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

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chevrolegs n.pl. Lemme just throw on my shoedabakers and start my chevrolegs and truck on down there. [English Automobiles & Transportation Colloquial] [full cite] (Nov. 17, 2004)

chevrolegs n.pl. After one particularly frustrating outing last summer, Cannons reliever Jason Marr was so upset that he walked from Pfitzner Stadium to his home, a trip that took nearly as long as the game. This season, Marr has not had reason to “Chevroleg it,” as he calls it. [English United States Automobiles & Transportation Colloquial] [full cite] (Nov. 17, 2004)

Chicago way n. When asked how he could have pulled off such an escape, Mr. Alsammarae, who moved to Chicago in 1976 but returned to Iraq just after the invasion, laughed uproariously for 20 seconds. Then, recycling a famous line from an exchange about Al Capone in “The Untouchables,” Mr. Alsammarae said with undisguised glee: “The Chicago way.” [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 20, 2006)

clevers n.pl. There are more than a few taxes that exist only because someone got a bad case of what I call “the clevers.” Usually these are the kind of people who think any problem can be solved by shoveling more money toward it. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 1, 2006)

cocktail sip n. Indeed, he made no mention of it at all. Thompson spoke at an annual social sponsored by the Friends of Barbados DLP Association, the party’s New York branch headed by Lennox Price. Held at Nazareth Hall High School in Brooklyn, the “cocktail sip,” as it was called, attracted its largest crowd ever, between 600 to 700 Barbadians, some from Toronto and Massachusetts. [English Entertainment Colloquial] [full cite] (Feb. 20, 2008)

cold smoke n. Located 16 miles north of Bozeman, Bridger is renowned for powder so dry and wispy, locals dub it “the cold smoke.” [English Environment Colloquial] [full cite] (Nov. 29, 2007)

crabs in a bucket other. There are other people who are uncomfortable with other people around them succeeding. I was told by one of my business mentors that this is sometimes called the “crabs in a bucket” concept-when crabs are captured, they’re placed in a wide-open bucket because the ones on the bottom don’t let the ones on top escape. [English Business Colloquial] [full cite] (May. 8, 2008)

cush n. Almost as if it were written in a script, Woods responded with a birdie, then another, then another and by the time he got to the 18th hole, it was, as he called it, “a cush,” as in cushion. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2006)

dark house n. Some of my earliest outdoor memories where the times I spent seated next to my maternal grandmother in a tiny ice shanty situated on Black Lake near Onaway, Michigan. The interior of the structure was just large enough to allow a pair of anglers to sit side-by-side and tall enough for a short person to stand up. In other sections of the Great Lakes these shanties are often referred to as “dark houses,” but they are all the same basic structure. [English Houses & Housing Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 2, 2007)

dipsy-do n. Since he started as a realtor in 1971, Love has weathered the highs and lows (or, as he calls them, “dipsy-dos”) of Burnaby’s housing market. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Oct. 5, 2007)

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