| la | Noun. A form of address unique to Liverpool. Pronounced lah. |
| labs | Noun. Abb. of labia. |
| lace into | Verb. To attack, either verbally or physically. |
| lacky-band | Noun. A corruption of the words elastic band. |
| lad | Noun. Penis. Affectionate use. E.g."I'm going to the clinic this afternoon, my lad's not been right after that shag with your sister." |
| laddette | Noun. A female equivalent of a male who might be considered 'laddish'. Such characteristics might be confident, brashness, loudness, sexist, enjoyment of drinking etc. |
| laddie | Noun. A young man or boy. Often used as a term of endearment. Also as laddy. [Mainly Scottish use] {Informal} |
| laddish | Adj. Of or like the perceived characteristics of a young man or lad, often loud, macho, arrogant and sexist. |
| ladge | Verb. To embarrass. Orig. Romany? E.g."She was well ladged after realising her skirt was tucked in her knickers." [Yorks/Cumbria/NE use] |
| ladgeful | Adj. Embarrassing. [Cumbria/NE use] |
| ladging | Adj. Embarrassing.[Yorks/Cumbria/NE use] |
| ladyboy | Noun. A male to female part transexual. [Orig. use from East Asia?] |
| lady garden | Noun. The female pubic area, the vagina and pubic hair. |
| Lady Godiva | Noun. A five pound note. Rhyming slang for fiver. Lady Godiva, a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who reportedly rode a horse completely naked through the streets of Coventry on Market Day. [Mainly London use] |
| lady lumps | Noun. Women's breasts. |
| Lady Muck | Noun. A pompous, conceited female who considers themselves above their peers. Cf. 'Lord Muck'. |
| lag | Noun. A convict, or ex convict. Often heard as old lag. [Early 1800s] |
| lager boys | Noun. Young men who over-indulge in alcohol and consequently become loutish. |
| lagered (up) | Adj. Drunk, intoxicated through the use of lager. |
| lager lout | Noun. A young person whose anti-social behaviour is primarily instigated by the excessive drinking of alcohol. {Informal} |
| lagged /laggered | Adj. Drunk, intoxicated with alcohol. E.g."I was totally laggered last night, and can't remember who I got a taxi home with."[London use] |
| laik | Verb. To play. Also leck. E.g."Are your two brothers laiking out this afternoon, because I've got a new football for my birthday?" [Yorkshire use] |
| lairy | Adj. 1. Knowing, conceited. 2. Cheeky or brash. * Also spelt leary. 3. Flashily dressed. [Orig. Aust.] |
| la-la-land | Noun. The hypothetical place where one is out of touch with reality, often after the excesses of alcohol or drugs. Originally referring to L.A. as in Los Angeles. E.g."Don't bother calling Pete; ever since his drug binge last night he's in la-la-land". [Orig. U.S.] |
| lally | Noun. Leg, or when in the plural, lallies. From the gay slang, 'polari'. |
| lambchops | Noun. Sideburns. From their shape? |
| lamp | Verb. To hit, to clout. E.g."I can't believe she lamped him. Just for coming home drunk." |
| landing strip | Noun. A style of pubic hair, whereby it is trimmed into a thin vertical band. |
| langer | Noun. 1. Penis. [Irish use] 2. A contemptible person, an idiot. [Irish use] |
| langered | Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. |
| Lanky | Noun. 1. The county of Lancashire. 2. The dialect of the county of Lancashire. |
| lanky streak of piss | Noun. A tall, thin person. Derog. [Northern use] |
| lardarse | Noun. A fat person. Also as lard-arse. Orig. U.S. as lard-ass. Derog. Cf. 'tub of lard'. |
| lard-arsed | Adj. Of a person, fat, overweight, but with an implication of being lazy, or useless. Also as lardy-arsed. |
| large | Adj. Excellent. See 'have it large'. |
| large it | Verb. To be enthusiastic. See 'have it large'. |
| lark | Noun. 1. A game, but also used negatively in the sense of a waste of time. E.g."I'm not at all comfortable with this abseiling lark; the climbing up is alright but coming down backwards, now that's stupid!" {Informal} 2. A fun person. E.g."Ella is such a lark, I love going out with her." |
| larrup | Verb. To beat, to thrash. E.g."As usual we got larruped at football." |
| larruped | Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. [Mainly Northern use?] |
