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animal
noun- a person displaying vulgar manners, attitudes, etc.; a despicable human being; a brute AUSTRALIA, 1892
- “I bet you roasted the poor bastard, you pot-gutted animal,” grinned Tully. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 99, 1954
- At school he’d been this full-on aggro animal. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 191, 1987
- Look, there’s Con and Gavin, pissed out of their brains. They’re ani-mals. — Jenny Pausacker, What are ya?, p. 10, 1987
- in American football, an extremely physical player US
- — Bill Shefski, Running Press Glossary of Football Language, p. 11, 1978
- used among musicians as a nickname for a drummer UK, 1976
From the character/puppet/musician “Animal” (legendarily, based on Keith Moon, 1946–1978, the original drummer with The Who), who appeared in The Muppet Show from 1976, and in subsequent film and television Muppet projects. - an aggressive approach to surfing AUSTRALIA
- — Nat Young, Surfing Fundamentals, p. 3, 1985
- in prison, a sex offender UK
Contemptuous. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 23, 1996
- a thing of a given sort UK, 1922
- And yet, in the strict present there are no fundamental problems – for there is no time. No such animal as a present problem exists[.] — Ken Wilbur, No Boundary, p. 59, 2001
- LSD US
- — US Department Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- amyl nitrate UK
- [T]hey tended to be more into speed and “animal”. — Gareth Thomas, This Is Ecstasy, p. 32, 2002
- in the Vietnam war, a gang-rigged set of claymore mines US
- [T]he men opened up with devastating force–first with an “animal,” twenty claymores jury-rigged to go off all at once and loose a hailstorm of 14,000 flying steel balls[.] — Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller, Charlie Company, p. 114, 1983
- a furpiece US
- — Swinging Syllables, 1959
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to act wildly, without inhibition US- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 71, 1968
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