Scrubs: My Musical Vocabulary
Set for Advanced Idioms class to review vocabulary from this episode.
Terms
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- nerd
- a person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious
- to imply
- express or state indirectly
- to end up with
- finally be or do something
- to slip away
- leave furtively and stealthily
- STD
- sexually-transmitted disease
- deuce
- number 2; slang for defecation
- to come down to
- can be reduced to; our choices come down to these.
- to put off
- procrastinate: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- geek
- a person heavily interested in a hobby, often technology
- clingy
- to be overly dependent on someone emotionally
- to hang out
- spend time in a certain location or with certain people
- touchy feely
- openly expressing emotions especially through physical contact
- appendix
- a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch
- to make do
- come to terms or deal successfully with
- jerk
- a dull stupid person
- turf
- in hospital terms to place someone in specific area or department
- lame (ass)
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
- to fix up
- to repair or mend
- to be maxed
- having reached the maximum limit
- faint
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- to stick by (someone)
- never abandon
- to pull strings
- influence or control shrewdly or deviously
- pooh
- informal word for excrement
- to let (someone) down
- fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; to disappoint
- crappy
- very bad
- freaky
- strange and somewhat frightening
- to shush
- silence (someone) by uttering 'shush!'
- kiss-ass
- slang for someone who sucks up to a person in authority in order to get special favors
- chug
- to drink quickly in big gulps
- tush
- butt; the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- manly
- possessing qualities befitting a man
- tart
- a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
- in spite of
- despite, without regard to someone or something
- schnoz
- informal term for the nose
- CAT
- a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis
- to be parched
- very thirsty
- nut
- someone who is so ardently devoted to or crazy about something that it resembles an addiction
- freakin'
- euphemism for f***ing
- to make a to do about something
- to make a fuss about something
- cuckoo
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool; crazy
- sole
- the underside of the foot
- aneurysm
- a widening; bulging of the wall of the heart, aorta, or artery caused by congenital defect or acquired weakness
- to be screwed
- defeated someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
- time bomb
- explosive ready to detonate; in this case, a medical problem about to get very bad
- shut your cake hole
- shut your mouth
- to have had it
- to be fed up; can't stand or bear something anymore
- buddy
- A close friend or working companion