Wexit

Blend of west + exit. Modeled on Brexit and Grexit.

Coordinate term: Quexit

It's impressive that Jay Hill, the former Reform and Tory MP and former cabinet member, was at this weekend's "Wexit" (Western exit) conference in Calgary.

2019 August 12, Lorne Gunter, “Alberta separatism at this point a non-viable movement”, in Edmonton Sun:

The Alberta government has issued pointed criticism at a Toronto tech company that chose Halifax over Calgary over converns about provincial tax policy and Wexit.

2019 December 11, Zane Schwartz, “Alberta government critical of Wattpad's concerns”, in Calgary Herald:

The poll found that 74 per cent of Albertans had heard of the "Wexit" movement and that number rose to 86 per cent when the term was explained to the respondent.

2020 February 13, Stuart Thomson, “Nearly 80 per cent of Albertans think the country is in the midst of a unity crisis: poll”, in Windsor Star:

(Canada, politics) The secession of the provinces of Western Canada, particularly Alberta, from Canada (generally excludes British Columbia).


Quexit

Blend of Quebec + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.

But a Quexit's threat to Canada would be existential, in itself.

2016 June 29, Andrew Coyne, “Brexit no model for Quexit”, in National Post:

Britain is living out the nightmare we Canadians dodged. We spent decades debating our country’s future, but somehow avoided Quexit.

2017 July 1, Josh Freed, “Oh Canada, let's show some national pride”, in Montreal Gazette:

Separatism is in again, Quexit edition: In recent years the Parti Quebecois has downplayed separatist messaging but after the Bloc’s big federal election win the PQ is getting back to its independence roots.

2019 November 11, Jason Kirby, “Alberta likes what Quebec's been cooking on the independence front”, in Macleans:

(Canada, politics) The secession of the province of Quebec from Canada.


Canado-American

Canado-American central districts have, to a large extent, been built after the advent of motorized transportation.

2019, Urban World History: An Economic and Geographical Perspective, Luc-Normand Tellier, →ISBN, page 382:

Following an Canado-American agreement, the CFS Mont-Apica changed vocation in 1958 to join to the air defence of North America (N.O.R.A.D.).

2016; H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 8 on Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community, H-Diplo, Roundtable Review, Volume XVIII, No. 8 (2016); 31 October 2016

The question as to whether the Anglo-American (and Canado-American) alliance delayed by the diasporas’ activism is an issue only if we assume that a security community leads necessarily to an alliance between its members -- otherwise, there is no reason to expect the U.S. and the British Empire to have allied before the First World War, and therefore to conclude that this ‘delay’ was caused by diasporas’ activism.

2012; Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry: 08-01-39708; Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (Government of Canada)

The Canado-American Association handled the situation in New Hampshire.

2004, Franco-Americans of New England: Dreams and Realities, Yves Roby, →ISBN, page 228:

The three markets concerned include Québec, the Canado-American market and the foreign countries market.

2000; 2000-2005 Tourism Marketing Strategy; Tourism Québec (Government of Québec); page 38

United States of America
United States of America

(Canada) Pertaining to the United States of America and Canada


rag on

en-verb

rag on (third-person singular simple present rags on, present participle ragging on, simple past and past participle ragged on)

rags on (present singular third-person)
ragging on (participle present)
ragged on (participle past)
ragged on (past)

Spencer knew his second homer—a two-run drive in the Yankee’s five-run eighth—was gone well before it landed in the second deck in left field.[…] “They were ragging on me because the first one was close,” Spencer said.

1998, Rafael Hermoso, “Spencer leads subs’ assault”, in New York Daily News, editor, Yankees ’98: Best Ever, →ISBN, page 93:

They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:

From back at the mill came the sounds of men laughing and joking about how dumb Joe Reese had been. ¶ Their humor disgusted him. Reese had been careless, and it had cost him his life. There wasn’t any call for them to rag on him now.

2013, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Yellowstone Scoundrel:

(chiefly US, Canada, transitive) To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).


code silver

en-noun

code silver (countable and uncountable, plural code silvers)

(Canada, US, medicine) The condition when a weapon is seen and law enforcement are to be contacted.

code black • code blue • code brown • code grey • code orange • code pink • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow


bust one's hump

en-verb

bust one's hump (third-person singular simple present busts one's hump, present participle busting one's hump, simple past and past participle busted one's hump or bust one's hump)

busts one's hump (present singular third-person)
busting one's hump (participle present)
busted one's hump (participle past)
busted one's hump (past)
bust one's hump (participle past)
bust one's hump (past)

That poor guy is already busting his hump, learning his job, working sixteen or eighteen hours a day for some fruitloop who throws pens when he gets mad.

