Your own interesting terms for things

[abefroman329]

I call ground beef that's packaged in this manner "tubesteak"



[yes, I'm aware of "tubesteak's" more common definition"]

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Braunschweig. I use this German city as a minced oath for "bullshit" a lot, as its plate code is BS. Brescia in Northern Italy could be used in the same way.

[Big John]

Braunschweig. I use this German city as a minced oath for "bullshit" a lot, as its plate code is BS. Brescia in Northern Italy could be used in the same way.

I use "Bolshevik" for that.

[Henry]

I used to call high-mast lights "rec field lights", because they reminded me of the ones you would see at an outdoor recreational field (i.e. baseball diamond/football gridiron); my first experience was going to St. Louis on I-55/I-64 (and I-70 as well), and as soon as I spotted them, I felt like I was at a Little League game. When the lights were first set up on the Dan Ryan during its reconstruction in the 90s, I jokingly called it the world's longest rec field, but now I imagine even that would be no match for the many Houston freeways that are lit up like this.

[hbelkins]

I'm fond of saying "cluster foxtrot" to avoid using a profanity while conveying the same sentiment.

[jp the roadgeek]

A substitute my great aunt used to use for a certain vulgarity: Sound View Beach

Parking Long Island style: One thing I noticed in parking lots on Long Island is that cars tend to all park with their noses facing the same way.  That is, when cars pull into back-to-back parking spaces. they always pull through the first space to the 2nd space so that they look like they're backed into the space they're in.

I used to call high-mast lights "rec field lights", because they reminded me of the ones you would see at an outdoor recreational field (i.e. baseball diamond/football gridiron); my first experience was going to St. Louis on I-55/I-64 (and I-70 as well), and as soon as I spotted them, I felt like I was at a Little League game. When the lights were first set up on the Dan Ryan during its reconstruction in the 90s, I jokingly called it the world's longest rec field, but now I imagine even that would be no match for the many Houston freeways that are lit up like this.

I'd call them "Mass lights" because I always saw them in Massachusetts (rarely in CT) in the area of Mass Pike interchanges (such as the very end of I-84) and on I-91 in the Springfield area. 

[ethanhopkin14]

My brother and I have used the term "Hobby Lobby Guitar".  That is for a instrumental piece using a soothing, easy listening guitar part (usually sliding a lot of the chord changes) in such a way you can visualize yourself shopping at a Hobby Lobby while listening to the song.

We also referred to the Upper Bay of the New York Harbor as "The SIF Water".  That's because it is traversed by the SIF (Staten Island Ferry).

One that came as mistake, "Coats".  These are colored jersey tops, otherwise known as alternate jerseys, worn by baseball teems in lieu of their normal home whites or road greys.  The term comes from my brother playing Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on Nintendo 64 and seeing the team take the field in alternate uniforms, and him being 8 at the time thought the whole team was wearing coats. 

"Dogged" is a term we came up with if you have a small dog in your lap.  I can't get up, I am dogged.

Anyone with a shaved head and a big beard is "Bob Newbie" from The Sims.

I know there are more.....

[KCRoadFan]

"Bunchup"  or "bunched up"  to refer to a traffic jam. (For example: "I-70 near the stadiums is looking a little bunched up right now."  Or, "There's a bit of a bunchup on I-35." )

"Clank"  for when a basketball player misses a free throw. ("He clanked it." )

"Waterpark season"  to refer to the summer.

During the Fourth of July, "pre-fireworks"  and "post-fireworks"  to refer to the fireworks that other people in the area shoot off before the start of an official display, and after the end of it, respectively.

"The wasteland months"  to refer to January and February (and sometimes early March), that long, cold stretch after Christmas and before spring arrives.

[kphoger]

1.  I'm sure I got this from some comedy routine or something years ago, but I don't really know.  Anyway, the term caught on in my family long ago, and among a few friends as well.

These are called "whumpit rolls'":



That's because, to open the container, you whump it on the edge of the countertop.

2.  My wife and have two different terms for cuddling up in bed.  "Snuggling" is the normal term that everyone is familiar with.  "Nuggling" is a portmanteau of "naked snuggling".

3.  "Acapulco style" is singing that's not accompanied by any musical instruments.  This started in high school, when someone in the church choir misunderstood the director saying "a capella" as "Acapulco".  (Similarly, someone once misunderstood "airy descant" as "eerie death chant".)

