adjective

• sane. Note: usually used in the negative.

  He's arguing with himself! He can't be all-there.

  More words meaning: sane

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Dec 29 1996  (Edit definition)

intransitive verb

• see go ape shit.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Jun 09 2008  (Edit definition)

adjective

• strange, stupid; WEIRD.

  Don't worry about Eric, he's just ate up.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Pekka Pennanen, Finland, Jun 21 1997  (Edit definition)

• not "squared away" (i.e. not organized or prepared: a mess.) If someone does something poorly, they're "ate up." Origin: the United States military. In the example phrase, "soup sandwich" is an example of something messy. Note: eight up may be the correct spelling.

  You're all ate up like a soup sandwich!

  More words meaning: a mess

  by Nate Marx, Manassas, VA, USA, Mar 26 1998  (Edit definition)

• burnt out or exhausted from the use of illegal drugs, usually ecstasy.

  He's really ate up from the rave last night.

  More words meaning: under the influence of drugs

  by Maestro, Newark, DE, USA, Apr 17 1998  (Edit definition)

• outdone or outperformed in a contest, such as a sporting event.

  Man, you got ate up by that move.

  More words meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail

  by Kevin Kronfeld, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA, Dec 22 1999  (Edit definition)

• crazy; insane.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by tiffany, Anderson, IN, USA, Mar 12 2002  (Edit definition)

• interested, to the point of near obsession.

  He's ate up about the military.

  More words meaning: to like, enjoy

  by Anonymous, Jul 24 2007  (Edit definition)

• to be consumed with an incurable illness.

  Mabel is ate up with the cancer.

  More words meaning: sick, ill

  by G. R., Nov 21 2008  (Edit definition)

adjective

• strange, stupid; WEIRD. Origin: American rednecks.

  Don't pay any attention to him, he's ate up with the dumb ass.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Robert Wren, Round Rock, TX, USA, Mar 13 1998  (Edit definition)

adjective

• unbelievable; ridiculous. See also go bananas

  That Chris tucker movie was bananas.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Demetrius Scruggs, FL, USA, Dec 22 1997  (Edit definition)

adjective

• crazy, usually in reference to a person.

  He's gone batty.

  That music is driving me batty.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Anonymous, Okotoks, AB, Canada, Feb 09 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• buttocks.

  More words meaning: buttocks, butt, ass

  by The Dude, UK, Sep 25 2002  (Edit definition)

noun

• "boyfriend."

  Is he your new BF?

  More words meaning: abbreviations (list of)
  More words meaning: boyfriend, girlfriend, boo, significant other

  by Kimmie, Canada, Feb 04 2000  (Edit definition)

• a "bitch fit."

  What out before she has a BF.

  More words meaning: abbreviations (list of)
  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Dec 27 2004  (Edit definition)

verb

• to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)

  My crazy ex keeps blowing up my cellphone.

  More words meaning: telephone, phone

  by Greg K., Tucson, AZ, USA, Jun 10 1999  (Edit definition)

• a feeling of ecstasy brought about by the consumption of the drug MDMA (also known as "ecstasy", "X", "E", etc.)

  This is great X - I've been blowing up all night.

  More words meaning: under the influence of MDMA (ecstasy)

  by Anonymous, Jan 19 2000  (Edit definition)

• to significantly increase in one's socio-economic status.

  I'm go blow up when my album is released.

  More words meaning: to make money

  by Ugunda G., Akron, OH, USA, Oct 05 2001  (Edit definition)

• to become extremely angry.

  He totally blew up at me after I wrecked his car.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Jan 04 2003  (Edit definition)

adjective

• off-brand. Typically implies lower cost and lower quality than a mainstream brand.

  That bobo toilet paper just doesn't feel as nice as the good stuff.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Teresa Burch, Troy, AL, USA, Dec 08 2002  (Edit definition)

• false; untrue.

  Man, that's bobo.

  More words meaning: nonsense, lies

  by Jeremy J., Mobile, AL, USA, Jan 04 2003  (Edit definition)

• crazy, stupid, silly, or weird. From the Spanish word "bobo," meaning "foolish" or "fool."

  She really did that? She's so bobo.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Jenn, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Mar 02 2003  (Edit definition)

noun

• a person who is a "balance of bourgeois and bohemian".

