Every local meaning,
in one place.

A noticeably long or indefinite amount of time, especially in phrases such as it’s been a minute.

• Plans & social life
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

Behaving foolishly, messing around, causing trouble, or refusing to take something seriously.

• Behaviour
• Humour
• Warnings

A construction meaning that an action has just happened or has recently been completed.

• Grammar
• Recent events
• Irish-language influence

Right?; isn’t that true?; an expression of agreement or a request for confirmation.

• Grammar tags
• Reactions
• Current London usage

The automated airport rail system linking JFK terminals with airport facilities and public-transit connections at Jamaica and Howard Beach.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A studio apartment with a recessed or partly separated area that can hold a bed, dining table, desk, or another distinct use.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun; real-estate term

Stop it, leave it alone, or do not continue.

• Boundaries
• Reactions
• Current London usage

A Manhattan neighborhood name referring to the eastern part of the East Village around Avenues A, B, C, and D.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• proper place name

New York’s posted street-cleaning parking rule requiring vehicles to move from one side of a street during specified days and times.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

The Irish English first-person negative question corresponding to standard “aren’t I?”

• Grammar
• Questions
• Irish English

A Jewish food shop specializing traditionally in foods eaten with dairy, such as smoked fish, cream cheese, salads, bagels, and related items.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods

Stairs.

• Rhyming slang
• Cockney heritage
• Place

Wrongly arranged, badly handled, reversed, confused, or in a complete mess.

• Problems
• Directions
• Mild vulgarity

The Long Island Rail Road terminal in Downtown Brooklyn, connected with the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center subway complex.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A compact familiar way to address a friend, peer, or another person, often understood as brother or bro.

• Friendship & address
• Greetings & call-outs
• Hip-hop & media

A hot breakfast sandwich—often ordered on a roll, bagel, or hero—that is a staple of New York bodegas, delis, and carts.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A ring-shaped bread roll traditionally boiled before baking, producing a glossy crust and dense, chewy interior.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

Too obvious, easily noticed, exposed, or likely to attract unwanted attention.

• Warnings
• Everyday speech
• Current London usage

A casual local term that may refer to a balaclava or face covering, with meaning depending strongly on context and community usage.

• Noun
• Jamaican Usage
• Context-Dependent

To make a U-turn, especially in casual driving directions.

• Verb Phrase
• Driving
• Everyday Slang

Broken, ruined, exhausted, or no longer functioning properly.

• Problems
• Objects
• Exhaustion

Very; a lot; many.

• Intensity
• Quantity
• Current London usage

A Jamaican baked pastry with a flaky yellow crust and seasoned beef filling, widely available through New York Caribbean bakeries, restaurants, and shops.

• Food & bodegas
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

A parkway running through southern Brooklyn and Queens, commonly shortened in conversation and traffic reports to the Belt.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• proper road name

Okay, agreed, understood, or challenge accepted.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Plans & social life
• interjection

A round Jewish bread roll with a depressed center, usually baked with onion or another savory topping rather than boiled like a bagel.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

A long-established nickname for New York City whose modern popularity grew through horse racing, jazz culture, and a major 1970s tourism campaign.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• Hip-hop & media

A common informal abbreviation for Brooklyn, used in conversation, business names, music, event listings, clothing, and online location labels.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Plans & social life
• abbreviation; place label

A soft, floury white bread roll strongly associated with Waterford.

• Food and drink
• Waterford
• Regional identity

A cake-like round cookie topped with two halves of vanilla and chocolate fondant or icing.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A neighborhood event held on a temporarily closed street, commonly featuring food, music, games, tables, family activities, and local organizations.

• Plans & social life
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Subway & street

An informal British word for a man, often an ordinary or typical man.

• People
• Forms of address
• Wider British English

A small neighborhood grocery or convenience store, often independently operated and woven into daily city life.

• Food & bodegas
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

Naughty, badly behaved, or disobedient, especially of a child.

• Children
• Family
• Behaviour

A proud nickname for the Bronx, especially when emphasizing the borough’s hip-hop, dance, music, and cultural identity.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Hip-hop & media
• proper nickname; noun phrase

The common abbreviation for the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, a major limited-access roadway carrying local, regional, and truck traffic through parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

Fine, excellent, attractive, or pleasing. The word can describe a person, an object, the weather, or a general situation.

• Adjective
• Scots
• Everyday Speech

Extremely cold, especially when describing the weather outside.

• Weather
• Intensifiers
• adjective

A class-coded and often dismissive New York label for people traveling into Manhattan from outer boroughs, New Jersey, Long Island, or surrounding suburbs.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Sensitive or insulting
• adjective; noun phrase

Extremely muscular, powerfully built, or visibly strong; sometimes extended to anything unusually sturdy or forceful.

• Hip-hop & media
• Reactions & judgment
• adjective

A transit direction label indicating that a train or bus is traveling toward the Bronx or farther into the borough.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A transit direction label indicating that a train or bus is traveling toward Brooklyn or farther into Brooklyn.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A row house or townhouse associated with a brown sandstone façade, often used more broadly for a familiar New York residential building type.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• noun; adjective

Brother, friend, or a familiar way to address a man.

• Forms of address
• Reactions
• Current London usage

A public drinking-water fountain.

