This page gathers the 6,517 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Informal” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 22 of 65: from “fly the freak flag” to “funny ha-ha”.
- fly the freak flag verb To behave in an unconventional or unrestrained manner; to exhibit the uninhibited side of one's personality.
- fly without a licence verb To inadvertently have one's flies (trouser opening) undone.
- flyer noun A fast-moving person or thing.
- flying bishop noun An itinerant bishop of the Church of England appointed to administer within another's diocese to those who refuse to accept the ordination…
- flying brick noun A fictional character who has superstrength, invulnerability and the ability to fly.
- flying saucer noun A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947.
- flyover noun Middle America, noncoastal America.
- foam rubber noun Expanded polyurethane, the padding often used in cars and furniture.
- fob off verb To use lies, excuses, or deceit to satisfy (someone); to deceitfully appease someone by giving something that is spurious or inferior from…
- fold verb To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- foldie noun A folding bicycle.
- follow someone off a cliff verb To follow (a leader or a de facto leader) without question or thought, leading to potentially disastrous consequences.
- font verb To overlay (text) on the picture.
- Fonzie touch noun Hitting an electrical appliance to make it work. Any similar rough treatment that proves successful.
- foodtography noun The practice of diners photographing food they are served in restaurants, usually for the purpose of sharing the photos on social media.
- foof noun dioxygen difluoride
- foofaraw noun Overly excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
- fool adj Foolish.
- fool around verb To engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts.
- foot noun Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- football player noun A large, intimidating male.
- footwork noun Finesse.
- footy noun A footjob.
- for days prep_phrase For a large amount or distance; a lot.
- for instance noun An example.
- for real adj Genuine, true; serious, earnest.
- for real life prep_phrase Synonym of in reality, occurring in real life as opposed to play or make believe.
- forced-birther noun One who desires that abortion be illegal, and thus that pregnant women be required to carry to term and give birth in all or most cases; a…
- foregone adj inevitable; settled
- foreign noun A foreigner: a person from another country.
- forensic adj Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.
- forever adj Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.
- forget verb To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
- fossilized adj Old-fashioned, outmoded, or rigidly fixed in a way that is resistant to change.
- foster noun A foster parent.
- four flush verb To engage in empty boasting or bluffing.
- four o'clock noun A position to the right and slightly behind (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 4 mark on a clock face)
- four-rings noun An Audi automobile, in reference to the logo which is four interconnected rings.
- four-speed noun A manual transmission with four forward speeds; (metonymic) a vehicle with such a transmission.
- fourth verb To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.
- fourtino noun Any astronomical object, on the edge of the Kuiper Belt, whose orbit has a 1:4 resonance with the planet Neptune.
- Fox Newsian adj Typical of Fox News.
- foxy adj Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
- fraidy cat noun A coward; a person who is easily frightened.
- Frankenfish noun A fish that inspires fear for being unnatural in some way, as one that is invasive, or the product of genetic engineering.
- FrankenSAM noun Any ground-based air-defence system assembled from multiple heterogeneous existing air-defence systems.
- Frankenstein PC noun A custom-built or heavily repaired PC (type of computer) assembled from a mix of mismatched, repurposed, or discarded spare parts rather…
- franklin noun A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
- frass noun artificial turf
- Fraturday noun A period of time that runs from Friday into Saturday, for example because of an intense work schedule.
- frazzle noun A burnt fragment; a cinder or crisp.
- freak noun A very sexually perverse individual.
- freak out verb To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.
- free noun Abbreviation of freestyle.
- freeze verb To be affected by extreme cold.
- french adj Used to form names or references to venereal diseases.
- French bread noun Synonym of baguette: a long thin loaf of bread with a thick crust and often having large bubbles of air inside, popular in and associated…
- French leave noun A departure taken quietly and unnoticed, without asking for permission or informing anyone.
- Frenchy adj With an exaggerated French manner.
- freon noun A gaseous ozone-depleting refrigerant.
- frequent flyer noun Someone who is habitually a nuisance.
- fresh meat noun A person or group of people who arouse one's interest, either as a new target for deception, humiliation or ridicule, or as a potential…
- freshers' flu noun A cold or similar illness contracted by new students at a university, caused by gathering people (and the diseases they carry) from a wide…
- Friday adv On Friday.
- Fridayish adv On or around Friday.
- fridge noun A refrigerator.
- fried-eggy adj Resembling or characteristic of a fried egg.
- friend noun An object or idea that can be used for good.
- friendable adj Capable or worthy of being someone’s friend.
- friends of Bill W. noun The organization Alcoholics Anonymous.
- frightmare noun Someone or something extremely unattractive.
- fringy adj Beyond the mainstream.
- frisky adj Sexually aroused.
- fritz noun The state of being defective.
- from soup to nuts prep_phrase From start to finish, from beginning to end; throughout.
- front noun An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- frontage noun A woman's breasts.
- frontish adj Somewhat to the front.
- frontrunneritis noun A supposed affliction said to cause someone, especially a political candidate, to struggle as soon as they become a front runner.
- frost verb To anger or annoy.
- frowny adj Frowning.
- fruit noun A crazy person.
- fruitloopery noun The use of scientific language inappropriately and without comprehension in order to increase believability of a concept.
- fruity adj Crazy.
- fry verb To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
- fu noun kung fu
- fuddy-duddy noun An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
- fudgie noun A fudge confection or cookie.
- fuh prep Pronunciation spelling of for.
- full adj Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- full stop verb To completely stop.
- full-frontal adj Full-on; unrestrained.
- fulla prep Full of.
- fume date noun The date on which a company (especially a startup) runs out of money or is expected to run out of money.
- fumfer verb To speak awkwardly or evasively; to dither, waffle.
- fun adj Whimsical or flamboyant.
- fundiloon noun A fundamentalist loon, that is, a person who is fundamentalist (religiously and socially conservative) and (regarded as) crazy.
- fungo noun A fungo bat.
- funny noun A joke.
- funny ha-ha adj Humorous, as opposed to strange (the other meaning of funny).