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Notes Works cited References External links 0-9 S.S. Kresge Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, about 1920 86 Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner ab-so-lute-ly ...
Some ideas: Maybe you want to show your love for someone is growing, that your heart is beating, that you love multiple people at once, etc. Good for: Making someone scratch their head. Bad for ...
Rizz is a slang term that's recently been almost universally adopted and has taken social media by storm. If you have rizz, it means you have a harmonious mix of confidence , magnetism and ...
The Grand Entry at the Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo 23 in 2005, organized by the Colorado Gay Rodeo Association. A gay cowboy is a man who has been involved with cowboy culture and wants to be part of it, and could be someone from a rural area who lives there, as well as a migrant to urban areas due to the rural exodus, but who wants to maintain some habits and customs of country life.
The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."
Cowboy culture is the set of behaviors, preferences, and appearances associated with (or resulting from the influence of) the attitudes, ethics, and history of the American cowboy. [1] The term can describe the content or stylistic appearance of an artistic representation, often built on romanticized impressions of the wild west, or certain ...
Getty Images From "Christmas" to "Duke City," the residents of Albuquerque have a local language all of their own. Read on for a list of the top 10 Albuquerque slang terms and slang