• Noun
• Everyday Object
• Regional Divide

Acting irrationally, overreacting, misunderstanding, or saying something unreasonable.

• Reactions & judgment
• Sensitive or insulting
• verb; adjective-like participle

A service pattern in which two or more buses on the same route arrive close together after delays disrupt their planned spacing.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A marked street lane reserved primarily for buses during posted hours so they can bypass general traffic.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

A street corridor designed to give through-priority to buses and certain permitted vehicles while restricting ordinary private-car travel.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

A simple hard roll or kaiser-style roll split and spread with butter, commonly bought as an inexpensive New York breakfast with coffee.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

Unattractive or unpleasant to look at, usually as a blunt and potentially hurtful judgement.

• Appearance
• Insults
• Current London usage

A compact written or spoken abbreviation for the Bronx, frequently used in addresses, local branding, music, conversation, and social posts.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Hip-hop & media
• abbreviation; place label

Crisp tube-shaped fried pastry shells filled most commonly with sweetened ricotta-based cream.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• Plans & social life

Slightly rude or disrespectful, often in a playful, bold, or amusing way.

• Banter
• Behaviour
• Wider British English

Thank you, goodbye, or a toast before drinking.

• Thanks
• Farewells
• Wider British English

A halal-cart platter of seasoned chicken served over rice, commonly with salad and a choice of sauces.

• Food & bodegas
• Plans & social life
• noun phrase

To flirt with or chat up someone; also the act of flirting or a person someone is casually pursuing.

• Dating
• Relationships
• Current London usage

A hot sandwich of chopped ground beef and melted cheese, commonly served on a hero with toppings and strongly associated with New York bodegas.

• Food & bodegas
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

A seasoned spread traditionally made from chopped cooked liver, onions, fat, and often egg; the words also appear in a humorous expression about being ignored.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• Reactions & judgment

Pleased, happy, or proud about something.

• Happiness
• Approval
• Wider British English

Bold nerve, audacity, gall, or striking self-confidence, with the judgment ranging from admiration to disapproval.

• Reactions & judgment
• Intensifiers
• Classic New York English

New York City’s large bike-share system, whose bicycles and e-bikes can be checked out from stations or designated parking locations.

• Subway & street
• Plans & social life
• proper noun; service name

Extremely unattractive; in broader slang use, also badly worn, ruined, or in visibly poor condition.

• Appearance
• Condition
• Current London usage

Excellent, very good, stylish, or impressive.

• Praise
• Youth speech
• Sport

A television remote control.

• Noun
• Household
• Generational Slang

An apartment in a corporation-owned building where the resident buys shares and receives a proprietary lease rather than owning the unit as separate real property.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun; real-estate term

A soft, slightly sweet Jamaican bread made with coconut milk or coconut-derived ingredients, often folded around a patty or used for sandwiches.

• Food & bodegas
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

A licensed mobile food cart selling quick breakfast items such as coffee, tea, rolls, pastries, bagels, and egg sandwiches, especially near offices and transit stops.

• Food & bodegas
• Subway & street
• Classic New York English

An apartment owned as an individual real-property unit together with a shared interest in the building’s common elements.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun; real-estate term

A New York building structure that combines condominium ownership for part of the property with a cooperative corporation owning another portion, often the residential apartments.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun; real-estate term

To get, obtain, or buy something, as in copping tickets, food, clothing, or another wanted item.

• Plans & social life
• Hip-hop & media
• verb

Fun, enjoyable conversation, social atmosphere, or news about what is happening.

• Greetings
• Social life
• Conversation

Trainers or athletic-style shoes.

• Clothing
• Footwear
• Current London usage

A heavily traveled expressway crossing the Bronx and carrying I-95 traffic between major bridges, highways, and regional routes.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A transfer between trains that stop on opposite sides of the same platform, avoiding stairs or a long walk through the station.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

Across Manhattan or another part of the city from east to west, rather than mainly uptown or downtown.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A person from rural Ireland or from outside Dublin, often framed through a city-versus-country stereotype.

• Regional identity
• Rural Ireland
• Sensitive labels

A cup of tea, or less commonly another hot drink understood from context.

• Food and drink
• Hospitality
• Wider British English

A shrewd, crafty, or politically slippery person who gets results through charm, calculation, or manipulation.

• Politics
• People
• Mild vulgarity

Seriously, truthfully, or completely; also used to show that a person is not joking.

• Intensifiers
• Agreement & confirmation
• adverb; adjective

Excellent, impressive, exciting, or highly enjoyable.

• Praise
• Youth speech
• Music

A formal social event or dance for students near the end of secondary school.

• School
• Youth culture
• Events

An affectionate nickname for a New York street-cart hot dog kept hot in seasoned water before being placed in a soft bun.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

A habitual construction describing what regularly or characteristically happens.

• Grammar
• Habitual action
• Irish-language influence

Dishonest, suspicious, unreliable, unsafe, faulty, or likely to cause problems.

• Warnings
• Reliability
• Wider British English

Phone.

• Rhyming slang
• Cockney heritage
• Communication

A basic New York cheese pizza slice sold through a low-price, high-volume counter model historically centered on a one-dollar price point.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

A small commuter van serving recurring neighborhood routes, especially where riders want an alternative or supplement to buses and subways.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

An apartment building with staff stationed near the entrance to receive visitors, manage access, assist residents, and often accept deliveries.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun phrase

As an adjective, excellent, impressive, stylish, or exciting; as a noun, it can carry several unrelated meanings.