2005, Jacey Eckhart, The Homefront Club:

(Canada, US, slang) To work very hard; to put in strenuous effort.


city limit

(especially Canada, US, in the plural) The boundaries of a city.


suck butt

suck butt (third-person singular simple present sucks butt, present participle sucking butt, simple past and past participle sucked butt)

sucks butt (present singular third-person)
sucking butt (participle present)
sucked butt (participle past)
sucked butt (past)

(Canada, US, stative, vulgar, slang) To be terrible; be of extremely poor quality.


no tickee, no washee

A phrase stereotypically attributed to Chinese laundry workers in centuries past, who would only return a customer's washing when the ticket (receipt) was presented.

Dr. Weiss said that what he had said was, "No grant, no research, no tickee, no washee."

1974, New York (State). Office of Employee Relations, Grievance and Disciplinary Arbitrations (volume 2, page 118)

'I don't need money. I need information.'
'And if I don't proffer this information you'll take your business elsewhere?' Buzz nodded toward the tram car. 'No tickee, no washee. […]

1999, James Ellroy, The Dudley Smith Trio, page 191:

It was really important to keep the slip of paper, given as a receipt because No tickee, no washee!

2002, Barbara Ann Lambert, Rusty Nails & Ration Books, page 326:

(Canada, US, slang) Something is not to be had without an exchange; there will be no deal without the required consideration or recompense.


pussy tickler

From pussy + tickler. A reference to cunnilingus.


apple-knocker

From apple + knocker, suggesting a person who knocks apples from the trees to harvest them.


English toffee

(Canada, US) A kind of buttery toffee, either chewy or hard, often made with almonds.


garbage pail

(Canada, US) Synonym of garbage can (“waste receptacle”)


on the block

go on the block

put on the block

(chiefly US and Canada) Available or for sale at an auction.


rug ranking

An allusion to the carpets in the offices of prestigious officials.

But it was found during the course of this study that many middle-sized and small corporations had never heard of rug-ranking (while practicing it) or were convinced that it was strictly a Public Service concern.

1977, Louise Dulude, The status of women in Federal crown corporations, page 20:

It created an impression among staff members that they were not trusted. In assigning individual offices, “rug-ranking” was fairly obvious.

1999, Barbara Wake Carroll, David Siegel, Service in the Field: The World of Front-line Public Servants, Canada: Institute of Public Administration, page 114:

(Canada, colloquial) The practice of setting a secretary's pay in proportion to the status of the person the secretary works for.


(Canada, physical fitness) Initialism of Five Basic Exercises. (A popular mid-20th-century exercise regime in Canada.)


XBX

(Canada, physical fitness) Initialism of Ten Basic Exercises. (A popular mid-20th-century exercise regime in Canada.)


Irving the Explainer

(Canada, US, film, informal) Any character who serves to provide exposition, such as explaining how an elaborate murder was committed, sparing the writers from having to convey it indirectly.


pissedness

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, colloquial) Drunkenness.

(US, Canada, mildly vulgar, colloquial) Annoyance; anger.


laneway house

(Canada) A detached secondary suite typically built into a pre-existing lot, usually in the backyard and opening onto the back lane.


in back

We were sitting in back.


X station

From the initial letter X of Mexican radio stations' call signs.

Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […] That same year, the Mexican government revised its radio licensing law, drastically reducing the X stations' autonomy.

2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:

X-station broadcasts could be heard occasionally in every region of the United States and in Canada, though it is difficult to know who listened to them.

2015, Bill C. Malone, David Stricklin, Southern Music/American Music, page 73:

(Canada, US) A Mexican broadcast station whose signal overpowers those of stations in the United States.


living tree doctrine

(Canada, law) A doctrine of constitutional interpretation according to which the constitution must be read in a broad and progressive way so as to adapt it to the changing times.


Luba

From Slavic
* (English-language female given name found in Canada): From Ukrainian Люба (Ljuba)

sense

(Canada) A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].


