noun:

• diving boots (usually made of neoprene) - From English "marine boots"

noun:

• male who likes comics depicting male homosexual love (usually targeted to women) ➜ ボーイズラブ

noun:

• kuru (degenerative brain disease usually associated with New Guinean cannabalism)

noun:

• traditional "Chinese" medicine for the stomach (usually prepared as small dark spherical pills)

noun:

• location famous for production of something (usually food)

noun:

• (young) man adhering to a masculine version of gyaru fashion (usually marked by hair dyed brown or blond, gaudy clothes and accessories) ➜ ギャル

noun:

• ratio indicating the quantity of polished rice gained from a given quantity of brown rice (nowadays usually expressed as a percent)

noun:

• governmental office opening (usually special case)

noun:

• box for shipping seafood (usually made of styrofoam)

noun:

• ethnic Chinese (usually living abroad); overseas Chinese

noun:

• pickle on a stick (usually a cucumber)

noun:

• one mobile telephone ring (used by companies, usually sex-related, to register a phone number on a mobile in the hope people will return the call. Also used between acquaintances when swapping telephone numbers, or to get another person to call oneself)

noun:

• spelling mistake (usually in a foreign language) - From English "spell miss"

noun:

• bikini model (usually teenage); pin-up girl - From English "gravure idol"

noun:

• kanji "moon" radical at left (usually classified as radical 130) ➜ 肉月

noun:

• long vowel mark (usually only used in katakana) - known as ちょうおん

noun:

• telegram sent at night (usually to make use of a reduced rate)

noun:

• exchanging diary between friends (usually at school) - colloquialism

noun:

• waveguide (usually optical)

noun:

• bikini model (usually teenage); pin-up girl - colloquialism - abbreviation - From English "gravure idol" ➜ グラビアアイドル

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• out of contact; contactless (usually used to describe contactless cards)

noun:

• the entombed; the person buried (usually in burial mounds, etc.)

noun / adverbial noun:

• just-harvested; something freshly harvested or gathered (usually produce)

noun:

• omen; sign (usually good)

noun / ~の noun:

• word; vocabulary; (usually) single-character word - Linguistics term