| Larry Lightweight | Noun. 1. A person who is easily intoxicated by alcohol or drugs, having low tolerance to intoxicants. Derog. 2. A person, who against the desires of others, has no ability or wishes to maintain an activity and gives up prematurely. Derog. |
| lash | Verb. To discard, throwaway. E.g."I'm going to lash those old boots, they're letting in water." [Merseyside use?] |
| lashed (up) | Adj. Drunk. |
| Later(s) ! | Exclam. Goodbye! Derived from see you later or catch you later. [1990s] |
| laughing boy | Noun. A sardonic nickname for a male who looks miserable. E.g."Cheer up laughing boy, it's not the end of the world." |
| laughing gear | Noun. The mouth. |
| lav | Noun. A toilet. Abb. of lavatory. Also lavvy. |
| lawk(s)! | Exclam. Lord! A mild oath. |
| lawks a mussy | Exclam. Lord have mercy! |
| lay | Verb. To have sexual intercourse. E.g."I got a little drunk last night and got laid." |
| lay a brick | Vrb phrs. To defecate. E.g."I've just laid a brick the size of an elephant." |
| lay one on (someone) | Verb. To hit (someone). |
| lay some cable | Vrb phrs. To defecate. E.g."Can I get Tim to give you a call back? He's just in the toilet, laying some cable." |
| lazy lob | Noun. A semi-erect penis. Cf. 'lob on'. |
| lazz | Verb. To pass or throw. Cf. 'luzz'. [North-west/Merseyside use] |
| lead up the garden path | Vrb phrs. To mislead. {Informal} |
| leak | Noun. An act of urination. E.g. "Hold on a minute, I need to take a leak." |
| lean | Adj. Intoxicated with alcohol or drugs. [Mainly London use] |
| leathered | Adj. Drunk. |
| leathering | Noun. A beating. Originates from the use of a leather belt or thong to beat someone. Derived from the verb - to leather. |
| leave it out! | Exclam. Stop it! Stop doing that! |
| lech | Verb. To sexually lust. Also spelt letch. {Informal} Noun. Someone who is lecherous and lustful. Derog. |
| leck | Verb.See 'laik'. |
| lecky | Noun. Electricity. Also 'lecko'. E.g. "I'm afraid we can't invite you back, we've had the lecky cut off." |
| ledge | Noun. Abb. of legend or legendary. Also lege. E.g."Will Smith? He's a ledge." |
| Lee Marvin | Adj. Starvin' (starving), hungry. Rhyming slang. Lee Marvin, an American film and television actor. |
| leftfield | Adj. Taking an unconventional view or stance. [Orig. U.S.] |
| left footer | Noun. A Catholic. Derog. |
| lefty | Noun. A socialist. Derog. |
| leg it | Verb. To run hurriedly. E.g."We heard the police sirens and legged it." |
| legit | Adj. Abb. of legitimate. |
| legless | Adj. Very drunk. Obvious derivation from the consequences of excessive alcohol. |
| leg opener | Noun. Anything that helps or has the reaction of making a female more sexually amenable. |
| leg-over | Noun. Sexual intercourse, usually in phrase 'get one's leg over'. E.g."Did you get your leg-over with that girl last night?" |
| lemon | Noun. 1. A fool, idiot, objectionable person. 2. A lump of excrement. Rhyming slang on lemon curd, meaning 'turd'. [1960s] 3. A lesbian. Derog. |
| lemon and lime | Noun. Time. Rhyming slang. |
| lemon squeezy | Adj. Easy, simple. Either from the rhyming slang or the juvenile rhyme - easy peasy, lemon squeezy. |
| length | Noun. Euphemism for the penis. See 'slip (someone) a length'. |
| Leo | Noun. An all day drinking spree. From the rhyming slang on Leo Sayer meaning all dayer. Leo Sayer, a British pop musician popular in the mid 1970s. |
| les-be friends | Noun. A lesbian or lesbians. A pun on let's be friends. Also lez-be friends. Derog. |
| lesbo | Noun. A lesbian. |
| let down | Noun. A disappointment. E.g."Having our holiday cancelled due to the pandemic was a huge let down." |
| let off | Verb. To break wind, to 'fart'. Shortening of let off wind. |
| let one go | Verb. To break wind, to fart. E.g."That's disgusting! Who's just let one go?" |
| let (one) rip | Verb. To break wind, to fart. |
| let the dog see the rabbit | Phrs. Move out of the way so that I can see. [Northern use] |
| lettuce | Noun. The female genitals. |
| lettuce licker | Noun. A lesbian. See 'lettuce'. Derog. |
| lezzer | Noun. A lesbian. |
| lick arse | Verb. To act obsequiously, to be a sycophant. Noun. A sycophant. |
| lickety-split | Adv. Fast, speedily. [Orig. U.S.] |
| lickle | Adj. Small. A lazy or childlike corruption of the word little. |
| lick (out) | Verb. To perform cunnilingus. |
