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• fab
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. I think a fire on the hearth is simply fab.
  1960s
• face
  
  ( adv ) To engage in something heavily or extremely. Tonight I am going to drink face.
  1980s
• face time
  
  ( np ) A chance to meet people. There's some great face time on the quad.
  1980s
• face-off
  
  ( n ) Confrontation. The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off.
  1970s
• fade
  
  ( v ) To leave. I have homework to do, man, let's fade.
  1930s
• faded
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. We got so faded from drinking beer at the Beta party.
  1990s
• fag
  
  ( n ) A cigarette. Give me a fag, man; I'm having a nicotine fit.
  1940s
• fake out
  
  ( v ) To cheat or deceive. He faked me out when he told me the 'Vette was his.
  1960s
• fall for
  
  ( v ) To be deceived, tricked. I told him that my dad was the President of the United States and he fell for it.
  1900s
• fall for
  
  ( v ) Fall in love with. The moment Moine saw Phillippe she fell for him like a ton of bricks.
  1910s
• fall guy
  
  ( np ) A scapegoat. They dumped all the evidence in Preston's locker, deciding to let him be the fall guy.
  1920s
• fall out
  
  ( v ) To sleep. After working until midnight on homework, I fell out quickly.
  2000s
• fantabulous
  
  ( adj ) Fantastic, fabulous. Billy did a fantabulous job on his science project.
  1950s
• fantabulous
  
  ( adj ) Fantastic, fabulous. Gigi always throws fantabulous bashes.
  1950s
• far out
  
  ( ap ) Amazing, incredible. That new pad of his is so far out you wouldn't believe it.
  1960s
• fat city
  
  ( np ) A great thing or place; Happy. Ever since I got the new job I've been living in fat city.
  1970s
• fat-head
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. The fat-head thought Moby Dick is a social disease.
  1940s
• fathead
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. That fathead thought Moby Dick is a social disease.
  1940s
• fed
  
  ( n ) FBI investigator. His dad made moonshine until the feds caught up with him.
  1910s
• feddie
  
  ( n ) Money. He had a gang of feddies in his wallet!
  1990s
• federal
  
  ( adj ) Out of the ordinary; extremely good. Those jeans of hers are purely federal.
  1990s
• feel
  
  ( v ) To understand. You know me but do you feel me?
  1990s
• feen
  
  ( v ) To crave. I'm feening for some chocolate ice cream today.
  1990s
• fence
  
  ( n ) Dealer in stolen goods. Rocky couldn't find a fence to buy Elvis's underwear after he stole it.
  1700s
• fess up
  
  ( v ) Confess, own up. Fess up, you love him, don't you?
  1950s
• fiddle (with)
  
  ( v ) Try to do something to. Who's been fiddling with the TV? The picture is all red.
  1660s
• fiddle (with)
  
  ( v ) Try to do something to. Who's been fiddling with the TV? The picture is all red.
  1660s
• fiddle-de-dee
  
  ( int ) Nonsense! Fiddle-de-dee! You can't run a mile in four minutes!
  1780s
• Fido!
  
  ( int ) An interjection of disgust. Fido! I don't ever want to talk to Percival again!
  1990s
• fiend
  
  ( adj ) To need urgently. I'm fiending for something to drink.
  1990s
• fierce
  
  ( adj ) Clumsy. That guy is so fierce, he stumbles over his own feet.
  1990s
• fierce
  
  ( adj ) Excited. I'm fierce about that concert coming up this weekend.
  1990s
• filch
  
  ( v ) To steal. He filched several items at the supermarket but they caught him in the parking lot.
  1560s
• fin
  
  ( n ) 5-dollar bill. Hey, Wayland, loan me a fin until payday.
  1920s
• finger
  
  ( v ) Stick up the middle finger. When I told him he favored his dog a little, he fingered me.
  1950s
• fink
  
  ( n ) An informer, a tattle-tale. You're such a ratty little fink. Why do you always tell mom everything I do?
  1950s
• fire extinguisher
  
