These slang words can mean several different things. Can you pick the correct answer?
How much do you know about American slang words and phrases?
Look inside to find out!
Have fun and good luck!
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Question of
BUCK: Pick the phrase that does NOT fit.
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A male Deer.
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To be forced into marriage.
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A dollar bill.
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What a horse does to throw a rider off it’s back.
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Question of
AMPED means __________ in American Slang.
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Amperage
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Morning Person
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Excited
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Running shoes
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If someone were to say this is, “For the birds”. What would they mean?
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Something trivial or meaningless.
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To feed the birds.
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To fly!
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Hello or Good day!
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What about, “Put up your DUKES”?
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Put your clothes away.
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Put up your fists and get ready for a fight.
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Don’t talk back.
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Do not air your dirty laundry.
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What does, “Ride shotgun”, mean in American slang?
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Riding in a car with a concealed weapon.
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Having a firearm that shoots small pellets, also a scatter gun.
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Driving a car.
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Being a passenger in the front seat of a car.
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Question of
Shotgun Wedding?
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An early 1900’s themed wedding.
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A forced wedding using a shotgun to force a couple to marry.
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A buggy and carriage wedding with an old southern theme.
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A failed marriage.
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Question of
What does SICK mean in American slang?
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Feeling not so well.
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Awesome
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Terrible
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Feeling very blue and down.
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Question of
Sweet!
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Sensitive
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A sugary taste.
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Bad or Foul odor.
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Good
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Question of
John Hancock?
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A Spanish explorer.
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A Native American.
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Signature
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Forced wedding.
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Question of
Last one…
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Shoes
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Foot ball
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Soccer
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Field Goal
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You got 2 out of 10 right!
30 slang questions in three different national themes and i only missed 2.
what does that say about my vocabulary?
I would say you have a great vocab indeeed there Doc! That is quite impressive. Thanks for playing all three. 🙂
Raven wonders why you are wasting time on human topics when you could be sharing dog pictures?
This was a lot of fun and I got 8 of them,
Way to go Sandra, great score here! Thanks a bunch!
this was fun, looking forward to the UK quiz
Thank you Alex. Glad liked it. The UK quiz was just before this one. There is also one from down unda. Here is the UK one.
https://virily.com/virily_quiz/what-do-these-english-words-mean-in-the-uk/
you didn’t do torch or rubber…
Torch wouldve been a good one. Rubber wouldve went well with shag. lol
not really, since in the UK a rubber is an eraser
Yeah, I like to make them tricky though, so this would’ve worked. 😉
exploit their expectations?
10/10 yay! I have to admit the last two were pure guesses 🙂
You must of tapped into your ESP on the last two. John Hancock and kicks are really odd aren’t they. Thanks for playing and CONGRATULATIONS!
Only 5 from 10 but I am not American.
Not bad, you still passed Fortune. Thank you for joining along!
Got them all Kim. Funny about the meanings of some words. Great quiz.
Congratulations Carol. 😀 Yes, they are funny aren’t they. Dang teenagers! You never know what words will become popular, and twisted. Thanks for playing!
9/10 – which pleases me as a non-American! The one that I really cannot get my head around is “Sick” which now apparently means completely the opposite of what I had always understood. If somebody described something I had done as sick I would be extremely disappointed, and might even turn violent!
I wonder why this meaning became attached to the word, and when did it happen?
Sick score Indexer! 😉 Good job, and congratulations on a great score. lol Don’t become violet, please. I have no idea when this happened.
It worries me when people use words in completely unexpected ways. It’s like two people spies communicating in code but using different code books!
Ah yes, I can see that. Good analogy there Indexer.
You got 5 out of 10 right!
Thank you for playing Witty, you passed!