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Student Number One
1. airhead: stupid person.
"Believe it or not, Mpho can sometimes act like
an airhead!"
2. amigo: friend (from Spanish).
"I met many amigos at Mam Flo's."
3. ass [offensive] (1): backside.
"I fell on my ass on the stairs."
4. ass (2): an unworthy and hated person.
"I cannot be friends when you act like an ass."
5. awesome: great and impressive.
"Our basketball team is truly awesome!"
6. baby boomer: a person born from the end of the Second
World War until the early 1960s.
"Mr Love was born in 1960, so he's considered a baby boomer."
7. ball (1): a fun time.
"I really had a ball in Maths class."
8. ball [offensive] (2): a testicle.
"After getting kicked in the balls, his voice
seemed much higher."
9. bang (1): a very powerful thing.
"Disneyland is really a bang!"
10.bang (2): a powerful effect.
"Mampoer really has a bang!"
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Student Number Two1. barf: vomit. "My dog barfed all over the carpet." 2. beat: tired. "I'm really beat because I was awake all night." 3. biker: a motorcycle rider. "Tony used to be a biker until he got into a serious motorcycle accident." 4. bitch [offensive]: a very unpleasant woman. "My boss can be such a bitch sometimes." 5. bod: body. "Stalone has a great bod!" 6. bonkers; go bonkers: crazy. "If Sizwe works too hard, he sometimes goes slightly bonkers!" 7. booboo: a mistake. "I made a booboo on the last question of the exam." 8. booze: alcohol. "The party was fun, even though there wasn't any booze." 9. bread: money. "Can I borrow some bread?" 10.B.S.: bullshit; lies. "I'm tired of listening to your B.S." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Three1. buns [possibly offensive]: the rear end; buttocks. "Don't stare at my buns!" 2. bushed: extremely tired. "I'm completely bushed." 3. butt: the buttocks. "Stop sitting on your butt and help me wash the dishes!" 4. cheesy: cheap; outmoded. "Why are you wearing such cheesy clothes?" 5. chicken: coward. "Don't be such a chicken!" 6. cool: excellent; superb. "Nhlanhla's shades are totally cool!" 7. cooler, the: jail. "If you drink and drive, you'll end up spending time in the cooler." 8. couch potato: a person who watches too much television. "Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?" 9. crap [offensive]: something worthless. "My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap." 10.deck: to hit someone. "His wife almost decked him when he returned home with lipstick on his shirt." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Four1. dicey: unpredictable; risky. "Gambling is a dicey occupation." 2. dinero: money (from Spanish). "I wish I had more dinero!" 3. dirt: extremely bad person. "My ex-boyfriend was dirt." 4. dirty: offensive; pornographic. "Stop looking at the pictures in that dirty magazine!" 5. dorky: strange; peculiar. "If you keep acting so dorky, you'll never get a girlfriend!" 6. dude: a male. "That's really cool, dude!" 7. dynamite: powerful; excellent. "Ntombifuthi gave a dynamite presentation." 8. dinosaur: something old fashioned or out of date. "I'd love to surf the Net, but unfortunately my computer is a dinosaur." 9. evil: great; excellent. "Your car is really evil!" 10.eyeball: to stare long and hard at someone or something. "Farouk eyeballed his daughter's new boyfriend." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Five1. fab: fabulous. "Sophie's skirt is really fab!" 2. face-off: confrontation. "I think it's time we had a face-off." 3. fart [offensive]: to expel intestinal gas. "It's embarrassing to fart on the first date." 4. fender-bender: small accident. "This morning I had a fender-bender on the M1 North." 5. flashback: sudden memory. "In Little Tokyo I had a flashback to my days living in Japan." 6. flick: movie. "Let's go out tonight and watch a flick." 7. freebie: something that does not cost money. "My trip to New York was a freebie." 8. French kiss [possibly offensive]: kissing with the tongue. "Stephen's dog is always trying to French kiss him!" 9. geek: someone who works too hard, is more intelligent than usual, and is slightly unattractive. "Bill Gates is kind of a geek." 10.get it: to understand something. "Sorry, but I just don't get it." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Six1. glitch: flaw. "There must be a glitch in this software." 2. go bananas: go slightly mad. "This project is causing me to go bananas!" 3. goof: make a mistake. I really goofed on the test today." 4. goof off: waste time. "Stop goofing off and help me clean the house!" 5. goofy: silly. "Kids always make me feel goofy!" 