Results for “front of house”

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frontline
noun

The tanks who engage first and soak the damage up front.

#overwatch#positioning#tank#fps
Front door
noun phrase

The lead truck in a convoy scouting for cops ahead.

#trucker#cb-radio#convoy#smokey
Front running
noun

Trading ahead of a client's order you know is about to move the price.

#finance#wall-street#manipulation#regulation
Frontin
verb

Faking it, putting on a false front to seem tougher or richer.

#90s#2000s#aave#hip-hop
shotgun house
noun

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

#nola#architecture#southern#hip-hop
black affrontit
phrase

Mortified. Beyond embarrassed.

#scottish#scots#emotion#embarrassment
trap house
noun

A house used as a base for selling drugs.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#drugs
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
The House Down
phrase

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

#aave#lgbtq#drag#ballroom
camelback
noun

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

#nola#architecture#south#history
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
FOH
noun

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

#kitchen#foh#restaurant#acronym
flank
verb

Going round the side to hit the squishy backline instead of the meat shields up front.

#moba#positioning#tactics
bootcamp
noun

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

#esports#pro-play#practice#team
Reddit hug of death
noun phrase

When a link hits Reddit's front page and the traffic spike instantly crashes the destination site.

#reddit#traffic#internet-culture#phenomenon
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
sissy bounce
phrase

NOLA bounce variant fronted by queer, trans, and drag performers.

#nola#bounce#hip-hop#lgbtq
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
Shotgun
noun

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

#nola#architecture#housing#new-orleans
the feeder
noun phrase

Texan for the highway frontage/access road.

#texas#houston#geography#driving
elizabeth
noun

Money — a banknote, named for the Queen on the front.

#uk-drill#london#money#road
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
Romex
noun

The plastic-jacketed house wiring inside basically every American home built since the 60s.

#construction#electrical#wiring#trades
tip out
phrase

The cut a dancer owes the DJ, bouncers and house staff at end of shift.

#sex-work#stripping#club#fees
atras
interjection

Spanish 'behind you' — the universal back-of-house move-warning.

#kitchen#boh#restaurant#spanish
stock rotation
noun

Pulling older stock to the front, putting fresh stuff behind — FIFO on the shelf.

#retail#grocery#store-ops#inventory
Dear John
noun

The breakup letter every soldier dreaded — the homefront sweetheart calling it off while he's away.

#1940s#wartime#swing#vintage
Carsey
noun

Polari for a toilet, lavatory or house — from Italian 'casa', and the root of Cockney 'khazi'.

#polari#lgbtq#british#heritage
Hard Open
verb

To rush in the instant gates open, sprinting to claim the rail or front spot.

#american#gen-z
Trenches
noun

The riskiest, wildest frontier of crypto — hunting new memecoins and speculative launches; also street slang for a rough area.

#crypto#street#internet#money
Secure The Bag
phrase

Get the money, lock in the win, don't fumble the opportunity in front of you.

#money#cash#aave#hip-hop
Gaff
noun

Home, house, or flat — British and Irish slang for where you live.

#uk#british
Armored Heifer
noun

GI slang for canned milk — the only 'cow' the army could ship to the front.

#1940s#wartime#swing#vintage
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
Budge
noun

A sneak-thief who slipped into houses to steal cloaks and coats off the pegs.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
Bouse
verb

To drink, in the old cant — and 'bousing ken' was the boozing-house where rogues drank.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
Mate
noun

Friend — also a casual way to address anyone, friendly or confrontational.

#uk#british#aussie#australian
Lattie
noun

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

#polari#lgbtq#british#heritage