#boston
31 words tagged “boston”
Boston for very far away.
Dunkin' — the coffee, the chain, the entire Boston food group.
Car keys — but only in a Boston accent.
Tiny single-serve ice cream cup; also dated slur for a teen girl.
Massachusetts shorthand for a liquor store.
Dorchester, the sprawling Boston neighborhood locals call home.
A three-story wood-frame apartment building stacked one flat per floor, iconic to New England.
Boston's subway and bus system — the MBTA, minus the syllables.
It is bitterly, painfully cold outside.
The chair you leave in your shoveled parking spot — and woe betide whoever moves it.
A hot sub sandwich, New England style.
Boston oath — I'm dead serious, on my dead friends.
Boston nickname for the Prudential Tower.
When a too-tall U-Haul gets its roof peeled off by a Storrow Drive bridge.
Chocolate sprinkles, in New England.
South Boston, or someone from it.
Massachusetts shorthand for state troopers.
Boston for making a U-turn.
Emphatic Boston 'no way!' — answered with 'ya suh!'
New England for 'in the basement' — said 'down sullah.'
East Boston, the neighborhood across the harbor.
Reclaimed slur for a Massachusetts driver or resident.
Boston-ese for something excellent, usually preceded by 'wicked'.
Old-school Boston word for any fizzy soft drink.
The Massachusetts Turnpike — I-90 to the rest of the country.
Old-school putdown for Somerville, MA — back when it was rough.
A Boston milkshake — actually made with ice cream.
Boston word for a sub sandwich, from the Italian roll it's served on.
Drinking fountain, in Boston and Wisconsin.
Paradox Boston-speak for 'so do I' — somehow agreeing by negating.
Massachusetts for a roundabout.