ALCOHOLIC SLANG - HEARD AROUND THE WORLD AT AA MEETINGS
| AFGO | A f--king growth opportunity |
| Beer Thirty | Slang for any 1/2 on the hour we used to drink |
| Big Book Thumper | A regular who knows the Big Book inside and out |
| BOHICA | Bend over - here it comes again |
| Boxed | A person thrown out of the house with their boxed up belongings |
| Camel Chip | A chip signifying a person with long-term sobriety |
| Carpet Muncher | Oral Sex |
| Cellar Dweller | An alcoholic who prefers to stay in self-misery |
| Check Up From The Neck Up | Go to a meeting |
| Chip | AA chip marking certain amount of continuous sobriety i.e. 30 days |
| Cleaning House | Getting your life in order |
| Clean Side Of Street | Getting your life in order |
| Denial Aisle | A small table of people who talk during meetings instead of listening |
| Double Dip | Speaking twice at the same AA meeting |
| Drip Dry U | Rehab |
| Dry Drunk | A non-drinking alcoholic who does not follow the program |
| Elevator | How low one goes before getting into recovery |
| GOD | Group of drunks |
| God Can Look Around Corners | Principle which suggests that God can do things we cannot |
| Going Out | An alcoholic who goes back out to drink again |
| GOYA | Get off your ass |
| HALT | Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired |
| Hand of AA | An alcoholic reaching out to AA for a helping hand |
| Heavy Metal | A 1-year chip |
| Liquid Courage | The false belief one gets after substantial drinking |
| Meeting | Two of more AA's getting together to discuss recovery |
| Meeting Before the Meeting | Informal gatherings before official meetings |
| Meeting After the Meeting | Informal gatherings after official meetings |
| Mickey | Short for Mickey Finn. An alcoholic drink mixed with a strong sedative ,typically without the knowledge of the drinker. |
| Newcomer | An alcoholic who has less than 30 days of continuous sobriety |
| Normie | A term used by alcoholics to describe "normal" people |
| Nudge From The Judge | Court ordered to go to AA |
| Old Tape | Memories in your head that make you think drinking was good |
| Pink Cloud | A warm fuzzy feeling that "newcomers" feel in early recovery |
| Pity Pot | Self indulgent attitude |
| Playground | Places where we socialized before recovery |
| Playmates | People we used to socialize with before recovery |
| Plug In The Jug | Putting the cap on the bottle and walking away forever |
| Poor me, poor me, pour me a drink | The pity which precedes the taking of the first drink |
| Relapse | An alcoholic who goes back out and takes another drink |
| Retread | An alcoholic who has relapsed and returned to the program |
| Running and Gunning | Active drinking |
| Senior Sober | A recovering alcoholic with a lot of sobriety |
| Serenity by Injection | Attempt to have sex with a brand new member |
| Slip A Mickey | To surreptitiously add a sedative to someone's alcoholic drink |
| Slippery Slope | Doing things that might cause you to go out and drink |
| Stinking Thinking | An alcoholic's false belief that he/she may be correct when in fact it may be a stupid idea |
| Suicide | Suicide: A permanent solution to a temporary problem. |
| Suit Up/Show Up | Get dressed and attend an AA meeting |
| Tape | Remembering previous events (e.g. replay the tape) |
| Three Hots and a Cot | Jail term for three mails and a bed |
| 13th Step | Dating someone in the program |
| Wet Drunk | A practicing alcoholic |
| White Nuckle | Trying to stay sober without the help of a program |
| Wine O'Clock | Slang for any hour of the day we used to drink |
| Whiner Chip | Chip representing 18 months sobriety |
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Yesterday Is History Tomorrow is Mystery |
Live in the Moment |
