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Meaning of torsk | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/tɔrsk/

Definitioner

  1. cod, codfish
    common-gender
  2. a john, a punter (person who solicits the service of prostitutes)
    colloquial, common-gender
  3. thrush (oral candidiasis)
    common-gender
  4. (someone or something) toast (having suffered a setback or hopeless); (used as a noun) a goner, a loss, etc.
    common-gender, often, slang
  5. busted (caught doing something illegal)
    common-gender, often, slang
  6. losing
    common-gender, often, slang
  7. (someone) having succumbed to something; (especially) (someone) hooked
    common-gender, often, slang
  8. hooked; a junkie
    common-gender, often, slang
  9. passionately into something; a sucker (for something), nuts (about something)
    common-gender, often, slang

Ekvivalenter

English candidiasis Cod John

Exempel

“kokt torsk med äggsås”

boiled cod with egg sauce [or "poached cod," but the recipe is usually called "kokt torsk" and not "pocherad torsk"]

“soppatorsk”

out of gas [colloquial]

“Polisen kom och det blev torsk”

The police came and I was busted [it was [became] toast]

“Laget åkte på torsk”

The team took a loss

“vara torsk på heroin / en herointorsk”

be hooked on heroin / a heroin junkie

“vara torsk på julmusik”

be a sucker for Christmas songs

“Torsk på Tallinn”

Screwed in Tallinn [a comedy mockumentary]

CEFR-nivå

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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