The Letter R

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rainbow
recruits in the US Air Force before they receive their first uniform issue; their multicolor civilian clothes stand out like a rainbow

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)

rents
parents; syn units

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
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

ride a jock
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 ho
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, R.O.A.D.
[mil] Retired On Active Duty; used derisively to describe somebody who will soon leave military service and does little work

road frisbee
an animal in the road run over by several cars; roadkill

roadkill, euphemisms for
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

roman candle
-n- -vt- a parachute fouled or twisted so as to be ineffective; Its cargo chute had roman candled; Hackworth, About Face; compare
Mae West

roofies
Rophynol, a powerful sedative used by date rapists; The Denver Post, Aug 96

Rosie Palm
1: -n- reference to masturbation; I had a date with Rosie Palm; see also
Angie Dextrous, Five-Finger Mary

ROTFL
see ROFL

running it
-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!

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