Slang to English letter P

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Paddy
 An Irish person (Everybody)
Paedo
 Paedophile - person with a sexual interest in children. (Everybody)
Pain in the Arse
 Someone or something that is annoying. (Everybody)
'My neighbour is always banging on the ceiling. He's a complete pain in the arse.'
Painters and Decorators
 Menstrual cycle (Everybody)
'Yeah, we can't have sex tonight, the painters and decorators are here, yeah?'
Paki
 Pakistani (racially offensive) (Everybody)
Paki-Bashing
 To deliberately locate and start fights with people from the Pakistani community. Very offensive. (Everybody)
Palliass
 Back (Polari)
Paralytic
 Very drunk or unconscious (Everybody)
'I was paralytic last night'
Pard
 Friend or associate )
Park
 Give (Polari)
Parky
 Cold (Yorkshire)
Pash
 A crush on an older pupil or teacher (School)
'Ann's got a pash on Miss Honey'
Peach
 Something very good, perfect, or well-executed (Everybody)
'Did you see that goal? What a peach!'
Peanuts
 Very little money (Everybody)
'That last job I had paid peanuts so I left.'
Pearler
 Something brilliant or well executed (Everybody)
'Did you see that goal? What a Pearler!'
Pear-shaped
 Something that has gone wrong (Everybody)
'We were going away for the weekend but it's all gone pear-shaped because of work'
Pee
 To urinate (Everybody)
Peep Scarf
 Burqa (Muslim headscarf) (Street slang)
Peng
 Good looking, attractive (Street slang)
'That girl - is well peng!'
Petal
 Term of endearment (Yorkshire)
Phat
 Very good (Street slang)
Piddle
 To urinate (Everybody)
Piece of Cake
 Something that is very easy to accomplish (Everybody)
'That exam was a piece of cake.'
Piece of Piss
 Something that very easy (Everybody)
'How come you failed your driving test? It's a piece of piss!'
Piff
 Good (Street slang)
Pig Out
 To eat, especially very quickly and greedily (Everybody)
'We got to the Indian restaurant and totally pigged out'
Piggies
 Pyjamas (Everybody)
'I've been slobbing around the house in me piggies all day.'
Pigs
 The Police (Don't know)
'Watch out, the Pigs are coming!'
Pikey
 Gypsy; traveller (Everybody)
'A bunch of pikeys moved their caravans into the field'
Pillock
 Idiot (Everybody)
'You're such a Pillock sometimes'
Pinky
 50 pound note (Street slang)
Piss Poor
 Very bad, very poor performance (Everybody)
'Liverpool played a piss-poor game last Saturday.'
Pissed
 Drunk (Everybody)
'Come at the end of the shift we'll go and get pissed'
Pissed as a Fart
 Very drunk (Everybody)
Pissing Down
 Raining heavily (Everybody)
'Get your umbrella, it's pissing down out there'
Piss-Up
 A heavy drinking session or drinking party (Everybody)
'We had a right piss-up after work last Friday night.'
Plastered
 Drunk (Everybody)
Pleb
Pleb 		Insulting term to denote member of the lower classes. (Public school)
'Out of my way, plebs!'
Plonk

Alternatives 		Wine - especially cheap wine. (Everybody)
Plonker
 Idiot (Street slang)
Poet's Day
 Friday (Everybody)
Point Percy at the Porcelain
 To urinate (male only) (Everybody)
Polari
 Talk (Polari)
Polari Pipe
 Telephone (Polari)
'Who's that on the Polari Pipe then?'
Polone
 Woman (Polari)
Pom-bear
 Cute overweight gay guy (Gay)
Ponce
 Poser or pretentious person. (London)
Pony

Alternatives 		25 pounds (London)
Poofter
 Homosexual (Everybody)
Poontang
 Sex (Street slang)
Pooper Scooper
 Small spade to pick up dog mess. (Everybody)
Pootle
 To walk unhurriedly, or aimlessly (Everybody)
'Let's take a pootle down to the shops.'
Pop

Alternatives 		Fizzy/carbonated drink (Yorkshire)
Pop

Alternatives 		Pawn (London)
Pork Sword
 The penis (Everybody)
Poser
 Person who shows off, dresses flamboyantly (Everybody)
Pot
 Tooth (Polari)
Potty-mouthed
 To be foul-mouthed (Everybody)
'Stop swearing, you potty mouthed oaf!'
Powder My Nose
 To urinate (female only) (Everybody)
'Just going to powder my nose'
Prang
 To crash a car (Everybody)
Pranny
 Stupid or annoying person (Everybody)
Prat
 Stupid or annoying person (Everybody)
Prick
 The penis; general insult (usually for a male) (Everybody)
Proper Job
 A job done to the highest expectations (Don't know)
'Proper job on that roof Jethro!'
Pub Crawl
 Drinking session involving having just one or two drinks in many pubs in one day/evening (Everybody)
Pud
 Pudding (Everybody)
Puff
 Cannabis (Everybody)
'Let's go down the estate and score some puff'
Pull Your Plonker
 To make fun of (London)
'Don't mind me, I'm only pulling your plonker mate'
Pussy Whipped
 To be under the control of one's female partner/wife. (Everybody)
'He can't come to the pub tonight, he's pussy whipped.'
Put Away
 To be put in prison (Everybody)
'The judge has put him away for ten years.'
Put the Wood in the Hole
 Close the door. (Yorkshire)

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