  ( np ) A chaperone. Priscilla was so hot, she could never go out without a fire extinguisher.
  1920s
• fire up
  
  ( v ) Get someone excited. OK! I'm all fired up to get this math homework done!
  1950s
• fire up
  
  ( v ) Start your engine. OK, fire it up and let's ride.
  1940s
• fish
  
  ( n ) A college freshman. Hey, guys, the freshman looks like a fish out of water; let's make him water the shrubbery in the rain.
  1920s
• fishy
  
  ( adj ) Suspicious, There is something fishy about his offer to trade me his Mercedes for my Chevy Malibu.
  1840s
• five finger discount
  
  ( np ) Shoplifting. She and her friend were nabbed taking a five finger discount at the drugstore.
  1990s
• fix
  
  ( n ) A bribe, bribery. The cops never pick up Joey because the fix is in.
  1920s
• fix
  
  ( n ) Dose of narcotics. The addict needs another fix.
  1940s
• fix
  
  ( v ) To bribe. Barney fixed the judge in his case, so he got off Scot free.
  1920s
• fix-up
  
  ( n ) Dose of narcotics. He is an addict that needs 2 fix-ups a day.
  1860s
• flake
  
  ( n ) An oddball, eccentric. Why did you ask Ahmed to take notes for you? He's the biggest flake I know.
  1960s
• flake off
  
  ( v ) To leave. I told my brother to flake off because he was bothering me.
  1960s
• flake out
  
  ( v ) Start acting peculiar, odd, eccentric. He was a good philosophy teacher before he fell in love with a hippy and flaked out.
  1960s
• flaky
  
  ( adj ) Eccentric, odd, peculiar. He is too flaky to do the work.
  1960s
• flame
  
  ( v ) To make an inflammatory comment. Nobby Neese can't talk about politics without flaming the Democrats.
  1980s
• flame
  
  ( n ) A girlfriend, boyfriend, or lover. Phil Anders has dozens of old flames but has never been burned.
  1640s
• flap your lips
  
  ( vp ) To talk. You can flap your lips all night but I won't change my mind.
  1940s
• flapper
  
  ( n ) An exciting woman in short, stylish skirts and short hair. In her youth Purity was one of the best known flappers in town.
  1920s
• flash
  
  ( v ) To speak angrily. What's up? Mom was just flashing.
  1980s
• flat
  
  ( adj ) Out of air. The cause of the jostling was a flat tire.
  1920s
• flat
  
  ( adv ) To the limit. A month after losing his job, he found himself flat broke.
  1830s
• flat out
  
  ( adv ) To the limit. He was running the car flat-out.
  1950s
• flat tire
  
  ( np ) A stupid female. I took that flat tire out once--never again!
  1920s
• flat-out
  
  ( adv ) Plainly, directly. He flat-out lied to me.
  1950s
• flat-top
  
  ( n ) A short men's hair style cut flat across the top so all the hair stands up. He cut off his ducktail and now he has a flat-top.
  1950s
• flat-top with fenders
  
  ( np ) A short men's hair style cut flat across the top so all the hair stands up but with long sides. He didn't cut off all his ducktail; he has a flat-top with fenders.
  1970s
• flatfoot
  
  ( n ) A policeman or detective. We have a flatfoot walking a beat by our house every day.
  1940s
• flattop
  
  ( n ) Men's hairstyle: a crewcut flat across the top. He cut off his ducktail and now he has a flattop.
  1950s
• flee the scene
  
  ( vp ) To leave. Come on, dudes; it's time to flee the scene.
  1960s
• fleece
  
  ( v ) To swindle or cheat. A couple of con men fleeced Bernie Madoff out of a million bucks.
  1570s
• flex
  
  ( v ) To show off. Check out Geoff; he's flexing in that new Mustang.
  2000s
• flick
  