4.  Rap is called "yo yo music".  This started with my wife, probably twenty years ago or more, when she would gripe about her sister's taste in music.  You know, all those guys shouting yo yo! and such.  We both still use the term.

5. I didn't realize until just now that "wayback" is a term used by more than just my parents to refer to the area behind the rear seat of a hatchback or station wagon.

I know there are more, but those are all I can think of at the moment.

[ethanhopkin14]

"The wasteland months"  to refer to January and February (and sometimes early March), that long, cold stretch after Christmas and before spring arrives.

Conversely, I always call September-December the "Ber Months".  Somehow the start of the Bers feels festive, even though there is a thousand miles difference between September 1st and December 25th.  Plus, when the Bers hit, I feel like the year is finally old and winding down despite there still being 4 months left. 

[TheHighwayMan3561]

"The wasteland months"  to refer to January and February (and sometimes early March), that long, cold stretch after Christmas and before spring arrives.

Conversely, I always call Saptember-December the "Ber Months".  Somehow the start of the Bers feels festive, even though there is a thousand miles difference between September 1st and December 25th.  Plus, when the Bers hit, I feel like the year is finally old and winding down despite there still being 4 months left. 

There's also a lot of "brr"  during the -ber months. 

[formulanone]

I used to say "downscalator" for an escalator that goes to a lower level.

[Scott5114]

entexased: the state of being contained within a Texas-shaped area. Used most obviously to refer to actual Texas, but it could also refer to e.g. being inside a Texas-shaped swimming pool. When one has this condition removed from them, they are disentexased.

[kendancy66]

I combined the words awesome and optimal to create "awesomal"  It means the most efficient awesome

[kphoger]

Branson gear – when your vehicle has to downshift twice just to maintain something resembling highway speed.

[1995hoo]

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5. I didn't realize until just now that "wayback" is a term used by more than just my parents to refer to the area behind the rear seat of a hatchback or station wagon.

I know there are more, but those are all I can think of at the moment.

We called that the "back back"  because we picked it up from a kid who lived down the street who called it that. I had forgotten about that until I saw your post.

[kphoger]

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.

I wasn't bothered by |bandit957| knowing that his burps taste like poo.  After all, flavor is mostly smell, and we've all smelled poo.  No, what bothered me is that his burps taste like poo to begin with.

And now I'm even more bothered, because it apparently isn't just him...

[hbelkins]

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.

I wasn't bothered by |bandit957| knowing that his burps taste like poo.  After all, flavor is mostly smell, and we've all smelled poo.  No, what bothered me is that his burps taste like poo to begin with.

And now I'm even more bothered, because it apparently isn't just him...

I worked for someone who was extremely diabetic and was on anti-rejection drugs because he'd had a kidney transplant. I don't know what kind of oral medications he was on, but he would occasionally burp and the smell was awful. I can only imagine what it tasted like for him.

[webny99]

Meanwhile, throw-up burps or "puke burps" as I used to call them, are fairly common and probably not a whole lot more pleasant.

[SectorZ]

Meanwhile, throw-up burps or "puke burps" as I used to call them, are fairly common and probably not a whole lot more pleasant.

I used to call those pizza burps as a kid. I don't know why as I didn't even eat pizza as a kid.

[ethanhopkin14]

Meanwhile, throw-up burps or "puke burps" as I used to call them, are fairly common and probably not a whole lot more pleasant.

I used to call those pizza burps as a kid. I don't know why as I didn't even eat pizza as a kid.

My sister and I would call those "Cereal Burps" or "Cheerio Burps" I guess because we both ate a lot of Cheerios as kids so the burps tasted like that...

[hbelkins]

If one of the cats passes gas, it's called "catulence."

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Bumping this because I remembered another own term: a time zone boundary gets called a "spacetime rift" by me.

[Scott5114]

The moment a daylight savings change takes effect is "time travel" here. ("Oh, it's only 3am now, not 4, due to time travel.")

[Hunty2022]

Gordonsviller [adjective]

A roundabout with at least one entrance that has a stop sign. Name comes from the closest one to me.

Mechanicsville [adjective] [definition #2]

When a road gets re-aligned almost right next to the old alignment, like Bypass US 360 and Business US 360 in the namesake town.