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WAG
wild-assed guess; compare
SWAG

wak
stupid; 1995, Knight-Ridder News Service

wanker
[British] masturbator; wanker and wank have been used widely in the United States, often as a prefix, i.e. wankbrain, but have practically no stigma attached to their use

Warthog
[mil] Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II

Wendy, be a
a woman who acts like a stereotypically WASPish woman from Wellesley [Wellesley]

whack
1: -n- a lot; She ordered a whole whack of Chinese food.
2: excellent; That song is really whack.

whale
Elongated mounds of snow that accumulate from days of spray from nozzles of snow guns. The snow is allowed to grow in these piles to prevent melting, then spread uniformly across the slope with Sno-Cats when the time is right; Denver Post, 11 Oct 1995

whammy
rhinorhea; booger

whip a shittie
turn a car in a tight circle so that the rear fishtails, heard from a native of the area of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1996 -- when this was popular in my high school (1979) we called it doing a doughnut; see
flip a shittie, flip a bitch

whistle pig
marmot; Gilman, CO., as reported in Empire Magazine, Nov 95

widow's hump
a hunched back, presumably said of a woman only; heard about Aug 1995

winnet
see dingleberry

wingnut
[mil] enlisted member of the US Air Force; heard from a Navy enlisted; probably from the Air Force chevron's similarity to a wing nut, or maybe they just like calling Air Force enlisted 'nuts'

wog
[mil] a sailor who has not yet sailed across the equator; short for pollywog; a wog dog is a wog who has a shellback to sponsor him during the rites of passage

wombat
Waste Of Money, Breath And Time; a person who assumes a lofty job title but does little or no work

woof
a tacky hairdo (can also be used as a verb) [NFI]

word, word up
1: agreement; "She's one fine-looking woman." "Word."
2: having the final say in an argument

world wide wait
derisive expansion for WWW (World Wide Web); July 97, from an e-mail

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