Need help with slangy vocabulary

[daLai]

Hi fellas

I've got a job as a translator from english to german. the texts i have to translate are focussed on actionsports such as skateboarding, snowboarding etc. (no footbag i think^^) and there are several terms i do not know how to translate properly. perhaps you can help me out and paraphrase some of these, so i can translate them well.

thanks.

so here are some terms:
(I'll give you the content in which the terms stand in brackets)

Ripper (mr.x is a humongous ripper)
slash partier - stands alone... what does slash mean here?

so far. I'll edit, when necessary =)

thanks for your help.

[mc]

about ripper, I do not know. it came up as australian slang when I did a google search, but not in english. If someone is using a lot of slang, you could probably ask them to clarify that term.

as for "slash partier", maybe someone said "I am a musician slash partier"

slash, in that instance, means "/", or musician / partier", or, literally, "I am a musician and also a partier". Putting a slash between two nouns or adjectives like that means that a person or an object is both of those things.

"wow, that bowl of soup was runny slash tasteless" would mean that the soup is runny and tasteless.

[Iron Clad Ben]

Here is dictionary of English (mostly American) slang:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

You can find definitions for any slang word here, and write your own.

There are many definitions for "ripper". In the context of action sports, it just means someone who is very good and hits big tricks.

[daLai]

Yea, thanks for the quick replies... trying to figure the meaning out by myself i actually found the link Ben posted above and thus the explanation.

That I didn't get the meaning of slash....that makes me feel embarrassed ^^
slash, dammit... ////

thanks matt though =)

[Tsiangkun]

Ripper one who rips it up, the same thing as shredder, but probably differs in the drug usage of the group with which the terms are most popular. I'd guess ripper is popular with coke users, for no reason other than I don't hang around coke heads, and I've never heard the term used.

[daLai]

yo guys.... got one more. perhaps I'm overinterpretating the following sentence, but I just can't get the correct meaning I believe...:

"I try to stand real close to him when we’re on the deck, so he’ll rub off on my shoulder."

"That guy's a bulldog."

Well.... urbandict.... says bulldog is either extreme diarrhea or a term for a homosexual. I donot believe any of these are correct... so please help me out

thanks for the help
greets, simon

[Muffinman]

The first one is like, "to rub off" in that context is referring to talent -- he's hoping because he's skating near this other guy that he will become better just by being in close proximity.

The second one sounds like someone is just being described as huge, like, either muscular or just heavy-set... like a bulldog.

[daLai]

Ahh, okay, the first one sounds good, thanks for the advice Erik.

I'm going to do a little more research on 'bulldog', but if I find nothing applying to the sense of the statement, I think I'll be creative enough to translate it acceptable or at least not wrong ^^.

[daLai]

"charger"

found sth. about the dodge charger, which is not quite what I was hoping to found...

for me it sounds like sb. who perpetually tries to push the limits of sports.

any other opinion would be helpful. thanks


edit: deadline for the current project has arrived, I'll post on when I've got new material.

[Sergey]

What exactly does "To Front" mean? What does one mean when he/she says: "Stop Fronting"? I hear it all the time when I listen to music, but haven't met anyone talk that way. I think I know what the expression means, but it would be very helpful if somebody could describe a situation where this expression would be appropriate.

Thanks!

[daLai]

I think it is another phrase for pretending or to represent sth. you are not.

If you're lovesick, but keep telling you are not you are fronting.

Please someone correct me, if I'm wrong. =)

[Zac Miley]

I've only seen people from Europe shorten "something" to "sth."

Did they teach you that in school? I always thought that was interesting, especially while reading Olaf's blog posts.

[daLai]

Yep, that's how we learn it.

Reading through a vocabulary list of an English exercisebook you'll find a lot of sb.'s/sth.'s.

We do also abbreviate our own phrases for that...

xihuan (chinese) = to like sb./sth. = etw.(etwas)/jn. (jemanden) mögen.

I hope you get my meaning ^^