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• 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) censored in hope of resolving 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) censored in hope of resolving 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.

noun

• An overpriced area of Parkland, Florida where your hair stands on end due to proximity to power lines. Compares to real neighborhoods like Parkland Golf and Country Club like a safety school to the Ivy Leagues.
  
  Ex. "I went to Emory because I got waitlisted at Yale."

  Last edited on Feb 12 2015. Submitted by Anonymous on Feb 12 2015.

• to make something more mild.

  We had to water down some of the sex scenes to get an R rating.

  Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

adjective

• to feel sad, hurt, low.

  He's watered right now.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to be sad, disappointed.

  Last edited on Aug 06 2010. Submitted by Jorge L. Garcia from San Diego, CA, USA on Feb 25 1998.