Results for “hous”

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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
houseman
noun

A burglar.

#prison#criminal#burglary#theft
House mouse
noun

A recruit tasked with cleaning drill-instructor spaces.

#military#army#usmc#training
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
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
hundreds and thousands
noun

Sprinkles (nonpareils)

#australian#aussie#food#baking
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
the big house
noun

State prison; the penitentiary.

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

An outside toilet (privy).

#british#regional#household#noun
brain housing group
noun

Mock-technical term for the head or skull.

#military#army#marines#humor
thousand-yard stare
noun

The vacant, unfocused gaze of an exhausted or shell-shocked person

#medical#nursing#burnout#behaviour
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
Bread and Butter (BnB)
noun

Your character's go-to combo — reliable, easy, the one you'll do a thousand times.

#fighting games#fgc#combo#fundamentals
Chip damage
noun

The little bit of life you lose blocking specials and supers — death by a thousand pokes.

#fighting games#fgc#blocking#damage
Twitch Plays Pokemon
phrase

The chaos experiment where thousands of viewers control one Pokemon game at once.

#twitch#pokemon#crowdsourced#experiment
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
glaikit
adjective

Stupid-looking, gormless, vacant — that thousand-yard slack-jawed stare.

#scottish#insult#scotland#scots
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
chopped and screwed
phrase

Houston DJ technique — slow the track, chop it up.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#dj-screw
slowed and throwed
phrase

Houston alt-name for chopped and screwed.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#swishahouse