dweeb
  
  ( n ) A studious, unsociable person. They only communicate by computer; they are the perfect dweeb couple.
  1980s
• dyke
  
  ( n ) A prissy, well-dressed male. He is something of a dyke, which puts many of the boys off.
  1850s
• dynamite
  
  ( n ) Heroine. He is a lovely man but they say he is addicted to dynamite.
  1920s
• dynamite
  
  ( n ) Something excellent, outstanding. His grandmother is really dynamite.
  1940s