  ( n ) A movie. I haven't seen a good flick in a long time.
  1950s
• fling
  
  ( n ) A short affair or romance. Phil Anders and Constance Noring had a brief fling that ended on a sour note.
  1820s
• fling
  
  ( n ) A try or attempt at something. Horace gave flipping burgers a fling but decided it was not his cup of tea.
  1550s
• flip
  
  ( v ) To lose control of yourself, go crazy. When I told him I had seen his girl with another boy he totally flipped.
  1960s
• flip out
  
  ( v ) To lose control of yourself, go crazy. He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed.
  1960s
• flip side
  
  ( np ) The other side (of a record). What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape?
  1950s
• flip the bird
  
  ( vp ) Stick up the middle finger. I told him his dad word panty-hose and he flipped me the bird.
  1970s
• flip your wig
  
  ( vp ) To lose control of yourself, go crazy. Josh got so mad at his brother that he flipped his wig.
  1940s
• flip-flops
  
  ( n ) Thongs (that went on your feet). The beach was so stony we had to wear flip-flops.
  1960s
• flip-top
  
  ( n ) A convertible car. He got sunburned riding around in his flip-top.
  1970s
• flivver
  
  ( n ) A broken down car. Stewart will never get me into that old flivver his father drives.
  1930s
• flivver
  
  ( n ) A Model T Ford. Sure, he's hot: he took me out in his dad's flivver.
  1920s
• flodge
  
  ( v ) To fake, pretend or perpetrate a fraud. She was trying to flodge with that cell phone, because it isn't even on!
  1990s
• floor
  
  ( v ) Push the accelerator to the floor. The coast is clear: floor it!
  1950s
• floor
  
  ( v ) To knock down; to astound. Delbert floored the horse with one punch to the head.
  1640s
• floozie
  
  ( n ) A woman of loose morals Juan Carlos came to the party with some floozie he picked up at a bar.
  1910s
• floozy
  
  ( n ) A woman of loose morals Juan Carlos came to the party with some floozy he picked up at a bar.
  1910s
• floss
  
  ( v ) To show off. She's going to floss for the dance tonight.
  1990s
• floss
  
  ( v ) To show off your wealth. I hate to see her flossing her bling around school.
  2000s
• flower child
  
  ( np ) A member of the counterculture of the 60s. She was a flower child in the 60s; now she is a broker on Wall Street.
  1960s
• flummox
  
  ( n ) A failure. Foster is the greatest flummox the world has every known.
  1860s
• flush
  
  ( adj ) wealthy, having much money Hey, guys, let's head downtown; I just got paid and I'm flush!
  1600s
• fly
  
  ( v ) Be workable Your idea doesn't have legs; it won't fly.
  1930s
• fly boy
  
  ( np ) An aviator, someone in the Air Force. Prunella is going with some fly boy out at the base.
  1920s
• fly low
  
  ( vp ) To be cautious and on guard. She was flying low when she walked in so they wouldn't notice her.
  1990s
• fly the coop
  
  ( vp ) To leave, elope, or escape. When he saw you coming up the walk, he flew the coop.
  1930s
• foine
  
  ( adj ) Attractive. That chick in the blue dress is foine.
  1990s
• folded
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. Kat got folded at the party last night and now she's grounded for a week.
  1990s
• for real
  
  ( pp ) In truth, truly, really. You have a new car? Is this for real?
  1970s
• Forget it!
  
  ( int ) I won't do it! You want me to lend you $5 for the movies? Forget it!
  1950s
• fork out
  
  ( v ) Give, hand over. I have three daughters; do you know how much I will have to fork out for their weddings?
  1830s
• fork over
  
  ( v ) Give, hand over. Ok, fork over that twenty bucks you owe me before I lose my cool!
  1830s
• four on the floor
  
  ( np ) Four-speed gear shift in a car. That sports car has four on the floor, man, cool!
  1950s
• four-flusher
  
  ( n ) A person who bluffs and deceives others. That no-good four-flusher tried told me that old tin can of his once belong to Mario Andretti.
  1890s
• fox
  
  ( n ) A sexy or seductive woman. Lucille is a fox from her head to her toenails.
  1960s
• foxy
  
  ( adj ) Sexy, attractive. She is a foxy lady.
  1970s
• fracture
  
  ( v ) To make someone laugh. He fractures me with all his jokes and antics.
  1940s
• frame
  
  ( n ) To give false evidence. My best friend tried to frame me for flushing the cherry bomb down the john by putting the rest of them in my locker.
  1920s
• freak
  
  ( n ) A fanatic. He is some kind of ecology freak that doesn't read because he doesn't want to use paper.
  1940s
• freak
  
  ( n ) A strange person. There were a bunch of freaky freaks at that party.
  1950s
• freak
  
  ( v ) To lose control of yourself, go crazy. She freaked when she found out she needed another math class.
  1970s
• freak out
  
  ( v ) To lose control of yourself, go crazy. She freaked out when she found out she needed another math class.
  1960s
• freaky
  
  ( adj ) Scary. I was a little freaky in his house with all the lights off.
  1960s
• fream
  
  ( n ) Someone who doesn't fit in. Don't invite that fream; nobody will know what to say to her.
  1990s
• freddie frat
  
  ( n ) A fraternity brother. I don't know what all those freddie frats were at a townie party.
  1950s
• freebie
  
  ( n ) Something that costs nothing. The pen was a freebie I picked up at a show.
  1940s
• frenemy
  
  ( n ) A friend who betrays you. That frenemy of Daphne's posted revealing pictures of her on the Internet.
  1950s
• fried
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. He was so fried we rolled him to the car and he never came to.
  1920s
• frigging
  
  ( adj ) Emphatic adjective. What is that frigging idiot doing here?
  1590s
• frisk
  
  ( v ) To search someone. Billy goes to a school where students are frisked at the front door.
  1790s
• fro
  
  ( n ) An Afro haircut. I liked him better in his fro back in the 60s.
  1970s
• frog
  
  ( n ) Frenchman (offensive). No matter what you say, the frogs still make the best wine.
  1770s
• frog
  
  ( n ) Hoarseness. I can't make a toast tonight; I have a frog in my throat.
  1900s
• from nowhere
  
  ( adv ) Bad, no good. His taste in women is from nowhere, man.
  1950s
• fromage
  
  ( n ) Something bad or of poor quality. That car of his is pure fromage.
  1990s
• front
  
  ( v ) To brag. That girl was fronting about her dad being a millionaire!
  1990s
• frosted
  
  ( adj ) Angry, mad. Boy, does all that corruption in Washington leave me frosted!
  1980s
• frosty
  
  ( adj ) Cool. Stay frosty, dude.
  1980s
• fubar
  
  ( adj ) Confused by alcohol or otherwise. I was totally fubar at Philip's party last night!
  1940s
• fugly
  
  ( adj ) Extremely ugly. Her date is flat-out fugly.
  1990s
• funda
  
  ( n ) A fundamental, a basic. His fundas are good but he can't seem to get the advanced stuff.
  1990s
• funk
  
  ( n ) Body odor. You have some bad funk, man; don't you ever shower?
  1620s
• funk
  
  ( n ) Down-to-earth, original jazz. I think their music has too much funk in it; I prefer something more modern.
  1950s
• funky
  
  ( adj ) Eccentric, odd, peculiar. The group was playing funky music that you either loved or hated.
  1960s
• funky
  
  ( adj ) Musically down-to-earth, original. I love that funky New Orleans sound.
  1950s
• funky
  
  ( adj ) Smelly. I'm thinking that the milk is too funky to drink.
  1620s
• funny farm
  
  ( np ) Insane asylum. Mack has been acting crazy lately. Did he just get off the funny farm?
  1960s
• fuzz
  
  ( n ) The police. The car thief was picked up by the fuzz.
  1960s