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HAGO
[Have A Good One] good wishes

happy horse shit
to raise expectations, perhaps unreasonably; Note: like bullshit, happy horse shit is often fed to you; Don't feed me that happy horse shit; compare pumping sunshine up your shorts/skirt

harder than Chinese math
said of a man's erection

hawg
see hog

hawking
looking for a date [1995, Knight-Ridder News Service]

hershey squirts
diarrhea

high dome
egghead, scientist, PhD

high feather
high spirits; The lookouts reported one Devastator after another knocked out of action. Genda was in high feather. [G.Prange, Miracle at Midway, 1982; also fine feather

hircismus
the condition of having stinky armpits

ho
1: alternate spelling of whore;
2: generic for woman; compare with bitch
see also riding ho

hog
[mil] Boeing RC-135; from heavy-jowled appearance and extended nose; also hawg

holmes
see homeboy

homeboy, homegirl
term of address, akin to saying pal or buddy; What's up, homeboy?; some feel that this is a term of address used only amongst ethnic blacks, and while the term is very popular among them, many urban youth use the term without regard to ethnicity; also holmes, homey, homie, ock

homes
see homeboy

homey
see homeboy

homophobe, homophobic

I think the word indulges in name-calling, not so much because it implies that "fear or antipathy is unreasonable," but rather because it presumes that all antipathy is based on fear, which is unproven and grounded in a shaky understanding of even shakier psychological hypotheses. By this standard, anything you don't like, you're afraid of. Don't like Star Trek? You must be Spockophobic, so what is it that you find so terrifying about Spock? [Jon Jerome, FIDO Words conference, Nov 95]

honey wagon
a truck that cleans out portable outhouses

honky
[1900- ] derogatory term for Bohemian (bohunk) or Hungarian (hunky) immigrants, sometimes applied to caucasians by negros [Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Rbt Hendrickson];

hood
short form of neighborhood; sometimes rendered 'hood

hoover

1. to vacuum; I've just finished hoovering the rug. [Brit]
2. to pick up a great number of things in the manner of a vacuum cleaner; He hoovers his food off his plate.
3. [mil] Navy S-2 Viking

horf
to steal

hork
to steal; also horf

hose

1. -vt- to ruin, fail to accomplish: He really hosed that job; -adj- ruined: That is one hosed-up piece of work.
2. -vt- usually with over, to deal with unfairly: He got hosed over.
3. -vt- [obscene] to copulate, usually used exclusively by men: I hosed that gorgeous babe last night. [meanings 1 and 2 seem to derive from this sense of the word; compare with fuck]
4. -n- [obscene] penis

housing
-vt- totally dominating another person or team; Our volleyball team is housing those guys! The score is 14-3.

hottie
a good-looking woman [1995, Knight-Ridder News Service]

HUMMER

1. [mil] the HMMV [Highly Maneuverable, Multi-wheeled Vehicle], replacement for the jeep; also humvee
2. [mil] a Navy plane to be identified

huffing
inhalant abuse [UPI 4 April 95]

hyphen
There was a wonderful man named Robert L. Bates who was not only an excellent geologist but a great humorist and a caretaker of the English language, which in geology is quite a job indeed. He could always be counted on to crack up over things like the wierd ways that computers hyphenate words at the ends of lines:

Fren-
ch

or

stra-
phangers

or

orthog-
neiss

He said that the patron saint of computer hyphenation was one he'd first seen mentioned in a want ad:

V.W. Camper Van Roo-
frack.

He was also inordinately fond of phrases he described as "severely in want of a hyphen," like the one that I once saw in a geological report published by the military: unexploded bomb expert. [Jeane Moore, FIDO Words conference, Feb 96]

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