Construction & Buildings Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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sheetrockero n. It may be necessary to use spanglish if that is what workers use (e.g., sheetrockero, for a person who works with sheetrock). [Spanglish Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (May. 7, 2007)

sheetrockero n. Yotoy college point, cerca de flushing, sheetrockero soy. [Spanglish Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (May. 7, 2007)

sheetrockero n. Al informar lo anterior, el director de la dependencia municipal, Ing. Salvador Flores Cantú, señaló que son aproximadamente cien plazas laborales las que se ofertan en las especialidades de: “sheetrockeros”, soldadores, operadores de maquinaria pesada, construcción, tablajeros, ingenieros civiles, mecánicos en diesel, trabajadores para ranchos, entre otras. [Spanglish Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (May. 7, 2007)

sheetroquero n. Sheetroquero/Frameadores. Aceptamos solicitudes. Mínimo 3 años de experiencia. [Spanglish Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (May. 7, 2007)

shovel-ready site n. With that in mind, the city of Temple and the Reinvestment Zone No. 1 hope to provide tools for businesses looking for a place to locate in the industrial parks without making them wait. Shovel-ready sites, as they are called, are key to the success of attracting industry to the city, according to city officials, who have said that opportunities have been missed for lack of them. [English Construction & Buildings Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Apr. 11, 2007)

sidewalk shed n. Even in the current stampede of building renovations, it is unusual that all four 1920s Park Avenue co-ops at the intersection of 89th Street have put up “sidewalk shed” scaffolding for masonry repairs. [English Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (Nov. 27, 2006)

skate plate n. Husted said the holding cells that will be put in place, perhaps before April, should be manufactured and ready for the county’s use in the construction project by the first of the year. Husted said the cells will be rolled into place on what’s called a skate plate, each two-man cell weighing 5,000 pounds and four-man cells even more. [English Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (Dec. 13, 2006)

skiintling n. The brick facade is as curious as anything. It’s a technique called “skintling,” but it looks like the bricklayer was hitting the sauce while he worked. [English Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2008)

skylock n. After a cursory examination, the chief of the contractor’s crew, which had been repairing the building’s facade, said that a “skylock”—the brake on one of the scaffold’s twin motors—had apparently failed, leading to the one-sided collapse. But that was a judgment that would ultimately be left to city investigators. [English Construction & Buildings Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 27, 2008)

slab v. One problem is lack of evidence. Many homes were, in post-Katrina parlance, “slabbed,” wiped away down to their flat, concrete foundations. [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Aug. 18, 2006)

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