Nickname Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Londongrad n. The world remains in love with all things English, not least of all London, affectionately known as “Londongrad” by our Russian admirers. [English United Kingdom Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2007)

Los Anchorage n. That was in the early 1900s when Seward was the main supply port for miners in the Hope/Sunrise district of the Kenai and where a still-hoped-for Alaska railroad would start. Seward was a boom town, and Anchorage was, well, Anchorage was nothing. Oh how things change in 100 years. Today, the nothing place has grown into what many jokingly, and sometimes not so jokingly, refer to as “Los Anchorage.” On summer Fridays, tens of thousands of Los Anchoragites load up their cars, trucks and recreational vehicles and point them south, thinking not at all about the value of the timber in the Chugach Forest that Roosevelt and the newly formed U.S. Forest Service moved to protect from miners and railroad builders. [Alaska English Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Jul. 17, 2007)

Minne-hopeless n. But then again we also call Minneapolis “Minne-hopeless” and I call St Paul “Stank Paul”—all in fun of course. [Minnesota English Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Jan. 19, 2007)

MinuteKlan n. Many of the Minutemen (in the Latino Community, some refer to them as the MinuteKlan) take it upon themselves to patrol the border between the U.S. and Mexico. [English Derogatory Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Jan. 16, 2007)

Nairobbery n. In 1989, Maathai learned of a plan to build a $200 million skyscraper and business complex in the middle of Uhuru Park, one of the few open spaces left in a place once called “The City in the Sun” and now more often called “Nairobbery. [English Kenya Derogatory Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2006)

Nairobbery n. Friday was a bad day to be robbed in Kenya’s capital Nairobi—dubbed “Nairobbery” for its high crime rate. [English Kenya Derogatory Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2006)

Nairobbery n. In the gap since my boyhood, Nairobi had been transformed into a dirty, crime-ridden place, surrounded by slums.…The hacks nicknamed it “Nairobbery” (derelict Dar es Salaam was “Dar-Is-the-Slum” and Uganda’s war-devasted capital Kampala was known as “Kampothole”). [English Kenya Derogatory Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2006)

Nash Vegas n. She offered him a development deal right there in the bar, and before he knew it, the former pediatric nurse from Airdrie, Alta., landed in Nashville.…“There was a lot of soul-searching when I was down there.” Asked if he ever succumbed to the seduction of “Nash Vegas,” as he calls it, Brandt smiles like a Prairie sphinx. “I probably got to the edge of it.” [Tennessee English Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Sep. 9, 2007)

Nigel n. That’s the kind of people these “Nigels”—the airline parlance for BA flight crews—are. They don’t panic because they’ve worked it all out beforehand. [English United Kingdom Aviation Jargon Nickname] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2008)

Outside n. One tough lesson she said she learned Outside, as Alaskans often call the rest of the country: the media is not always fair. [Alaska English Nickname] [full cite] (Nov. 6, 2008)

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