v
(Australia, slang) To become upset or angry.
v
(slang, transitive) To ruin or botch.
v
(informal, Britain, Australia, usually derogatory) To constantly talk about something.
n
(obsolete, slang) a dashing fellow who spends his money freely
v
(African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To have a beef or grudge against somebody.
v
(slang, idiomatic) To back out of an agreement for any reason.
v
(UK, Ireland, informal) To obtain something desired, or avoid an undesired outcome, through luck or improvisation; To fluke or get away with something; To wing it.
v
(UK, slang, obsolete) To inform against a person.
v
(intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
n
(derogatory, slang) Torres Strait Creole.
adj
(slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
v
(intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
v
(slang) Alternative form of give a fig [(informal, negative) To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker.]
v
(idiomatic, dated, usually in a negative use) To care (at all).
v
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To die.
v
(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
v
(transitive, slang) To annoy.
v
(African-American Vernacular) To choose to separate from somebody; to leave another person or group.
v
(Hong Kong) To do something overwhelming or intense.
v
(UK, slang) To grow annoyed.
v
Alternative form of cuss out [(chiefly US, informal, transitive) To berate (someone or something) using profane language; to swear at (someone or something), especially at length.]
v
(Australia, informal) To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
n
(slang) Passion, temper, anger. Usually preceded by "have" or "get" and followed by "up".
v
(slang, dated) To do something well or thoroughly.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, UK, Australia, informal) To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray.
n
The squandering of resources, especially money; used in expressions such as "to make ducks and drakes of", "to play (at) ducks and drakes with".
v
(Australia, New Zealand) To dodge responsibility; to pass something on to another so that they take the blame.
v
(slang, transitive) To finish a romantic relationship with (someone).
v
(Scotland, idiomatic, dated) To bother oneself; to worry about something.
v
(slang) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
n
(slang, derogatory, automobiles) Fiat, the Italian auto maker, due to its commonly perceived frequent breakdowns when used in North America.
v
(informal, transitive) To make a rude or obscene gesture at someone.
v
(colloquial, transitive) To waste (time).
n
(idiomatic, figuratively) An imminent threat or danger; something nearby that is very likely to be harmful, damaging, detrimental.
v
(transitive, US, military, slang) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
v
To ruin one's own opportunity.
v
(dated or dialectal) To back out in a cowardly way; to chicken out.
adj
Alternative form of get-off-my-lawn [Characterized by ill-tempered intolerance of modern or different ideas or values.]
v
(Australia) To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack.
v
(UK, idiomatic, slang) To get sexual satisfaction, especially after a period of abstinence.
v
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang, chiefly in the negative) To care.
v
(intransitive) To become bankrupt.
v
(informal, imperative) Go ahead; feel free.
v
go off on; raise hell at
v
(UK, slang) Synonym of shoot one's mouth off
n
Alternative form of grabass [(informal, often used with the verb play) Sexual groping; erotic horseplay.]
v
(Internet slang) Get the fuck off. See get off
v
(intransitive, informal, idiomatic, UK, Australia) To tell off (especially unnecessarily or excessively), to criticise.
v
(chiefly US and Australia, informal, figuratively) To study, especially with particular intensity.
v
(slang, transitive) To annoy.
v
(US, slang, dated) To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.
v
(intransitive, slang) To behave aggressively.
n
A kiss on the cheek that signifies the death of the receiver, as delivered by a mob boss or one with such influence.
n
Alternative spelling of kiss-off [(slang) A dismissal]
v
(intransitive, often followed by with) To spend time companionably; to hang around.
n
(informal, UK, Ireland) Lots; a great amount (usually followed by of).
n
Alternative spelling of lash-up [(informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.]
n
An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
v
(slang) To interfere with.
v
(UK, slang, obsolete) To take offense; to become upset.
adj
(idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) Annoyed, irritated, angry.
n
(historical) Synonym of fast and loose (“fraudulent game”)
v
(idiomatic) To act in a tricky, inconstant way, saying one thing and doing another.
v
(Britain, idiomatic) To misbehave.
v
Alternative form of pound sand [(idiomatic) To engage in a futile activity.]
v
(informal) To fail to do something correctly, and so consider the time to be wasted.
v
(especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
v
(slang, intransitive) To give up or cravenly abandon something difficult.
v
(offensive, vulgar, intransitive) To avoid doing something due to cowardice.
n
(New Zealand, slang) A telling off.
v
(transitive, informal) To upset (a person) by being raunchy (tacky or vulgar).
v
Synonym of read someone to filth
v
(slang, transitive) To mock; to ridicule.
adv
(New Zealand, slang) With vigour and enthusiasm, but without regard to quality of outcome.
v
(transitive, Singapore, colloquial, informal, Singlish) To get someone in trouble, to prank, to sabotage another's efforts.
v
(chiefly in the negative) To have courage and be assertive.
v
(transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
v
(Australian slang, vulgar, transitive) annoy
v
(vulgar, slang, transitive) To mess up; to ruin.
v
(transitive, slang) To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
v
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang, transitive, idiomatic) To talk insultingly to or about someone or something; usually one who is not present.
v
(Australia, colloquial, idiomatic) To criticise or mock
v
(UK, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, dismissal) Go away.
v
To have something important fail for want of a small amount of money or effort.
v
(slang, dated) To cheat on someone; to be unfaithful to a lover.
adj
(UK and Australia, slang) Alternative form of broke: without any money. [(informal) Financially ruined, bankrupt.]
n
(card games) Synonym of beggar-my-neighbor
n
(dated, Britain, school slang) A lie; a falsehood.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, slang) To irritate, vex, or annoy.
v
(Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly.
v
(Britain, Australia, transitive) To reprimand.
v
(slang, derogatory) To complain about the tone of one or more participants in a debate or discussion, especially one perceived as heated, disrespectful, etc.
v
(informal, derogatory) To back out of something because of cowardice.
adv
(vulgar) Idly, doing nothing important in a situation that requires it.
v
(intransitive, slang) To fail to do something because of cowardice.
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