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- Tapper: Milwaukee, WI 4:12am Jul 5
- Freedom Tower: New York, NY 9:06am Jul 4
Slang for a draft beer or the contraption that dispenses a tap beer. You may hear a Milwaukee resident walk in to a bar and ask if there are "any specials on tappers".
1. Freedom Tower, formallly 1 World Trade Center, is the building currently under construction at Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Center towers that collapsed with the 9/11 attacks. 2. In March this year they dropped the Freedom Tower name for "1 World Trade Center"...
(noun) A longtime election straw poll conducted among the patrons of Duke's Rotary Barber Shop with a reputation for accurately predicting the outcome of local elections.
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Answer: Go to Cincinnati!After selecting "Please?"--Cincinnati speak for "pardon me," "what?", or "huh?"--as today's Word of the Day, I looked further into the city's local flavor and found an abundance ...
The unique Cincinnati way of saying 'pardon me?'
really excellent; often combined with "wicked" (wicked-pissah)
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One of the more unpleasant nicknames for Augusta, Georgia.
Watertown is the birthplace of variety retailing, known in other parts of the country as dollar stores, but known in Watertown as "five and dime".
Former nickname of Chadbourne Hall, a UW-Madison dorm that until the mid 1990s was female only.
A nickname originally given to the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp by its Confederate prisoners. Hellmira can still be used as a derogatory term for the city of Elmira itself.
People jokingly refer to Cambridge as the "People's Republic" because of its left-leaning residents.
Big XII rivals will often assert that the 'N' on the University of Nebraska football helmet stands for "nowledge."
Rappers will sometimes call Ft. Myers "Lil Pakistan" because of its relatively high crime rate. Although Pakistan's crime rate is low compared to industrialized countries, people in the US often get the impression that Pakistan is war-torn and crime-ridden, in all places at all times.
A shortened form for Mall of America, standing for big, frickin' mall. See also: MOA.
City Dictionary Cellar or Basement?
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In January 1996, a blizzard hit and shut down NYC. Hundreds of stranded travelers were forced to live in the terminals of JFK Airport for two days, since even buses and taxis were immobilized.
City Dictionary What's it called when someone pulls your underwear up from the back?
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The Madison Chain of Lakes includes Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Waubesa and Lake Kegonsa. If you're talking to a boater or fisherman, they will just use the term "Madison Chain". These lakes are all very popular recreational lakes.
The Allen Bradley clock tower, located on the Southside, where historic demographic was Poles. It's the largest four-faced clock in the world and the face is lit at night.
City Dictionary Do you say 'dinner' or 'supper?'
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A holiday, similar to Valentine's Day, celebrated the third Saturday in October. This holiday was invented by candy confectioners to sell more candy, but it is taken pretty seriously in Milwaukee.
City Dictionary Drinking Fountain, Water Fountain, Bubbler?
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The boundary between Detroit and Detroit's northern suburbs in Oakland and Macomb Counties. Also known as 8 mile, it has served as cultural dividing line between the predominantly poor African-American city and its wealthier, predominantly white northern suburbs.
Around the world people call them Buffalo wings. In Buffalo they're just "wings."
City Dictionary Soda, Pop, Coke, Tonic, Soft Drink? ...Which one do you say?
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A local reference to a messy section of merges and interchanges on I-240 & 55 where a relatively high proportion of accidents occur as a result of the confused roadways.
Razor Clam Capital is a nickname for Cordova. So is "Clam Town."
Honolulu's (as well as the rest of Hawaii's) area code is 808. People will sometimes say "representin' the 808" to identify themselves as Hawaiians.
Refers to the affable demeanor rumored to be common in the Twin Cities and the surrounding areas (although the validity of this stereotype is the subject of some disagreement).
Waunakee's main claim to fame is that there isn't another town in the US with the same name.
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A blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow on Birmingham, unusual given the snowfall average of about half-an-inch.
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