• Reactions & judgment
• Hip-hop & media
• adjective; noun

To stop or leave a vehicle in the traffic lane beside a vehicle already parked at the curb, blocking part of the roadway.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• verb; adjective

Toward the southern or lower-numbered-street direction in Manhattan; it can also refer to Lower Manhattan or other context-specific central areas.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• adverb; adjective; noun

Dull, bleak, wet, or persistently gloomy, especially when describing weather.

• Adjective
• Weather
• Scots

A rejection, refusal, failed plan, or person or situation being dismissed; as a verb, to ignore, turn down, or reject.

• Reactions & judgment
• Plans & social life
• noun; verb

Very or extremely when placed before an adjective, as in dumb nice, dumb far, or dumb expensive.

• Intensifiers
• Reactions & judgment
• adverb; adjective

A Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood name meaning “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass,” situated between and around the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• acronym; neighborhood name

An informal local nickname for Dunkin’, the Massachusetts-founded coffee and doughnut chain.

• Proper Noun
• Brand Nickname
• Everyday Shorthand

A foolish person; a humorous or mildly insulting form of idiot.

• Insults
• Humour
• People

A New York fountain drink traditionally made with milk, flavored syrup, and seltzer, despite containing neither egg nor cream.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

A subway car with noticeably fewer riders than the surrounding cars, often treated by experienced riders as a reason to pause before boarding.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase; local advice

One’s neighbourhood, local area, estate, or home territory.

• Place
• Neighbourhoods
• Current London usage

A premium commuter bus service connecting outer-borough or regional neighborhoods with major Manhattan destinations using fewer stops and longer-distance routing.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A subway train that skips selected local stations to serve a smaller set of major stops more quickly.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

Strong agreement that a statement is true or accurate.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Intensifiers
• interjection; plural noun

To spend time on unnecessary, disorganised, or overcomplicated activity; also the activity itself.

• Effort
• Organisation
• Wider British English

Welcome; an Irish-language word seen in greetings, signs, institutions, and hospitality.

• Irish language
• Greetings
• Hospitality

A close friend, trusted person, or group treated like family.

• Forms of address
• Relationships
• Current London usage

A limited-access roadway along Manhattan’s East Side, commonly shortened in speech and traffic reports to the FDR.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• proper road name

A mild-to-strong exclamation or verb used in place of a more explicit swear word.

• Swearing
• Exclamations
• Sensitive language

A shortened name for Manhattan’s Financial District, usually pronounced like “fye-dye” rather than as separate letters.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• nickname; neighborhood abbreviation

An exterior emergency egress structure attached to some older apartment buildings, usually made of metal platforms, ladders, and stairs.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

In New York streetwear and baseball-cap talk, a fitted is a structured cap sold by exact head size rather than adjusted with a strap or snaps.

• Hip-hop & media
• Classic New York English
• noun; adjective

Five pounds, or a banknote worth five pounds.

• Money
• Prices
• Wider British English

An apartment that occupies an entire building floor or extends from the front of the building to the back.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun; adjective

Stylish, attractive, polished, or impressively put together, especially when evaluating clothing or presentation.

• Reactions & judgment
• Hip-hop & media
• adjective

Buying groceries, a regional expression many New Yorkers use where speakers elsewhere might say grocery shopping.

• Classic New York English
• Food & bodegas
• noun phrase

A New England milkshake made with ice cream, milk, and flavoring.

• Noun
• Food and Drink
• Diner Culture

Pretending, exaggerating, acting tougher or more successful than reality, or presenting an image the speaker believes is false.

• Reactions & judgment
• Hip-hop & media
• Sensitive or insulting

A stylized spelling of forget about it that can dismiss an idea, close a subject, express disbelief, or intensify praise.

• Classic New York English
• Hip-hop & media
• Reactions & judgment

An apartment at or partly below street level, often in a townhouse or brownstone, with direct access to a rear yard or garden.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun phrase

Clothes or garments, especially when discussing style or an outfit.

• Clothing
• Appearance
• Wider British English

Funny, amusing, ridiculous in an entertaining way, or full of comic energy.

• Humour
• People
• Reactions

Very excited, hyped, pleased, or—in some contexts—overconfident.

• Excitement
• Reactions
• Current London usage

A man; sometimes a distinctive, older, confident, or streetwise man.

• People
• Wider British English
• Cockney influence

Complaining, scolding, criticizing, or telling someone off.

• Complaints
• Family
• Work

Mouth; also speech, chatter, or the act of speaking too much.

• Body words
• Insults
• Conversation

A stupid, unpleasant, boastful, or irritating person.

• Insults
• Vulgar language
• People

So surprised or astonished that it is difficult to speak.

• Surprise
• Reactions
• Wider British English

A self-serving, exploitative dealer or local operator; historically linked with usury and unfair profiteering.

• Politics
• History
• Insults

A compact way to thank someone, acknowledge a favor, or show appreciation for useful help.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Friendship & address
• interjection; phrase

A literary nickname for New York City popularized by Washington Irving in the early nineteenth century and later reinforced by noir imagery and Batman.

