Slang to English letter S

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Sad
 Very uncool (Everybody)
'Look at those trainers, they're sad mate!'
Safe
Good, OK (Street slang)
Safe Blood
Brilliant (Street slang)
Salad Dodger
 A fat person (Everybody)
Sandwich Short of a Picnic

Alternatives 		To be slightly backward or mentally ill (Everybody)
Sandwich Short of a Picnic

Alternatives 		Mentally deficient. (Everybody)
'He's completely crazy, he's a sandwich short of a picnic.'
Sarnie
 Sandwich (Everybody)
'Going out for a few sarnies for my lunch.'
Savage
 Very good or very bad! (Manchester)
Schlep
 Go, perhaps reluctantly or slowly (Jewish)
Schnook
 A gullible person or someone easily fooled. (Jewish)
Score

Alternatives 		20; 20 pounds (London)
'I'll live to be three Score and ten'
Scouser
 A person from Liverpool (Everybody)
Scran
 Food (Yorkshire)
'I'm starving, let's go to the chippy for some Scran'
Screaming Abdabs
 Fear, the jitters (Everybody)
'That film gave me the screaming abdabs'
Screaming Blue Murder
 To shout or scream loudly, or protest very loudly. (Everybody)
'Last night, there was my next-door-neighbour, screaming blue murder at her hubby.'
Screw
 To have sexual intercourse. (Everybody)
Screw Loose
 To be slightly insane. (Everybody)
'You're charging me £20 for that t-shirt? You've got a screw loose pal.'
Scrike
 Cry (Don't know)
'He was Scriking like a mardarse!'
Scrote
 Bad or annoying person; petty criminal (Everybody)
Scrummy
 Delicious (Everybody)
See a Man About a Dog
 Go to the toilet (Everybody)
Selfie
 A photograph taken (usually on a mobile phone or tablet device) of one's self. (Everybody)
'I took a selfie and uploaded it to Facebook.'
Sen
 Self (Yorkshire)
Shaft
 To have sex (Everybody)
Shag
 Have sex (Everybody)
'He shagged a girl last Saturday night.'
Shank
 To stab with a knife. (Street slang)
'I'm gonna shank you up!'
Sharking
 To go round an empty bar, drinking the remains of other people's unfinished drinks (Everybody)
Sharpy
 Policeman (Polari)
Shebang
 The entire amount (Everybody)
'We got the whole shebang'
Shilling Short of a Pound
 To be slightly insane; slightly backward (Everybody)
Shiner
 Black eye (Everybody)
'Wow you must have been in a fight - look at that shiner on you!'
Shit for Brains
 Idiot (Everybody)
Shite Hawk
 Liar (Don't know)
Shitter
 Toilet (Everybody)
Shitting Bricks
 To be very frightened (Everybody)
'When those lads starting chasing me, I was shitting bricks'
Shoddy
 Of poor quality; shabby or broken (Everybody)
Shonky
 Poor quality, falling apart (Everybody)
Shoo-in
 Something very likely to happen. (Everybody)
'With your qualifications, you're a shoo-in for that job.'
Shrapnel
 Loose change. (Everybody)
'Got any shrapnel for the parking meter?'
Shreddies
 Underpants (Liverpool)
Shyker
 Wig (Polari)
Shyster
 Devious, person. Conman. (Everybody)
Sick
 Good (Street slang)
'That film was sick man!'
Sim
 Backward person (simpleton). (Don't know)
'That guy's a total SIM.'
Simples
 A general exclamation meaning simple or easy (Don't know)
Sitha
 Look! (Yorkshire)
Six Pack
 Very tight stomach muscles. (Everybody)
'Look at that fella strolling along the beach with his six-pack.'
Sixes and Sevens
 Confused (Everybody)
'She was all at Sixes and Sevens'
Skater Hater
 One who annoys or hassles skateboarders (Street slang)
'Mr. D is a skater hater'
Sket
 Messy girl (Don't know)
'That girl is a right sket look at her!'
Skive
 Avoid work or be lazy (Everybody)
'I'm gonna Skive off work today.'
Skrike
 Cry (Manchester)
Skunk
 Strong cannabis weed (Street slang)
Slag
 Sluttish woman, one who sleeps around (Everybody)
Slamming
 Attractive, good (Street slang)
Slap
 Make-up, especially heavy make-up. (Polari)
'I'll just be 10 minutes, I'm putting my slap on. '
Slaphead
 Bald man (Everybody)
Slapper
 Common, low-class woman who sleeps around (Everybody)
Slash
 To urinate (Everybody)
'I'm going for a slash'
Slattering
