v. To fail to make a complete stop at a red light or stop sign, especially when turning. Also known as a California stop.
"She got ticketed for a California roll."
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To be teamkilled in an on-line game.
From TOG (the older gamers) who are inept at shooting the enemy when it counts.
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n. slang for cocaine, commonly heard in the Gulf States; from the Latin-American "yeyo," meaning cocaine.
hip-hop artist Nelly's "St. Louis"
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n. 1. An low-rent neighborhood of Venice Beach, California where modern skateboarding was, literally, invented.
2. a suburban neighborhood characterized by gang activity
c.f. Venice Beach, gang, gangland, barrio
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noun: (orig. New England, USA) a compound word created from the word jew and the acronym W.A.S.P. - meaning White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It refers to a person who has a parent of each type.
This kind of union, once rare and taboo, is becoming more common, especially in greater New York and New England, where more historically separated ethno-racial groups are becoming more homogenous. The term jasp was originally coined, most likely, in New England/NY private schools and colleges, and the Ivy League.
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noun: In conversation, the act of purposefully avoiding the pronouns "her," "him," "she," and "he," to hide the gender of the person being spoken about from the listener.
Common substitutes include: they; they're; someone, this person; my friend
The particular phrase "pronoun game" comes from Kevin Smith's film "Chasing Amy" though the idea is pretty common.
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proper noun (regional U.S. English): the state of Rhode Island, as said with a Rhode Island accent. This spelling, popularized by "Providence Phoenix" mag columnists Phillipe and Jorge, probably comes closest to the actual RI accent centered in Cranston (Cvan-stin) and Providence. The RI accent is most aptly characterized as a cross between the accents/dialects of Boston/South-Eastern New England and Long Island, NY.
c.f. Rhode Island, Rhodese, Roe Dyelin, Providence
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