| lick (someone's) arse | Verb. To act like a sycophant. E.g."Licking the manager's arse might get you a promotion, but you'll not gain many friends." |
| lick up | Verb. To fawn, to be obsequious. E.g."She licked up to the teacher and got a grade A in her English language test." |
| lid | Noun. A hat, cap, or helmet. |
| (the) life of Riley | Noun. The good life. E.g."Ever since they won the lottery and have stopping working they've been living the life of Riley." |
| lift | Verb. To steal. E.g."She lifted some food from the supermarket so her child could eat." |
| ligger | Noun. A 'freeloader', a taker of things that are freely available, especially in the world of show business or music. |
| lights are on but no-one's home | Phrs. Of a person, that they are alive but not in touch with reality. A catch-phrase cast at a person who lacks commonsense or whose attention has wandered. |
| lightweight | Noun. Someone who can't drink or take drugs to the level expected by their peers. E.g."Come on, have another drink you lightweight." {Informal} |
| like a bastard | Phrs. In a hurried or agitated state. E.g."I raced around the shops like a bastard, looking for a birthday present." |
| like a blue arsed fly | Phrs. Hurriedly and frantically. E.g."God, I'm so knackered, I've been racing around all day like a blue-arsed fly." |
| like a dead heat in a zeppelin race | Phrs. Of a woman, having large breasts. Cf. 'zeppelins'. |
| like a dog with two dicks | Phrs. 1. Sexually promiscuous, with the implication that the person cannot control their sexual appetite, having animal urges. Applied to males. E.g."Did you see Bob ogling that woman's breasts? He was all over her like a dog with two dicks." 2. Sexually excitable or excited. 3. Over excited. |
| like a fart in a colander | Phrs. 1. Useless. In expressions such as, about as much use as a fart in a colander. 2. Confused. E.g."You're like a fart in a colander, not knowing which hole to come out of." |
| like a pig in shit | Phrs. Happy, contented. |
| like a rat up a drainpipe | Phrs. Very quickly. |
| like a row of bombed houses | Phrs. Of teeth, crooked, irregular, not in a good state. |
| like a sack of spuds | Phrs. Easily, quickly, heavily. Usually describing a physical fall. E.g."I hardly touched him and he went down like a sack of spuds." |
| like a spare prick at a wedding | Phrs. Totally useless, unwanted, and with a hint of embarrassment for being in that predicament. E.g."There I was, waiting for my date at the entrance of this packed restaurant on Valentines Day, like a spare prick at a wedding." |
| like flies on shit | Phrs. Used as emphasis to imply great numbers and enthusiasm, usually with depreciative undertones. E.g."She'd go into a bar and all the men would be all over her like flies on shit." |
| like fuck (!) | Adj/adv. Intensely, greatly, very much, speedily. E.g."We went at the decorating like fuck, and finished the whole house in 2 days." Exclam. An exclamation of denial. E.g."Like fuck! I'm not running naked through the town centre." |
| like it or lump it | Phrs. An ultimatum - either like it or just put up with it, but whatever, there is no choice. See 'lump it'. |
| likely lad | Noun. A smart, self-confident, often cheeky young man. [Mainly Northern use] {Informal} |
| like nobody's business | Phrs. Totally, quickly, very well. |
| like shit off a shovel | Phrs. Very quickly. |
| like shit off a stick | Phrs. Quickly. |
| like something not right | Phrs. Added to the end of an action to express that it was extreme in some context. E.g."It was raining like something not right, and within an hour the house was flooded." |
| like the clappers | Phrs. Very quickly, very hard. E.g."We ran like the clappers." {Informal} |
| Lilly (Law) | Noun. The police. From Polari slang Lilly Law. |
| lils | Noun. Breasts. |
| Limey | Noun. An English person. Derived from the habit, on long journeys, of supplying lime juice to English sailors as a preventative against scurvy. [Orig. Aust. 1880s] |
| limp-dick | Noun. A weakling, an ineffectual person. Adj. Weak, ineffectual, inadequate. E.g."Yet another limp-dick performance against the worse team in the division." |
| limp-wristed | Adj. Feeble, effeminate, usually applied to males, and often implying homosexuality. |
| line | Noun. A quantity of powdered drug, such as cocaine, that is chopped and presented as a line in order to be snorted. |
