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Curious, what are the other all purpose slang words?

• deleted 11y ago
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• apalmer 11y ago
  The number one most similar was 'jumpoff' in NYC around 2000. Have a memory of getting a haircut on near timesquare in manhattan at this time period and a younger guy (maybe 20) talking to the older barber (maybe 30) saying, " I am got the new red and green jumpoffs to go to the jumpoff in queens tonight to bag a new spanish jumpoff" or something very similar... the barber literally had to tell the dude to repeat the sentence without using the word jumpoff... it lasted for maybe a year in common use before eventually faded out of use primarily because it had no meaning...
  • JohnBooty 11y ago
    I think "jumpoff" carried a positive connotation? Like if you failed a test, you wouldn't say "I failed that jumpoff." But "jawn" would definitely be used there.
• theoh 11y ago
  Not the parent poster, but in Ireland there's "yoke" meaning 'a thing whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify. "how much did that yoke set you back?"'
  • brownbat 11y ago
    See also "wossname."
• ihm 11y ago
  I knew a group of friends who would use the word "donkey" for many many things.
  • JonnieCache 11y ago
    In parts of the west of england you can replace pretty much any word with "badger" and get away with it.
    • michael_h 11y ago
      Wait, did 'Badger, Mushroom, Snake' have an actual plot that the rest of us just didn't understand?
• ars 11y ago
  Who-zee-dingle (not sure how it's spelled) Thingy Thing-Ummy_Bob whatchmacallit