Trépanier

Trépaniers (plural)
Trepanier (alternative)


star-sixty-nine (alternative)
star sixty-nine (alternative)
star 69 (alternative)

(US, Canada, telephony) The telephone number used for last-call return services.


en-verb

*69 (third-person singular simple present *69s, present participle *69ing, simple past and past participle *69ed)

(Canada, US, telephony, transitive, intransitive) To use the last-call return service


wait staff

en-noun

wait staff (usually uncountable, plural wait staffs)

(US, Canada) Alternative form of waitstaff.


take ten

en-verb

take ten (third-person singular simple present takes ten, present participle taking ten, simple past took ten, past participle taken ten)

takes ten (present singular third-person)
taking ten (participle present)
took ten (past)
taken ten (participle past)

(US, Canada, informal) To take a short, typically ten-minute, break from some activity.


bust one's neck

bust one's neck (third-person singular simple present busts one's neck, present participle busting one's neck, simple past and past participle busted one's neck or bust one's neck)

busts one's neck (present singular third-person)
busting one's neck (participle present)
busted one's neck (participle past)
busted one's neck (past)
bust one's neck (participle past)
bust one's neck (past)

Liz, I busted my neck getting you those votes!

(slang, Canada, US) To work exceptionally hard.


CRA

Canada Revenue Agency
Canada Revenue Agency#English

(Canada, finance) Initialism of Canada Revenue Agency. The national taxation authority in Canada


star 69

star 69 (third-person singular simple present star 69s, present participle star 69ing, simple past and past participle star 69ed)

star 69s (present singular third-person)
star 69ing (participle present)
star 69ed (participle past)
star 69ed (past)

He rushed to the phone to star 69 before anyone else called.

(US, Canada) To press the keys *69 in succession on the keypad of a telephone, usually after a missed call, which results in a last-call return by automatically dialling the telephone number of the last caller.


Macdonaldism

From Macdonald + -ism, from Donald Stovel Macdonald, the chair of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (the Macdonald Commission).

The second development revolved around the growth of a radical alternative to Macdonaldism.

1994, Neville Kirk, Labour and Society in Britain and the USA, page 75:

And over and above this blatant injustice, through an ever-expanding global network the dehumanizing consequences of a certain uniform model of culture (call it cultural Macdonaldism) are spreading to the whole of the planet and eroding away the original local cultures.

2004, Luiz Carlos Susin, Jon Sobrino, Felix Wilfred, A different world is possible, page 71:

And since 1993, the Liberals have practiced “Macdonaldism” with a vengeance.

2015, Richard Roman, Edur Velasco Arregui, Mel Watkins, Continental Crucible, page 27:

(chiefly Canada) The policies recommended by the Macdonald Commission, especially the neoliberal economic policies and emphasis on free trade.

Donald Stovel Macdonald
Macdonald Commission


leadhand

The Conservation sub-committee of the LMPC at Canadian Car & Foundry Limited's automotive division, Fort William, Ont., is holding a series of meetings with foremen and leadhands in a campaign to reduce waste and conserve tools.

1951, The Labour Gazette, Canada Department of Labour, page 671:

To make this clear, let us assume that the leadhand premium is 25 cents per hour. The issue is whether the leadhand gets this sum for each hour worked, including each overtime hour, or whether he is to receive time and one-half the hourly wage rate for overtime increased by the 25 cents per hour premium.

1979, John P. Sanderson, The art of collective bargaining, page 116:

He takes up twice as much of your time as both the other leadhands, and he really does need the help.

1996, Raymond L. Hilgert, Cases and Experiential Exercises in Human Resource Management:


biballs

There was a naked, uncomplicated honesty in what he said as he stood there talking with his hands jammed deep into the pockets of his biballs that was impossible not to believe.

(US, Canada, informal) Loose-fitting pants (trousers) with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.


does a bear poop in the woods

does a bear shit in the woods?
does a bear shit in the woods#English

(Canada, US, euphemistic, rhetorical question) Synonym of does a bear shit in the woods?


MIS-C

multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children#English

(pathology, Canada, US) Initialism of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.

PMIS

pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome

post-infectious inflammatory response syndrome


napkin math

Based on my napkin math—and keep in mind I am terrible at math—if you made every conscious choice to do right, your highest potential “life grade” is a D once your bad habits are subtracted.

