| AMERICAN SLANG |
| for ESL Students |
| American Slang Adjectives |
| awesome (or wicked) -amazing That was an awesome movie That was a wicked movie beat -tired Sam is beat today because he didn't sleep much last night blue (or down) -sad, depressed Mary is feeling blue because her cat died Mary is down because her cat died brainy -very intelligent, like a genius Sue always does well on tests because she's brainy broke -without money Lou spent all his money at the casino so now he's broke fishy -suspicious Mrs. Smith thought it was fishy that her neighbor had so many visitors at night hammered -drunk Jim had nine beers so now he's hammered hot -sexy or stolen! -sexy Sam says his new girlfriend is hot -stolen That stereo is hot! hungover -tired from drinking too much the day before Al's bachelor party was last night. He's really hungover! loaded -rich Many people who live in Beverly Hills are loaded nuts (or nutty) -crazy That lady keeps talking to herself. Do you think she's nuts? on cloud nine -very very happy Chris just won a million dollars so he's on cloud nine! super -great Tom is a super singer ticked -angry He's really ticked because his friend had a party but didn't invite him upbeat -positive Theresa is very upbeat |
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