Words you commonly use/slang?

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Im from the states and I commonly use words like mate, trump, bum, wanker, bollocks and a few others. These aren't commonly used here at all and sometimes people are confused and give me weird looks when I use any of them, I don't even think about it because they are every day vocabulary for me. I was just wondering what type of slang words or just words that are different words for other meanings in other places that people use and the context. I grew up hearing allot of the words because allot of my family are from England, Im around 3/4 Cherokee Indian and rest are all from England. Last name Faircloth.


I remember one time in particular my mate and I were at a dinner eating and the server came to the table and my mate had went to the restroom and the server took my order and I said oh my mate said he wanted dr.pepper to drink and she looked at me weird and asked, " You guys are married!?". Since mainly the word mate is used in terms of your partner or lover here....yeah that was weird for a minute:crazy:
 
AHAHAHA That's what happens bud, you're trying to apply the rules of a totally different culture, in Canada it would pass, because of the rapport with the UK, but in the states? in Alabama!?

Don't be surprised if you tell someone you feel queer and they think something else. :lol::lol:

Friend: Dudie, dog, bredren, patnay, bredj, homie, mandem

Girlfriend: my gyal, biddie, beefie, wifey, famn, tingting, shorty.

Cigarette: rigs, cancer, clop, clip.

Alcohol: bottle, a 750, a 20, a handle, rebie.

To Smoke: sparkup, bundown, blitz, red up, drag, haul.

Party: jump off, blocko, housin', box-ing(as in sweatbox), mashup.

To leave: push, jet, flex, movement, ghost, out, bouge, casse.

House: spot, cribs, box, gate, shell, cave, spirals (because of the famous Montreal spiral stairs)

Police: 6, shark, beast, baby(like babylon), keuf, chote.

Good person: a standup, true, real, down, bad, vibe.

Bad person: flop, fake, shiest, bait, taspay, duppy.

Work: chase, dirt, clock, stack, to job(jobbing) , bustle, nine two, shifting.

Money: berry(5) grape(10) twix(20) brownie(100) (any one of these can be "eaten" or earned ie: i ate a brownie(i made 100$), clip, stack, doe, flow, beans, goutes, balles, cub.

In montreal alot of words are based on or borrowed from french, patois and creole.

... add your local slang\vernacular!
 
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Friend: Homie,Amigo, then it does get explicit, business Associate,G
Girlfriend: babygirl, babe, baby

Cigarette: dead stick

Alcohol: 40

To Smoke: puff

Party: par-tay

To leave: bounce

House:home, house

Police: po-po, 5-0

Good person: good, nice, aight

Bad person: shady

depends really...which is confusing to me.
 
I don't really use allot of slang words other than the few i posted, heres a few more i use other than those.

wife: old lady, fun buster, "the" wife

any soda beverage: coke ( its funny, people will say, "hey im going to the store, you want a coke"? Yeah, "what kind"? lol

pizza: pie

My car: slab, whooptie

Rx pills: crunchies, candy

Thats about all i use really, I don't really use allot of slang but its interesting to see slang words from around the world because sometimes they are meant totally different somewhere else.


Oh, and...

Cheers.
 
Because a lot of the car-related conversations I hear come from Top Gear (since most of my friends don’t care about cars and so I don’t bore them with car talk), I tend to use British car terms without even thinking about it – petrol, boot, bonnet, naught-to-sixty, etc. I also always pronounce “Prius” as “Pry-us” (in America it’s “Pree-us”).

I don’t use much slang, although apparently I’m so southern Californian that a friend-of-a-friend whom I’d never met heard me speak one sentence and asked me “are you from SoCal?”. I guess the only slang I use is for places to eat – Bucky’s, Mickey-D’s – and I use Spanish words on occasion, since everybody here knows a little Spanish. And now that I work in a nanotech lab I’ve gotten used to saying “mig per mil” instead of “milligrams per milliliter”.

[edit]: Although, it just occurred to me that maybe there are slang words that I use, but they’re so embedded in California culture that I’m not even aware of them not being used elsewhere. I dunno.
 
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cool- dank (i'm not sure how this got here, i think it's because of the migrant farm workers) could also be because a ton of people smoke weed.

when i was little i also used sick in place of cool but i stopped doing that.

double cream double milk coffee - double double

tim hortons (coffee chain)- timmy's

police- po-po, OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) becomes Ontario Party Poopers :D


of course the internet slang, but i don't use that in real conversations, nor do i use it here :D



There's always the restaurant slang, Bakers-baked potato, white rounds- plates etc.
 
I don't usually use slang... Hella is soo badly embedded in the bay areas society that's pretty much the only thing I use.
 
To go somewhere: to reach, to dip, to roll thru, to drop.