2018, Levi Lusko, I Declare War: Four Keys to Winning the Battle with Yourself, page 124:

(Canada, US) The act of performing quick mathematics often as a means of estimation, as if done on the back of a napkin (or in one's head).


scante

methamphetamine hydrochloride
methamphetamine hydrochloride

(Canada, US, slang) The drug methamphetamine hydrochloride, crystal meth.


confessing Sam

The first potentially believable confessing Sam, Daniel Voorhees, arrived at police headquarters on the same day as the second note from The Avenger. During an interview with LAPD Consulting Psychiatrist Dr. Paul De River, Voorhess ^([sic]) claimed that he "couldn't stand [keeping such a dark secret] any longer." The police knew that Voorhees was not The Avenger […]

2017, Jon Lewis, Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, page 27:

(Canada, US, law enforcement slang) A person who falsely confesses to a crime.


opinions are like assholes

Shortened from "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one"; "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and they usually stink"; "Opinions are like assholes: everybody's got one, and everybody thinks theirs smells nicer than everyone else's"; or some variant of the three.

“Opinions are like assholes,” Tipsy began again. “That would be correct,” Few confirmed acidly. “It's an understatement, too.” “Some people have more than one asshole?” Tipsy asked naively. “Okay. Okay.” Quentin placed both his hands ...

2010, Jim Nisbet, Windward Passage: A Novel, Abrams, →ISBN:

Opinions are like assholes and that's all I see. Ya you're so picture perfect. How's it feel to be perfect. Ya you're perfect. Picture perfect to me. What you got comes in a small pill. Pretty sure I've had my fill.

2011, Michelle Hutchinson, O for the Love of God, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 25:

Opinions are like assholes, and there are way too many assholes out there. Call me what you will, but I'll call you what you are. The best way to live is to deserve each day. A born loser isn't just someone who's been desperate for some ...

2018, Colin Honert, MindSpring, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 391:

“The shit just got so stupid, and of course Gil kept saying the same thing he always says about this kind of thing: “'Opinions are like assholes...'” “You never know what you're gonna get?” This time they all laughed a little.

[2019, Mathew Klickstein, Selling Nostalgia: A Neurotic Novel, Permuted Press+ORM, →ISBN:

“Don't you mean, 'Opinions are like assholes'?” “No, 'shit'. They run too freely from careless openings.” “That's...not a saying.” “No?” Monty chuckled. “You sure?” He sighed. “Anyway, Hitler had opinions. That guy in Wolf Creek had ...

[2020, Jason Parent, The Apocalypse Strain, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, idiomatic, usually derogatory, vulgar) Everyone has opinions, and most people's opinions are of exceedingly poor quality.


(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Alternative form of LGBTQ2


en-adj

LGBTQI2 (comparative more LGBTQI2, superlative most LGBTQI2)

more LGBTQI2 (comparative)
most LGBTQI2 (superlative)

(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Abbreviation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (or: transsexual), questioning (or: queer), intersex, two-spirited.


premajor

(Canada, US) An academic course that must be taken as a prerequisite for a major.

(Canada, US) A student taking such a course.


gnat's ass

He is so short he could stand flat-footed and kiss a gnat's ass without bending his knees.

1951, Herbert Halpert, “A Pattern of Proverbial Exaggeration from West Kentucky”, in Midwest Folklore:

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) Synonym of gnat's (“very tiny thing or distance”)


train order

(rail transport, US, Canada) Formerly, a telegraphed or written instruction issued by a dispatcher to train crews and other railroad employees, concerning changes in operation of a particular train.


CERB

(Canada, politics, employment, COVID-19) Initialism of Canada emergency response benefit. Income supplement for self-employed and employees, who are those directly affected by the COVID-19 shutdown.


didy

(Canada, US, childish) Alternative form of didie (“diaper”)


half joe

[M]y father's draft […] was paid in the Portuguese coin of half-Joes, or six-and-thirty shilling pieces, at that time made current in Great Britain.

1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 59

(chiefly Canada, US, now historical) A Portuguese gold coin, worth 3,200 reis, formerly current in North America.


Jordan rule

From the defendant, Barrett Richard Jordan, in the Canadian criminal court case, known as R v Jordan, whose resolution, the ruling decision, that established the rule.

(Canada, crime, law, politics, constitution, human rights) A rule regarding the length of a criminal court case, usually limited to eighteen or thirty months from filing charges to trial.

crime; constitution; human rights; crime; constitution; human rights


crudball

(slang, Canada, US) Synonym of scumball (“sleazy or despicable person”)


mommy-and-me

Ashalay did not have many friends, but Lauren's mother joined a mommy-and-me group so that Ashalay would have someone her size to interact with, so they would invite some of the toddlers from the playgroup.

2013, Raisa Brown, Murder or Marriage, page 125:

How would it be if we sisters offered a Mommy and Me Bible study? Knowing how much Jeremiah loved to read his little children's bible, I decided to bring the suggestion to Father Jason and to Jeremiah's entire family at their weekly meeting.

