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CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. [1] The slang itself is not only cyclical, but also geographical. Through time, certain terms are added or dropped as attitudes towards it changed.
See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...
The appearance of public lavatories, like this one in Pond Square, Camden, London, is the origin of the term cottaging.. Cottaging is a gay slang term, originating from the United Kingdom, referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory (a "cottage" [1] or "tea-room" [2]), [3] or cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere.
Here’s a roundup of the texting abbreviations that confused Floridians the most in this study and a list of what some popular TikTok slang words mean. What does NSFW mean on social media?
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
Regardless, “zhuzh” — the pronunciation sounds a bit like "jouj" — is in fact a real word, meaning “to fix, to tidy; to smarten up,” according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang.
According to historian and author Tim Blanning, the term cruising originates from the Dutch equivalent kruisen. [5]In a specifically sexual context, the term "cruising" originally emerged as an argot "code word" in gay slang, by which those "in the know" would understand the speaker's unstated sexual intent, whereas most heterosexuals, on hearing the same word in the same context, would ...
This article contains a list of terms, jargon, and slang used to varying degrees by railfans and railroad employees in the United States and Canada.Although not exhaustive, many of the entries in this list appear from time to time in specialist, rail-related publications.