Idiosyncratic Slang

[rockmanj]

I'm sure almost everyone does this, but do you know when you and your friends make up new slang words or code words to describe events or people, so that other people outside of the circle can't decipher what you mean?

For instance, some of my friends and I refer to sexual acts as "Samsung"; i.e. "I want some Samsung" or "I got Samsunged last night". This happened after a night of partying, and as we were going home, we saw a girl run from behind a Samsung sign wiping her mouth and dash into a taxi.

discuss ^^

[animus]

This is a little different but, back in junior high, there were these girls that had some menstrual issues, and they'd use the term stapler for tampons or whatever. It was really awkward. They'd walk in and ask the female teacher if she had a stapler she could use.

[Animeniax]

In high school there was this chunky Asian girl with large breasts named Tae. So me and my buddies referred to breasts as "taes".

[rockmanj]

Oh yea, and like my roommate and I had 2 short neighbors (both under 5'3") we would refer to them as the LPs...sometimes right in front of their faces.
Also, some of my British and Australian friends use the word "huffy" to refer to overeating or binge drinking, "guinea" to refer to being thin, or bad, and "blotto" to being like just gluttonous


And I just found out that apparently, some people in the U.S. refer to black people as "Canadians" and "Mondays" :-\

[Death BOO Z]

I'm calling all people of black color Obamas..

I think it has a good ratio of narrow mindedness and stereotypes, which makes it a fine racial comment.

I don't get to use it very much, though, except from times I'm watching TV and there's a token obama guy.

[Buffalobiian]

At work, my colleagues call genitals "hippos", because I once misheard it as such.

[masamuneehs]

The area and people I grew up around caused me to learn hundreds of these things (particularly, well... "I need a lift after school" "Do you have my green book?" "I got 1 and 2, who's got 3?" "my son" "bunker down" "to be safely thus" "half a pizza" "rents" "dumpy" "pumpy" "los arboles" "el jardin" "dumpster pump"

Even in college, this minor vernacular grew, mostly for silly reasons and to encompass food and drink products:
"dirty diapey" = Taco Bell
"jigger beans" = KFC
"dirty" = McDonald's
"Bad's" = pizza (Bad's Cheese, Bad's Pepperoni)

And, well, of course nicknames, slang names, used to the face, used behind the back, etc etc.

I think everyone's got these. But it's especially funny when they're instituted by some hierarchy or administration, like animus' "stapler" story.

Oh, and "potato" was girls' code for being horny (or if a guy was hot. It became one of those use as all parts of speech words). "Tnulb" was a pot head guy. There was also a time when they referred to every guy in our grade by some kind of ice-cream code name. Never found out what mine was though...

[rockmanj]

Oh yea, in elementary school, almost everyone had a nick name. My friend Kevin was 'banana' because his skin is yellow; this one guy, Gregory was 'apple' because of his apple shaped head, my other friend James was "eggy" because of his egg shaped head, and for some reason I was "froggy". Nobody knows why that is...

[animus]

Because you ate flies!

[Buffalobiian]

You had a big tongue?
You were jumpy?
You croaked?

:p

[rockmanj]

I have never done any of those things, I have a normal tongue, and looked nothing like a frog.

[Buffalobiian]

I don't know then. Maybe you said "rabbit" funny....

[animus]

You said kero a lot?

[Assertn]

maybe you sound like you have a frog in your thought

[rockmanj]

-_-...I thought there was a topic that we should kinda adhere to...

[Dark Dragon]

-_-...I thought there was a topic that we should kinda adhere to...

Maybe your complexion is unnaturally green... i mean, ahem... In high my school there was a guy named Jessie that a lot of people hate, so whenever someone is doing something stupid we would tell them to stop being such a Jessie.

[XanBcoo]

Party Hat n. -
1. Anyone who acts a certain way because they think it will make them popular.
2. A college-aged male who joins a fraternity to make friends after realizing he is a nerd with an abysmal social life.
Synonyms: Tool, poser

Example:
"Robert acted like such a Party Hat on Friday night."
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5862/partyhatlx4.th.jpg (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=partyhatlx4.jpg)

Dude used to be a good guy before he became a frat-monkey with no discernible personality of his own :(.

[Mr Squiggles]

Party Hat n. -
1. Anyone who acts a certain way because they think it will make them popular.
2. A college-aged male who joins a fraternity to make friends after realizing he is a nerd with an abysmal social life.
Synonyms: Tool, poser

Nice term; I can already think of a couple of party hats that I used to know back in High School.
Though where I'm at we've been using the term "party hat" as another word for condom.

[Animeniax]

Example:
"Robert acted like such a Party Hat on Friday night."
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5862/partyhatlx4.th.jpg (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=partyhatlx4.jpg)

Dude used to be a good guy before he became a frat-monkey with no discernible personality of his own :(.
Don't fret too much. He's just exemplifying the pack animal mentality where the weak band together for self-preservation. Looking at his body mass and those rail-thin arms, if he was to be independent and self-aware, he wouldn't survive 4 years away from his parents. This gives him the best chance for survival in the wild.

[Xrlderek]

Well.. my friends and I usually call sex porn. It started when one of my friends said something dumb. Can't remember exactly, but I think he said something along the lines of "I had porn with my girlfriend last night".

Oh and kinetic energy is always called Chinese energy in my class.. doesn't make much sense in English but in norwegian kinetic energy is kinetisk energi, and Chinese energy is kinesisk energi.

[Animeniax]

Can't remember exactly, but I think he said something along the lines of "I had porn with my girlfriend last night".
That just sounds like bad English that's been adopted into pop culture, like "all your base are belong to us."

[Paulyboy]

Quick question when I started smoking cigarettes with my buddies, one of my friends called it a squeezy. Ever since then we referred cigarettes as squeezies! Anyone ever use that term? Also when I was in middle school I was addicted to Starwars Episode I when it first came out and I liked Darth Maul so I bought a Darth Maul hat and wore it everyday. After awhile everyone started calling me "Darth Paul", it was really pretty lame but then I started liking it :).

Then when high school came some of my bodies would mess around and call me Paul Wall which I hate alot (I really don't look like him). Also when me and my friends talked about porn and shit, we would call it Peno.

[Xelbair]

well, I prefer to speak such way that only one person will understood what i mean, i just skip obvious parts to the one I'm speaking but that makes a sentence unreadable for others. Sometimes i can "send" 2 different messages to two people using one sentence.
Also using this slang is helpful in this.