# The things we love & hate : Slang terms & phrases

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 3, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-hate-slang-terms-phrases/623955 "2012-06-03T18:01:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-hate-slang-terms-phrases/623955/1 "2012-06-03T18:01:09Z")

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It’s occured to me there seems to be a correlation between the proportion to the things most people tend to love or hate and slang words and phrases we make up for them.

Mundane? Check.

Pointless? Check.

Obvious? Check.

I suppose we could attempt our own comprehensive lexicon, or just visit [UrbanDictionary.com](http://UrbanDictionary.com).

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-hate-slang-terms-phrases/623955/2 "2012-06-03T18:17:58Z")

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Intriguing concept!

Without looking stuff up, I would suspect that the number of slang terms and expressions would be maximized in places like:

– theft and stealing  
– death and dying  
– sex, love and variations of same  
– drunkenness  
– races and ethnicities  
– “odd” diseases and ailments

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-hate-slang-terms-phrases/623955/3 "2012-06-03T18:47:32Z")

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Yep, agreed.

Think how many slang terms there are for breasts and penises alone.

It seems the more lascivious, morbid, gross, deviant, criminal or debaucherous something is, the more slang terms we have for it.

We’re gonna need some charts.

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**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-hate-slang-terms-phrases/623955/4 "2012-06-03T20:17:29Z")

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Word!

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-hate-slang-terms-phrases/623955/5 "2012-06-03T20:21:00Z")

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**Food** , even if it is only contractions: Dogs, burgers, fries, slaw, wings, 'za… Watch Guy Fieri sometime, and you’ll see what I mean.