• Classic New York English
• Hip-hop & media
• Boroughs & neighborhoods

Fine, okay, acceptable, settled, or not worth making a fuss about.

• Responses
• Understatement
• Conversation

The Long Island Rail Road terminal and concourse built beneath the Grand Central complex in Midtown Manhattan.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

The landmark Midtown Manhattan terminal used primarily by Metro-North Railroad and connected to subway service.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A square or rectangular slice of relatively thin, crisp pan pizza associated with New York and Long Island Italian-American cooking.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A green-painted borough taxi authorized for street hails in northern Manhattan and the outer boroughs, with specific pickup restrictions.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

Severe traffic congestion in which vehicles block one another and movement becomes extremely slow or stops.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

To question someone intensely, scrutinize them, or stare at them in a challenging way.

• Reactions & judgment
• Sensitive or insulting
• verb; noun

A long filled sandwich similar to a sub, hoagie, or hero; usage is stronger in some parts of New England than in Boston itself.

• Noun
• Food and Drink
• Regional Divide

Extremely disappointed, upset, or emotionally crushed by an outcome.

• Disappointment
• Reactions
• Wider British English

Common shorthand for the George Washington Bridge, the Hudson River crossing between Upper Manhattan and Fort Lee, New Jersey.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A street-food cart serving food prepared to meet halal requirements, often including rice platters, gyros, and sandwiches.

• Food & bodegas
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun phrase

Have a look.

• Rhyming slang
• Cockney heritage
• Requests

A limited-equity cooperative organized through a Housing Development Fund Corporation, often with income, resale, occupancy, or governance restrictions.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun phrase

Understood, acknowledged, or message received.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Subway & street
• interjection

Big, muscular, strong-looking, and well built, usually as the apparent result of exercise.

• Appearance
• Strength
• Wider British English

A long sandwich made on a split roll, the common New York label for what other regions may call a sub, hoagie, or grinder.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

A historic New Jersey transportation hub connecting NJ Transit rail, PATH, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, buses, and ferry services.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

The Hudson River vehicular tunnel connecting Jersey City, New Jersey, with Lower Manhattan.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A competitive application process used for certain income-restricted or affordable housing opportunities in New York City.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun phrase

How are things going, how is the work progressing, or how is life treating you?

• Greetings
• Rural Ireland
• Work

Often a sarcastic refusal meaning that the speaker probably will not do the requested thing.

• Sarcasm
• Responses
• Intonation

Exceptionally good, skillful, striking, or impressive in a positive slang use; ordinarily, ill can still mean sick or harmful.

• Hip-hop & media
• Reactions & judgment
• adjective

A tag meaning roughly “isn’t it?”, “right?”, or adding emphasis.

• Grammar tags
• Everyday speech
• Current London usage

Good, pleasant, peaceful, or in a positive state of mind.

• Adjective
• Positive
• Jamaican Patois

A hero sandwich typically layered with Italian-style cured meats, cheese, vegetables, and an oil-and-vinegar-style dressing on a long roll.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods

A smooth frozen dessert made mainly from water, sugar, and fruit flavoring, commonly sold from neighborhood shops, carts, pizzerias, and seasonal stands.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• Plans & social life

A Dubliner, often used from outside Dublin with a teasing or hostile regional stereotype.

• Regional identity
• Dublin
• Sensitive labels

Supporting, believing, claiming, or approving something; in the negative, refusing to endorse or accept it.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Reactions & judgment
• Hip-hop & media

A major Long Island Rail Road transfer hub in Queens with connections to AirTrain JFK and nearby subway service.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

New Jersey, commonly shortened in New York and Tri-State conversation when the state is already clear from context.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• place noun

Tiny candy sprinkles placed on ice cream, doughnuts, and other desserts; some speakers use the word especially for chocolate sprinkles.

• Plural Noun
• Food and Drink
• Regional Vocabulary

A New York nickname for a fire hydrant, especially in neighborhood memories and summer conversations about cooling off in hydrant spray.

• Classic New York English
• Subway & street
• noun; regional nickname

Very funny, entertaining, enjoyable, or—in some uses—simply very good.

• Humour
• Praise
• Current London usage

A New York apartment layout with three principal rooms plus a smaller fourth area, often used as a dining room, office, nursery, or compact bedroom.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun; real-estate term

A familiar way to address or refer to a friend, peer, acquaintance, or other person, regardless of actual age.

• Noun
• Familiar Address
• Neighborhood Speech

Very tired, worn out, or exhausted.

• Exhaustion
• Informal speech
• Sensitive language

Extremely tired; also broken, worn out, or too old to use.

• Tiredness
• Condition
• Wider British English

A baked or fried pastry filled most famously with seasoned potato, though other savory fillings are also used.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

To complain repeatedly or habitually; also a complaint or a person known for persistent complaining.

• Reactions & judgment
• Classic New York English
• verb; noun

To rain heavily, move quickly, strike, pour generously, or proceed with energetic force.

• Weather
• Actions
• Travel

Extremely attractive, impressive, or exceptionally good.

