Results for “the O”

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The O
proper noun

Short for O'Block, the Parkway Gardens set in Chicago.

#chicago#drill#hip-hop#gang
the outdoor
noun

The off-licence — where you nip out to grab a few cans.

#brummie#birmingham#black-country#british
the outback
noun

remote inland Australia

#australian#aussie#places#remote
the out
noun

The outside world beyond prison.

#prison#criminal#freedom#outside
the OB
proper noun

San Diego's Ocean Beach neighborhood.

#american#regional#san-diego#place-name
boil the ocean
verb

To make a task needlessly huge or over-comprehensive.

#corporate#office#work#idiom
theorycrafting
noun

Digging into the maths and game data to min-max the perfect build.

#wow#mmo#min-max#meta
the discourse
noun

Whatever exhausting argument Twitter has decided everyone must have today.

#twitter#x#culture#meta
the morra
phrase

Tomorrow.

#geordie#scots#north-east#british
the noo
phrase

Right now, just now — the Scottish 'at the moment'.

#scottish#scots#time#phrase
the sun is splitting the stones
phrase

It's so hot the rocks are cracking — Irish for a proper scorcher.

#irish#ireland#weather#hiberno-english
the four
noun

Zone 4 — Westside / Southwest Atlanta.

#atlanta#hip-hop#geography#police-zones
the hooch
noun

Atlanta's nickname for the Chattahoochee River.

#atlanta#georgia#hip-hop#geography
The Wood
noun

Inglewood, California.

#la#inglewood#hip-hop#south-la
The Fo-fo
proper noun

Acres Homes — named after the #44 Metro bus that runs through it.

#texas#houston#neighbourhood#hip-hop
the loop
noun phrase

Houston's I-610 ring road; 'inner looper' = lives inside it.

#texas#houston#geography#infrastructure
the Dot
noun

Dorchester, the sprawling Boston neighborhood locals call home.

#boston#neighborhood#regional#new-england
the Soo
proper noun

Sault Ste. Marie — the twin-city port at Michigan's eastern U.P. (and across the river in Ontario).

#midwest#michigan#yooper#place-name
the Lodge
proper noun

Detroit's M-10 / John C. Lodge Freeway.

#midwest#detroit#highway#place-name
the hole
noun phrase

Solitary confinement — the box where they put you to rot alone.

#prison#incarceration#solitary#punishment
the chop
noun

Getting cut from a category by the judges, eliminated, sent home.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#competition
the library is open
phrase

The call that announces it's time to read — i.e. to start tearing each other apart with wit.

#drag#rupaul#lgbtq#reading
the shade of it all
phrase

Latrice Royale's fan-snapping exclamation at jaw-dropping shade unfolding in front of her.

#drag#rupaul#shade#lgbtq
the category is
phrase

The emcee's call announcing the theme contestants must serve before they walk.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#emcee
the big smoke
noun

The city.

#australian#aussie#geography#city
the dole
noun

Unemployment benefit.

#australian#aussie#money#welfare
the wops
noun

Short for the wop-wops; the sticks

#australian#aussie#place#remote
the elbow
noun

Where the free-throw line meets the lane

#sports#court#area
the rock
noun

The basketball

#sports#ball#culture
the show
noun

The Major Leagues.

#sports#major leagues#pro
the box
noun

Disciplinary confinement; another name for solitary.

#prison#criminal#place#punishment
the board
noun

The parole board that decides release.

#prison#criminal#legal#parole
the dayroom
noun

The common area of a housing unit.

#prison#criminal#place#housing
the row
noun

Death row.

#prison#criminal#place#sentence
the block
noun

The segregation/punishment unit.

#prison#criminal#punishment#segregation
the big house
noun

State prison; the penitentiary.

#prison#criminal#incarceration#urban-lingo
the joint
noun

Prison.

#prison#criminal#incarceration#urban-lingo
there's lovely
phrase

An expression meaning 'that's nice'.

#scottish#irish#idiom#welsh
the Great Resignation
noun

The 2021 wave of mass voluntary job quitting.

#corporate#office#work#turnover
the two-week notice
noun

The customary notice period before leaving a job.

#corporate#office#work#resignation