Invitation somewhere: reach(lets reach, reach to, or just reach as in "come with me" you wanna reach downtown?).

mother: megs, moms, nana(spanish), ma.

father: pops, tata(spanish), peh(french, pere)

To spend alot: splurge, ball, blow, max out, dry out(drying out the store, to buy alot)

Muscular: diesel, beef, built, kingkong, belter(for the waist belt).

To Steal : to rack, to rocks, to boost, to lift.

Spending beyond means: hood rich, red up(2 uses), ballin on a budget, 102(100$ shoes 2$ shirt).

Dating: seeing, handling, The 5(5$ date, 1$ for movies 1$ for popcorn, 2$ for burger and 1$ for gum haha), chipping and to chip(as in chipping away at a sculpture).
 
I don't really use much slang. I just use a bunch of shorthand words like "gonna," etc. Also, instead of cursing I'll commonly substitute words like "Jam!" for the exclamatory "damn!" and "funkamunka" for Mfer.
 
I use a rather gratuitous portion of British car teminology,
bonnet, petrol, naught, That's all I can remember now.
As for normal slang, I often make contractions,
that'll, we'll, they'll. Stuff like that.
It's interesting, I talked to a person from the east coast, and they said I talked just like the newscasters.


EDIT: Ah, indicators, wing mirrors, windscreen, and windscreen wipers.
 
Bulldoze - Generally used to describe complete destruction, especially when the desire is to improve upon what is being bulldozed. "We bulldozed the old cubicals and put in these new ones that actually remain standing."

Somerset - A local Sub-Urban development of poorly built expensive houses on a well known fault line and soft ground with only one road in and out in a area prone to wildfires that have depreciated from 900,000 and up to 100,000 or less. Slang for very poor planning. "You let your 14 year old sister borrow your RX7 Twin Turbo? Somerset was a better idea."

Manual Data Security - Complete physical destruction of an object, especially one containing data. Can be used for accidental dropping of one's cellphone, a concussion or even a badly botched meal. "Clark performed manual data security on Derrick's head." Also a from of seppuku. "I screwed up that badly? Please manually secure my brain." Poor example of cooking: "Manual data security performed on pasta."

Headset Crazy - Someone who appears crazy, but only due to a cellphone headset.

F Condition - Faulty, not repairable but with out apparent external damage. "Let's see... I loaned out 500 dollars to Clark, and he's never paid anyone back... ever. F condition, invalid brain checksum."

Case Destroyed - Non operation due to blatant external damage. Especially when claimed, "I just found it that way." or "That's how it was when it came here." and such claim is obviously bogus. Or when someone says they dropped their laptop, and it appears to have been from a tall building rather than waist/table height. Usage: "Case destroyed... by forklift."

Self Inflicted - When someone says something so stupid someone injures them for talking. "Then I said the LHC would kill us all, and he punched me in the face!" response: "Self inflicted."

That's all that comes to mind right now
 
I use so many snowboard terms in everyday life. Most of them are pretty evident, but I get a lot of blank stares sometimes. Not all of them are technical terms, in fact some are just funny quotes from various snowboard flicks. About five years ago I also listened to a lot of radio from Burlington, VT, which had a set of hilarious DJs that were always good for a laugh. I named one of my cats after a host of theirs even...
 
I live in the North East of England and it can sometimes seem that the locals have a language entirely of their own:

Friend: Mate, marra, wor kid

Girlfriend: Wor lass (very often "used to be wor kids lass")

Cigarette: Tab

Alcohol: Peev, pop

To Smoke: To smash a tab in ya face

To leave: I'm gannin yem

House: Ken, yem

Police: Busies

Bad person: Dodgy, charva

This list is by no means exhaustive and anyone contemplating a visit to the area should maybe consider purchasing a book like this just to understand what the hell people are talking about

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So you're "that guy" that goes around bragging about his PhD?
 
^hehehe nice one :P
for some reason instead of saying dirty (as in a person is not so good looking) i say dutty...im going to put this under the over exposure of gangster friends category
 
Yes, this is the thread I've always wanted to post in! :lol:

Mine are extremely limited, and only very few guys(only guys) use them.

Stacey - This is when you have to go #2. Stacey, from Stacey Augmon, former UNLV basketball player. Small one's Greg Anthony, big one would be Larry Johnson. They were all from UNLV, and wore jersey #2 into the NBA. #1 is always Rod Strickland, regardless of how much.

Rocket Surgery - Mixed up version of Rocket Science & Brain Surgery

You don't know! - This basically means "I don't agree with you".

BF/BF'd - Screwed, also applies to the profit percentage in sales.

Hike! - "Come on", or "let's go".

