tawny

tawny

slang Excellent. Primarily heard in US. They put on a tawny festival down there for spring break.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tawny

(ˈtɔni)
mod. excellent. Who is throwing this tawny party anyway?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • a lulu
  • pillow-biter
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • #dead
  • save someone's skin
  • (something) blows
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Though the Tawny Owl and the cop were browned off, the girls thought it all a hoot.
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Feast of Ashes, which can be tedious in less-strikin productions, has never been better dances, Hanlon's towering charisma generated the dynamics necessary to control the fated of her daughters, portrayed by Jennifer Cavanaugh, Angela Brown, kimberly Crowder, Tawny Rose Wall, and the defiant Anita Sun Pacylowski.
North Carolina Dance Theatre
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No need to get in a flap over birds
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