#houston
57 words tagged “houston”
Texas/Gulf-Coast rap as the third hip-hop region, after East and West.
A tense situation — beef, drama, or trouble brewing.
About to swing by — Houston cruising vocabulary.
Swerving a slab side-to-side down the street on purpose.
The spare tire mounted vertical on the trunk of a Houston slab — chrome, swangin', mandatory.
Hiram Clarke — south-west Houston neighbourhood.
Cheap fast food from the hood — wing spots, taquerias, corner-store plates.
Translucent wet-look paint job in Skittle-bright colors — the defining finish of a Houston slab.
Protruding 30-spoke wire wheels fitted to Houston slabs — also called elbows.
Southern American English for 'about to' — on the verge of doing something.
'Downtown' in Houston drawl.
Houston interjection — 'man, hold up'.
Wasted on lean — or, depending on tone, just incredibly cool.
Acres Homes — named after the #44 Metro bus that runs through it.
Remote-popping trunk rigged with neon, amps and speakers.
Missouri City — Houston's southwest suburb, half-jokingly 'Misery City.'
How locals say Humble, TX — the H is silent.
Lean. The drink gets its colour from the promethazine.
Houston's Fifth Ward — historic, hard, and often called 'The Bloody Nickel.'
North Houston street whose 'Kirk-en-doll' pronunciation outs you as local or tourist.
Showing off the jewelry, the car, the bread — loud and unbothered.
Houston name for the long horizontally protruding wire wheels on a slab.
Cruising slow in a slab so everybody sees you.
Houston-flavoured 'what's up?' — the city's signature greeting.
Texan for the highway frontage/access road.
The holy-grail 1984 Cragar wire rims — Houston slab royalty.
Houston's weekly meet-up where slab owners bring the candy paint out.
Throw up a sideways peace sign — Houston's 'peace out'.
A fancy overseas whip — your Benz, your Bentley, your Bimmer.
Codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with soda and candy — the original name for lean.
Gold teeth — a full mouth of them means you're slugged up.
Houston's nickname, earned by the back-to-back-titles Rockets of '94 and '95.
Homestead — north-east Houston neighbourhood.
Rolling on Vogue Tyres — gold-striped whitewalls, slab standard.
Lean. Codeine-promethazine syrup in a styrofoam double cup.
Screwed Up Click — DJ Screw's Houston rap collective.
Houston, named for the ten-plus bayous that vein the city.
Houston-mashed contraction of 'know what I'm talkin' 'bout'.
Loud, potent weed — the strong stuff.
Houston's hometown nickname, in tribute to DJ Screw.
Houston driving style — weaving a slab slow and wide across lanes to be seen.
Houston DJ technique — slow the track, chop it up.
Houston greeting — 'what's happening'.
Houston nickname for lean — purple codeine drank.
Wood-grain steering wheel — a signature interior detail of a Houston slab.
Houston custom car — Slow, Loud And Bangin' — a candy-painted American luxury sedan on swangas.
Hands on the wood-grain wheel — slab driving posture.
Trinity Gardens — north-east Houston neighbourhood.
Posting up in a parking lot in your slab to flirt and floss.
Galveston — the beach city an hour south of Houston.
Houston's Third Ward — Scarface country, Screwed Up territory.
DJ Screw's slowed-down cassette mixtapes out of Houston.
Houston alt-name for chopped and screwed.
Houston, said like a local.
Houston's I-610 ring road; 'inner looper' = lives inside it.
Strong, sticky, smelly weed — a compliment.
Iced in jewels, rolling in a candy-paint slab — Houston's full-flex setting.