2014, Linda Porras, Jeremiah, Great but Small, page 107:

I quickly scanned through the list: cleaning and maintaining the studio, rehearsals and recital, and the fundraising options — parents' night out, dance-a-thon, and a mommy-and-me spa day.

(Canada, US) Of an activity or event: to be attended by a mother with her young child.


in bad

to be in bad with someone

to get in bad with someone

to put someone in bad with someone

(Canada, US, informal) out of favour, in (someone's) bad books [with with ‘someone’]


groceteria

In a groceteria, the bacon is already stripped of its rind, the steaks are boned and cut to the size of the family, and even six-pennyworth of marrow bones is wrapped up securely enough to be posted home.

1954, Ernest Watkins, Prospect of Canada, page 42:

(Canada, US, dated) A self-service grocery store.


defibre

en-verb

defibre (third-person singular simple present defibres, present participle defibring, simple past and past participle defibred)

defibres (present singular third-person)
defibring (participle present)
defibred (participle past)
defibred (past)

(UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Alternative spelling of defiber


Medicine Line

First known attestation from 1880 where the term was described as being used "because no matter what [the Indians] have done [committed crimes] upon one side they feel perfectly secure after having arrived upon the other". A synonymous term which was attested earlier is medicine road from 1869 and ostensibly a calque of a Sioux term transcribed as "pejuta canku". Unrecorded use of the term or a similar one may date back more than a century earlier than the first attestation. See also medicine (“protective charm among the Native Americans”).

(informal, Canada, US) The Canada-United States border; the 49th parallel north: a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.


sweet as candy

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sweet as candy.wav

Cora Dell was from the South. She wasn't very sharp, but she was sweet as candy. A precious little doll. Boys fell all over themselves when she marched by.

(Canada, US, simile) Synonym of sweet as pie


two-forty on a plank road

The passion of young New York is for horses — fast horses — two-forty on a plank road.

1852, G. Henry Howard Paul, Dashes of American humour, page 206:

[…] some that remained, running to and fro, with white rags suspended on broom-handles, and an old darky had a bleached salt-sack tied to a limb of a tree, waving it at the rate of two-forty on a plank-road.

1862, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record, a Diary of American Events, page 474:

(Canada, US, slang, obsolete) A very fast speed.

In Canada, where trotting is also a very favourite amusement, and whence came the famous trotting mare Flora Temple, a very “fast” young lady is generally spoken of as “two forty on a plank road.”

(Canada, US, slang, obsolete, by extension) The quality of being "fast", i.e. immoral in one's habits.


southwest salad

en-noun

southwest salad (countable and uncountable, plural southwest salads)

(Canada, US) A salad with grilled chicken, beans, cheese, etc.


skoden

You really think you can take me in a scrap? Alright, skoden.

(Canada, First Nations) Contraction of let's go then.


sexpresso

It also boasts dress-up days such as Military Mondays, Cowgirl Tuesdays, Bikini Wednesdays, Schoolgirl Thursdays and Fantasy Fridays. Other coffeehouses in the area are also trying to capitalize on the “sexpresso” concept.

For instance, in February 2007 the Los Angeles Times ran an article that described the appearance of a new variety of coffee shop in the suburbs of Seattle, the “sexpresso” bar. Noting that “coffee, the famed Seattle obsession,” is now being combined “with sex, the fabled human obsession,” the paper discussed the success of establishments like the “Natte Latte and Bikini Espresso,” whose full-figured barristas^([sic]) serve customers while wearing baby doll nighties, halter tops, or negligees.

2012, Mark Walia, A Tale of Two Cultures:

(Canada, US, attributive, informal) The marketing trend of coffee shops staffed by scantily-clad female baristas.


cocktail peanut

cocktail peanut (plural cocktail peanuts)

They may be served at cocktail bars and similar establishments to encourage the purchase of drinks.


cross up

en-verb

cross up (third-person singular simple present crosses up, present participle crossing up, simple past and past participle crossed up)

crosses up (present singular third-person)
crossing up (participle present)
crossed up (participle past)
crossed up (past)

(Canada, US, informal) To double-cross or betray (someone).


Finndian

(Canada, US) A person of mixed Finnish and Native American heritage.


Finndian

Being Indian isn't easy for a kid. Not being fully Indian is even worse. I wasn't Finnish, and I wasn't Indian. Half-breed. Finndian.

