Your own interesting terms for things

[kirbykart]

I'll go first.
New Hampshire Welcome Center sink- One of those sinks that activates when it senses your hands there, except the sensor is badly placed so that if you move your hands to the water to wash them, the sink turns off because it doesn't sense your hands there. Name comes from the location where I first experienced one of these sinks.
What are your interesting terms for various things?

[Billy F 1988]

"Hellgate Canyon" wind - as the name implies, the canyon of said name is a funnel for westward winds in the winter in Missoula. This knocks the wind chills to around 20 below at times on the very fringes of the canyon, and close to 25 below the further out from the canyon you go. But if you're in downtown Missoula, the buildings do buffer some of that wind, but it still can get cold as easily as the outskirts.

"Soup kettle" - no, not the actual kettle that you boil soup broth in. It's what I call in Missoula when the roads in the winter get very slushy. Add in the mix of glycol and de-icing salts that blend into the snow, that's the "soup kettle" kind.

"The Coffee Cup" - a reference to a small diner in Frenchtown, MT that was once named the Coffee Cup. It has that country style feel once you step in.

[hotdogPi]

Amtrak seating – at a restaurant, you get sat down with another person or group you don't know that's across from you. (Amtrak no longer does this, but on my trip to London, the tour guide said it was standard at pubs.)

Trumper sticker – a bumper sticker that, well, you know.

Meerkat – this is when one of our cats stands up on two legs.

Lobster plate – a Maine license plate with a picture of a lobster (which isn't the standard design). Of course, the more typical lobster plates exist, too.

[Scott5114]

Chocolate Series D (or whatever series)–a particular version of the lowercase FHWA Series fonts that circulated prior to FHWA releasing the "vanilla" lowercase fonts as part of the 2000 MUTCD.

ODOT (or OTA) Special–A poorly-executed road sign, bad enough that a non-roadgeek might notice; displays a lack of competency in basic graphic design elements such as centering, margins, unnaturally compressed/stretched fonts, etc.

Trash patty–a processed chicken patty, especially one of the frozen ones from Tyson that looks like a disc-shaped puck. Used to distinguish from a chicken filet that has actual meat texture to it. Surprisingly good if that's what you're in the mood for. High cuisine it ain't, though.

Jomp–when one of our cats (who is a chonk) does a big running leap.

Put some English on it–to half-heartedly reboot a computer or other device in the hopes that will fix it, even when you know damn well it's unlikely to solve the problem. From the surname of a casino supervisor who often did this with slot machines.

Taco jackpot–1200 tacos. This arose from a misheard inquiry as to the meaning of a checkbox on a pre-printed casino form.

Cedric Dart, crycard–a credit card with a long-term balance. In my household, they both refer to a particular low-interest card that we can never seem to quite pay off all the way before some emergency requires us to take on debt again. Cedric Dart is an anagram of credit card and can be used to refer to an anthropomorphization of the US banking system as a whole; crycard originates from the abbreviation cr card that my wife filled in the blank with an additional y.

[Max Rockatansky]

Some that I've used somewhat recently:

Clovis Avenue Badlands:  The area between CA 99, CA 41 and CA 198 which generally is centralized to Clovis Avenue.
The J1 Bonecrusher:  County Route J1 in San Benito County which is a reference to the infamously poor quality in-county.
Sierra Death Road:  Blackrock Road above Balch Camp along the North Fork Kings River.
Merced River Canyon Grade:  The 16 miles of CA 49 between Bear Valley and Coulterville.  The only official name I've ever heard for it was the Bagby Grade, the more populist name I hear is the "Little Dragon."  I find the Little Dragon name to be pretty lame given the Merced River Canyon is by more harrowing than US 129 north of Deall's Gap.
Illinois Flat:  Referencing the Illinois is flat meme in reference to a place that has little to no terrain variance.

[hbelkins]

Bundle

When a cat sits down and folds its front legs underneath it, we call it "bundling."

[Scott5114]

Bundle

When a cat sits down and folds its front legs underneath it, we call it "bundling."

Around here, the prevailing term is "loafing" (because the result is that the cat is shaped vaguely like a loaf of bread).

[bandit957]

A "Frank Zappa thing" is my term for a mustache on the lower lip.

[bandit957]

Also, when somebody blows a bubble with bubble gum and someone reaches over and pops it, I call it "doing a Wright brothers." This comes from an old Care-Free gum commercial featuring actors playing the Wright brothers.

[bandit957]

A "burpoo" is a belch that tastes like poo.

[1995hoo]

A "grandpa mower" is my term for what is also known as a "reel mower"–a fully-manual lawn mower with two wheels and blades between them that spin around when you push it. So called because it's the type of mower many people's grandfathers (including mine) had. I have one of those mowers, but I no longer use it because the hydrangea in our front yard got so big that it's hard to maneuver a grandpa mower. Instead I have a Black & Decker weed-whacker that snaps into a four-wheeled base for use as a lawn mower. 

A "burpoo" is a belch that tastes like poo.

I don't want to know how you know that's actually what your belch tasted like.

Amtrak seating – at a restaurant, you get sat down with another person or group you don't know that's across from you. (Amtrak no longer does this, but on my trip to London, the tour guide said it was standard at pubs.)

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Amtrak isn't doing that in the dining cars at present, but they do have that sort of seating on the Acela. Every Acela rail car has some "conference tables" at which you usually wind up sitting with strangers (Acela seats are assigned/reserved in advance). I make a point of not sitting at those tables because they feel more cramped and because having someone facing you means less legroom.

