airhead: stupid person.
"Believe it or not, Dave can sometimes act like an airhead!"
amigo: friend (from Spanish).
"I met many amigos at Dave's ESL Cafe."
ammunition: toilet paper.
"Help! We're completely out of ammunition!"
antifreeze: alcohol.
"I'm going to need a lot of antifreeze tonight!"
armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
"This cheap motel is an absolute armpit!"
awesome: great and impressive.
"Dave's ESL Cafe is truly awesome!"
bang (1): a very powerful thing.
"Disneyland is really a bang!"
bang (2): a powerful effect.
"Japanese sake really has a bang!"
Barf:vomit.
"My dog barfed all over the carpet."
beans: money.
"I've worked for this company for ten years, but I still don't have beans."
beat: tired.
"I'm really beat because I was awake all night."
beemer: a BMW.
"He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money."
bread: money.
"Can I borrow some bread?"
couch potato: a person who watches too much television.
"Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?"
dude: a male friend.
"That's really cool, dude!"
evil: great; excellent.
"Your car is really evil!"
flick: movie.
"Let's go out tonight and watch a flick."
get it: to understand something.
"Sorry, but I just don't get it."
head: toilet.
"I really need to use the head!"
I'm outta here: I'm leaving; I'm departing.
"Sorry, but I'm outta here, dude."
jerk: stupid or annoying person.
"How could you go out with such a jerk?"
john: toilet.
"Where's the john?"
kick off: die.
"My dog finally kicked off."
luck out: to be lucky or fortunate
"You really luck out by visiting Dave's ESL Cafe!"
make waves: cause problems.
"Teachers don't like students to make waves."
mega: big.
"American restaurants serve mega portions of food."
nada: nothing (from Spanish).
"I know nada about politics."
OK: decent.
"Dave is an okay person."
peanuts: very little money.
"I love my job, but the pay is peanuts."
quick and dirty: done fast, but not well.
"The mechanic did a quick and dirty repair on my car."
rug rat: a child.
"Dave has a couple of rug rats at home."
screw up: to make a mistake.
"I screwed up on the driving test, so I didn't pass."
tints: sunglasses.
"You have to wear tints in California."
umpteen: many; countless.
"I've asked you umpteen times to show me the money!"
upchuck: vomit.
"She got sick and upchucked three times."
vanilla: plain.
"She drives a vanilla car."
wasted: killed.
"A lot of people get wasted in the streets of New York."
wimpy: weak.
"Don't be so wimpy!"
yank: bother; harass.
"Stop yanking me, okay?"
Yankee: an American
"Dave is a Yank."
zero: an unimportant person.
"If you don't work hard, you'll end up a zero."
zit: pimple; acne.
"Teens often have a lot of zits."
[b]
"Believe it or not, Dave can sometimes act like an airhead!"
amigo: friend (from Spanish).
"I met many amigos at Dave's ESL Cafe."
ammunition: toilet paper.
"Help! We're completely out of ammunition!"
antifreeze: alcohol.
"I'm going to need a lot of antifreeze tonight!"
armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
"This cheap motel is an absolute armpit!"
awesome: great and impressive.
"Dave's ESL Cafe is truly awesome!"
bang (1): a very powerful thing.
"Disneyland is really a bang!"
bang (2): a powerful effect.
"Japanese sake really has a bang!"
Barf:vomit.
"My dog barfed all over the carpet."
beans: money.
"I've worked for this company for ten years, but I still don't have beans."
beat: tired.
"I'm really beat because I was awake all night."
beemer: a BMW.
"He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money."
bread: money.
"Can I borrow some bread?"
couch potato: a person who watches too much television.
"Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?"
dude: a male friend.
"That's really cool, dude!"
evil: great; excellent.
"Your car is really evil!"
flick: movie.
"Let's go out tonight and watch a flick."
get it: to understand something.
"Sorry, but I just don't get it."
head: toilet.
"I really need to use the head!"
I'm outta here: I'm leaving; I'm departing.
"Sorry, but I'm outta here, dude."
jerk: stupid or annoying person.
"How could you go out with such a jerk?"
john: toilet.
"Where's the john?"
kick off: die.
"My dog finally kicked off."
luck out: to be lucky or fortunate
"You really luck out by visiting Dave's ESL Cafe!"
make waves: cause problems.
"Teachers don't like students to make waves."
mega: big.
"American restaurants serve mega portions of food."
nada: nothing (from Spanish).
"I know nada about politics."
OK: decent.
"Dave is an okay person."
peanuts: very little money.
"I love my job, but the pay is peanuts."
quick and dirty: done fast, but not well.
"The mechanic did a quick and dirty repair on my car."
rug rat: a child.
"Dave has a couple of rug rats at home."
screw up: to make a mistake.
"I screwed up on the driving test, so I didn't pass."
tints: sunglasses.
"You have to wear tints in California."
umpteen: many; countless.
"I've asked you umpteen times to show me the money!"
upchuck: vomit.
"She got sick and upchucked three times."
vanilla: plain.
"She drives a vanilla car."
wasted: killed.
"A lot of people get wasted in the streets of New York."
wimpy: weak.
"Don't be so wimpy!"
yank: bother; harass.
"Stop yanking me, okay?"
Yankee: an American
"Dave is a Yank."
zero: an unimportant person.
"If you don't work hard, you'll end up a zero."
zit: pimple; acne.
"Teens often have a lot of zits."
[b]