6. grand: one thousand dollars. "He's making over a hundred grand a year!" 7. grass: marijuana. "Have you ever smoked grass?" 8. grub: food. "Where's the grub?!" 9. grungy: unclean and stinky. "Grungy people are not allowed in Dave's house!" 10.guts: courage. "It took a lot of guts to ask his boss for a raise." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Seven1. hairy: difficult; dangerous. "The steep and windy road was really hairy." 2. hang a left: make a left turn. "Hang a left at the next corner." 3. head: toilet. "I really need to use the head!" 4. hep: sensible; informed. "She's a really hep student." 5. hickey: a love bite on the skin. "Wow! Is that a hickey on your neck?" 6. hip: sensible; informed. "He really tries hard to be hip." 7. hooker [possibly offensive]: prostitute. "You'll find a lot of hookers in the red light district." 8. horny [possibly offensive]: sexually stimulated; in the mood for sex. "Red wine seems to make my boyfriend horny. " 9. hot (1): popular. "Brad Pitt is really hot now." 10.hot (2): sexy. "Wow! Cindy Crawford is really hot!" 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Eight1. humungous: really big. "American supermarkets are humungous." 2. hyper: overly excited. "Children often get hyper when they are tired." 3. icky: unpleasant. "The food is really icky in the school cafeteria." 4. I.D.: identification. "If you want to order a beer, you'll need your I.D." 5. I'm outta here: I'm leaving; I'm departing. "Sorry, but I'm outta here, dude." 6. in: fashionable. "Ray-Ban sunglasses are really in now." 7. ivories: teeth. "Tom Cruise has really beautiful ivories." 8. jack around [possibly offensive]: waste time. "Will you please stop jacking around?" 9. jam, in a (1): trouble. "If you're in a jam, I promise to help you." 10.jam (2): improvise (musically). "I'd love to jam with Bon Jovi!" 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Nine1. jerk: stupid or annoying person. "How could you go out with such a jerk?" 2. jock: someone good at sports. "I've never been much of a jock." 3. john: toilet. "Where's the john?" 4. K (k): a thousand. "I could retire with 100 K (k)!" 5. kick back: relax and enjoy. "I wish I could kick back at the beach today." 6. killer: something exceptional or great. "Wow, your boyfriend is killer!" 7. knock: condemn. "Don't knock it unless you've tried it." 8. knockout: beautiful woman; handsome man. "Benjamin is already a knockout!" 9. kook: peculiar person. "Stop acting like a kook!" 10.laid back: relaxed; calm. "I always feel laid back at the beach." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Ten1. lame: incompetent. "Collen is really lame when is comes to fixing his car." 2. lip: cheeky talk. "My students are always giving me lip!" 3. loser: a bungling and worthless person. "Why are you dating such a loser?" 4. love handles: excess fat around the waist. "Is it possible for Dave to lose his love handles?" 5. luck out: to be lucky or fortunate. "You really luck out by seeing Abednigo!" 6. make waves: cause problems. "Teachers don't like students to make waves." 7. max, to the : maximum. "I'm happy to the max." 8. mega: big. "American restaurants serve mega portions of food." 9. mellow: relaxed. "I'm feeling very mellow this evening." 10.mickey-mouse: unimportant; time-wasting. "I'm sick of this mickey-mouse job." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Eleven1. munch out: to eat voraciously. "Let's munch out on a large pizza!" 2. munchies: hunger (especially brought on by smoking mrijuana) "Haniel got the munchies!" 3. nada: nothing (from Spanish). "I know nada about politics." 4. neat: cool; great. "Isn't my new car neat?" 5. nuke: destroy; delete. "Sorry, but I accidentally nuked your e-mail message." 6. nut: odd or crazy person. "Why are you always acting like a nut?" 7. nuts [offensive]: testicles. "Don't ever kick me in the nuts." 8. okay: decent. "My boss is an okay person." 9. pad: someone's home. "Can I sleep at your pad tonight?" 10.party: celebrate. "Let's party tonight!" 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number twelve1. party animal: someone that loves parties. "Gloria has been known to sometimes be a party animal." 2. paws: hands. "Get your paws off me!" 3. peanuts: very little money. "I love my job, but the pay is peanuts." 4. pee: to urinate. "I always have to pee after drinking beer." 5. pickled: drunk. "He got pickled on vodka." 6. pig out: eat too much. "Nonhlanhla is famous for pigging out on chocolate ice cream." 7. piss: to urinate. "My dog pissed on me!" 8. pissed (off): angry; upset. "I'm really pissed (off) at you." 9. plastered: drunk. "Why does he always get plastered?" 10.poop out: get tired and quit. "I got pooped out after spending eight hours at Disneyland." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Thirteen1. pot: marijuana. "It's easy to buy pot in the big city." 2. pro: someone who's good at something; professional. "She's really a pro at golf." 3. psycho: crazy person. "Stay away from that psycho!" 4. puke: vomit. "Alcohol makes some people puke." 5. pumped (up): excited. "I'm really pumped (up) about the social!" 6. puss: the face. "My girlfriend slapped me right on the puss." 7. racket (1): noise. "Small kids can make a lot of racket." 8. racket (2): something that's dishonest or deceptive. "The Tobacco Industry is quite a racket." 9. racket (3): an occupation. "I've been in the teaching racket for fourteen years." 10.rat: a despicable person. "I thought I loved you, but now I know you're really a rat." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Fourteen1. razz: annoy someone. "Will you please stop razzing me?" 2. razzle: a party. "We went to a razzle on Friday night." 3. rear (end): buttocks. "Sinhle fell on his rear (end)." 4. riot, a : something or someone very funny. "Jim Carrey is a riot!" 5. rip off: stealing. "Someone ripped off my car." 6. rubbish: nonsense; not true. "That rumor is a bunch of rubbish." 7. rug rat: a child. "Mr Love has a couple of rug rats at home." 8. runs, the: diarrhea. "Oh no! I've got the runs!" 9. scoff: to eat. "I can easily scoff an entire banana split." 10.screw up: to make a mistake. "I screwed up on the driving test, so I didn't pass." 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Fifteen1. scum: a despicable individual. "Don't hang around with that kind of scum." 2. shades: sunglasses. "Those are really cool shades!" 3. shoot some hoops: play basketball. "Let's shoot some hoops!" 4. snookered: cheated. "I got snookered into buying swamp land in Florida." 5. sofa spud: a person who watches too much television. "I'm usually a sofa spud on Sunday." 6. solid (1): really good; cool. "Club 38 is totally solid!" 7. specs: eyeglasses. "I didn't know that you wore specs." 8. split: to leave. "Let's split from here now." 9. spunk: spirit. "She might be small, but she's got a lot of spunk." 10.stoned (out): drunk from drugs or alcohol. "I'm really stoned (out), dude!" 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Sixteen1. street smart: knowledgeable about city life. "Since Pitso is from Soweto, he's very street smart." 2. suck: to be bad and unacceptable. "That song really sucks!" 3. technicolor yawn, to do a : vomit. "My dog just did a technicolor yawn all over the carpet!" 4. thou: thousand. "I need to borrow a hundred thou." 5. threads: clothing. "My wife spent R900 on new threads." 6. ticker (1): the heart. "My grandfather has a bad ticker." 7. ticker (2): a watch. "Wow! That's a really cool ticker!" 8. tints: sunglasses. "You have to wear tints in California." 9. totally: really; completely. "That's totally awesome, dude!" 10.turkey (1): failure; flop. "The film was a total turkey!" 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Seventeen1. turn-off: something that repulses a person. "Bad breath is a real turn-off." 2. umpteen: many; countless. "I've asked you umpteen times to show me the money!" 3. chuck-up: vomit. "She got sick and chucked-up three times." 4. uptight: nervous; anxious. "Why are you so uptight?" 5. vanilla: Caucasian. "Sandton is too vanilla for me." 6. wad: roll of money. "It's dangerous to carry a big wad in your pocket." 7. wasted: killed. "A lot of people get wasted in the streets of Newclare." 8. wheels: car; motorcycle. "If you want to live in Johannesburg, you've got to get some wheels" 9. whiz (1): someone who shows a special talent for something. "Einstein was a whiz in Physics." 10.wimp: weak. "Don't be such a wimp!" 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |
Student Number Eighteen1. winks, get some: sleep. "I really need to get some winks" 2. yank (1): bother; harass. "Stop yanking me, okay?" 3. Yank (2): a Yankee; an American. "Harry is a Yank." 4. zero: an unimportant person. "If you don't work hard, you'll end up a zero." 5. zip (1): nothing. "I don't know zip about you." 6. zip (2): energy; vigor. "I need something that will give me more zip. " 7. zit: pimple; acne. "Teens often have a lot of zits." 8. zombie: lifeless; un-energetic. "I feel like a zombie this morning." 9. zonked (1): to be tired-out. "I'm totally zonked this morning." 10.zonked (2): to be under the influence of drugs. "I'm totally zonked this morning!" 11.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12.________________________________________ ________________________________________ 13.________________________________________ ________________________________________ |