• Praise
• Appearance
• Current London usage

The standard local initialism for Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood, pronounced as separate letters.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Plans & social life
• initialism; place label

The common abbreviation for the Long Island Expressway, the I-495 corridor connecting Queens with communities across Long Island.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• proper abbreviation

A deli, bodega, diner, or coffee-cart order asking for coffee with a generous amount of milk or cream and sugar.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• ordering phrase; adjective phrase

Little or small; also heard in familiar expressions such as “likkle more,” meaning see you later.

• Adjective
• Jamaican Patois
• Everyday Speech

A bus service that skips selected local stops to provide faster travel along part or all of a route.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

The Hudson River vehicular tunnel connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, with Midtown Manhattan.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

To meet, join, or connect with someone, usually by arrangement.

• Plans
• Groups
• Current London usage

The common abbreviation for the Long Island Rail Road, the MTA commuter railroad serving Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan terminals.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A for-hire vehicle connected to a licensed car-service base and generally arranged in advance rather than hailed like a yellow taxi.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

A subway train that stops at the local stations along its route rather than skipping them for faster service.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

Time-consuming, tedious, annoying, difficult, or not worth the effort required.

• Effort
• Reactions
• Current London usage

A toilet, or the room containing a toilet.

• Home and daily life
• Travel basics
• Wider British English

Salt-cured salmon traditionally served in thin slices, especially with bagels, cream cheese, onions, tomatoes, capers, or other appetizing-store foods.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

Very, extremely, or a lot of; in other contexts it can still mean angry.

• Intensifiers
• Reactions & judgment
• adverb; adjective

A pronoun-like form that can refer to the speaker or another person; in some MLE contexts, “man” means “I” or “me”.

• Pronouns
• Grammar tags
• Current London usage

A group of close male friends or associates; one’s crew.

• Groups
• Relationships
• Current London usage

A transit direction label indicating that a train or bus is traveling toward Manhattan or farther into Manhattan from another borough.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A twice-yearly visual effect in which the setting sun aligns closely with Manhattan’s east-west street grid and appears framed by buildings.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• Plans & social life

A coarse insult or self-deprecating nickname for a Massachusetts resident, often associated with aggressive driving, blunt behavior, or exaggerated state pride.

• Noun
• Coarse Slang
• Identity Label

A friend or a common informal way to address someone.

• Forms of address
• Wider British English
• Noun / address term

A chicken-based soup served with dumplings made primarily from matzo meal, eggs, fat, and seasonings.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A person regarded as decent, honorable, responsible, and trustworthy.

• Reactions & judgment
• Classic New York English
• noun

Groceries, shopping, or small errands to be collected.

• Shopping
• Home
• Family

The MTA commuter railroad linking New York City with communities north of the city and into Connecticut, with additional west-of-Hudson service.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

The magnetic-stripe fare card introduced for New York City subways and buses in the 1990s and long associated with swiping through a turnstile.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• proper noun; fare card

A soft drink or fizzy drink, especially in older, regional, or hospitality-related usage.

• Food and drink
• Regional vocabulary
• Hospitality

A New York affordable-housing program providing regulated rental and cooperative opportunities for qualifying moderate- and middle-income households.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• proper program name

Extremely embarrassed; shortened from mortified.

• Embarrassment
• Youth speech
• Social media

The modern train hall in the Farley building across Eighth Avenue from the older Penn Station concourses.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A foolish, gullible, or easily deceived person; also an informal word for a face.

• People
• Negative judgement
• Wider British English

To make someone look foolish, disrespect them, deceive them, or take advantage of them.

• Deception
• Disrespect
• Wider British English

An informal apology that accepts responsibility for a mistake, interruption, collision, or misunderstanding.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Subway & street
• interjection; phrase

A compressed form of you know what I mean, used to check understanding or maintain conversational rhythm.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Hip-hop & media
• Friendship & address

A person born in New York City or, in some uses, someone born and raised in the city or state of New York.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Sensitive or insulting
• noun phrase

An extremely short amount of time, suggesting that decisions, reactions, and daily life move unusually fast in New York.

• Classic New York English
• Reactions & judgment
• idiom; noun phrase

A major Newark, New Jersey rail hub served by NJ Transit, Amtrak, PATH, and Newark light rail connections.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

New Jersey’s statewide public-transportation provider for commuter rail, bus, and light-rail services.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A curb restriction that prohibits leaving a vehicle parked but still allows brief stops to pick up or drop off passengers and to load or unload property, unless another rule applies.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• regulatory phrase

A curb restriction that prohibits waiting and loading or unloading property but allows a brief stop to pick up or drop off passengers, unless another rule applies.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• regulatory phrase

The most restrictive common curb rule, prohibiting waiting, passenger pickup or drop-off, and loading or unloading property during the posted time.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• regulatory phrase

A Manhattan neighborhood name formed from “North of Houston Street,” located near Greenwich Village, the East Village, and SoHo.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• proper nickname; neighborhood name

A downtown Manhattan neighborhood label meaning “North of Little Italy,” generally used for blocks between SoHo, NoHo, the Lower East Side, and Little Italy.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• proper nickname; neighborhood name

A snack, light meal, or the act of eating something casually.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun; verb

A phrase used before an opinion, warning, or criticism to signal that the point has a reason behind it.

• Classic New York English
• Reactions & judgment
• discourse phrase

New York counter shorthand for Nova-style salmon, a cured and cold-smoked salmon commonly served with bagels and cream cheese.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun; food shorthand

Very soon, after a brief delay, or once the current task is finished.

