big E
British informal
noun
(With the) a personal rejection or rebuff, especially insensitively or unceremoniously conveyed; the abrupt breaking off of a (romantic) relationship; frequently in to give (a person) the big E = to give (a person) the elbow.
Origin
1970s. From big + the initial letter of elbow, after to give (a person) the elbow.
- formulator
- formwork
- formyl
- for my money
- for my (or his, her, etc.) part
- Fornax
- fornenst
- fornent
- fornicate
- fornication
- fornicator
- fornix
- fornix cerebri
- for nothing
- for now
- for old times' sake
- for once (or this once)
- for one
- for one's liking
- for one's pains
- for one's sins
- for one thing
- for openers
- for (or fo') shizzle
- for (or in) a coon's age