  "...So David Brooks contends in his witty book Bobos in Paradise - "Bobos" being a term of Brooks's coinage to describe this "new upper class", which has created a "balance of bourgeois and bohemian" by "living amidst commerce" while "admir(ing) art and intellect", growing "affluent" while remaining "opposed to materialism", and whose members spend "their lives selling yet worr(ying) about selling out". Who exactly are these people? In the realm of material consumption, Bobos reconcile bourgeois and bohemian by cultivating "ever finer tastes about ever more simple things", preferring to "buy the same items as the proletariat - it's just that (they) buy rarified versions of these items that members of the working class would consider preposterous."
  
  -- "Toaster chic", Andrew Stark, 09 June 2000

  More words meaning: miscellaneous insults (list of)

  by Ingrid V., Aug 04 2004  (Edit definition)

intransitive verb

• to joke; KID.

  Ya buggin'.

  More words meaning: to joke, kid, or jest

  by Nelli M., Jul 27 2005  (Edit definition)

• to be extremely excited.

  I'm buggin'!

  More words meaning: excited, energetic

  by Wendy R., Dallas, TX 75231, USA, May 10 2007  (Edit definition)

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure; FREAK OUT.

  I was bugging after she got home.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

noun

• An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction.

  There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backwards.

  The system crashed because of a hardware bug.

  Fred is a winner, but he has a few bugs. (i.e. Fred is a good guy, but he has a few personality problems).

  More words meaning: a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate
  More words meaning: broken
  More words meaning: computer slang

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

transitive verb

• to pester or annoy.

  Why do you keep bugging me? Go away.

  More words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

origin

• Regarding the "unwanted and unintended property" meaning:
  
  Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing the programming language COBOL) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated "bug" in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads, "1545 Relay #70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found."
  
  This wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense, and Hopper herself reports that the term "bug" was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
  
  Indeed, the use of "bug" to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 (Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity, Theo. Audel & Co.) which says, "The term "bug" is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus."
  
  It further notes that the term is said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus.
  
  The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology of the term: that it came from telephone company usage, in which bugs in a telephone cable were blamed for noisy lines.
  
  Historians of the field inform us that the term was regularly used in the early days of telegraphy to refer to a variety of semi-automatic telegraphy keyers that would send a string of dots if you held them down. In fact, the Vibroplex keyers (which were among the most common of this type) even had a graphic of a beetle on them (and still do)! While the ability to send repeated dots automatically was very useful for professional morse code operators, these were also significantly trickier to use than the older manual keyers, and it could take some practice to ensure one didn't introduce extraneous dots into the code by holding the key down a fraction too long. In the hands of an inexperienced operator, a Vibroplex "bug" on the line could mean that a lot of garbled Morse would soon be coming your way.
  
  Further, the term has long been used among radio technicians to describe a device that converts electromagnetic field variations into acoustic signals. It is used to trace radio interference and look for dangerous radio emissions. Radio community usage derives from the roach-like shape of the first versions used by 19th century physicists. The first versions consisted of a coil of wire (roach body), with the two wire ends sticking out and bent back to nearly touch forming a spark gap (roach antennae). The bug is to the radio technician what the stethoscope is to the stereotypical medical doctor. This sense is almost certainly ancestral to modern use of "bug" meaning a covert monitoring device, but may also have contributed to the use of the term for the effects of radio interference itself.
  
  Actually, use of "bug" in the general sense of a disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! (Henry VI, part III - Act V, Scene II: King Edward:
  
  "So, lie thou there. Die thou; and die our fear; For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all."
  
  In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of "bug" is "A frightful object; a walking spectre." This is traced to "bugbear", a Welsh term for a variety of mythological monster which (to complete the circle) has recently been reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games. In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects.
  
  A careful discussion of the etymological issues can be found in a paper by Fred R. Shapiro, 1987, "Entomology of the Computer Bug: History and Folklore", American Speech 62(4):376-378.
  
  As of late 1990, the NSWC still had the bug, but had unsuccessfully tried to get the Smithsonian to accept it. The present curator of their History of American Technology Museum didn't know this and agreed that it would make a worthwhile exhibit. It was moved to the Smithsonian in mid-1991, but due to space and money constraints was not actually exhibited for years afterwards.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

verb

• To get high.

  I can't wait to bug out with Jayme tonight!

  More words meaning: to do drugs
  More words meaning: to smoke marijuana

  by Jackie R., Glen Gardner, NJ, USA, Feb 19 1999  (Edit definition)

notes

• See bug.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

noun

• a bad tantrum. Also conniption fit. One "has" a conniption or conniption fit.

