"Oo" in Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English . The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for. | Oo O noun 1 an OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire . Used by civil servants suggestive of a casual familiarity with the honour UK 1961. 2 opium us 1933. 3 an ovation. Most commonly heard in the term standing O us 1934 O nickname the Nuestra Familia prison gang us 2000 -osuffix used for making colloquialor slang nouns and nicknames. In Australia where there was no influence from Spanish this suffix originated from early nominaluses of the cries of various street vendors. Thus the milkman used to sing out milk-oh and so became the milko the rabbit seller cried rabbit-oh and so became the rabbit-o. It is appended to monosyllablic words or to the first syllable of polysyllabic words Australia 1S65 OAE noun anybody who has spent at least one winter in Antarctica. An abbreviation of old Antarctic explorer Antarctica 1960 oafo noun an oaf a socially inferior fool a lout. A conventional oaf embellished uk 1959 Oak the Austrian Oak nickname Arnold Schwarzenegger the dominant bodybuilder in the steroid-enhanced 1970s us 1934 oak and ash noun cash. Rhyming slang uk 1960 oaktoe noun the numbing of toes by cold water creating the sensation that your toes are wooden. Surfing usage us 2004 OAP noun an over-anxious patient. Doctors shorthand playing on the conventionalabbreviation for old age pensioner uk 2002 oar noun put your oar in put in your oar shove in your oar to interfere in someone else s business uk 17 30 oars and rowlocks noun nonsense. Rhyming slang for bollocks uk 1993 oasis noun 1 a bar us 1956. 2 in motor racing a refreshment stand us 19165 oatburner oatmunchernoun in horse racing a racehorse that does not perform wellus 1916 oater noun a cowboy film story or song us 1946 oatie noun go for an oatie to go to the toilet A darkly humorous Antarctic euphemism recalling Captain Oates s heroic last words to his tent-mates in 1912 I am going outside and may be some time new Zealand 1996 oatmeal noun a small mushy wave us 1991 oatmeal Chinaman noun in .
