American School Slang Expression: Vocabulary L [back]
l's (n) |
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Driver's license. Hey Alethia, did you get your l's
yet? [ |
lace (v) |
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1. To get/be dressed up. I got laced in Versace
then went out for the night. 2. To become intoxicated. This guy
was stumbling out of the bar all laced. 3. To spend excess
amounts of money on a woman, self, friends, partying. I got my check
on Friday, then I went to the mall and got laced for back to
school. 4. To bestow or give as in a gift. For X-mas, I laced
my lady with a 12 carat diamond.[Northeastern
University, Boston, MA, 1998]
5. (adj) In an outrageously good mood. I'm laced
about spring break! 6. Being very wild as a result of drugs. Man,
he's been doin' too much of those drugs... he's laced. [Clinch Valley College, Wise, VA, 1998] |
lackey (adj) |
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Bad; lazy; unacceptable. Her attitude is so lackey.
[Philander Smith College, Little
Rock, AR, 1998] |
lagger (n) |
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A slow ass. Someone who is always lagging behind, running
late, slowing the train down. Hurry up you damn lagger!
[Sierra College, Rocklin, CA, 1999] |
larrie |
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1. (n) Someone who
is beyond stupid. Her boyfriend is fully a larry.
2. (adj) Slacking, unable to
perform a common function, frothing with extraneous stupidness.
I couldn't believe how larry that speech was. [University
Of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI] |
later (v) |
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To beat, defeat, or make to look bad. Last week, the
Kentucky Wildcats were latered. [Florida
State, Tallahassee, FL, 1998] |
latex (int) |
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Concluding remark at parting (as opposed to saying "later"
or "goodbye"). [Cal Poly,
SLO, San Luis Obispo, CA; Loyola
Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; University
of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV] |
lava (v) |
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What your lava lamp does. He spent the whole afternoon
lavaing on the couch. [Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY] |
laxstitute (n) |
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A female freshman who enjoys screwin' around with several
members of the lacrosse team. Julie's just the current laxstitute.
[Providence College, Providence, RI, 1999] |
lean (n) |
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Liquid codeine (sold in Texas clubs for $15.00 a cup and
mixed with a bottle of liquor). We went to the club and got bent
off some lean. [St. Philips College,
San Antonio, TX, 1998] |
legend (adj) |
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Really amazing-it will be talked about for ages. [Pakuranga College, Auckland, New Zealand] |
legit (adj) |
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Awesome; cool; perfect. That party was legit!
[Williams College, MA, 1998] |
lemme holla at cha (phr) |
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Come here I want to talk to you . Yo, lemme holla
at cha! [University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY, 1999] |
lewinsky (n) |
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Fellatio; blow job. That party was phat; I got a lewinsky
in the bathroom. [Cal State University
Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 1999] |
lick-off {offensive} (int) |
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An insulting way to tell someone to leave; same connotation
as fuck off but available for use in polite company. I don't want
to hear it. Why don't you just lick-off. [Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN, 1998] |
lifted (adj) |
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Drunk. After that kegger, I was totally lifted.
[University of Washington, Seattle,
WA] |
light (v) |
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To be ignored in some way or another. I was so lighted
by my boyfriend yesterday. [UCLA, Westwood, CA, 1998] |
lightweight (n) |
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Someone who can't hold their alcohol. Jen is such a
lightweight; she was drunk after one beer. [Ohio
University, Athens,OH] |
like a ban-shee (phr) |
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1. Quickly. 2. Of great necessity. I gotta pee like
a ban-shee! [Purdue University-Calumet,
Hammond, IN, 1998] |
like ya read about (phr) |
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1. Of superior quality, a paragon. 2. Out of the ordinary.
Did you see Jimmy C's new car? Clearly, it is like ya read about.
[Framingham State, Framingham, MA,
1998] |
link card (n) |
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Food stamps. Link cards are not allowed
in clubs. [University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1998] |
lit (adj) |
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1.Angry. I was fully lit after he
dissed me like that. 2.Drunk. I got so lit at that party
I puked all night. [Hardin-Simmons University,
Abilene,TX; Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona,
CA, 1997] |
little debbie {offensive} (n) |
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An overweight woman. Check out the little
debbie trying on that two-piece! (University
of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA] |
live park (v) |
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The act of waiting in traffic or driving round the block
while someone runs an errand. Jump out. I'll live park while
you get the beer. [University of Texas,
Austin, TX] |
log in (v) |
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To defecate. Hurry up. I gotta log in. [NYU, New York, NY, 1998] |
loopy (adj) |
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Drunk; intoxicated. He partied all night and
then came to the final loopy. [Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ] |
loot (n) |
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Money. Yo man, I ain't got no loot; hook me
up. [Drexel University, Philadelphia,
PA, 1998;
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA] |
lop (n) |
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Someone who is a bit slow, who is not accepted, and who
is just plain dumb; someone who is nerdy. (Usually used to put
someone down.) You are such a lop; can't you ever
park right?! [California State University at Northridge, Northridge,
CA] |
lord (n) |
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A scumbag or dirty person that everyone looks down upon.
(It was derived from scumlord.) That party was wack; there was a
buncha lords there. [University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA] |
lovins (n) |
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Sex; kisses; anything romantic or "loving" that
you do with your partner. Hey baby, give me some lovins.
[University of Akron, Akron,
OH] |
LS & players {derogatory} (n) |
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The students who are in Michigan's College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts. (Primarily used by Engineering Students to mock
the ¡§easy¡¨ life of liberal arts students.) The quad's
full of L S & players today. [University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI] |
lullo (n; voc) |
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A typical, stereotypical Dutch university fret. He's bored,
always intoxicated, and because of that sleeps around with women without
really realizing it. Hey lullo, had anything good lately?
[University of Amsterdam, Schagen,
The Netherlands, 1998] |
lumberjack (n) |
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A homosexual. Ted's cute but he's a lumberjack.
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lunachick (n) |
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A girl who is basically psycho, or exhibits behavior that
is out of the ordinary for the given situation. She's such a lunachick
she went postal when he took her parking place. [ |
lunch (v) |
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To go crazy. She lunched when she found
out she needed another math class. [ |
lust man/woman (n) |
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A person who you oggle when walking on campus but would
never have the nerve to talk to. Chuck is my lust man! [ |
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by Carey 2002