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Some slang from where you grew up.
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Joined: 07 Apr 2008
Location: At an undisclosed FEMA camp.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jew him down = try to get a bargin
Muldoone/Muldune= Some good for nothing guy
Moolie- Black person
Mexican hat dance= Gotta pee real bad
Shard- Shit and fart at the same time
Grunts- underwear
kicks- shoes
gunt- chick with a gut that hangs over her c^nt
fupa- same as above
Jerry rigged- to fix something kinda half-assed
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Kikomom



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chinese fire drill - stopping a loaded car at some random place, and everyone gets out and finds a new seat--real fast.

Riding shotgun - in the passenger seat up front. "I call shotgun", gets that seat first.

Dibbs - Gets first choice. "I get dibbs on shotgun."

Cinchy - easy. "That's a cinch." "That's too cinchy."
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aka Dave



Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm from L.A. For that you can just watch the Big Lebowski.

There was a comic who had a great bit about the many meanings the word dude. Dude! Dude? Hehe dude! etc.

One thing I think that started in my area was "neighbah!" as in neighbor. Just meaning what's up bro. I don't know if that still exists. I'm old.
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inthewild



Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

toki wrote:
Kiarell wrote:


to get japped/gypped = to get ripped off




I think you mean jacked - e.g. "You just got jacked" or "Those prices are jacked up."


I think it's just slang meaning different stuff to different people... cuz to me getting jacked means getting knocked over really hard.

Like getting trucked.

That stuff from Northern Ireland is sweet.
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joshuahirtle27



Joined: 23 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:35 am    Post subject: Some South Shore Slang Reply with quote

Put d'e ol'e 4 barrles to 'er and giv'er da gears.

Translation: "put the pedal to the metal"

G'iv'er to 'er

Translation: Do it.

Whaaaaat?


Translation: You/ this situation make(s) no sense

Go'in t'own, c'mn wit?

Translation: Would you like to go to town with me?

What part of Newfoundland are you from?

Translation: What a stupid thing to say/ do. Who do you think you are?

Ain't you baked?

Translation: You didn't really think that through did you?
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Kikomom



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aka Dave wrote:

There was a comic who had a great bit about the many meanings the word dude. Dude! Dude? Hehe dude! etc.


CAUTION: PETSTORY ALERT

I worked with a kid once that must have said, "Dude!", a couple hundred times a day. Real talker, outgoing personality from California. He was an LDS foster care runaway that got old enough to join the Navy and really get the hell away.

Anyhow, I got to my next duty station and this little dog shows up from off the street. Island Dog, I thought I'd call him. But no, the name that stuck turned out to be Dude.

Dude lived to be 17-18 years old (depending how old he was when he found us), was half blind with cataracts and stone cold deaf. But his sense of smell got him killed when he found some road kill one morning and a passing vehicle did him in. Sad

The saddest part of this story is that I had seen the dead carcus in front of my neighbor's house the day before, pulling in from work and left it there, hadn't done anything about it. Embarassed Crying or Very sad
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aka Dave



Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

18 years is good for a doggie. Still, that's a sad story.

The dude abides.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=4CG-DmaAaqE
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toki



Joined: 06 Feb 2006

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

inthewild wrote:
toki wrote:
Kiarell wrote:


to get japped/gypped = to get ripped off




I think you mean jacked - e.g. "You just got jacked" or "Those prices are jacked up."


I think it's just slang meaning different stuff to different people... cuz to me getting jacked means getting knocked over really hard.

Like getting trucked.

That stuff from Northern Ireland is sweet.


The poster mentioned slang from the Northeastern U.S. and as far as this New Yorker is concerned, jacked (loads of different meanings � also, �You don�t know jack� = You don�t know sh*t) and gypped can be synonymous but japped? Sounds like something that happens to Long Island chicks upon reaching puberty.
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asylum seeker



Joined: 22 Jul 2007
Location: On your computer screen.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some NZ slang:

Scab- try to get something off someone for free.

Have a sesh- smoke marijuana (shortened from session).

Smoko- a break at work.

Sweet as- good, nice.

Tinny/foil- a gram or so of weed wrapped in tinfoil.

Wag- to be truant from school.

Chur bro(in a deep voice)- a variation of cheers.

Dak- weed.

Fulla- guy.

Westie- White-trash or West-Aucklander

Durries- cigarettes.

JAFA- Just Another 'Fantastic' Aucklander

Hoon- like hooligan.

Shot bro- like cheers.

A typical 'westie hoon' conversation:

A: Hey bro, wanna wag school and have a sesh?

B: Shot bro, you got some dak?

A: Yeah bro, I scabbed a tinny off my cuz, he just got an OZ.

B: Chur bro, you got some durries bro?

A: Yeah that fulla at the shop didn't even ask me for any ID.

B: Sweet as!

Now, teacher A, class B..
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