| Lionels | Noun. Flaired trousers/jeans. Rhyming slang on Lionel Blair's, meaning flairs. From the British dancer/entertainer, Lionel Blair. [1970s] |
| lip | Noun. Verbal impudence, cheek. |
| lippy | Adj. Impertinent, mouthy, cheeky. {Informal} Noun. Lipstick. |
| lips | Noun. The labias. |
| lipstick | Noun. A dog's penis, when slightly aroused and it's tip showing. |
| lipstick lesbian | Noun. A lesbian who prefers to wear make-up and look conventionally feminine, as opposed to a 'bull-dyke' or 'diesel-dyke'. |
| liquid lunch | Noun. A lunch break comprising of alcohol instead of food. |
| little boy's/girl's room | Noun. Euphemisms for a lavatory, bathroom or toilet. E.g."Could someone direct me to the little girls room, I'm desperate." |
| little fella | Noun. Affectionate term for an ectasy (MDMA) pill. E.g."We cant have a good night tonight until we get some little fellas." |
| little man in a boat | Noun. A euphemism for the clitoris. From its appearance. |
| littles | Noun. Pills, or more commonly ectasy pills. |
| little swimmers | Noun. Sperm. |
| little 'un | Noun. A little one. Usually referring to young children. |
| livener | Noun. A drink used as a pick-me-up, often the first drink of the day. |
| live over the brush | Vrb phrs. Of a couple, to live together out of wedlock. {Informal} |
| load | Noun. The quantity of semen that is usually ejaculated. E.g."She was so horny I shot my load just looking at her." See 'shoot one's load'. |
| loaded | Adj. 1. Drunk, or drugged up. 2. Wealthy. |
| load of crap | Noun. Utter nonsense, complete rubbish, worthless. The prefixal element load of is regularly placed before nouns as an intensifier in perjorative expressions such as a load of shit, a load of bollocks, a load of tosh. E.g."That film we went to see was a load of crap." |
| load of old bollocks | Noun. Utter nonsense, complete rubbish. See 'load of crap'. |
| load of old crap | Noun. See 'load of crap'. |
| loaf | Noun. Head. Rhyming slang on loaf of bread. See 'use one's loaf'. |
| lob | Verb. 1. To discard, to throw away. E.g."It's no use, it's broken, just lob it." 2. To pass, to give. E.g."Will you lob me the salt and pepper?" |
| lob on | Noun. An erect penis. |
| lobster | Noun. A very sunburnt person. Derog. |
| (the) local | Noun. One's local drinking establishment, public house, bar, that is usually located nearest to ones home or work. E.g."I usually pop down to my local for some lunch at the weekends." {Informal} |
| lock-in | Noun. The time after a public house has closed when a chosen few are offered the chance to buy more drinks. An illegal activity, hence the locking of doors. |
| log | Noun. A lump of excrement. From its vague similarity to a to a sawn tree trunk. |
| lolligag | Verb. To waste time, to dawdle, to fool around. Also as lallygag. E.g."Stop lolligagging and go help your mother with the cleaning." [Orig. U.S. /Mid 1800s] {Informal} |
| lolly | Noun. Money. |
| lombard | Noun/Acronym. A wealthy but objectionable person. Stands for loads of money but a right dickhead, or lots of money but a right dickhead, or equivalent. |
| long bacon | Noun. A derisive gesture that involves thumbing one's nose whilst waggling one's extended fingers. Used in phrases such as make/pull the long bacon. |
| long-hair | Noun. A hippy. |
| long mackintosh brigade | Noun. Collectively, perverts or those who indecently expose themselves, as traditionally seen wearing long raincoats (mackintoshes) to hide their sexual intentions. Cf. 'dirty mackintosh brigade'. |
| long streak of piss | Noun. A tall thin person. Derog. |
| long time no see | Phrs. It's been a while since we last met. Used as a greeting. {Informal} |
| loo | Noun. A lavatory, a toilet. {Informal} |
| lookah | Noun. Money. It is derived from lucre, a derogatory term for profit or gain. Also spelt luka. |
| look at someone gone out | Phrs. Expressed at a person who responds blankly at something. E.g."Look at you gone out! What's up? Haven't you understood a word I've been saying." [Midlands/South Yorkshire use?] |
| looker | Noun. An attractive person. |
| look like death warmed up | Vrb phrs. To look very pale and sickly. E.g."She had a terrible hangover and looked like death warmed up." |
