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• someone who you think is a loser and you don't like.

  Me: Hey Uzi, have your heard of Lil?
  
  Uzi: Yeah Lil is a wasteman.

  Last edited on Jul 21 2017. Submitted by sweetermanahlie from Toronto, ON, Canada on Jul 21 2017.

noun

• anyone perceived negatively such that they are not even worth their own skin.

  I never realized what a complete waste of flesh bob was until he told our parents about our party plans.

  Last edited on Sep 06 2006. Submitted by Danny C. from Texas, USA on Sep 06 2006.

• person who is habitually intoxicated (from alcohol or other drugs).
  • See more words with the same meaning: permanently affected drug user.

  Last edited on Mar 24 2003. Submitted by M. J. from Dallas, TX, USA on Mar 24 2003.

verb - transitive

• to monitor very closely.

                                                                                                                                
  
  Citation from "Begin the Begin", Covert Affairs (TV), Season 2 Episode 1 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Jun 10 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 10 2011.

• a watchman for a drug dealer. From Northern Mexican Spanish "guacho" (sentinel) which came from American military English "watch". I have heard that the term was borrowed into Mexican Spanish during the 1914 border strife.

  There's always one or two watchos hanging around the balconies at that place.

  • See more words with the same meaning: terms with foreign origin (list of).

  Last edited on May 17 2011. Submitted by David C. on Sep 19 2004.

verb

• to look out for a person's safety, or one's own safety.

                                                                                                                                                                               
  
  Citation from "Chapter 8", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 2 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Nov 24 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 24 2011.