  He had a conniption over the dent in the car.

  He had a conniption fit over the dent in the car.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Melissa C., Phoenix, AZ, USA, Aug 28 2002  (Edit definition)

noun

• someone who acts like they are addicted to crack cocaine; STUPID.

  She is such a crack head.

  More words meaning: unintelligent person, idiot

  by Anonymous, Houston, TX, USA, Mar 20 1998  (Edit definition)

• someone addicted to crack cocaine.

  More words meaning: drug user

  by Anonymous, Houston, TX, USA, Mar 20 1998  (Edit definition)

• someone who is generally wild and crazy, and a source of constant entertainment; SPAZ; NUT. In this sense, usually a term of teasing endearment.

  Oh my god, you're such a crack head!

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange person

  by Sarahie F., Sticks, PA, USA, Nov 26 2001  (Edit definition)

adjective

• extremely fun; exciting; wild; CRAZY; INSANE.

  That party was so crunk that I didn't want to end.

  Get your party on tonight - we're gonna get it crunk.

  Let's get this party crunk!

  More words meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun
  More words meaning: wild, ridiculous, extreme

  by Bernadette, Houston, TX, USA, May 08 1998  (Edit definition)

• angry.

  She got all crunk when she found out her boyfriend had been with another woman.

  I got crunk on Mike when he disrespected me in front of my friends.

  More words meaning: angry, annoyed, offended

  by Bernadette, Houston, TX, USA, May 08 1998  (Edit definition)

• excited, hyper; eager to go out and do something. Also crunked up.

  I'm crunk right now - lets go to a party!

  Get crunked up!

  More words meaning: excited, energetic

  by Bernadette, Houston, TX, USA, May 08 1998  (Edit definition)

• crazy.

  That was a crunk ass movie.

  You're crunk.

  This is crunk.

  Gonna get this crunk.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Angelena D., NJ, USA, Apr 16 1999  (Edit definition)

• very good, excellent; COOL, AWESOME.

  That jacket is totally crunk.

  The baseball game last night was crunk.

  More words meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun

  by Whitney, Nov 27 1999  (Edit definition)

• a combination of "crazy" and "drunk."

  Last night we got crunk as hell!

  More words meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk
  More words meaning: wild, ridiculous, extreme

  by Heather T., Apr 23 2002  (Edit definition)

• a combination of "chronic" (marijuana) and "drunk", i.e. under the influence of both marijuana and alcohol.

  More words meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk
  More words meaning: under the influence of marijuana

  by Caroline M., Nov 08 2004  (Edit definition)

verb

• to dance in a particular style.

  Matzi was out on the corner with his homies, crunkin' to some tunes.

  More words meaning: to dance

  by Sporobolus, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Jun 16 2005  (Edit definition)

notes

• See also get crunk with (one).
  
  As of Aug 6 2007, "crunk" was the most-submitted word to The Online Slang Dictionary. It was submitted around 60 separate times. (The spelling "krunk" was submitted 13 times.)
  
  Over a period of approximately 3 months, the exact same definition text was submitted 13 times. Spelling and grammar errors have been retained:

  The word originated from Justin Timberlake of 'Nsync. The meaning of crunk is multipurposefull. It can mean:
  
  a good time 'That party was so crunk!', as
  
  a question 'What the Crunk?!?',
  
  description of an object 'That is such a crunk babyblue jacket!',
  
  when one is giving up 'Oh man, just crunk it!' ,
  
  to express fondness to another person 'You are the crunkest girl I know.'
  
  The act of becoming crunk is to be 'crunktified,' but
  
  losing 'crunkness' results in being 'decrunked.' Once 'decrunked,' if proven worthy,
  
  one can then 'recrunk' and become crunk again.
  
  The possibilities are endless.
  
  I would also like to comment that this is no joke. Millions of people know and could recite the exact sentence above (get yo party...) if asked. In the teenybopper vocabulary, this IS , without a doubt, the most important word. Period.

  The "exact sentence" referenced in the above text is, "Get yo party on tonight we're gonna get it crunk."
  
  Many submissions (even those which did not use the above text) credited Justin Timberlake of the band NSYNC with coining the term. This is unlikely. See Wikipedia's entry for "crunk" for early uses.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, May 22 2008  (Edit definition)