Automobiles & Transportation Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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vogue n. Rollin’ down the strip on Vogues/comin’ up slammin’ Cadillac doors. [English Automobiles & Transportation Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Jul. 4, 2005)

vogue n. Iz all about the playahz in the 9quad—playin them hoes and rollin on Vogues. [English Automobiles & Transportation Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Jul. 4, 2005)

vogyes n.

H-town is the city of the vehicle fashion show, we got the carfreaks, hoppers, and the boppers 4REALª. You’ll some some shit you aint seen before i garawn-tee. From candied ‘Lacs on swangaz & vogyes to the foreign big- bodies with 4 tv’s in the headrests.

[Texas English Automobiles & Transportation Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Jul. 4, 2005)

vomit comet n. Toronto Transit Commission officials are pondering extending subway service to 24 hours a day according to a published report.…"I think it’s a really great idea because I know that when I go out late at night taking the “vomit comet” as we so affectionately call it. It’s not the best way to get home.” [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

vomit comet n. Aspen partygoers, beware. Transportation officials have voted to hire a security firm to patrol the bus station and late-night buses on Fridays and Saturdays that commonly have to take drunken passengers home from Aspen. The bus service on those nights has been inauspiciously dubbed the “Vomit Comet."…"I’ve been on the Vomit Comet before, and most of them aren’t true criminals.…They’re just drunk.” [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

vomit comet n. Escape from the Vomit Comet…A couple of us caught the late-night bus to the movies.…A while later, someone rang the bell and a group of us waited to get off. The bus stop neared and the driver didn’t bother to slow down. On the contrary, the nut took it into his head to hit the gas pedal! [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

vomit comet n. The Condor fast ferry was unsuitable for our waters, so that apart from its manifold mechanical problems the wildness of its movements quickly earned it the nickname of the “Vomit Comet.” [English Automobiles & Transportation Nautical Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

vomit comet n. A San Juan travel agent indelicately calls it the “vomit comet”—an allusion, I imagine, to the great number of babes in arms or inexperienced travelers aboard the planes. It was therefore with some misgiving that I booked a seat on the midnight economy flight from New York to San Juan. [English Automobiles & Transportation Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

vomit comet n. Discontinuance of the interurban service between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids comes as a bit of a shock to those alumni of Iowa who used to ride it. Various crops of students had different names for the “Crandic,” and the last car to Iowa City at night was known far and wide as the “Vomit Comet” in the good old days of prohibition. Seems some professors (never, never, never any students) used to go to Cedar Rapids and lap up some joy juice and catch the last train out. The swinging and swaying, jerking and jolting, with the track laid out by a drunk snake with the DTs, led to the inevitable result of a revolt by the stomach. The doors would never open—so…"Crandic” comes from the initials on the cars CRandIC railway. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

vomit comet n. He sat on an upturned orange crate all the way from Wisconsin because his bus, the Vomit Comet, has one less seat than boys. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

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