Browsing page 11 of "C" words

noun

• a fat ankle - one that is as thick as the person's calf, such that there's no visible anatomical difference in the two. From "calf" + "ankle." Usually used in the plural.

  Look at the cankles on her!

  Last edited on Dec 15 2010. Submitted by April W from Fairfax, VA, USA on Dec 11 2001.

• a reduction in sales volume for a company's product resulting from the introduction of a new, similar product.

  Last edited on Aug 26 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

• to use parts from one object to repair another of the same type.

  Last edited on Aug 26 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

noun - uncountable

• expendable military personnel.

  Last edited on Sep 06 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

noun

• a canister of tear gas. From "CS gas".

  Damn, the cops took out the can of sorrow.

  Last edited on Aug 21 2013. Submitted by Omar R. from Austin, TX, USA on May 16 2006.

noun

• a large quantity of repressed anger or violence.

  Don't make me open up a can of whup-ass!

  Last edited on Aug 21 2013. Submitted by Jody P. from Dallas, TX, USA on Jan 17 1999.

• headphones. from Desperates (Cockney rhyming slang from the cartoon character Desperate Dan. He was a huge, amiable but very stupid man with a large chin whose favourite food was cow pie, complete with horns and tail poking out of the piecrust.)

  Last edited on Apr 09 2005. Submitted by Jill G. from Westminster, London, UK on Apr 09 2005.

noun - plural

• breasts.

  Did you see the size of the cans on that waitress?!

  • See more words with the same meaning: breast, breasts.

  Last edited on Oct 19 2010. Submitted by John O. from Algonquin, IL, USA on Oct 07 2004.