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This is the name of a card game where the players turn cards at the same time and shout "snap" when they match. People also say "snap" when something someone else says has happened to them too. For example when I told somebody that my wallet was stolen on holiday, they said "snap", meaning that theirs had too!
n sidewalk. Brits call the part that cars drive on “Tarmac.” I wonder how many holidaymakers have been run over as a result of this confusion. Well, probably none really. I digress. Historically, “sidewalk” is in fact an old, now-unused British English word meaning exactly what the Americans take it to mean.
n vacation. What an American would call a “holiday,” a Brit would call a “public holiday” or a “bank holiday.” Scotland and England have bank holidays on different dates, presumably to stop the Scots and English meeting up and fighting in popular seaside towns.
Green methamphetamine produced using Drano crystals
We say something is bespoke if it has been created especially for someone, in the same way that you say custom. For example a computer program might be bespoken for a client, or you may order a bespoke holiday, where the travel agent creates an itinerary around your exact requirements.
Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday period. Pg. 521. Also refers to the nationwide NVA-VC offensive that began during Tet, 1968.
Coined by Blacks during slavery to refer to other Blacks who were hanged from trees. Used in a Billie Holiday song during the Civil Rights movement. See: Apple (2).
vacation, holiday
n two weeks (from “fourteen nights”). This word is in very common usage in the U.K. As to why the Brits need a term for a time period which the Americans have never felt the urge to name, perhaps it stems from the fact that Americans get so little annual leave that they can never really take a fortnight of holiday anyway.
Pronouced "milk," made due to misrepresentation of national holidays
To kill. (This came from killing a cow for food.) "Doc Holiday beefed a man today.â€
Two weeks. Comes from an abbreviation of "fourteen nights". Hence terms like "I'm off for a fortnights holiday" meaning "I am going on a two week vacation".
Shakey, a person whose intellectual and physical capacities are markedly below what is currently accepted as 'normal'. This name arose from the observation that these 'special' people have a tendency not to dance but to stand around 'shaking'at parties and Butlin's holidays.
To string International Code of Signals flags, arranged at random (not spelling a message), from masthead to masthead (if the vessel has more than one mast) and then down to the quarterdeck. Done on a ship in harbour as a sign of celebration of a national, local, or personal anniversary, event, holiday, or occasion.
n any public holiday for which the public have forgotten the original purpose. You know, that holiday on the fourth Monday in June. It was something to do with Saint Swithen, I think. He was born maybe. Or was he beheaded?
Vacation
A gap or space; an area missed when painting the ship.
Someone not quite clever enough to do A-levels. GEF (General Education Foundation I think) courses were general slightly-more-advanced than O-level courses which provided you with a good grounding in flipping burgers or booking holidays. GEF became Geoff as in "Is he doing A-levels? No he's a Geoff.".
On holiday is British slang for temporarily in prison.
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Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
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The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
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An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
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The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
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A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
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A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
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A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide.
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Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
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A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.
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A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
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A holiday.
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Of or pertaining to holidays.
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A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.
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Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
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A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
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A secular festival; a holiday.
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The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.
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