2011 April, Arne Vainio, “My Ojibwe and Finnish Heritage”, in Ojibwe Inaajimowin, volume 13, number 4, Mille Lacs Band, →OCLC, page 7, column 4:

Seppälä stayed in the U.S. from July to October that year and even went to Canada to meet some Finndian people in Toronto.

2016 November 5, Jana Peterson, “Finnish writers, photographer spotlight ‘Finndians’ in new book”, in The Pine Journal, Cloquet, Minnesota: Forum Communications Company, archived from the original on 2020-11-15:

(Canada, US) Of mixed Finnish and Native American heritage.


(Canada, US, journalism) Indicates the end of a story, article, or press release that is submitted for editing and typesetting.


NRST

(Canada, taxation) Abbreviation of non-resident speculation tax.


douchehole

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-douchehole.wav

Blend of douchebag + asshole; possibly originated as a euphemism.

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, humorous) An obnoxious person; a jerk.


caliber

en-noun

caliber (countable and uncountable, plural calibers)

tlb

(British spelling, Australia, Canada, New Zealand)

→ Irish: calabra

→ Welsh: calibr

From French calibre (“bore of a gun, size, capacity (literally, and figuratively), also weight”), from Italian calibro.

der

A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40.


Evil Questions Attacking Ontario

en-noun

Evil Questions Attacking Ontario pl (plural only)

Evil Questions Attack Ontario (alternative)

The admittedly 'nervous’ Maneesha Johal, top, and classmates Lee-Anna Maharaj, right, and Amanda Ibe, left, prepare for ‘Evil Questions Attacking Ontario.’

Caroline Alphonso (2013 May 31) “The debate over standardized testing in schools is as divisive as ever”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 2020-12-17

School boards have said that without the co-operation of teachers, there’s no way they can administer the tests, which teachers have dubbed “evil questions attacking Ontario.”

Kristin Rushowy (2015 May 14) “EQAO standardized testing cancelled over teacher job action”, in Toronto Star, Torstar, archived from the original on 2020-12-17

(Canada, informal, education, derogatory) Standardized tests conducted by the Education Quality and Accountability Office in the province of Ontario.


jacklighting

A Pennsylvania man was charged with jacklighting, allegedly shining his truck headlights onto a police deer decoy.

2019 December 12, Maryland Department of Natural Resources press releasehttps://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2019/12/12/police-deer-decoy-struck-by-suspect/

(hunting, US, Canada) The action of the verb to jacklight; the act of illuminating an animal for the purpose of hunting.


chow mein bun

From chow mein + bun. Coined in the 1930s, having been invented in Massachusetts, and then spread throughout North America's Americanized Chinese cuisine culture, and Americanized Jewish culture.

(US, Canada, cooking) A Chinese-American food, a hamburger bun filled with chow mein and slathered with a brown sauce.


fine and dandy like sour candy

en-adj

fine and dandy like sour candy (not comparable)

GEORGE BUSH: Well, howdily doodily yourself, there, Ned. This is my wife Barbara. I call her Bar. Would you like some lemonade?
NED: Tip top notch!
GEORGE BUSH: Okily dokily!
NED: Thankily dankily!
GEORGE BUSH: Scrump-diddley-eriffic!
BOTH: Fine and dandy like sour candy!

1996, The Simpsons (animated TV series), "Two Bad Neighbors" (season 7 episode 13)

We had a nice chat, yes we did, and I think they're fine and dandy like sour candy,” she said, giving them a knowing smile, “Did you find out much from your computa-ma-web?”

2014, Jeremy Tyrrell, Adaptation (part 3, page 114)

Then, with my consent, they politely show me their scars/scabs and we do the hug and the photo and everything is fine and dandy like sour candy.

2016, Hannah Hart, Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded:

(Canada, US, informal, simile) Synonym of fine and dandy


sophomore slump

en-noun

sophomore slump (plural sophomore slumps)

(Canada, US) The situation where a second effort fails to live up to the relatively high standards of the first.


assholishness

(vulgar, Canada, US, informal) The quality of being assholish.


Rejeanne

(Canada, Louisiana) A female given name from French; feminine of Rejean


Rejean

(Canada, Louisiana) A male given name from French; masculine of Rejeanne


expansion team

(sports, chiefly Canada, US) A new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the local population's demand for a local team.


lamewad

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A lame or uncool person.


So called after these areas being often assigned the area code 905 in their telephone numbers. Compare with 416 (“Toronto”), which has a similar etymology.

