Japanese Slang (57 page)

hajiku
to bounce up

hako o tsukau
to use the box (to escape by train)

itachi suru
to do weasel (to escape by dodging police lines)

kama o tsuku
to bang the ass (to escape and then hide)

kazurahige
to escape from the police (from
kazura
, an inversion of
zurakaru
, “to run for it,” and
hige
, “whiskers,” a slang word for police)

ketsubaru
to stretch one's ass

kiirora
(ethnic Korean origin)

miruichiya
(ethnic Korean origin)

mochizura
from
mochi
, “to hold,” and
zurakaru
, “to escape” (to escape with the loot)

muguru
to escape from the police or from jail

nagashikumu
from
nagashikomu
, “to pour” (to leave town)

nobiru
to extend (to leave town)

r
howa
to pick flowers (ethnic Chinese origin)

rakan
from
zurakaru
, “to escape”

rakaru
from
zurakaru
, “to escape”

s
ya s
ya
(ethnic Korean origin)

shunshury
to flow with the current (ethnic Chinese origin)

tachikorobi
stand and roll (escape after one has been arrested by the police)

takatobi suru
to fly high

teir
chir
(ethnic Chinese origin)

teitsut
(ethnic Korean origin)

tsura tsura
to escape after a criminal job

tsugumu
to hide from the police after a crime

yasa o kaeru
to change house (to escape by leaving town)

EXCREMENT

enko

k
ku
Coke (high school slang idea taken from the Japanese Coca Cola ad campaign “I feel Coke,” meaning “I feel refreshed”)

kuso
feces (standard word)

ky
j
nineteen (the alternative reading of kuso, “feces”)

morimori
thick wad

noguso
field shit (excreting outdoors)

onkobo
(dialect origin)

kii no
big one (high school slang)

kii yatsu
big guy (high school slang)

musubi
the big finish