Slangs
Slangs are the expressions which are used in their most informal usages.Slang is language at its most informal, using expressions that many would consider to be grammatically imperfect and sometimes rude. Slang often used within small social groups where it can help draw and keep the group together. It changes very quickly in English.
Cockney Rhyming Slangs are the specialised forms of slangs used in the East of London. This kind of Slang is a kind of antilanguage where words are replaced by phrases that rhyme (sound the same): North and south = mouth Adam and Eve = believe Sometimes, the last word is dropped.
Slangs beginning with Q :
Quaaludes : Quaaludes is slang for the drug methaqualone.
Quack : A quack is a doctor, especially a bad one.
Quake your gizzard : (USA) If someone quakes their gizzard, they vomit.
Quandong : (AU) A quandong is a woman.
Quarter : (USA) A quarter is a 25 cent coin.
Queer : A queer is a gay man.
Quickie : A quickie is a quick sexual act.
Quid : (UK) A quid is a pound, the British currency.
Quim : (UK) A woman's genitals are her quim.
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