• Time
• Plans
• Conversation

A term for Puerto Rican identity and culture shaped in New York, especially through migration, community life, literature, music, performance, and political expression.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Hip-hop & media
• Sensitive or insulting

The city-sponsored passenger ferry network connecting waterfront landings in several New York City boroughs.

• Subway & street
• Plans & social life
• proper noun; service name

Excessive, extremely, or doing too much; the exact grammar changes with the sentence.

• Intensifiers
• Reactions & judgment
• Sensitive or insulting

New York’s contactless fare-payment system for tapping into subways and buses with an OMNY card, bank card, phone, or compatible device.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• proper noun; transit-payment system

Waiting in a queue; a well-known New York regional alternative to in line.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• prepositional phrase

A recognized transit connection that requires leaving one fare-controlled station area and entering another separate station.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A collective Manhattan-centered label for Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase; adjective

An informal New England shortening of “package store,” meaning a liquor store.

• Noun
• Local Commerce
• New England

The elevated main entertaining floor of a townhouse or brownstone, typically reached by the front stoop and known for higher ceilings and formal rooms.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun phrase

A classic Jewish deli sandwich of sliced, seasoned, cured, and smoked pastrami served on rye bread, commonly with mustard.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

The Port Authority Trans-Hudson rapid-transit railroad linking Manhattan with Jersey City, Hoboken, Harrison, and Newark.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

Bad, unfortunate, harsh, embarrassing, or unfair.

• Reactions
• Negative judgement
• Current London usage

Highly attractive, exceptionally good, or especially appealing.

• Praise
• Appearance
• Current London usage

New York’s major Midtown rail complex serving Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit, and connecting subway lines.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A whole pizza, especially when contrasted with ordering one or more individual slices.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

A small or secondary city residence kept for occasional use rather than as the owner’s full-time primary home.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

A person, event, or thing that is especially funny, impressive, memorable, or frustrating; tone and context determine the direction.

• Noun
• Context-Dependent
• Potentially Coarse

To show up, make an appearance, or come outside for an event, gathering, confrontation, or social moment.

• Plans & social life
• Hip-hop & media
• phrasal verb

The major Midtown Manhattan bus terminal serving many New Jersey commuter routes and intercity bus services.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

A cupboard, cabinet, or enclosed storage space.

• Home
• Household
• Nouns

In New York real estate, a building constructed before World War II, often discussed through its age, layout, materials, and architectural details.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• adjective; noun

Really, completely, or genuinely; also correct or high quality.

• Intensity
• Approval
• Wider British English

A bicycle lane separated from moving motor traffic by parking, barriers, islands, posts, or another physical buffer.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A small, inexpensive, brightly colored sweet drink sold in plastic barrel-shaped bottles and remembered as a neighborhood-store childhood staple.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods

A transit direction label indicating that a train or bus is traveling toward Queens or farther into Queens.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

The East River bridge connecting Long Island City, Queens, with Manhattan near East 59th Street.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

One British pound, used as an informal unit of money.

• Money
• Prices
• Wider British English

A long, narrow apartment whose rooms connect in a line, often requiring passage through one room to reach the next.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A small layered Italian-American almond cake confection, usually colored red, white or yellow, and green, joined with jam and coated in chocolate.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• Plans & social life

In traditional New York deli and coffee-cart ordering, brewed coffee prepared with milk or cream and sugar rather than served black.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

Subject to New York’s rent-control system, a regulated tenancy category with strict historical occupancy and building requirements.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• adjective

Covered by New York rent-stabilization rules that regulate leases, rent increases, and specific tenant protections.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• adjective

The aerial tramway connecting Roosevelt Island with Manhattan near East 59th Street and Second Avenue.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Plans & social life

A circular road junction, commonly called a traffic circle or roundabout elsewhere.

• Noun
• Transportation
• Regional Navigation

A noisy or serious argument; as a verb, to argue angrily.

• Arguments
• Relationships
• Wider British English

The busiest commuting period, especially weekday mornings and late afternoons or evenings when transit and roads carry heavy peak-direction demand.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

Good, okay, trustworthy, thanks, or an informal greeting or farewell.

• Greetings
• Approval
• Current London usage

A compact bodega-order phrase requesting salt, black pepper, and ketchup, especially on an egg-and-cheese breakfast sandwich.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• condiment phrase

I understand; no further explanation is needed; consider it handled.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Plans & social life
• phrase; interjection

A temporary elevated framework or platform used to support workers, tools, or materials while construction, repair, or façade work is performed.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

Extremely embarrassed, ashamed, or red-faced about something.

• Embarrassment
• Reactions
• Youth speech

To carry or drag something awkwardly, or to make a tiring, inconvenient trip.

• Classic New York English
• Subway & street
• verb; noun

A spread or layer of cream cheese on a bagel; it can also mean a spreadable topping more generally.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

An insulting slang term for a foolish, unlikeable, inconsiderate, or contemptible person.

• Sensitive or insulting
• Reactions & judgment
• Classic New York English

To sweat heavily; as a noun, it can also refer to a steam bath or sauna-like session.

