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I lie (to you)?’.
    b. an expression of agreement or affirmation. In both senses the term, popularised by grime rapper Chipmunk in his 2008 song
Fire Alie
, has been used in street-gang code and its imitations since around 2005.
    Yo i fire alie
league of ma own that fire alie
    ah nam
vb British
    defined by a user as ‘to tell on someone, to rat on them’. The expression, of uncertain derivation, has been used in street-gang code and by some teenagers since around 2005.
    a-hole
n American
    a euphemism for asshole , usually in the literal rather than metaphorical sense
    aiit!, ite!
exclamation American
    contracted alterations of all right or awright , fashionable since 2000
    aim archie at the armitage
vb Australian
(of a male) to urinate. A later version of the widely known point percy at the porcelain , popularised in Barry Humphries’
BarryMcKenzie
cartoon series. (‘Armitage Ware’ is a brand name of toilet bowls.)
    aimed
adj American
    identified, singled out and/or victimised. A slang version of ‘targeted’ which probably originated in the argot of black street gangs. It is now used in milder contexts by teenagers.
    There’s no way we’ll get out of this; we’ve been aimed
…
    airbags
n pl
    female breasts, especially large ones. A male vulgarism heard across the anglo-sphere.
    airball
n American
    a dim-witted, eccentric or unpleasant person. This mildly pejorative term, originating in the 1980s, is a combination of airhead and the more offensive hairball .
    airbrained
adj American
    silly, frivolous, empty-headed. Slightly less derogatory than the noun airhead , this term has not been imported into Britain to any significant extent, perhaps because of possible confusion with ‘hare-brained’ which is still in widespread use.
    She’s not just some airbrained bimbo, you know
.
    aired
adj British
    ignored, snubbed, blanked . In use among South London schoolchildren in 2010, the term is related to the phrase giving air .
    totally aired

She woz aired.

Della got aired
.
    airhead
n
    a fool; a silly, empty-headed person. An American teenager’s term heard since the mid-1970s, used for instance by Valley Girls ; it has been adopted by British teenagers since the 1980s.
    â€˜The usual crowd of airheads, phonies, deadlegs, posers, bimbos, wallies, wannabees, hangers-on and gate-crashers…’

(Christena Appleyard,
Daily Mirror
, 11 May 1989)
    airlocked
adj British
drunk. The term occurs especially in Northern Irish use and it is possibly an inoffensive form of ‘bollocked’ or evoking a loss of faculties as if from oxygen deprivation.
    airs
n pl American
    trainers. The word is a shortening of the trademark label
Air Jordans
which was generalised to denote any sports shoes and widely heard in 1991 and 1992. (The rare use of ‘airing’ in black speech to mean walking or leaving is an unconnected earlier usage, probably based on ‘open air’.)
    Alabama
n See
’bama
    Alan Whickers, Alans
n pl British
    knickers
, panties. The terms are non-working-class rhyming slang, heard among young people, particularly students, in the 1970s and 1980s. The reference was to Alan Whicker, a well-known punctilious and dapper television interviewer.
    There was this huge pair of Alan Whickers hanging on the line
.
    a laugh and a joke
n British
    a
smoke
. The rhyming-slang phrase generally refers to tobacco smoking. It was recorded in London in 2002.
    alec, aleck
n
    a swindler’s victim, dupe. This term from the early 20th century is still heard in the USA and Australia. It is not clear whether alec derives from ‘smart alec’ or vice versa. The word was used for instance in the film
House of Games
(1987, David Mamet), which dramatises the world of small-time American gamblers.
    aled, aled-up
adj British
    drunk. A mild and acceptable term which, although short and to-the-point, can be used in polite company or family newspapers.