Results for “reinventing the wheel”

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fifth wheel
noun

The spare tire mounted vertical on the trunk of a Houston slab — chrome, swangin', mandatory.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#car-culture
Four wheeler
noun

Any non-truck passenger vehicle — a regular car.

#trucker#cb-radio#highway#driving
wheels
noun

Impressive legs — or full-size 45lb plates.

#gym#fitness#legs#plates
wheelhouse
noun

A hitter's power zone.

#sports#hitting#strike zone
third wheel
noun

An extra person tagging along with a couple.

#dating#relationships#awkward#couples
third-wheeling
verb

Being the awkward extra with a couple.

#dating#relationships#awkward#couples
reinvent the wheel
phrase

To needlessly redo something that already works.

#corporate#office#work#idiom
spin your wheels
phrase

To expend effort without making progress.

#corporate#office#work#idiom
wheel bite
noun

When a wheel rubs the deck in a sharp turn and stops you dead.

#skater#surf#hardware#hazard
wheelbase
noun

The distance between the two trucks' mounting holes.

#skater#surf#hardware#anatomy
gombeen
noun

A wheeler-dealer profiteer; the village loan shark archetype.

#irish#ireland#politics#insult
clowning
verb

Showing off in a lowrider — switches, three-wheeling, the works.

#la#lowrider#hip-hop#slang
swangas
noun

Protruding 30-spoke wire wheels fitted to Houston slabs — also called elbows.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
elbows
noun

Houston name for the long horizontally protruding wire wheels on a slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
wood grain
phrase

Wood-grain steering wheel — a signature interior detail of a Houston slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
grippin' grain
phrase

Hands on the wood-grain wheel — slab driving posture.

#texas#houston#slab#hip-hop
125
noun

A 125cc scooter — drill's preferred ride-out wheels.

#uk-drill#london#ride-out#transport
Bear bait
noun

A speeding four-wheeler ahead of you who'll get pulled over first.

#trucker#cb-radio#police#four-wheeler
Rubber duck
noun

A wheeled excavator, as opposed to a tracked one.

#construction#trades#plant#excavator
kerb crawler
noun

A driver trawling the streets for a sex worker from behind the wheel.

#sex-work#british#street#punter
crash cart
noun

A wheeled trolley of emergency resuscitation kit

#medical#nursing#equipment#emergency
bluntslide
noun

A slide propped up on the tail with the wheels on top of the ledge.

#skater#surf#trick#slide
manual
noun

Rolling balanced on just the back two wheels, like a wheelie.

#skater#surf#trick#balance
nose manual
noun

A manual balanced on the front two wheels instead of the back.

#skater#surf#trick#balance
revert
noun

A 180 wheel-slide to bring you back to your original stance after a trick.

#skater#surf#technique#transition
trucks
noun

The metal axle assemblies that hold the wheels and let you turn.

#skater#surf#hardware#equipment
bunny hop
noun

Lifting both wheels off the ground at once; the base of nearly every BMX trick.

#skater#surf#bmx#trick
icepick
noun

Grinding on the rear peg only with the front wheel raised above the rail.

#skater#surf#bmx#grind
toothpick
noun

Grinding on the front peg only, back wheel balanced in the air.

#skater#surf#bmx#grind
rollback
noun

Rolling backward then pivoting 180 on the rear wheel.

#skater#surf#bmx#trick
endo
noun

Going over the bars when the front wheel suddenly stops.

#skater#surf#bmx#crash
dubs
noun

Twenty-inch wheels, the BMX standard.

#skater#surf#bmx#gear
taco
verb

To fold your body or bike around a rail or wheel.

#skater#surf#snowboarding#bmx
kickturn
noun

Lifting the nose and pivoting on the back wheels to change direction.

#skater#surf#skateboarding#technique
hang up
verb

When the rear wheel catches the coping or lip on the way out.

#skater#surf#bmx#transition
true
adjective

When a wheel is straight and running without wobble.

#skater#surf#bmx#gear
truing
noun

Adjusting spoke tension to remove wobbles from a wheel.

#skater#surf#bmx#gear
meat raffle
noun

Bar or VFW raffle where you spin a wheel to win cuts of meat.

#american#regional#minnesota#custom
Tin Lizzie
noun

America's affectionate nickname for the Ford Model T, the car that put the nation on wheels.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage