Results for “Lake Shore Drive”

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lake-effect
adjective

Heavy localized snow generated by cold air crossing the Great Lakes.

#american#regional#michigan#weather
Cadbury's Flake
noun

Cockney rhyming slang for a mistake.

#cockney#london#rhyming-slang#british
Sexton Blake
phrase

Cockney rhyming slang for fake.

#cockney#london#crime#british
drive
noun

South Wales address for any bus or taxi driver — 'Cheers, drive!'

#welsh#wales#transport#british
Uptown side / downtown side / lakeside / riverside
phrase

NOLA's cardinal directions — locals don't use N/S/E/W because the river bends.

#nola#geography#new-orleans#directions
New York screwdriver
phrase

A hammer — used in place of a screwdriver.

#construction#trades#tools#slang
drive-thru
noun

The car lane at a quick-service restaurant — baristas abbreviate it 'DT' on schedules.

#retail#food-service#qsr#starbucks
flake
noun

Shark meat used in fish and chips.

#australian#aussie#food#seafood
drive and kick
noun

Penetrating then passing out to open shooters

#sports#offense#strategy
drive on
phrase

Push through hardship and carry out the mission.

#military#army#attitude#perseverance
offshore
adjective

Wind blowing from land to sea — the surfer's best friend.

#skater#surf#conditions#wind
onshore
adjective

Wind blowing from sea to land — the wave wrecker.

#skater#surf#conditions#wind
the Lake
proper noun

In the Upper Midwest, the specific big body of water everyone means.

#american#regional#midwestern#place
LSD
proper noun

Chicago shorthand for Lake Shore Drive.

#american#regional#chicago#road
all your base are belong to us
phrase

Iconic broken-English meme line from the 1991 Mega Drive game Zero Wing.

#gaming#engrish#2000s#old-school
torgoch
noun

Arctic char — the rare red-bellied fish of North Wales lakes.

#welsh#wales#fish#snowdonia
O'Block
proper noun

The 6400 block of S King Drive in Parkway Gardens — King Von and Lil Durk's set.

#chicago#drill#hip-hop#gang
Fazoland
noun

G Herbo's stretch of S King Drive, named for slain friend Fazon.

#chicago#drill#hip-hop#gang
Twinspan
noun

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

#nola#geography#new-orleans#bridges
masshole
noun

Reclaimed slur for a Massachusetts driver or resident.

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

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

#boston#regional#moving-day#internet
Chicken hauler
noun

A driver running a chromed-out show truck — often the kind that hauls live poultry.

#trucker#cb-radio#culture#show-truck
Bull hauler
noun

A driver who runs livestock — cattle, hogs, sheep — in a slatted trailer.

#trucker#cb-radio#livestock#agriculture
Suicide jockey
noun

A driver hauling explosives or other dangerously volatile freight.

#trucker#cb-radio#hazmat#explosives
Pile butt
noun

Pile driver — the foundation crew driving piles into the ground.

#construction#foundations#marine#trades
kerb crawler
noun

A driver trawling the streets for a sex worker from behind the wheel.

#sex-work#british#street#punter
Primal play 18+
phrase

Mature content — open to view.

#kink#bdsm#dynamics#lgbtq
hoon
noun

A reckless driver / hooligan.

#australian#aussie#people#driving
memecoin
noun

A coin based on an internet meme or joke, driven by social hype.

#crypto#web3#tokens#memecoin
crypto twitter
noun

The Twitter/X community that drives crypto discourse; "CT".

#crypto#web3#twitter#community
pump it
phrase

Call to drive a price up (often Bogdanoff meme)

#crypto#web3#meme#price
botero
noun

Fixed-route taxi driver (Cuba)

#spanish#spanglish#latino#transport
kick out
phrase

Drive, draw help, then pass out to a shooter

#sports#passing#offense
triple threat
noun

A stance ready to shoot, pass or drive

#sports#offense#fundamentals
frozen rope
noun

A hard, straight line drive.

#sports#hitting#line drive
crumble
noun

A dry, crumbly concentrate that flakes apart.

#weed#cannabis#420#concentrate
take for a ride
verb

To drive someone to a remote spot to murder them.

#prison#criminal#murder#historical
loch
noun

A lake or sea inlet

#scottish#irish#landscape#water
FOMO candle
noun

A big green bar caused by a rush of fear-driven buying.

#finance#stocks#wsb#chart
melt up
noun

A rapid market rise driven by sentiment, not fundamentals.

#finance#stocks#wsb#price-action