504
New Orleans — the city's area code used as shorthand for the place itself.
Definitions
The New Orleans area code, used as a nickname for the city — same way Atlanta is the 404 or Houston is the 713. Plastered on hats, tattoos, ad-libs, album titles. If a rapper repping 504 doesn't mention Orleans Parish, that's because they don't have to.
504 In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
504 is the original telephone area code assigned to New Orleans in 1947, later restricted to the city and surrounding parishes. Adopted as civic shorthand the same way other cities use theirs.
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