red
-adj- angry; destructive;
He got really red and started breaking things;
heard at UW-Eau Claire, about 1980; probably from redneck
red sun
heroin with a purity approaching 90% (AP story)
retronym
a word that once meant only one thing, but which now
must be described more fully to differentiate it from a modern device
which has supplanted it, e.g. acoustic guitar [William Safire]
Rhino
[mil - primarily USMC]
McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom
rice bowl
ride a jock
personal territory; used in modern speech to denote the domains
of politically sensitive situations:
In my office, people spent more time guarding their own rice bowl
than doing their jobs; compare pork barrel
a female who attempts to get to know a male of her own peer group
with the intentions of ultimately having a relationship with that
person because of his personality, not his material possessions
riding in the passenger seat; probably from riding shotgun;
alt.english.usage, AUG 96;
see ho
ripped
1: -adj- drunk
2: -adj- muscular;
compare
buff,
pumped
Roach
F-117 stealth attack plane; alt.folklore.urban, 1 cite
road frisbee
roadkill, euphemisms for
roman candle
roofies
Rosie Palm
ROTFL
running it
[mil]
Retired On Active Duty; used derisively to describe somebody
who will soon leave military service and does little work
an animal in the road run over by several cars; roadkill
pavement pizza (see also vomit),
road frisbee
ROFL, ROTFL
Rolling On the Floor
Laughing; used in computer chat and on bulletin
boards; also ROTFL, and RO(T)FLMAO for Rolling
On The Floor,
Laughing My Ass
Off
-n- -vt- a parachute fouled or twisted so as to be ineffective;
Its cargo chute had roman candled; Hackworth, About Face;
compare Mae West
Rophynol, a powerful sedative used by date rapists;
The Denver Post, Aug 96
1: -n- reference to masturbation;
I had a date with Rosie Palm;
see also
Angie Dextrous,
Five-Finger Mary
see ROFL
-vt- (music) to play a song to the point of exhaustion;
That's the 6th time I've heard that song today;
they're running it!