Results for “front of house”

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frontline
noun

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

#overwatch#positioning#tank#fps
Front door
noun phrase

The lead truck in a convoy scouting for cops ahead.

#trucker#cb-radio#convoy#smokey
Front running
noun

Trading ahead of a client's order you know is about to move the price.

#finance#wall-street#manipulation#regulation
fronteo
noun

Showing off, front (PR)

#spanish#spanglish#latino#attitude
front leaning rest
noun

The push-up position, held as punishment.

#military#army#training#pt
frontside
adjective

Approaching or spinning so your chest faces the obstacle.

#skater#surf#direction#fundamental
front
verb

To fake, pretend, or put on a false show

#american#regional#fake#pretend
Frontin
verb

Faking it, putting on a false front to seem tougher or richer.

#90s#2000s#aave#hip-hop
shotgun house
noun

Long narrow NOLA house with rooms in a straight line front to back.

#nola#architecture#southern#hip-hop
black affrontit
phrase

Mortified. Beyond embarrassed.

#scottish#scots#emotion#embarrassment
trap house
noun

A house used as a base for selling drugs.

#atlanta#hip-hop#trap#drugs
by my house
phrase

NOLA way of saying 'at my house,' calqued from French.

#nola#yat#dialect#southern
jailhouse lawyer
noun

An inmate who plays legal advisor — qualifications optional.

#prison#legal#us#inmate
house mom
phrase

The dressing-room manager who looks after the dancers.

#sex-work#stripping#club#staff
house fee
phrase

The flat fee a dancer pays the club just to work her shift.

#sex-work#stripping#club#fees
house
noun

A chosen-family crew in ballroom culture, led by a mother and/or father, that competes together at balls.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#chosen-family
House of LaBeija
noun

The first ballroom house, founded by Crystal and Lottie LaBeija after racism shut Black queens out of white drag pageants.

#ballroom#houses#lgbtq#harlem
House of Xtravaganza
noun

The legendary all-Latino ballroom house, founded 1982 by Hector Valle and led to glory by mother Angie Xtravaganza.

#ballroom#houses#lgbtq#latino
House of Ninja
noun

The multiracial ballroom house founded in 1982 by Willi Ninja, the Godfather of Vogue.

#ballroom#houses#vogue#lgbtq
house mother
noun

The experienced leader who heads a ballroom house and mentors its children.

#ballroom#drag#lgbtq#houses
house father
noun

The male-presenting leader of a ballroom house, counterpart to the house mother.

#ballroom#drag#lgbtq#houses
father / house father
noun

The seasoned leader of a ballroom house who guides and protects its members.

#ballroom#lgbtq#house#chosen-family
children / house children
noun

The mentored members of a ballroom house, parented by its mother and father.

#ballroom#lgbtq#house#chosen-family
like a house on fire
phrase

Getting along extremely well.

#australian#aussie#idiom#relationships
take in front
phrase

To act first before trouble reaches you

#caribbean#patois#phrase#strategy
wheelhouse
noun

A hitter's power zone.

#sports#hitting#strike zone
round the houses
noun

Trousers — shortened to 'roundthes'.

#cockney#london#british#clothing
armshouse
noun

Trouble, violence, or chaos

#cockney#london#british#conflict
houseman
noun

A burglar.

#prison#criminal#burglary#theft
the big house
noun

State prison; the penitentiary.

#prison#criminal#incarceration#urban-lingo
bab-house
noun

An outside toilet (privy).

#british#regional#household#noun
House mouse
noun

A recruit tasked with cleaning drill-instructor spaces.

#military#army#usmc#training
roundhouse cutback
noun

A figure-eight cutback that rebounds off the whitewater.

#skater#surf#maneuver#advanced
could start an argument in an empty house
phrase

Extremely argumentative.

#american#regional#insult#idiom
The House Down
phrase

An intensifier meaning 'completely' or 'to the max' — she served the house down.

#aave#lgbtq#drag#ballroom
camelback
noun

A shotgun house with a single-story front and a two-story rear.

#nola#architecture#south#history
Stoop
noun

The front steps of a house — and the social spot for sitting out and watching the block.

#nola#housing#new-orleans#street-life
FOH
noun

Front of house — dining room, bar, host stand, anything the guest touches.

#kitchen#foh#restaurant#acronym
flank
verb

Going round the side to hit the squishy backline instead of the meat shields up front.

#moba#positioning#tactics
bootcamp
noun

A team locks itself in a house to grind practice before a big tournament.

#esports#pro-play#practice#team