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S

Sack

Bed

Sack lunch

Packed lunch

Sales clerk/ girl

Shop assistant

Saltine

Salted cracker usually served with soup

Sandbag

Sack filled with sand and used as a cudgel

To knock someone over with a blow from behind

Sand box

Sand pit

Sap

Cosh

Sashay

To walk stylishly for effect

Sass

To give check, impudence

Scanties

Panties, underclothes

Schedule

Timetable

Schmaltz

Chicken fat

Schmuch

Too much sentimentality

Schnook

Stupid and usually nasty

Scratch pad

Fool

Screen door

Scribbling notepad

Scuttlebutt

Outer door of mosquito mesh

Second floor

Gossip, rumour

Second guess

First floor

Sedan

Be wise after something has happened

Seltzer

Saloon car

Semester(school two in a year)

Term(three in a year)

Set

Lay (a table)

Sewer pipe/ soil pipe

Drain (indoor)

Shade

Window blind or awning

Shades

Sunglasses

Shebang

All, everything

Party

Sheers/ underdrapes

Net curtains

Sherbet

Ice/ sorbet

Shoestring

Shoelace/bootlace

Shorts

Underpants as well as short trousers

Shredded(coconut)

Desiccated coconut

Sideburns

Sideboards

Sidewalk

Pavement

Silverware

Cutlery

Skillet

Frying pan

Slammer

Jail

Sneakers

Gym shoes/ plimsolls

Snuck

To sneak

Soda cracker

Cream cracker

Softball

Game like baseball played with a softer, larger ball

Speed way

Motorway

Speed zone(cars)

Restricted speed area

Spike heels

Stiletto heels

Standing

Parking (used on road signs)

Station

Extension on a telephone

Straight up

Neat, no water (in a drink)

Streetcar

Tram

Stroller

Infant’s pushchair

Sub-division

Housing estate

Superhighway

Motorway

Suspenders

Braces

T

Tab

Bill

Table cream

Single cream

Tag

Label

Tea Kettle

Kettle

Teed off

Fed up

Tennis

Tennis shoes/ plimsolls

Texas gate

Cattle grid

Thanksgiving

US national holiday(4^th Thursday in November)Clothes

Threads

Clothes

Thumb tack/ tack

Drawing pin

Tic-tac-toe

Noughts and crosses

Ticked off

Browned off, fed up

Top(car)

Roof/hood

Tracking

Selection by ability e.g. streaming in schools

Trade

Swap

Traffic circle

Round-about

Trailer park

Caravan site

Trash

Rubbish

Trucks stop

Transport café

Trunk (car)

Boot

Tuxedo

Dinner suit/ dinner jacket

Twister

Tornado

U

Undershirt

Vest

Unglued

Mad

Upgrade

Uphill

Improving

Upset price

Reserve price

Uptown

Residential area away from the city centre

V

Vacationer

Holiday-maker

Vacuum bottle flask

Thermos flask

Vamoose

Scram, vanish

Vest

Waistcoat

Visiting fireman

Someone from out of town come to see the sights