| look like something the cat brought in | Vrb phrs. To look scruffy, unkempt, or in a physical mess. |
| look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards | Vrb phrs. To have very unkempt hair. E.g."When was the last time he ran a comb through his hair? It looked like he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards." |
| looksee | Noun. A look, a glance. Also looksy. E.g."Have a looksy at this brochure and tell me which holiday appeals to you." |
| loon | Noun. An insane person. Abb. of lunatic. Derog. |
| loony | Noun. An insane person. From lunatic. Derog. Adj. Crazy. |
| loony-bin | Noun. Mental institution, a lunatic asylum. |
| loopy | Adj. Mad, insane. |
| loppy | Adj. Dirty, filthy. [Yorks use] |
| Lord Muck | Noun. A pompous, conceited male who considers themselves above their peers. Cf. 'Lady Muck'. |
| lose it | Verb. To become confused or out of control. |
| lose one's bottle | Vrb phrs. To lose courage. Cf. 'bottle' and 'bottle it'. |
| lose one's marbles | Vrb phrs. To go crazy, to lose control. |
| lose one's rag | Vrb phrs. To lose control in a fit of fury, to be very angry. E.g."You should keep out of Jill's way when she loses her rag; she's got a lethal right hook." |
| lose the plot | Vrb phrs. Be confused, to go off direction, whether with conversation or in one's activities. |
| lot | Noun. A person or group of people with a particular character, often modified with an depreciative adj. such as bad lot, boring lot, noisy lot etc. Also used as a form of address for a group of people, in you lot. E.g."Are you lot ready to set off? We've got a long way to go." {Informal} |
| lounge lizard | Noun. 1. An idle frequenter of fashionable bars. Old fashioned. {Informal} 2. Someone who is very lazy and unenergetic. |
| louse | Verb. To finish a job or task. [Scottish use] |
| love | Noun. A friendly term of address. {Informal} |
| love a duck! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. |
| love custard | Noun. Semen. |
| loved up | Adj. 1. In love. 2. High on drugs and feeling intimate and empathetic, usually on MDMA. |
| love handles | Noun. An area and build up of fat on a person's waistline. |
| love length | Noun. The penis. |
| lovely-jubbly! | Exclam. Excellent! Great! A jocular expression popularized in the 1990s by the cockney character Delboy, in the British sit-com Only Fools and Horses. Originally from a 1950s advertisement for an ice lolly, by the name of Jubbly. |
| love muscle | Noun. The penis. |
| love piss | Noun. Semen. |
| lover boy | Noun. 1. A lover, an attractive man. 2. A friendly term of address. |
| love rod | Noun. The penis. |
| love spuds | Noun. Testicles. |
| low-life | Noun. Contemptible and despised person or persons, often with criminal leanings. E.g."I'm not going in that bar, it's full of low-life and I value my own life." |
| lug | Noun. Ear. {Informal} |
| lug-hole | Noun. The ear hole. Also lughole. See 'lug'. |
| luka | Noun. See 'lookah'. |
| lumber | Verb. To burden. E.g."What am I, a doctor? Don't lumber me with all your medical problems, go to the health centre." {Informal} |
| lummox | Noun. A clumsy, stupid person. Often used affectionately. |
| lump it | Verb. To suffer or endure something. See 'like it or lump it'. E.g."You'll just have to lump it; being a parent isn't easy and you'll always have no time to yourself." |
| lumpy jumper | Noun. A female, specifically one in the military. [Military use] |
| lunchbox | Noun. Male genitals. |
| lungs | Noun. Women's breasts. |
| lurgy | Noun. Any unspecified or indeterminate illness. Jocular use. Also lurgee and lurgi. See 'dreaded lurgy'. {Informal} |
| lurve | Noun/Verb. Love. Humourous and intentional mispronunciation to suggest more passion and lust. |
| lush | Adj. Excellent, appealing, attractive. Noun. A habitual, heavy drinker of alcohol. Derog. |
| lusty | Adj. Sexually excited. Derived from the s.e. lust and grammatically correct adjective lustful. |
| luvvie | Noun. 1. An actor or actress, especially one with a flamboyant and affected theatrical manner. Also luvvy. Often derog. {Informal} 2. A form of address. From lovey. {Informal} |
| luzz | Verb. To pass or throw. E.g."Will you luzz me that pen and paper, please?" Cf. 'lazz'. [S.E. England use] |
| lychees | Noun. Testicles. |