Results for “father of the house”
The seasoned leader of a ballroom house who guides and protects its members.
The co-leader of a ballroom house, ranking alongside the mother.
The male-presenting leader of a ballroom house, counterpart to the house mother.
A chosen-family crew in ballroom culture, led by a mother and/or father, that competes together at balls.
The multiracial ballroom house founded in 1982 by Willi Ninja, the Godfather of Vogue.
The mentored members of a ballroom house, parented by its mother and father.
A house used as a base for selling drugs.
Long narrow NOLA house with rooms in a straight line front to back.
NOLA way of saying 'at my house,' calqued from French.
An inmate who plays legal advisor — qualifications optional.
The dressing-room manager who looks after the dancers.
The flat fee a dancer pays the club just to work her shift.
The first ballroom house, founded by Crystal and Lottie LaBeija after racism shut Black queens out of white drag pageants.
The legendary all-Latino ballroom house, founded 1982 by Hector Valle and led to glory by mother Angie Xtravaganza.
The experienced leader who heads a ballroom house and mentors its children.
An intensifier meaning 'completely' or 'to the max' — she served the house down.
The younger members of a ballroom house — the offspring of its mother and father.
The junior members of a ballroom house, raised and mentored by its mother and father.
A team locks itself in a house to grind practice before a big tournament.
Geordie (and wider Scots) for house.
A house party. Also: to party.
North Wales for grandfather.
Dundonian for the hallway or lobby of a house.
An abandoned house, especially one used for trapping.
Waffle House — the 24-hour ATL institution.
A little something extra, on the house.
New Orleans-ese for 'at' or 'to' a place, usually someone's house.
A shotgun house with a single-story front and a two-story rear.
Narrow NOLA row house with rooms strung in a single line, no hallway.
The front steps of a house — and the social spot for sitting out and watching the block.
Prison. Also 'wok house' — the jail.
Fighting In Someone's House — British shorthand for urban combat.
Back of house — the kitchen and everything behind the swinging door.
Front of house — dining room, bar, host stand, anything the guest touches.
The plastic-jacketed house wiring inside basically every American home built since the 60s.
The cut a dancer owes the DJ, bouncers and house staff at end of shift.
Spanish 'behind you' — the universal back-of-house move-warning.
The top trophy at a ball, and the opening procession where the houses make their entrance.
The ballroom surname for a walker with no house — a free agent.
The members of a house, who take its name and walk under its banner.
The on-duty safety steward at a play party — watching scenes, enforcing house rules.
Polari for a toilet, lavatory or house — from Italian 'casa', and the root of Cockney 'khazi'.
Home, house, or flat — British and Irish slang for where you live.
A figure of authority and admiration — the icon everyone looks up to, or the head of a ballroom house.
A sneak-thief who slipped into houses to steal cloaks and coats off the pegs.
To drink, in the old cant — and 'bousing ken' was the boozing-house where rogues drank.
Polari for a house, flat or room — your lattie was your private safe space.