noun

• any location far away. Subjective, usually used to refer to anywhere it would be a hassle to travel to.

  That's way out in Guam!

  by James Bell, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Nov 25 1997.

noun

• a place at which one relaxes. Also hangout.

  Have you been to our new hang?

  Have you been to our new hangout?

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001.

verb

• to relax, usually with other friends; CHILL. Also hang out.

  I was just hanging over at Nick's place.

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001.

• to keep up with others in some activity.

  You only drank 2 beers? Man, you can't hang.

  by Jessica A., IL, USA, Jan 13 2003.

• to perform a turn in a motor vehicle.

  Hang a left at the traffic lights.

  by Matthew R., Blackpool, United Kingdom, May 31 2004.

intransitive verb

• to leave. Also head out.

  See you later. I gotta head.

  by Jackie, Santa Rosa, CA, USA, Nov 21 1999.

noun

• a person who has both street and book knowledge.

  by Sandrea Sanders, St Louis, MO, USA, Dec 10 1996.

• someone who uses illegal drugs.

  by Robert Geddings, Dec 16 1996.

• fellatio or cunnilingus.

  She gives good head.

  by CHRIS M., New York, NY, USA, May 11 1999.

• a person.

  There are a lot of heads in this party.

  by Annette, Naples, FL, USA, Dec 02 2001.

• a rest-room or toilet. Origin: the military.

  I'm going to go use the head.

  by Anonymous, Jan 02 2003.

noun

• shortened form of "neighborhood." Often implies a ghetto or urban community.

  by Anonymous, Aug 08 1997.

• a criminal or delinquent. Perhaps shortened from "hoodlum."

  That guy is a hood.

  by will, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Mar 02 2003.

noun

• song.

  Have you heard Jay-Z's new joint? It's funky.

  by Michu, Poland, Feb 10 2002.

• a marijuana cigarette, usually rolled by hand.

  Pass the joint over here.

  by Anonymous, Jan 09 2003.

• a building, establishment, house, apartment, office, store, bar, etc.; PLACE.

  Where's the bathroom in this joint?

  by Anonymous, Jan 09 2003.

noun

• the shower.

  He really needs to hit the rain closet.

  by Raven Gilliland, Warsaw, VA, USA, Feb 05 1998.

noun

• a "retirement community," (a place where old people go to live.) Possible etymology: raisins are wrinkled.

  by Kevin H., Cedar Rapids, IA, USA, Nov 29 2001.

adjective

• directly. Usually smack dab in(to) the middle.

  He kicked the ball smack dab into the middle of the net.

  by Anonymous, Jul 07 2007.

noun

• a rural area.

  That guy is from out in the sticks.

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001.

noun

• toilet.

  He was in the bathroom sitting on the throne.

  by John L. Oubre, Washington, DC, USA, Dec 06 2002.

noun

• a derogatory term for a small town or rural area. See wanker.

  Welcome to Wanker Town, USA.

  by Chris C., New York, NY, USA, Feb 14 1998.

adjective

• "your."

  Where yo car?

  by Anonymous, May 07 2004.

interjection

• used to get someone's attention.

  Yo, come here.

  by John Nelson, Lufkin, TX, USA, Sep 12 1997.

• used at the end of a sentence to emphasize a point.

  What's up, yo?

  You going to hook me up, yo?

  That's my knife, yo.

  by John Nelson, Lufkin, TX, USA, Sep 12 1997.

• used as a prefix to a greeting.

  Yo, man, what's up?

  by John Nelson, Lufkin, TX, USA, Sep 12 1997.

noun

• "year old."

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.

notes

• "Yo" is the first person pronoun (i.e. "I") in Spanish.

  by John Nelson, Lufkin, TX, USA, Sep 12 1997.

other

• alternative spelling of "UK" (United Kingdom.) Usually pronounced in a more drawn-out fashion.

  I met someone online from the YooKay.

  by Emily M., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Jan 13 1998.