Results for “bastle house”

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bastle
noun

A fortified border farmhouse

#british#regional#noun#history
trap house
noun

A house used as a base for selling drugs.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#drugs
shotgun house
noun

Long narrow NOLA house with rooms in a straight line front to back.

#nola#architecture#southern#hip-hop
by my house
phrase

NOLA way of saying 'at my house,' calqued from French.

#nola#yat#dialect#southern
jailhouse lawyer
noun

An inmate who plays legal advisor — qualifications optional.

#prison#legal#us#inmate
house mom
phrase

The dressing-room manager who looks after the dancers.

#sex-work#stripping#club#staff
house fee
phrase

The flat fee a dancer pays the club just to work her shift.

#sex-work#stripping#club#fees
house
noun

A chosen-family crew in ballroom culture, led by a mother and/or father, that competes together at balls.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#chosen-family
House of LaBeija
noun

The first ballroom house, founded by Crystal and Lottie LaBeija after racism shut Black queens out of white drag pageants.

#ballroom#houses#lgbtq#harlem
House of Xtravaganza
noun

The legendary all-Latino ballroom house, founded 1982 by Hector Valle and led to glory by mother Angie Xtravaganza.

#ballroom#houses#lgbtq#latino
House of Ninja
noun

The multiracial ballroom house founded in 1982 by Willi Ninja, the Godfather of Vogue.

#ballroom#houses#vogue#lgbtq
house mother
noun

The experienced leader who heads a ballroom house and mentors its children.

#ballroom#drag#lgbtq#houses
house father
noun

The male-presenting leader of a ballroom house, counterpart to the house mother.

#ballroom#drag#lgbtq#houses
father / house father
noun

The seasoned leader of a ballroom house who guides and protects its members.

#ballroom#lgbtq#house#chosen-family
children / house children
noun

The mentored members of a ballroom house, parented by its mother and father.

#ballroom#lgbtq#house#chosen-family
like a house on fire
phrase

Getting along extremely well.

#australian#aussie#idiom#relationships
wheelhouse
noun

A hitter's power zone.

#sports#hitting#strike zone
round the houses
noun

Trousers — shortened to 'roundthes'.

#cockney#london#british#clothing
armshouse
noun

Trouble, violence, or chaos

#cockney#london#british#conflict
houseman
noun

A burglar.

#prison#criminal#burglary#theft
the big house
noun

State prison; the penitentiary.

#prison#criminal#incarceration#urban-lingo
bab-house
noun

An outside toilet (privy).

#british#regional#household#noun
House mouse
noun

A recruit tasked with cleaning drill-instructor spaces.

#military#army#usmc#training
roundhouse cutback
noun

A figure-eight cutback that rebounds off the whitewater.

#skater#surf#maneuver#advanced
could start an argument in an empty house
phrase

Extremely argumentative.

#american#regional#insult#idiom
The House Down
phrase

An intensifier meaning 'completely' or 'to the max' — she served the house down.

#aave#lgbtq#drag#ballroom
bootcamp
noun

A team locks itself in a house to grind practice before a big tournament.

#esports#pro-play#practice#team
hoose
noun

Geordie (and wider Scots) for house.

#geordie#scots#north-east#british
shoobz
noun

A house party. Also: to party.

#mle#london#british#party
lohbee
noun

Dundonian for the hallway or lobby of a house.

#scottish#dundonian#dundee#home
bando
noun

An abandoned house, especially one used for trapping.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#slang
waho
noun

Waffle House — the 24-hour ATL institution.

#atlanta#food#late-night#southern
lagniappe
noun

A little something extra, on the house.

#nola#french-creole#southern#service
ova by
preposition

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

#nola#yat#dialect#south
camelback
noun

A shotgun house with a single-story front and a two-story rear.

#nola#architecture#south#history
Shotgun
noun

Narrow NOLA row house with rooms strung in a single line, no hallway.

#nola#architecture#housing#new-orleans
Stoop
noun

The front steps of a house — and the social spot for sitting out and watching the block.

#nola#housing#new-orleans#street-life
wok
noun

Prison. Also 'wok house' — the jail.

#uk-drill#london#prison#street
FISH
acronym

Fighting In Someone's House — British shorthand for urban combat.

#military#british-army#acronym#urban-combat
BOH
noun

Back of house — the kitchen and everything behind the swinging door.

#kitchen#boh#restaurant#acronym