• Classic New York English
• Weather
• Subway & street

A major NJ Transit transfer station in New Jersey where several rail lines connect with trains serving Penn Station New York.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

An MTA bus-service category, commonly shortened to SBS, designed around faster boarding, bus-lane treatments, wider stop spacing, and other route improvements.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• proper service name; noun phrase

Plain carbonated water, historically delivered in pressurized siphon bottles and deeply associated with New York Jewish food, soda-fountain, and home-delivery traditions.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

A temporary alteration to a subway, bus, or rail route, schedule, stop pattern, platform, or operating plan.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A familiar term for a girl or woman, sometimes a romantic interest; in other contexts it can address a younger person or close peer.

• Friendship & address
• Sensitive or insulting
• Hip-hop & media

A call used by some subway performers to announce an acrobatic dance routine inside a train car, especially routines involving poles, flips, and coordinated movement.

• Subway & street
• Hip-hop & media
• Plans & social life

A bus used to replace, connect, or supplement train service when part of a subway or rail route is unavailable.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

A thick, pan-baked square pizza slice with an airy bread-like crust, widely sold in New York neighborhood pizzerias.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A temporary protective structure built over a sidewalk to shield pedestrians and property from overhead hazards during construction, demolition, or façade work.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A broad subway-delay explanation referring to trouble with equipment that detects, separates, routes, or controls train movement.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• plural noun phrase; service explanation

Having little or no money, especially temporarily.

• Money
• Everyday speech
• Wider British English

Health; commonly used as a toast meaning roughly “to your health” or “cheers.”

• Irish language
• Toasts
• Hospitality

Safe or well; widely used in Irish farewell expressions.

• Irish language
• Farewells
• Travel

A sly, untrustworthy, smooth-talking, or underhand person.

• Insults
• Politics
• People

One portion of a pizza, commonly ordered by itself at a New York pizzeria rather than by naming the whole pie.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

To kiss someone passionately for a period of time; also an instance of doing so.

• Dating
• Relationships
• Wider British English

The Manhattan neighborhood name formed from “South of Houston Street,” associated with cast-iron buildings, loft history, shopping, galleries, and mixed uses.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• proper nickname; neighborhood name

A familiar way to address another person, often a male friend or peer, without literally meaning one’s child.

• Friendship & address
• Hip-hop & media
• noun; form of address

Organised, repaired, arranged, supplied, or successfully dealt with.

• Plans
• Organisation
• Wider British English

Good, decent, trustworthy, kind, or agreeable.

• Praise
• People
• Responses

Good, trustworthy, friendly, acceptable, or okay.

• Approval
• Reliability
• Wider British English

A flexible Brooklyn regional label whose historic meaning near the old City of Brooklyn differs from modern uses for neighborhoods farther south.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• proper place phrase

An object placed in a shoveled-out curbside parking spot after a declared snow emergency to mark that a resident intends to return, where City rules allow it.

• Noun
• Snow
• Parking Culture

An Irish takeaway dish typically combining chips, seasoned fried chicken, vegetables, chilli, and spice mix.

• Food and drink
• Dublin
• Takeaway culture

An older or neighborhood-specific Boston term for a sub-style sandwich, an Italian sandwich, or in some families the long bread roll used to make one.

• Noun
• Food and Drink
• Contested Usage

The familiar New York subway warning telling riders to move away from train doors before they close.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• announcement; fixed phrase

The city-operated passenger ferry route between Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan and St. George Terminal on Staten Island.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

The entrance steps and small platform outside a house or apartment building, often treated as a neighborhood social space.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• noun

A small secondhand sale arranged on a building’s front steps, sidewalk edge, courtyard entrance, or immediately outside a city residence.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Plans & social life
• Classic New York English

Describes a truck that strikes or becomes wedged beneath a low bridge, especially after entering Boston’s Storrow Drive despite height restrictions.

• Verb
• Transportation
• Boston-Specific

A public-transit passenger, especially a regular subway or bus rider who may have to stand.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

The building superintendent or resident maintenance worker who handles repairs, building systems, cleaning, access, and day-to-day property issues.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

A flexible phrase that acknowledges reality, softens a conclusion, or signals that little more can be done.

• Discourse markers
• Understatement
• Conversation

To enter the subway by using a fare card at a turnstile; historically, it can also mean using a MetroCard to admit another rider.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• phrasal verb

Mocking someone, making them look silly, or behaving as though a situation is not being taken seriously.

• Teasing
• Reactions
• Wider British English

A multi-family rental building, especially one associated with the crowded working-class housing developed during New York’s nineteenth- and early twentieth-century growth.

• Classic New York English
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• noun

Ten pounds, or a banknote worth ten pounds.

• Money
• Prices
• Wider British English

Often Manhattan, especially when spoken by people in another borough or the surrounding metro area; in other contexts it can mean New York City as a whole.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Subway & street
• place noun phrase

A famous nickname presenting New York City as active around the clock, with nightlife, transportation, work, food, and entertainment continuing late into the night.

• Classic New York English
• Plans & social life
• Hip-hop & media

The five major administrative and geographic divisions of New York City: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• plural noun phrase

A viral request for an unusually elaborate, customized bodega or deli preparation associated with social-video sandwich content.

• Food & bodegas
• Hip-hop & media
• Sensitive or insulting

The Massachusetts Turnpike, the east–west toll highway that forms part of Interstate 90.

