Results for “Oak Town”

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Oaktown
noun

Oakland, California — the Bay's grittier twin to San Francisco.

#la#bay-area#hip-hop#oakland
the Town
proper noun

Oakland's nickname for itself.

#american#regional#bay-area#oakland
soak
verb / noun

Standing near a clashing minion wave to hoover up the XP in HotS.

#heroes of the storm#moba#experience#macro
a-town
noun

Insider nickname for Atlanta.

#atlanta#hip-hop#crunk#nickname
Chi-Town
proper noun

Chicago — the long-running nickname that drill rappers inherited and never let go.

#chicago#hip-hop#drill#nickname
V-Town
noun

Vallejo, CA — Mac Dre's home turf.

#bay-area#vallejo#hip-hop#hyphy
H-town
noun

Houston, said like a local.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#regional
back o' town
noun

Historic Black NOLA neighborhood near the old New Basin Canal.

#nola#jazz#history#southern
Backatown
noun

The back-of-town New Orleans neighborhoods, inland from the river toward North Claiborne.

#nola#geography#tremé#southern-us
Uptown side / downtown side / lakeside / riverside
phrase

NOLA's cardinal directions — locals don't use N/S/E/W because the river bends.

#nola#geography#new-orleans#directions
Chuco Town
proper noun

Nickname for El Paso, Texas — the birthplace of pachuco culture.

#texas#el-paso#chicano#calo
Wormtown
noun

Worcester, MA — its own affectionate, gritty nickname.

#worcester#massachusetts#regional#nickname
downtown
adverb

From well beyond the three-point line

#sports#shooting#three-point
from downtown
phrase

Describing a shot from three-point range

#sports#shooting#three-point
hearts of oak
adjective

Rhyming slang for broke (skint).

#cockney#london#british#rhyming
croaker
noun

One who kills; also, a doctor.

#prison#criminal#murder#associate
boak
verb

To retch, vomit or feel sick with disgust

#scottish#irish#disgust#body
Cloaking
verb

Standing someone up on a date and then blocking them everywhere.

#dating#relationships#disappearing#apps
townie
noun

A lifelong local resident

#american#regional#people#boston
beantown
noun

Boston (nickname, mostly used by outsiders)

#american#regional#place#boston
Naptown
proper noun

Nickname for Indianapolis.

#american#regional#indiana#place-name
Hit The Town
phrase

To go out partying — to hit bars, clubs, and nightlife for the night.

#american#british#2000s
frontline
noun

The tanks who engage first and soak the damage up front.

#overwatch#positioning#tank#fps
body block
verb

Putting your body between an ally and danger to soak or block it.

#moba#league of legends#peel#positioning
TP
noun

Town Portal Scroll — teleport to a friendly building or back to base.

#dota2#moba#items#mobility
meat shield
noun

A beefy character whose whole job is to soak damage for the squad.

#mmo#rpg#tank#role
tower
noun

A circle on the ground someone has to stand in, or 'soak', to defuse it.

#mmo#ffxiv#raid#mechanics
wool
noun

A non-Scouser from the towns surrounding Liverpool.

#scouse#liverpool#identity#british
Jarra
noun

Geordie shorthand for Jarrow, the Tyneside town famous for the 1936 march.

#geordie#jarrow#northeast#british
Darlo
noun

Darlington — the County Durham town, shortened the way locals actually say it.

#geordie#darlington#northeast#british
upsuh
adverb

Out of town, away from the ends.

#mle#london#road#patois
toonser
noun

Doric for a townie — said by country folk about city-dwellers, usually with a side-eye.

#scottish#doric#aberdeenshire#scotland
whitey
noun

That spinning, clammy, about-to-boak feeling after too much.

#scottish#drinking#weed#british
buckhead
noun

Atlanta's uptown — money, nightlife, drip.

#atlanta#hip-hop#geography#nightlife
OT
phrase

Out of town — usually meaning trapping drugs away from home.

#nyc-drill#uk-drill#hip-hop#trap
Cunch
noun

Out-of-town spot where city dealers go to push drugs.

#uk-drill#london#drugs#county-lines
Chi-City
proper noun

Chicago — drill-era variant of Chi-Town.

#chicago#drill#hip-hop#nickname
sideshow
noun

Impromptu East Oakland parking-lot meet — donuts, ghost-rides, street racing.

#bay-area#oakland#hyphy#cars
scraper bike
noun

Oakland youth bike with spokes wrapped in coloured duct tape and tinfoil.

#bay-area#oakland#hyphy#bikes
turfing
noun

Oakland street dance — gliding, contorting, flexing on the block.

#bay-area#oakland#hip-hop#dance