The part of the urban region outside the City of Toronto is often referred to locally as "the 905", the telephone area code that distinguishes it from the 416 area code of the City. Because the 905 has mostly been built up since the 1970s it is also common to regard everything there as "the outer suburbs", a useful name that implies that while this recently developed area is an extension of the inner suburbs it is nevertheless different from them.

2013, Edward Relph, Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region (Metropolitan Portraits), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2021-01-10, page 77:

Essentially, Toronto had higher commercial property taxes than the 905 area and relatively lower residential property taxes.

2001, Allen J. Scott, Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2021-01-10, page 178:

(Canada, geography) Suburban areas in the province of Ontario closely surrounding the city of Toronto.


pharmacare

As well, the pharmacare and general practitioner studies showed fairly similar distributions by age.

1993, Philippe Cappeliez, Depression and the Social Environment: Research and Intervention with Neglected Populations:

The Canada Health Act does not mandate provincial nonhospital (pharmacare) programs. Each province has the discretion to develop its own pharmacare, and so coverage varies widely, as does the approach to subsidizing and monitoring the delivery of pharmaceuticals for patiens in hospitals, long-term care, and home care.

2013, Louise Potvin, Shaping Academia for the Public Good: Critical Reflections on the CHSRF/CIHR Chair Program:

But there are big things that remain to be explained, such as how much new funding the Liberals might be willing to provide to the provinces for health care — an issue that could involve specific commitments for pharmacare and long-term care.

2020 December 1, Aaron Wherry, “On the edge of a bleak pandemic winter, Freeland offers a vague plan for recovery”, in CBC:

(Canada, medicine) Public insurance covering all or some of the cost of pharmaceuticals.


code grey

(Canada, US, medicine) The condition where violence or aggression is observed, normally in cases where no weapon is involved.


impaired driving

(law, automotive, chiefly Canada) A criminal offense; the act of driving while impaired (such as by alcohol or drugs).


beaver tail

beaver tails (plural)
beaver-tail (alternative)
beavertail (alternative)

(Canada) A snack consisting of a piece of fried dough.


rug joint

(Canada, US, slang) Synonym of carpet joint


carpet joint

Coordinate term: sawdust joint

Most of the carpet joints were run by the mobsters and local henchmen associated with the Mayfield Road Gang, but Peter Schmidt's Playtorium and Glenn Rendezvous were also included.

2014, Paul A. Tenkotte, James C. Claypool, The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, page 385:

(Canada, US, slang) An attractive casino with decorative carpets, etc.


lumberwood

(Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) A forest from which wood is cut.


VPD

V.P.D. (alternative)
V. P. D. (alternative)

Police Department
police department#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of Vancouver Police Department.

(Canada) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.


lameass

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) An uncool person; a dork.


coonshit

If your brains was coonshit, you couldn't find a hackberry seed.

It was utter banal coonshit, and we loved to read it aloud.

2001, Judy H. Tucker, Charline R. McCord, Christmas Stories from Mississippi, page 94:

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) Synonym of bullshit (“nonsense; rubbish”)


short pants

You can be young enough to wear short pants or old enough to hide your opponents' shoes with your beard over a disputed point.


in short pants

From an early 20th century practice of reserving short pants only for small children.

Dr. Smith said a moment ago that we are scientifically adult but spiritually in short pants.

1948, Albert Craig Baird, Lester Thonssen, Waldo Warder Braden, Owen Peterson, Representative American Speeches:


garbage patch

(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A piece of land used for dumping rubbish.


vo-tech

(Canada, US) A high school offering vocational and technical training.


stagger soup

(Canada, US, slang) whisky (the alcoholic drink)


infantier

infantiers (plural)
infanteer (alternative)

(Canada, military) A soldier in the infantry; an infantryman.


union station

The Burlington had built a union station at the junction, but the Union Pacific refused to stop its trains there until it received an interest in the townsite.

1978 May, Alice Howell, “Railroads in Buffalo County”, in Buffalo Tales [a newsletter of the Buffalo County Historical Society, Buffalo County, Nebraska], volume 1, number 5, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

(rail transport, US, Canada) A railroad station shared by more than one railroad company, usually to spread the costs and ease the logistics of serving a particular town by rail.


dandy as candy

(simile, informal, Canada, US) Perfectly fine or good.


minor in

en-verb

minor in (third-person singular simple present minors in, present participle minoring in, simple past and past participle minored in)

minors in (present singular third-person)
minoring in (participle present)
minored in (participle past)
minored in (past)

(Canada, US, education) To study as or qualify in a subsidiary subject at college or university.