[CtrlAltDel]

I'll go first.
New Hampshire Welcome Center sink- One of those sinks that activates when it senses your hands there, except the sensor is badly placed so that if you move your hands to the water to wash them, the sink turns off because it doesn't sense your hands there.

So, pretty much all sensor sinks are New Hampshire Welcome Center sinks. I'm not sure why the technology is so problematic. I would use foot pedals, but that might cause issues for people with limited mobility.

Anyway, on to my own:

Traffic scrum – When there's one truck trying to pass another one at a 0.5 mph speed differential and a line of cars forms behind. (I don't know why I use a rugby term here, I have no strong affinity for the game, but there you go.)

[Ned Weasel]

Inverse Jughandle - A loon with an island in it.

Note that this is different from a reverse jughandle, which is a loop after an intersection.  And most of us should know that a forward jughandle is just a "regular" jughandle.

That's one of my few contributions to roadgeekdom, and it seems to have caught on as well as calling roadgeeks "viatologists."

For a while, I was trying to think of terms for different hotel typologies.  "Interior-corridor," "exterior-corridor," "atrium," etc. sort of work, but they don't describe everything regarding the different types of configurations.  What do you call hotels where the lower floors have exterior corridors and the upper floors have interior corridors?  What about hotels where all the floors have interior corridors but some rooms, usually just on the first floor, also have exterior doors?  Both of these are fairly common.  There are also lots of different type of atrium configurations.  Probably the most common is just taking an interior-corridor hotel and widening the hallway to create the atrium.  But there are also some that are an exterior-corridor configuration forming four sides of a rectangle with a roof over the space in the middle of the rectangle (so about half the rooms face the atrium instead of facing outside).  And then there are some that do the same thing but with an interior-corridor configuration.  And then there are some that take the latter concept but put doors on both sides of the rooms on the first floor.  One of my favorite hotels that I ever stayed in, the former Holiday Inn "Holidome" in Elk City, Oklahoma, used that last type of design, and it was a fun and enjoyable place.

[vdeane]

A "burpoo" is a belch that tastes like poo.

I don't want to know how you know that's actually what your belch tasted like.

Have you never had the experience where a burp brings up some flavoring into one's mouth?  I'm more worried that he knows what poo tastes like.

[1995hoo]

A "burpoo" is a belch that tastes like poo.

I don't want to know how you know that's actually what your belch tasted like.

Have you never had the experience where a burp brings up some flavoring into one's mouth?  I'm more worried that he knows what poo tastes like.

The boldfaced is what I meant. Of course I've experienced that sort of burp. But I have no way to analogize it to a turd.

[1995hoo]

[kinupanda]

At a craft beer joint I frequent, Thursday is mystery can day, with bartender's choice for $4 each. A few years ago, a friend asked in a group chat if the $4 deal was "all day orca night thing" (the use of "orca" as opposed to "or a" was presumably due to voice-to-text). Said beers have been known as "orcas" ever since, as in "does anyone know what the orcas are tonight?" and "is anyone orcaing tonight?" (the latter is often abbreviated as a whale emoji followed a question mark).

[formulanone]

Doubtage – when a company/group suddenly does things shrouded in mystery by withholding clear answers for simple questions.
(From doubt + outage)

[kirbykart]

I'll go first.
New Hampshire Welcome Center sink- One of those sinks that activates when it senses your hands there, except the sensor is badly placed so that if you move your hands to the water to wash them, the sink turns off because it doesn't sense your hands there.

So, pretty much all sensor sinks are New Hampshire Welcome Center sinks. I'm not sure why the technology is so problematic. I would use foot pedals, but that might cause issues for people with limited mobility.

I don't know, I've used plenty of sensor sinks that work just fine, maybe I'm just lucky.

[zachary_amaryllis]

A "burpoo" is a belch that tastes like poo.

I take two diabetic medications that at times cause this. Maybe one of few times pooing is not, in fact, cool.

[hbelkins]

Amtrak isn't doing that in the dining cars at present, but they do have that sort of seating on the Acela. Every Acela rail car has some "conference tables" at which you usually wind up sitting with strangers (Acela seats are assigned/reserved in advance). I make a point of not sitting at those tables because they feel more cramped and because having someone facing you means less legroom.

Funny ... on the trip my brother and I took a few years ago, we got seated with the same couple three times.

[CoreySamson]

NOITY: Not Of Importance To You - an acronym used primarily when you're talking about something with someone but then another person overhears what you are talking about and you know they wouldn't get it or would find it irrelevant. Especially useful for inside jokes. Can be slightly rude if used improperly. Example:

"What's that viatology thing you're talking about again?"
"NOITY!"
"Ok, gotcha."

[zachary_amaryllis]

"Doohickey" was, when I was a kid, the thing you used to adapt coax to the old 300-ohm connector. It's evolved/expanded to basically mean any sort of adapter to connect two differering things.

"Doing a you" is specifically for my mother. We have differing driving styles, and she does some things I feel dickish doing (turning into incorrect lane would be an example). When I do one of those things, it's "pulling a you" if she's in the car, or "pulling a mom" if she's not.

Every smoking accessory I've ever owned has had a name of one kind or another.

[kurumi]

My cousin from Central Illinois (when we were both around 10 years old) introduced his word for a doohickey: "doojumajajy". Primary emphasis on 1st syllable; secondary emphasis on the 4th. All the J's are English J's. I should have asked him more about it at the time. I've never heard the term since then.

[1995hoo]

Almost everyone has heard all sorts of euphemisms for body parts. Two of the more unusual ones I've heard came from my maternal grandmother, who referred to male accoutrements as a "tiddlyboo" and female tits as "medals."