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 51 of 65: from “silent service” to “sloppification”.
- silent service noun The submarine service.
- silicone verb To enhance or reconstruct (a body part) with a prosthesis containing silicone.
- silicones noun Breasts that have been enhanced or reconstructed with silicone breast implants.
- silkies noun Silky lingerie.
- sillies noun A period of foolish behaviour.
- silo noun An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
- silver foil noun aluminium foil
- silver-tongued adj Articulate and charming in speech; eloquent; also, having a pleasant-sounding voice or way of speaking.
- silverback noun A dominant or powerful older human male.
- silverside noun Corned beef made with this type of meat.
- sim noun Clipping of simulator.
- simmer noun Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.
- simmer up verb To cook a food through simmering.
- simple majority noun Synonym of plurality: The largest share of the item being counted.
- simplified noun Ellipsis of simplified Chinese.
- sing a different tune verb To hold a different opinion or appreciation (about something); to possess a new, changed, or regenerated mindset, usually for the better.
- singing noun Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
- single noun A bill valued at $1.
- sipper noun A drinking straw.
- sir verb To address another individual using "sir".
- sissyfication noun The act or process of sissifying.
- sister noun A form of address to a woman.
- sit on verb To restrain (a person).
- sit on one's hands verb To fail to applaud when expected to.
- sit with verb To accept, observe and experience a phenomenon, usually an emotion or feeling.
- sit-down money noun Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.
- sitting pretty adj Having a comfortable or certain supply of money or resources.
- situ noun Clipping of situation.
- situationship noun A romantic or sexual relationship in which the parties do not consider or are not clear that they are in such relationship; such that is…
- six o'clock noun A position behind (horizontal clock orientation) or below (vertical clock orientation) (from the location of the 6 mark on a clock face)
- six-pack noun A selection of six photographs, including one of a suspect, used for identification by a witness.
- sixer noun A player for the 76ers, a team from Philadelphia.
- sixth verb To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six.
- sixty-eleven adj Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
- sixty-one noun A police officer's report detailing a crime reported by a civilian.
- size zero noun A woman with a very low body mass index, especially such a fashion model
- sizzle verb To cook (something) in a manner which causes that sound.
- sizzling adj Exciting and intensely emotional or sexual.
- sked noun A schedule.
- skedaddle verb To move or run away quickly.
- skeeter noun A mosquito.
- skeletal noun Shorthand for skeletal diagram (a black-and-white drawing of a [usually extinct] animal’s skeleton to be used as a reference for paleoart)
- sketch adj Sketchy, shady, questionable.
- sketch out verb To creep out; to give a creepy or sketchy feeling to someone.
- skid row noun An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and…
- skidoo verb to depart, especially to depart quickly
- skim noun Skim milk.
- skinny adj Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- skinny down verb To become or make (something) skinny or more lightweight.
- skinny mirror noun A slightly curved mirror, typically fitted in the fitting rooms of clothing shops, that shows the customer to be thinner than in reality.
- skinny up verb To become or make (something) skinny.
- skip verb Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- skipper noun Synonym of detective sergeant, especially as a term of direct address.
- skive verb To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
- skiver noun A slacker.
- skoosh noun A squirt (of liquid).
- skronk verb To produce a raw, discordant sound with a musical instrument, most commonly via a saxophone or electric guitar.
- skull-collecting ant noun Formica archboldi, a kind of ant that hunts trap-jaw ants and takes their severed heads back to its nest.
- skullet noun A more extreme form of the mullet hairstyle, in which the hair at the back is kept long, whilst the hair on the top and the sides is shaven…
- sky verb To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
- skyey adj Of or relating to the sky.
- skyrocket verb To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
- slab verb To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
- slabber noun An inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California.
- slabby noun A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.
- slack off verb To be deliberately unproductive in one's work or study.
- slackery adj Characteristic of a slacker.
- slacktivism noun Half-hearted activism, usually in the form of posting badges, images, apps, or text on social media without taking further action.
- slam verb To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- slam piece noun A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a highly unfavorable manner.
- slam-bang verb To beat noisily.
- slap verb To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).
- slap bang adv Exactly, precisely
- slasher noun A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
- slashing adj Powerfully excellent.
- slating noun A harsh criticism.
- Slav squat noun A low, open-legged casual squatting position in which the haunches rest on the calves and the heels are planted.
- slay verb To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
- sleaze noun A person of low moral standards.
- sleazehole noun A lousy, disreputable, or disgusting place.
- sleep noun An act or instance of sleeping.
- sleep-fuck verb To have sex (with someone) in one's sleep; to have sex while asleep.
- sleepies noun Sleep (mucus in the eyes).
- sleepy noun The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
- sleepyhead noun A sleepy person.
- sleuthhound noun A detective; a sleuth.
- slide noun Removable rank insignia worn on epaulettes of army uniform.
- slideshow noun The situation where a game has a low frame rate due to insufficient computing power.
- slim jim noun A thin strip of metal such as spring steel used to unlock automobile doors without a key.
- slime noun A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- slinch noun An English unit of mass equal to 12 slugs (386.088 pounds-mass), that accelerates by 1 inch per second squared (1 in/s²) when a force of…
- slip out verb To leave quietly and unnoticed.
- Sloanie noun A Sloane Ranger.
- slob noun A lazy and slovenly or obese person.
- slobber knocker noun A violent collision experienced by a person.
- slogfest noun An activity or event characterized by a long duration and an exhausting, wearisome perception by its participants.
- sloper noun Something which angles or slopes, as distinguished from one that is vertical or horizontal.
- slopfest noun An event or activity that takes place in muddy conditions, especially due to rainfall.
- slopocalypse noun A point where AI generated content becomes overwhelming, breaking safety standards and suffocating human produced content.
- sloppification noun The process of making or becoming increasingly sloppy, low quality, or informal.