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

Associated with or special to California or Californian people, places, or things. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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chiefs disease n. The CHP’s fraud task force investigated possible abuse of disability retirement, specifically among its highest ranking officers.…Most startling of all, 80 percent of assistant chiefs retired on disability. Almost as many deputy chiefs did the same.…One source says the panel has subpoenaed more than two dozen people since mid-October and that the jurors are looking not only at specific cases but at the entire practice of what was known as “chiefs disease.” [California English Police] [full cite] (Nov. 28, 2006)

cubby n. Two landlords who converted Logan Heights storage space into illegal rental housing for low-income people have agreed to pay more than $22,000 to settle a civil complaint, it was announced Tuesday. The illegal units, referred to as “cubbies,” were rented for $250 to $650 a month and did not have the required minimum amount of light and ventilation, city officials said. [English United States California Architecture] [full cite] (Jun. 22, 2004)

cuddie n. [Mac] Dre was riding shotgun in a white van driven by Dubee, his longtime cuddie (that’s Crestside, Vallejo, parlance for “close homie"). [English United States California Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 11, 2004)

cuddie n. Cuddie: Un pote de toujours. Cf interview de Mac Mall dans The Source n°80. [English United States California Hip-Hop Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 11, 2004)

cuddie n. Cuddie (n.): A close friend or relative, derived from “Cousin”; anyone from Vallejo’s Crestside neighborhood (cf. Mac Mall, Illegal Business?, 1993). [English United States California Hip-Hop Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 11, 2004)

cuddie n. cuddie n.—Don’t ever say nigga, it’s just retarded if youre not of the right race to use that word even if you think you know the right context. So take it from the Crestside peeps and use this word to identify your friends. Go get keyed with your cuddies. [English United States California Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 11, 2004)

Deadwood City n. It is also hard to picture Mount Carmel. Some of the bungalows and gardens on Elwood are cute enough for Carmel-by-the-Sea, but the nearest mount is a long way west. The name comes from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, which holds down the corner of Fulton Street and James Avenue. On the south side of James, Chevys and El Caminos are parked in weedy front yards—a symbol of deep “Deadwood” City. [English United States California Derogatory] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2004)

desk per diem n. For most of the year, senators and Assembly members are eligible to receive $162 per day on top of their annual base salary, which rises from $113,000 to $116,000 in December. This “desk” per diem, as it’s called, is designed to cover the cost of keeping a second home in Sacramento. Unless lawmakers have an unexcused absence, they typically receive it every day the Legislature works. [California English Government Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 13, 2007)

dosia n. dosia n.—The marijuana, the weed, the pot or the hut. So no matter what you call it, grab those zig-zags and roller-up a twamp sack of that dosia. [English United States California Drugs Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 11, 2004)

EasLos n. Arreola grew up in “Big, bad EasLos,” as he called it, one of six children. He lived in Huntington Park, going to boxing gyms with his father, Augustin, an amateur boxer. [California Los Angeles English Slang Abbreviation Nickname] [full cite] (Jul. 12, 2007)

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