Massachusetts TOP 50 Slang Words

• Bubbler, a drinking fountain

  It’s really BUB-LA

• The Cape

  Cape Cod. It’s really DA-Cape

• Carriage

  a shopping cart that you use at the MAAAAKET

• Cellar

  The cellah

• The Charles

  It is really Dirty Water?

• Clicker

  The remote control…..pronounced click-AH

• Coogans

  Dollah drafts

• Comm Ave

  Cawm Ave. If you say Commonwealth Avenue, we know you’re not from here

• Dollah Drafts

  Coogans, again

• Dungarees

  Jeans

• Dunks

  Really? (If I have to explain, meet me on Commonwealth Avenue.)

• Eastie

  East BAAAWSTON

• Frappe

  Milk shake

• Frickin

  How we say F—- and keep our job

• The Garden

  GAADEN…..where the CELTS play

• Hosie

  to call dibs on something

• The Hub

  Now, it’s our sister station.

• I could care less

  how we like to say that we couldn’t care less about something

• In Town

  We refuse to refer to the City of Boston as a city.

• Jimmies

  Chocolate Sprinkles

• Kid

  A term of endearment that you use to address your closest friends. A requirement in every Mark Wahlberg movie.

• Mass-hole

  “A derogatory term for Massachusetts residents that Bay Staters have reappropriated.”

  It’s derogatory?

• Nor’easter

  A winter storm that we get at least once a year, prompting us all to freak out and ravage the grocery stores for milk, eggs and bread. 

  The name Shelby Scott (R.I.P.) comes to mind.

• No Suh

  No sir; no way.

• OFD

  Originally from Dorchester. A requirement in every Mark Wahlberg movie

• Packie

  First time we used it was at the age of 15. A liquor store; short for “package store.”

• The Pike

  Short for Massachusetts Turn Pike.

• Pissa

  Short for “that’s awesome.” Sometimes, used with the pre-fix, ‘wicked’

• Pockabook

  Your purse

• The Pru

  The Prudential Tower. The Top of The Pru: Where my voice comes from every day from 2p-7p, into your radio.

• Regular

  A coffee with cream and “suga..”

  Pronounced REG-U-LAAAH

• Ripper

  Great party. You called in sick

• Rotary

  Roundabout, where somehow we never die

• So don’t I

  me, too. (We like to throw in negatives when they aren’t necessary)

   

• Southie

  South Boston

  Historically Irish-American neighborhood, that on St. Patties Day, you become someone else

• Space-saver

   Any large household object (i.e. a lawn chair, a barrel) used after a winter storm to prevent anyone from taking your painstakingly shoveled, on-street parking spot.

• Statie

  Our friends, The Massachusetts State Police

• Sticker

  A state inspection sticker for your car that you must renew on the same month every year, lest you get pulled over by a Statie; pronounced “stick-ah.”

• Supper

  After lunch, around 8pm, we have “suppah”

   

• The T

  The MBTA, our public transit system that’s usually on fire

• The Train

  Not the T, but it is, kinda, but not.

• This f----kin guy

  A stranger who’s pissed you off

  Or a friend you never see

• Tonic

  Soda

  or Pop

• Townie

  A city native who’s never left the neighborhood they grew up in, still hanging around in all of the same places with the same people. 

• Triple decker

   A popular three-floor apartment building, where each unit has a front porch/balcony, so people can sit outside, yell to their neighbors. Pronounced “dekkah”

• Wicked

  Means “awesome”

  Sometimes followed with “pissa”

   

• Yah huh

  I agree

• Yah no

  I disagree

• Bang a uey

  Make a U-Turn

• Grinder

  Sub sandwich, pronounced “GRIND-dah”