Local Slang?

Kwesi · #1 01-25-2011, 02:07 AM

In my junior year of high school a guy from Detroit transferred into my school and around second day he remarked that PG (Prince George's County, MD) slang was way different than Detroit slang. I figure most areas have got their own words for things so why not share 'em

? Let's do it Urban Dictionary style, so give us the word, a brief definition and a sentence.

The bait - hot girl/guy

"Man, that girl's the bait!"

Kill - relax, stop, or chill out

*You're friend is jumping on your bed* "Kill!"

Dead - sucks, isn't cool, not worth it

"That's dead."

Cake - Money

"That's alotta cake!"

Tuff - cool

"That's tuff!"

I know a lot of these words lose something when they're actually typed out but it's still funny and interesting to see

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ShredderMaximus · #2 01-25-2011, 02:31 AM

Hella- just about anything
I'm kinda curious too, I hear its only a northern california thing, but how many of you guys outside of Ca use/hear this?

sonic assassin · #3 01-25-2011, 02:33 AM

a cincinnati classic: "Please"

In Cincinnati this is slang/short for "Could you please repeat that?"
Clerk: Ju orda da watr?
Cincinnatian: Please?
Clerk: Did you order the water?

i dont say this because its retarded. i normally go with "sorry?" or "pardon?".

people also like to put an S on any store name that doesnt have one. meijers, krogers, white castles. etc. makes me crazy.

there are a lot of gangster terms i never got. "grip" and "minute" are apparently long periods of time. but typically everything here is just phrases that went out of style decades ago in other places. its a real bottomless pit when it comes to culture.

heres a decent list:

http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/08/31/cincinnati-slang/

my vernacular is made up of phrases i took from every other region. the only thing binding to me to cincinnati is my faint hint of a southern accent (that i honestly dont hear compared to the rest of the people around here), and my blind aggression and copious swearing. all cincinnati things.

my time in college was particularly interesting in that we were from everywhere (including cranston rhode island). took a couple months to adapt to all that culture. a couple of the guys could have been speaking spanish for all we knew.

sonic assassin · #4 01-25-2011, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ShredderMaximus

Hella- just about anything
I'm kinda curious too, I hear its only a northern california thing, but how many of you guys outside of Ca use/hear this?

my ex girlfriend used to say that. even "hella-mass" meaning a lot. if she werent so attractive i wouldnt have dealt with it. no idea where she got it.

Kwesi · #5 01-25-2011, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by sonic assassin

..."minute" are apparently long periods of time.

Haha, that one's pretty common around here too! I use it pretty often myself

sonic assassin · #6 01-25-2011, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Kwesi

Haha, that one's pretty common around here too! I use it pretty often myself

that one particularly annoys the **** out of me. is it supposed to ironic or just stupid? gangster culture isnt really my thing. hillbilly culture on the other hand..

Kwesi · #7 01-25-2011, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by sonic assassin

that one particularly annoys the **** out of me. is it supposed to ironic or just stupid? gangster culture isnt really my thing. hillbilly culture on the other hand..

I don't know if it's hood slang or whatever... truthfully I don't know where half the slang I use originated from but who does? Most of my friends are black so there is that possibility but I figure somebody thought that the irony was funny and it caught on. The funny part is that we can always tell whenever some means the more literally definition of "minute" or the more ironic one

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jonathan_matos5 · #8 01-25-2011, 03:03 AM

most of the local slang here can be found in Jeff Foxworthy's redneck dictionary
or perhaps quotes from king of the hill

sonic assassin · #9 01-25-2011, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Kwesi

I don't know if it's hood slang or whatever... truthfully I don't know where half the slang I use originated from but who does? Most of my friends are black so there is that possibility but I figure somebody thought that the irony was funny and it caught on. The funny part is that we can always tell whenever some means the more literally definition of "minute" or the more ironic one

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my ghetto white friends say it plenty. they are from the more urban side of town. i get all kinds of goofy phrases from those guys. we bond over our love for the boondocks cartoon.

hrodbert696 · #10 01-25-2011, 04:26 AM

One that always puzzled me out here in yankee country is "wicked" as an adverb to mean "extremely." As in "It's wicked cold this winter" or "That garden is wicked pretty" or "This game is wicked fun."

It's been downeast slang for at least a couple generations - my dad had comedy records from the sixties that use it and seem to consider it traditional by then. What puzzles me is how it got to California -- surfer dudes started saying things were "wicked awesome" starting when, the eighties? Seventies?

The other yankee one is "Ayuh" for "Yes." Endless entertainment watching Hollywood actors get it wrong in movies. For the record, the correct pronunciation is "eye-UT" with a glottal-stop on the T.

arbitrary · #11 01-25-2011, 05:11 AM

ah the good ol' wicked pissah

Topspin · #12 01-25-2011, 06:18 AM

Ya'll- you all. It's more of a local endemic than slang.

Phalex · #13 01-25-2011, 06:22 AM

We drink Pop rather than Soda. Other than that we all sound just like the network news casters.

chi-town_mike · #14 01-25-2011, 06:30 AM

Stupid = cool or..funny

" That bass is Stupid! "
" You stupid! "

Thats the only one worth mentioning I think.

Zeb Norris · #15 01-25-2011, 06:38 AM

Living in Vermont.

Instead of Jesus Christ they say Jeezum Crow.

I guess that way they don't go to hell.

I would say I'm a Vermonter... been here 5+ years... but around here they don't think you're a Vermonter unless you were born here. They call everybody else Flatlanders. Which is pretty funny to me. I'm from California... the mountains there make these look like speed bumps.

Glad I'm not from Massachusetts though. They're refereed to as "Massholes".

chi-town_mike · #16 01-25-2011, 06:40 AM

Jeezum Crow??

Reminds me of "Cheese an Rice! Some of it itches!!!"

DRafalske · #17 01-25-2011, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Topspin

Ya'll- you all. It's more of a local endemic than slang.

HUGE around here.

This is in my home town:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...ll_Water_Tower

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i_got_a_mohawk · #18 01-25-2011, 06:53 AM

Too many to even know where to start

Smokin' Toaster · #19 01-25-2011, 07:22 AM

fixinta = Fixing to, or "about to do"

I'm fixinta go to the store.

macaroni tony · #20 01-25-2011, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Smokin' Toaster

fixinta = Fixing to, or "about to do"

I'm fixinta go to the store.

Funny, we say "finna"

Also "That's what's up" - doesn't really mean anything at all. Just kind of a way of saying "OK." eg:

"I'm finna go to the store."

- "Oh, aight. That's what's up."

Another funny one that's been creeping up lately is "beast." This could mean a particularly unattractive girl, or someone with athletic prowess. eg:

"Dang, he got with that beast???"

Or after an aggressive rebound and dunk - "Beasty!"

I'll just leave one more here - black people in Long Beach don't ask for anything. They say "Ay, cuz, hook it up with a" or "Ay, homie, let me get one of dem." Oh, yeah, and a dollar is a hot one. so

"Ay cuz, lemme get a hot one" or if they intend to pay it back, they'll say
"Ay, cuz, lemme hold a hot one"