give someone Jesse
To give someone a scolding or a beating.
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Expressions you’ll hear in the US — distinctly American usage first, then widespread staples.
give someone Jessie
To beat or thrash someone.
give someone one
To have sexual intercourse with someone.
give someone the air
To jilt or ditch a lover.
give someone the gears
To scold or criticize someone.
give someone the rush act
To attempt to pressure someone into doing something.
give someone the time
To have sexual intercourse with.
give toco
To beat; to thrash.
give two hoots
To care about; to place value on something.
give up
To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Given a large enough beta tester and codeveloper base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone.
giving
Awesome, outstanding, radiating, stunning; exceeding expectations. (Probably derived from earlier transitive use of give (“give off [a certain vibe or appearance]”), as in this outfit gives ‘college girl’, that one is giving ‘old Hollywood’.)
gizmo
Something, generally a device or gadget, whose real name is unknown or forgotten.
gizmotic
Being or relating to a gizmo.
gizzard
The (human) stomach.
glad and sorry
A hire purchase scheme.
glad rags
Formal attire, dress clothes.
glam up
To make (someone or something) more glamorous.
glambert
A fan of American singer Adam Lambert.
glamfest
A highly glamorous event.
glamourpuss
A glamorous, alluring woman.
glampire
A glamorous or beautiful vampire; a person who pretends to be a vampire.
glance away
To look at something else briefly, then look back again.
glance off
To strike a surface and be deflected
glance over
to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes
glark
To guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context.
glasgow salad
A serving of chips/fries.
glass arm
A stiff arm resulting from a long session of amateur radio CW operation.
glass teat
Synonym of television.
glass teletype
A rudimentary videoterminal.
glasshole
A person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.
glaze
To hype, praise, or compliment someone or something so much that it becomes annoying or excessive, coined in 2021 by Kai Cenat after reacting to a video by streamer Blueryai.
glaze over
To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
glaze up
To become glazed
glazer
A person who is prone to endless monologuing; derived from the practice of speaking until the listener's eyes "glaze over".
gleaner
A person who focuses on self-improvement while in prison.
gleek
A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.
gleeps
Expression of surprise or alarm; yikes.
gleet
A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhea.
glibertarian
A disingenuous libertarian.
glissy
shiny and slippery; glossy.
glitch out
To fail due to a malfunction or glitch.
glitter family
A group of friends treated as adoptive family by an LGBT person whose birth family has rejected them for their sexual orientation.
glitter pits
Armpits made to sparkle by applying glitter to the armpit hair (as part of a social media trend).
glizzy
A hot dog. Popularized in 2020, possibly from the Washington metropolitan area, and possibly originating from the slang term "glizzy" for a Glock handgun. It may also refer to a penis.
glober
A globe-earther.
gloid
Syncopic form of mongoloid (“idiot”).
glom on
To attach oneself to something.
glom onto
To attach oneself to.
glomp
To embrace enthusiastically; to pounce on and hug, often from a running start.
glop
To swallow greedily.
gloriosky
wonderful; great; hurrah!
glorithverse
A fictional alternate universe created by DC Comics character Glorith, a foe of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
glory hole
A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
glory wall
A large hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an individual's buttocks or lower body to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
gloryhole
To have sex through a glory hole.
gloryholer
Someone who has sex using a glory hole.
glove up
To don a pair of (e.g. surgical) gloves.
glovey
A glove compartment.
glow up
To undergo a glow-up.