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The Joy of Slang

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"Is the Pope Polish?" was popular during JP2. I've heard "Does the Pope goose-step?" since Ratzinger.
 
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Used a phrase this morning that I like:

"Irish it up." Meaning, add booze, usually whiskey, to a beverage.

"I made some coffee this morning, and decided to Irish it up."


Also remembered one from back in the day: kype. Meaning, "to steal." I'm gonna guess that it is a derivative from the slur "kike," although I'm not sure about that. I never thought of "kype" to be a derogatory word, since when I started using it, I had no conception of any racial/ethnic anything. It was just a word.

"Where did you get that toy?"
"I kyped it from some kid down the block."
 
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When I was a kid we used "hock" to mean selling, as to a pawn or hock shop. My cousins in Milwaukee thought I was an idiot for saying someone should "swipe that and hock it" since they used "hock" to mean steal and they thought it was redundant.
 
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goldy_331 said:
When I was a kid we used "hock" to mean selling, as to a pawn or hock shop. My cousins in Milwaukee thought I was an idiot for saying someone should "swipe that and hock it" since they used "hock" to mean steal and they thought it was redundant.
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I always thought 'hock' was steal and 'hawk' was sell. Unless you're talking about 'hock a loogie.' Don't know why anyone would want to steal one of those :p
 
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goldy_331 said:
When I was a kid we used "hock" to mean selling, as to a pawn or hock shop. My cousins in Milwaukee thought I was an idiot for saying someone should "swipe that and hock it" since they used "hock" to mean steal and they thought it was redundant.
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You can be "in hock" as well, which means in debt.
 
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zamboni crash-test dummy said:
I always thought 'hock' was steal
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Maybe this is regional, I always heard "hock" as pawn in the northeast. "Lift", "cop," "snatch" and "swipe" were slang for steal.

Then again, where I come from you put your groceries in a bag and drink a soda (not sack / pop).
 
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Kepler said:
Maybe this is regional, I always heard "hock" as pawn in the northeast. "Lift", "cop," "snatch" and "swipe" were slang for steal.

Then again, where I come from you put your groceries in a bag and drink a soda (not sack / pop).
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I also put my groceries in a bag and drink sodas. But do you drink from a bubbler?
 
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zamboni crash-test dummy said:
I was visiting a factory in Tennessee a couple years ago and asked where the bubbler was. There was a pause and then the guy said, "Where's the what?"
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I got that when I was living in Minnesota. My husband, a Minnesota native, just shakes his head when he hears me say bubbler.

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US? Oh, let's go have a grinder and a tonic, it'll be a wicked pi**er. Bostonians are weird.

And it's a grocery bag. And a fountain you drink water out of is a *ING WATER FOUNTAIN AND NOT A *ING BUBBLER!
 
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Brenthoven said:
US? Oh, let's go have a grinder and a tonic, it'll be a wicked pi**er. Bostonians are weird.

And it's a grocery bag. And a fountain you drink water out of is a *ING WATER FOUNTAIN AND NOT A *ING BUBBLER!
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No, we eat subs
 
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