Results for “boiler room operation”

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Boiler room
noun

A high-pressure phone-bank operation cold-calling retail to dump dodgy stock.

#finance#wall-street#fraud#sales
Blue Room
noun

Jobsite name for the porta-potty — because they're nearly always blue.

#construction#trades#jobsite#sanitation
champagne room
noun

Private back room at a strip club you rent by the hour for premium dances and bottle service.

#sex-work#strip-club#vip
e-girl
noun

Online-native female persona built around a chat-room or Discord following.

#internet#subculture#aesthetic#discord
this is fine
phrase

Smiling-dog-in-a-burning-room catchphrase for pretending everything's okay when it absolutely isn't.

#webcomic#reaction#denial#2010s
AITA
abbreviation

Am I The Asshole — Reddit's moral courtroom, in acronym form.

#reddit#acronym#judgment#drama
beezum
noun

A broom — the proper twiggy old-school besom kind.

#brummie#black country#domestic#midlands
shotgun house
noun

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

#nola#architecture#southern#hip-hop
Shotgun
noun

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

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

Get Out of My Emergency Room — the old, chronic, hopeless patient ER docs dread.

#medical#hospital#er#acronym
FOH
noun

Front of house — dining room, bar, host stand, anything the guest touches.

#kitchen#foh#restaurant#acronym
10-100
interjection

Pit stop — pulling over for a bathroom break.

#trucker#cb-radio#ten-code#humor
house mom
phrase

The dressing-room manager who looks after the dancers.

#sex-work#stripping#club#staff
ghost restaurant
noun

Delivery-only kitchen with no dining room.

#restaurant#delivery#business#ghost-kitchen
flashover
noun

The moment everything combustible in a room ignites at once.

#firefighter#fire service#fire behavior#technical
bail-out
noun

Emergency escape out a window when the room turns on you.

#firefighter#fire service#survival#rescue
Eleganza
noun

A ballroom category of high-fashion, over-the-top glamour and extravagance.

#lgbtq#ballroom#drag#fashion
Mopping
verb

Old-school ballroom slang for stealing — especially clothes to compete in.

#lgbtq#ballroom#drag#80s
Goblincore
noun

An aesthetic that romanticizes mushrooms, frogs, mud, and hoarding shiny little treasures like a feral woodland goblin.

#gen-z#internet#meme#american
Looksmaxxer
noun

Someone actively trying to maximize their looks — deep into grooming, fitness, mewing, and looksmaxxing routines.

#gen-z#internet#meme#beauty
Looksmaxxing
verb

Maximizing your physical attractiveness through grooming, fitness, mewing, and other appearance hacks.

#gen-z#tiktok#meme#looksmaxxing
Realness
noun

A ballroom category judged on how convincingly you embody a real-world look or role.

#aave#lgbtq#ballroom#drag
Mother
noun

A figure of authority and admiration — the icon everyone looks up to, or the head of a ballroom house.

#aave#lgbtq#ballroom#drag
Big Cheese
noun

The boss, the head honcho, the most important person in the room.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
Vogue
verb

A stylized ballroom dance of sharp poses, lines, and angular arm movements.

#lgbtq#ballroom#dance#90s
Lattie
noun

Polari for a house, flat or room — your lattie was your private safe space.

#polari#lgbtq#british#heritage
Category Is
phrase

The ballroom emcee's call announcing the theme contestants must serve — 'the category is...'

#aave#lgbtq#ballroom#drag