CHYMPS

A highly elitist initialism describing the cream of the crop, tippy top, prestigious universities in the United States:

Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and Stanford University.

Karen: Oh great, Johnny got into one of the CHYMPS. Why does that bastard get all the good things in life?
Doug: Because his daddy is a CHYMPS grad as well

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The City

A nickname used for New York City. New York City is according to most sources – The Greatest City in the World and/or the Capital of the World. The only other city that may have claim over the nickname "The City" is London and possibly Tokyo. That being said, it is widely accepted that New York City is indeed "The City" to which every other city compares itself. Los Angeles is not "The City", Paris is not "The City", Rome is not "The City", Chicago is definitely NOT "The City" and San Francisco is definitely NOT "The City".

This is the hierarchy of cities:

Tier 1a: New York City – "The City", London and Tokyo
Tier 1b: Paris, Rome, Hong Kong

Tier 2a: Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai
Tier 2b: San Francisco, Chicago, Miami

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