 Pouring rain (Don't know)
'It's slattering it down out there'
Slob
 Lazy person; dirty, unkempt person who takes no care of their appearance (Everybody)
Slobber
 To drool (Everybody)
'That dog's slobbering all over the carpet!'
Slut Shaming
 To insult or bully a woman or girl for their (real or supposed) sexual proclivities or activities. When in fact what a woman does in the sack is nobody's business but her own. (Everybody)
Smack
 Heroin (Everybody)
Smackers
 Money, pounds (Everybody)
'How many smackers did that cost ya, then?'
Smittle
 Infect (Yorkshire)
Smooth as a Baby's Bottom
 Very smooth. (Everybody)
Snap
 Small meal or snack (Yorkshire)
Snatch
 The vagina (Everybody)
Snicket
 Alleyway, normally open at the end of a row of houses (Yorkshire)
Snitch
 To inform the authorities on someone. (Everybody)
Snog
 To make out, kiss passionately; French kiss (Everybody)
'I saw you Snogging that girl last night'
Snough
 Sneeze which sounds like a cough or sneezing and coughing after each other. (Street slang)
Snout
 Rolling tobacco (London)
SO
 Significant Other (partner/spouse) (Txt spk)
'My SO and I are going on holiday soon.'
Sod-All
 Nothing (Everybody)
Sod's Law
 The way the world seems to always produce the worst outcome (Everybody)
'Just put my house on the market, and somebody's smashed my front window. Sod's law, innit?'
Sofa Surf
 To live by sleeping temporarily in the homes of friends or relatives, moving frequently (Everybody)
Sort
 Attractive girl or woman (London)
'I saw Jack last night with a right little sort!'
Sorted
 Satisfied, content (Manchester)
Sound
 Good or great (Manchester)
'Mate that t-shirt is Sound'
Soused
 Drunk (Everybody)
Southpaw
 Left-handed person (Everybody)
Soz
 Sorry (Street slang)
'Soz mate, didn't see you there.'
Spanner
 Stupid person (Everybody)
'You daft spanner'
Spanner in the Works
 A problem; (Everybody)
Sparko
 Fast asleep (Everybody)
Sparky
 Electrician (Everybody)
'Had the sparky in today to rewire the house'
Specky
 A person (usually a boy) who wears spectacles (School)
'You specky twat!'
Specs
 Glasses/spectacles (Everybody)
Spend a Penny
 Euphemism for going to the toilet (urinating). (Everybody)
Spic
 A Spanish person (Everybody)
Spitting Feathers
 To be very thirsty (Everybody)
'Let's go down the pub, I'm spitting feathers here!'
spiv
 A shifty or crafty character, a con-man. (Everybody)
Spliff
 Cannabis joint (Everybody)
'Roll us another spliff mate'
Spod
 A person (usually young) who is considered clever but uncool (School)
Sprinkle
 To urinate (Everybody)
Squeeze
 Boyfriend or girlfriend. (Street slang)
'Where's your squeeze?'
Squiffy
 Mildly drunk (Everybody)
Squire
Term of address to male stranger (London)
''Scuse me Squire, just coming through!'
Squits
 Diarrhoea (Everybody)
'I've got a bad case of the Squits'
Stacked
 To have a lot of money (Don't know)
Stag Night
 Bachelor party (Everybody)
Starkers
 Naked (Everybody)
'He opened the front door completely starkers!'
Sticky Wicket
 Difficult, risky or losing situation (Everybody)
'If you don't fess up you'll be on a sticky wicket.'
Stiffy
 An erection of the penis (Everybody)
Stoked
 Very happy, delighted (Don't know)
Stone Me
 Expression of shock or disbelief (London)
'Stone me, I cannot believe the prices they are charging in here.'
Stretch
 A spell in prison (Everybody)
'Judge gave me a two month stretch'
Strides

Alternatives 		Trousers (Everybody)
'Bought a nice new pair of Strides today'
Strides

Alternatives 		Trousers (Street slang)
Strillers
 Piano (Polari)
Stunting
 To show off (Street slang)
Summat
 Something (Yorkshire)
Swaimish
 Timid (Yorkshire)
Sweater Muffins
 Breasts (Everybody)
'Check out those Sweater Muffins!'
Sweet Fanny Adams
 Nothing (Everybody)
'How much did you win on the dogs last night? Sweet Fanny Adams!'
Sword
 Bricklayers trowel (Cockney)
Synch
 Very easy. (Everybody)

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