Slang from your community

Ah yes:

cran: very versatile word meaning, in various contexts: marijuana (noun); to smoke marijuana (verb); or to be stoned (adjective, i.e. cranned to the eyeballs; cranned up)

tac ops: from the name of the counterstrike-style mod for classic UT: food from the canteen (noun, i.e. anyone for some tac ops?)
 
RedRalphWiggum said:
"Shatnerville!" - an expression of happiness
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:lol: that's glorious.

moist: awaiting something or otherwise receptive (adjective, e.g. I'll be over some time after 7; stay moist)
 
yared94 said:
:lol::lol:

I shudder to think of the misunderstandings that are bound to happen.
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Meh, it doesn't really happen. I mean, it's all about the context.

And btw kids, don't do drugs. Stay away from the spicy taco sauce.
 
warpus said:
Meh, it doesn't really happen. I mean, it's all about the context.

And btw kids, don't do drugs. Stay away from the spicy taco sauce.
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Oh? How about let's say I come over there and say I'm feeling up for some tacos.
(It's one of my fav foods so it's not too improbable.)
I ask around and I'm led to some shady looking alley. BAM the cops raid the place and I'm arrested. :scan:
 
In Chicago we butcher words with "th" in them.
Tree = three
We call our highways by name instead of number. I-290 is "da Eisenhower" or "da Ike" and even "da congress expressway"
Pop = soft drink
Barley pop = beer
Gym shoes = tennis shoes/running shoes
Cash box = toll booth
Chad or Trixie = yuppie
Lincoln Park Pirates = Lincoln towing. They'll tow you in a second if you are illegally parked.
7-0-8 = suburbanite
Ched = person from Wisconsin
If you said 588 2300 everyone would know to say empiiiirrre in sing song
Al-oh = hello
What's up cuz = saying hello to someone.
Everyone in Chicago has a "guy". Like "let me talk to my guy".
In Chicago there's Chicagoland (the city and suburbs) and the rest of the state which is just called downstate(southern Illinois).
Even though you'd say "duh moyne" for "Des Moines" you'd say "dess plains" for "Des Plaines".
Italian beef sammiches are ordered "beef, dry(or wet meaning with gravy or some of you may call it juice), sweet(or hot)for peppers.
 
Biddie - An available female.
El Mysterio - The practice of doing a driveby on someone with a water gun.
Larchmont Larry - A stereotypical rich white suburbanite.
 
nonconformist said:
I was jsut thinking that...."christ, look at that biddie buying food for the cat"
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Phwoar!

bingehorn: intense appetite for alcohol intoxication (noun, e.g. "I'm off down the pub to satisfy my bingehorn")

synthesised lamb: a kebab or other similar product normally consumed once your bingehorn has been suitably depleted (noun)
 
Super = Warpus' taco
Which reminds me...

Juice bowl, Juice or Juicy = someone with bad hairdo or can be substituted for "cuz". "What's up Juice"

Chooch= not cool person

Corn hole = a bean bag game you will see played anywhere there is alcohol.

Jag off or jag bag = quintessential Chicago for a not cool person and especially used by Chicago's finest (cops).

Square = cigarette
 
nonconformist said:
Fag=Cigarette
Bum=steal, borrow

i.e Can I Bum a Fag mate?
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To an Englishman a "f .. .. .. .. .. t" is a kind of rough sausage (I got censored)

To an American its a derogatory term for gay or queer

But in Cornwall it means a worthless person or something beneath contempt.
 
wicked - very, extremely, or very good
packie - liquor store
bubbla - drinking fountain
gagga - wieners covered in onions and sauce
grinda - submarine sandwich
cabinet - milkshake
gravy - tomato sauce
 
LucyDuke said:
cabinet - milkshake
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That's a new one to me; we always called it a frappe, which I've been told is a localism.

Nobody around here seems to know what jimmies (chocolate sprinkles) are, either, and they don't understand how they're different from sprinkles (which are rainbow and not as good on Friendly's ice cream).
 
LucyDuke said:
packie - liquor store
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Because they're usually run by families from South Asia? (In Britain it's "paki shop")

Who says obvious racism isn't alive and well?:rolleyes:
 
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