Results for “leather house”

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leatherneck
noun

A US Marine — from the leather neck-stock of the early Corps uniform.

#military#usmc#uniform#tradition
Leatherman
noun

A man — most often gay — who lives the leather subculture: the gear, the BDSM, the whole identity.

#kink#leather#bdsm#lgbtq
Leather cover / cap
noun

The leather cap — traditionally reserved for Tops or experienced bottoms, and you never touch another man's.

#kink#leather#bdsm#lgbtq
Leather pride flag
noun

Black-and-blue striped flag with a white centre stripe and red heart, designed by Tony DeBlase, debuted at IML 1989.

#kink#leather#pride-flag#lgbtq
Leather family
noun

A chosen-family structure within leather culture, built on mentorship and belonging rather than blood.

#leather#kink#bdsm#lgbtq
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
International Mr. Leather (IML)
noun

The premier leather title contest — founded by Chuck Renslow in Chicago, 1979.

#kink#leather#iml#lgbtq
Daddy / Leather Daddy
noun

The older, dominant, mentoring leather archetype — with sadomasochistic associations, big from the late 1970s on.

#kink#leather#bdsm#lgbtq
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
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
swampers
noun

Rubber-bottomed, leather-topped winter work boots — U.P. uniform.

#midwest#yooper#upper-peninsula#clothing
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
piddler
noun

A prisoner who makes leather goods and crafts in the prison craft shop.

#prison#us-prison#craft#texas
BOH
noun

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

#kitchen#boh#restaurant#acronym
FOH
noun

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

#kitchen#foh#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
father
noun

The co-leader of a ballroom house, ranking alongside the mother.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#chosen-family
children
noun

The younger members of a ballroom house — the offspring of its mother and father.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#chosen-family
grand prize / grand march
noun

The top trophy at a ball, and the opening procession where the houses make their entrance.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#houses
the children
noun

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

#ballroom#house#lgbtq#chosen-family
007
noun

The ballroom surname for a walker with no house — a free agent.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#house
kids
noun

The members of a house, who take its name and walk under its banner.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#house