Results for “Greater New Orleans Bridge”

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newjack
noun

A green CO still finding the keyhole.

#prison#incarceration#guards#rookie
New York screwdriver
phrase

A hammer — used in place of a screwdriver.

#construction#trades#tools#slang
new jack
noun

A rookie — fresh out of the academy with no time on the street.

#police#rookie#slang#new york
triggerman beat
phrase

The one-bar Showboys loop that powers nearly every New Orleans bounce track.

#nola#bounce#hip-hop#samples
bounce
noun

New Orleans hip-hop subgenre built on call-and-response chants over the Triggerman loop.

#nola#bounce#hip-hop#dance
twerk
verb

Hip-popping, ass-shaking dance born out of New Orleans bounce.

#nola#bounce#dance#hip-hop
where y'at
phrase

New Orleans for 'how you doing?' — not 'where are you'.

#nola#greeting#yat#southern
yat
noun

The thick New Orleans accent — and the people who carry it.

#nola#dialect#identity#southern
neutral ground
noun

What New Orleans calls a road median.

#nola#southern#geography#mardi-gras
turlet
noun

Yat pronunciation of 'toilet,' straight outta New Orleans.

#nola#yat#hip-hop#southern
504
noun

New Orleans — the city's area code used as shorthand for the place itself.

#nola#hip-hop#southern-us#area-code
Yeah you rite
phrase

Emphatic New Orleans agreement — the canonical Yat affirmation.

#nola#yat#southern-us#dialect
Backatown
noun

The back-of-town New Orleans neighborhoods, inland from the river toward North Claiborne.

#nola#geography#tremé#southern-us
mirliton
noun

New Orleans name for the chayote — vegetable pear, pantry staple.

#nola#food#creole#louisiana
Ersters
noun

Oysters, in the thick Yat accent of working-class New Orleans.

#nola#yat#food#dialect
ova by
preposition

New Orleans-ese for 'at' or 'to' a place, usually someone's house.

#nola#yat#dialect#south
Yatspeak
noun

The whole bundle of New Orleans pronunciations and grammar — 'where y'at?'

#nola#yat#new-orleans#dialect
sprout
noun

A new FFXIV player, marked by a little sprout icon.

#ffxiv#newbie#mmo
tap strafe
verb

Apex movement tech for whipping mid-air into a sharp new direction.

#apex legends#movement#tech
Chicken
noun, verb

Reversing your opponent's reversal, the ultimate 'I knew you knew' read.

#tekken#reversal#mind games
zipping
verb

Going out of bounds so the game flings you to a whole new location.

#speedrun#out-of-bounds#glitch#warp
book hangover
noun

That emotional fog after finishing a great book — can't start a new one, can't stop thinking about the last one.

#booktok#bookstagram#reading#feels
ETA
abbreviation

Edited To Add — flags new material the poster bolted on after publishing.

#reddit#forum#acronym#editing
Reddit switcharoo
noun

A running chain of bait-and-switch links where each new one sends you to the previous prank.

#reddit#meme#comments#internet-culture
defaults
noun

The big-name subreddits Reddit used to auto-subscribe new accounts to.

#reddit#communities#internet-culture#history
heavy salad
phrase

Scouse for grim news or a rough situation.

#scouse#liverpool#bad-news#british
is right
phrase

Scouse exclamation of agreement, approval, or pure good news.

#scouse#liverpool#agreement#british
howay the lads
phrase

Geordie rallying cry of support, especially for Newcastle United.

#geordie#newcastle#football#north-east
Toon Army
noun

The collective name for Newcastle United's famously rabid fanbase.

#geordie#newcastle#football#british
broon
noun

Newcastle Brown Ale — the Toon's unofficial sacrament in a clear bottle.

#geordie#newcastle#drink#british
gan
verb

Geordie for 'to go' — the verb you'll hear stitched into half of Newcastle.

#geordie#newcastle#north-east#british
owt
pronoun

Anything — northern shorthand you'll hear from Newcastle to Yorkshire.

#geordie#yorkshire#north-east#british
the dibble
noun

The police — specifically Greater Manchester's finest.

#mancunian#manchester#police#british
currant bun
noun

The Sun newspaper — and sometimes 'son' or 'run'.

#cockney#london#rhyming-slang#british
asker
noun

A newt — old dialect word still alive in Wales.

#welsh#wales#dialect#animal
tully
noun

Dundee nickname for the Evening Telegraph newspaper.

#scottish#dundonian#dundee#newspaper
back o' town
noun

Historic Black NOLA neighborhood near the old New Basin Canal.

#nola#jazz#history#southern
Twinspan
noun

The twin bridges carrying I-10 across Lake Pontchartrain to Slidell.

#nola#geography#new-orleans#bridges
Crescent City Connection
noun

The twin bridges over the Mississippi linking NOLA to the West Bank.

#nola#geography#new-orleans#bridges
Large Marge
proper noun

Dallas nickname for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.

#dallas#texas#bridge#landmark
jimmies
noun

Chocolate sprinkles, in New England.

#boston#new-england#food#ice-cream
grinder
noun

A hot sub sandwich, New England style.

#boston#new-england#food#regional
storrowed
verb

When a too-tall U-Haul gets its roof peeled off by a Storrow Drive bridge.

#boston#regional#moving-day#internet
down cellar
phrase

New England for 'in the basement' — said 'down sullah.'

#boston#new-england#regional#house
triple-decker
noun

A three-story wood-frame apartment building stacked one flat per floor, iconic to New England.

#new-england#boston#architecture#housing
clicker
noun

The TV remote control — what people in Michigan and New England call the thing that changes channels.

#midwest#new-england#michigan#regional
FNG 18+
acronym

Mature content — open to view.

#military#vietnam#acronym#hazing
butter bar
noun

A brand-new second lieutenant, named for the single gold bar on the collar.

#military#army#rank#slang