Results for “went yard”

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touch yard
phrase

To get home.

#mle#london#british#roadman
Yardstick
noun

A highway mile marker post.

#trucker#cb-radio#highway#navigation
Two and twenty
phrase

The classic hedge fund fee: 2% of assets, 20% of profits.

#finance#hedge-funds#private-equity#fees
yardie
noun

A Jamaican, esp. of the diaspora; also a gang member

#caribbean#patois#people#diaspora
yarda
noun

The yard (of a house).

#spanish#spanglish#latino#home
going yard
phrase

To hit a home run.

#sports#home run#hitting#offense
Yard
noun

Patois for home or Jamaica itself — 'back a yard' means back home.

#caribbean#uk#music#urban-lingo
doomer
noun

Black-beanie wojak archetype: the depressed, nihilistic early-twenties guy who's given up.

#wojak#discord#reaction#archetype
baccy
noun

Tobacco — the rollie kind, not the shop-bought twenty.

#geordie#british#smoking#dialect
glaikit
adjective

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

#scottish#insult#scotland#scots
frigid
adjective

Schoolyard insult for someone who's never shifted (French-kissed) anyone.

#irish#ireland#teen#slang
Cayoodle
noun

A mutt — a mixed-breed yard dog, said with affection.

#nola#louisiana#new-orleans#animals
shot caller
noun

The inmate whose word actually moves the yard.

#prison#gangs#hierarchy#street
kinfolk
noun

A Black inmate, in the yard's racial shorthand.

#prison#race#jail#gangs
toad 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#prison#race#slur#gangs
hardrock
noun

An unrepentant criminal and yard bully — the real deal, not a wannabe.

#prison#inmate#violence#american
swoop
verb

Scavenging dog-ends off the exercise yard floor.

#prison#uk-prison#british#tobacco
M & Ms
noun

Mortality and Morbidity conference — the meeting where the team dissects what went wrong.

#medical#hospital#surgery#education
marae
noun

A Māori meeting complex and its courtyard

#australian#aussie#culture#maori
me cargó el payaso
phrase

I'm screwed / it all went wrong.

#spanish#spanglish#latino#trouble
red zone
noun

The area inside the opponent's 20-yard line.

#sports#field#scoring
Pear-Shaped
adjective

When a plan goes wrong — 'it all went pear-shaped.'

#british#uk
Hella
adverb

Very, a lot — the NorCal intensifier that went national.

#90s#2000s#american#y2k
The Cat's Meow
noun

The gold standard of Twenties praise, the most stylish, splendid thing going.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
Ossified
adjective

Twenties slang for so drunk you've gone stiff as bone.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
The Bee's Knees
phrase

Roaring Twenties praise for the absolute best thing or person around.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
Spifflicated
adjective

Roaring Twenties for blind drunk, one of dozens of comic synonyms born under Prohibition.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
We Move
phrase

Something went wrong but you keep pushing forward without dwelling on it — no complaints, we move.

#uk#british#gen-z#mle
Darkmans
noun

The night, in the cant — when the angler hooked windows and the prig went to work.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british