• Proper Noun
• Transportation
• Local Shorthand

The communities on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, often discussed collectively in relation to beaches, neighborhoods, transit, and coastal life.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Subway & street
• Plans & social life

The common local nickname for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and especially its subway and light-rail system.

• Proper Noun
• Public Transit
• Local Shorthand

New York City or one’s familiar part of the city, used as a local place label whose exact boundary depends on the speaker.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Hip-hop & media
• place noun phrase

The subway system or a particular subway service, referred to in ordinary conversation simply as the train.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase

A common New York shorthand for Greenwich Village, the Manhattan neighborhood centered around Washington Square and nearby downtown streets.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• proper nickname

The New York State Thruway, or more generally a major limited-access road identified by that regional name.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

Upset, annoyed, or bothered; elsewhere it can also mean close, secure, or excellent.

• Reactions & judgment
• Sensitive or insulting
• adjective

A common nickname for Timberland boots, especially the rugged six-inch styles strongly associated with New York hip-hop and winter street fashion.

• Hip-hop & media
• Classic New York English
• plural noun; nickname

A thing or person; in some contexts, a romantic interest, attractive woman, partner, or casual connection.

• People
• Relationships
• Jamaican influence

A sweet carbonated soft drink; broadly equivalent to soda or pop in this older regional usage.

• Noun
• Food and Drink
• Historical Slang

A long-time local resident strongly identified with a particular town or Boston-area neighborhood.

• Noun
• Local Identity
• Neighborhood

A transit explanation indicating that trains are closely spaced, queued, or moving slowly because other trains occupy the line ahead.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun phrase; service explanation

A person who moved to New York from another city, state, or country rather than growing up locally.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Sensitive or insulting
• noun

A Lower Manhattan neighborhood name historically formed from “Triangle Below Canal Street,” now normally written as Tribeca.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• proper nickname; neighborhood name

Wife.

• Rhyming slang
• Cockney heritage
• Relationships

A common written and spoken abbreviation for Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Subway & street
• initialism; place label

The part of New York State north of the speaker’s downstate reference point, with a boundary that New Yorkers famously disagree about.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• adverb; adjective; noun

Toward the northern or higher-numbered-street direction in Manhattan; it can also name particular northern areas depending on context.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• adverb; adjective; noun

A common written and spoken abbreviation for Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Subway & street
• initialism; place label

Good, acceptable, impressive, legitimate, or worth approving.

• Reactions & judgment
• Plans & social life
• adjective

The suspension bridge connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island across the Narrows.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English

Bad, low-quality, unappealing, unfair, or lacking skill, depending on what the speaker is judging.

• Reactions & judgment
• Hip-hop & media
• adjective

What’s going on?; what’s happening?; an informal greeting similar to “what’s up?”.

• Greetings
• Jamaican influence
• Current London usage

An apartment or building above street level that has no elevator, requiring residents and visitors to use the stairs.

• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• Classic New York English
• noun; adjective

We are leaving, we are finished here, or the group is moving on to the next place.

• Plans & social life
• Agreement & confirmation
• phrase; interjection

Small or little. It can also make a request or description sound more familiar or affectionate.

• Adjective
• Scots
• Common Usage

The common name for Manhattan’s major north–south roadway along the Hudson River side, including Route 9A segments.

• Subway & street
• Boroughs & neighborhoods
• proper road name

How are you?; what is happening?; what are your plans?

• Greetings
• Questions
• Current London usage

What is happening, how are you, or what is the latest news or plan?

• Greetings
• Questions
• Dublin speech

A creamy spread made from smoked whitefish mixed with mayonnaise or similar binders and seasonings, often served on a bagel or bread.

• Food & bodegas
• Classic New York English
• noun

An adverbial intensifier meaning “very” or “extremely.” In Boston and wider New England speech, it commonly appears before an adjective or adverb.

• Adverb
• Intensifier
• Everyday Slang

Behaving excessively, recklessly, dramatically, or far outside what the speaker considers reasonable.

• Reactions & judgment
• Hip-hop & media
• verb; adjective-like participle

Really, understood, agreed, or that is true, depending on tone.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Hip-hop & media
• interjection

A forceful statement that what follows is true or serious, often completed with a person or relationship important to the speaker.

• Agreement & confirmation
• Intensifiers
• Hip-hop & media

A medallion taxi recognizable by its yellow color and authorized to accept street hails throughout New York City.

• Subway & street
• Classic New York English
• noun

That man being referred to, whether or not the listener knows his name.

• People
• Reference expressions
• Conversation

That woman being referred to, whether or not the listener knows her name.

• People
• Reference expressions
• Conversation

A loud greeting, attention call, or energetic acknowledgment.

• Greetings & call-outs
• Friendship & address
• interjection; greeting

A thing, object, device, or person whose exact name is unknown, forgotten, or unnecessary.

• Objects
• Placeholder words
• Conversation

A flexible check-in that can ask whether someone is okay, finished, supplied, or ready to end an interaction.

• Greetings & call-outs
• Agreement & confirmation
• Friendship & address

A young person, or young people collectively; sometimes used before another noun in phrases about youth culture.

• People
• Jamaican influence
• Current London usage

Italian fried dough pastries, commonly served warm and dusted heavily with powdered sugar.

• Food & bodegas
• Plans & social life
• Classic New York English