I have countless more. 1724A, 5920A, kidnap, etc., etc., but I'll quit while I'm ahead. :p

Edit: OMG, how could I forget "pork chop sandwiches" in breakpoint's thread! It means "Get the hell(or the "F" word) out!".
 
a6m5
Yes, this is the thread I've always wanted to post in! :lol:

Mine are extremely limited, and only very few guys(only guys) use them.

Stacey - This is when you have to go #2. Stacey, from Stacey Augmon, former UNLV basketball player. Small one's Greg Anthony, big one would be Larry Johnson. They were all from UNLV, and wore jersey #2 into the NBA. #1 is always Rod Strickland, regardless of how much.

Rocket Surgery - Mixed up version of Rocket Science & Brain Surgery

You don't know! - This basically means "I don't agree with you".

BF/BF'd - Screwed, also applies to the profit percentage in sales.

Hike! - "Come on", or "let's go".

I have countless more. 1724A, 5920A, kidnap, etc., etc., but I'll quit while I'm ahead. :p

Edit: OMG, how could I forget "pork chop sandwiches" in breakpoint's thread! It means "Get the hell(or the "F" word) out!".
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Hahaha....pork chop sandwiches! Get out of here, get the hell out of here! G.I.Joe......
 
a6m5
Yes, this is the thread I've always wanted to post in! :lol:

Mine are extremely limited, and only very few guys(only guys) use them.

Stacey - This is when you have to go #2. Stacey, from Stacey Augmon, former UNLV basketball player. Small one's Greg Anthony, big one would be Larry Johnson. They were all from UNLV, and wore jersey #2 into the NBA. #1 is always Rod Strickland, regardless of how much.
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Are you a UNR guy?
 
Clown Shoe

Rope Smoker

only within a certain group of friends of course.

A solid as in "Can you do me a solid?"
 
I just thought of one that we always used back when I was in 3rd or 4th grade that makes me laugh still.

Buddies. ( generic/horrible shoes )

Example: Man look at that dude over there wearing them buddies! They are tied so tight it looks like a football.
 
Dingus - Just about anything, usually used to replace a swear word regardless of correctness.

Get that out of here - phrase commonly used and interpreted as it stands, but many times applied to ideas rather than things.

It has also occurred to me that I refer to the windshield of a car as a windscreen completely unaware. IMO though saying 'windscreen' rolls off the tongue pretty well.
 
HACKr
Dingus - Just about anything, usually used to replace a swear word regardless of correctness.
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So a proper sentence in HACKrspeek could be "You're such a dingus dingus"?

:p
 
a6m5
I'm pretty sure I'm not, whatever that means..... I take it it has something to do with the Runnin Rebels name?
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UNLV = University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNR = University of Nevada, Reno

Long time rivalry. Poking fun at UNLV made me think it, and actually despite the fact there are no longer any wild wolves in Nevada UNR is the Wolf Pack, and the mascot is Alphie.
 
Omnis
So you're "that guy" that goes around bragging about his PhD?
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That's Player Hating Degree in my city, :lol:.

Couple more Montreal slangerisms.

Single Cigarette: Cheesestick, loosie, Dingos(solitary dogs).

Corner Store: Dep, couche, bow-day-gah(bodega, half baked style).

Taxi: To call the arabs(im gonna call an arab).

Making eggs: to break some birds, birds on a window is an omelet.

Hot Dogs: Steamee's(stee-mays) steamies in french pronounced in english...

Midnight breakfast: A Picasso(for a famous dingy 24h bfast joint).

Beer: A Rusky is a 5L pitcher.

a Half Spit is a pitcher from a bar known to "recycle".

Bullets are cheap malt liquor like St Ides Colt 45, which come in "bullet" style bottles.

Public Transportation:

A Whore Service(aka a Hors-Service) is a bus which gives hope in the cold winter night, but is of no use, because it is out of service.

A Special is a bus you want to skip, because it is filled with wild ass kids from school smoking in the back and making mad noise.

The First and The Last are rumoured to be the best trains to "do stuff" in.

Jumping the metro is skipping the turnstiles.

Blanks are bus transfers that can turn out blank if you use the right technique on the machines, blanks have no time stamp meaning they dont expire(are reusable).

MetroBeast are subway cops.

an Up and Down is a bus or metro trip(2 way) quickly made on a single fare.

Window Shopping is a popular summertime hustle which involves looking for buses with open windows and climbing in.

Tunneling is for the impatient, involves walking from one subway station to the next in the tunnels.

Peace.
 
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Without actually wanting to I have started saying 'awesome' and 'no worries' all the time. As I work with a few Canadians and a couple of Aussies I assume it has rubbed off on me from them. I really need to stop, there is nothing wrong with 'cool' and 'no probs'.
 

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