NACI

(Canada, medicine) Acronym of National Advisory Committee on Immunization.


stick it to

stick it to (third-person singular simple present sticks it to, present participle sticking it to, simple past and past participle stuck it to)

sticks it to (present singular third-person)
sticking it to (participle present)
stuck it to (participle past)
stuck it to (past)

(Canada, US, informal, idiomatic) To assert one's power in an attempt to get revenge or prove a point; to show who's boss.


Tories on bikes

So-called due to bicycles being commonly prescribed as an environmentally friendly form of personal transportation.

The only viable alternative for decades has been The Australian Greens, formerly a protest party, but now a progressive middle-class party. It’s a coalition of Tories on bikes, socially conscious baby boomers who live in architect-designed homes, and millennials who haven’t yet graduated from edgy liberalism to socialism.

2018 September 7, Ivan Mitchell, Daniel Lopez, “The Immodest Victorian Socialists”, in Jacobin, retrieved 2021-04-01:

A derogatory name for the Greens is "Tories on bikes"; they also oppose building on green belts around cities, and thus inadvertently encourage car commuting, with its attendant car pollution.

2019, Danny Dorling, Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 2021-04-01:

But lest we forget the Green Party’s concern for the workers who make these cheap clothes in counties such as Bangladesh, the reality is that when it comes to employees’ rights they are merely Tories on bikes.

2020 September 11, Pat Flanagan, “Green Party out of touch with ordinary people and seem to like punishing poor”, in Irish Mirror, retrieved 2021-04-01:

(politics, derogatory, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Members or supporters of a Green Party who are politically conservative.


OCCB

(Canada, Christianity) Abbreviation of Ontario conference of Catholic bishops.


obstetrician-gynecologist

obstetrician-gynecologists (plural)
OB-GYN (alternative)

The town had only one obstetrician-gynecologist.

(countable, medicine) A physician who is both an obstetrician and a gynecologist.

szülész-nőgyógyász

a physician who is both an obstetrician and a gynecologist


Freshman 15

freshman fifteen
freshman fifteen#English

(US, Canada, colloquial) Alternative form of freshman fifteen


Kimbit

Blend of Kim (“Kim's Convenience”) + Timbit (“Tim Hortons snack”).

blend

convenience store
convenience store#English

(Canada, fandom slang) A fan of Kim's Convenience (2016–2021 on CBC), a Canadian sitcom about a Korean-owned convenience store and the Korean-Canadian family which runs it.


make a dollar out of fifteen cents

en-verb

make<,,made> a dollar out of fifteen cents

make a dollar out of fifteen cents (third-person singular simple present makes a dollar out of fifteen cents, present participle making a dollar out of fifteen cents, simple past and past participle made a dollar out of fifteen cents)

makes a dollar out of fifteen cents (present singular third-person)
making a dollar out of fifteen cents (participle present)
made a dollar out of fifteen cents (participle past)
made a dollar out of fifteen cents (past)

(Canada, US) To spend one's money carefully and sparingly, so that it lasts; to be thrifty.


sawdust joint

(Canada, US, slang) A plain casino without ostentatious decoration.


cookie exchange

en-noun

cookie exchange (plural cookie exchanges)

(Canada, US) A party where each attendee brings cookies of one type that they have baked, and attendees take home one of each kind of cookie.


Mister Mom

Mister Moms (plural)
Mr. Mom (alternative)
Mr Mom (alternative)

He knew he would always get a laugh or two from her descriptions of her husband and home life now that she was “back in school” and he was, for all practical purposes, a mister mom.

2002, William R. Reid, The Serpent and the Church at Jerrico Springs, page 165:

A man should not let his wife work and certainly should not be a “mister mom.”

2008, Sheri A. Rosenthal, Banish Mind Spam!, page 61:

Ronnie had a son, not long before he died. The baby was about two years old. When anybody saw him, they saw the baby. So he was called a Mister Mom, and he didn't care; […]

2008, Suzanne Redfern, Susan K. Gilbert, The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child:

(informal, Canada, US) A househusband who looks after his children.


code yellow

(Canada, US, medicine) the condition on the occurrence of a bomb threat.


code orange

(Canada, US, medicine) The condition on the occurrence of a hazardous material spill or release.


displaced homemaker

displaced homemaker (plural displaced homemakers)

Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.

1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy, page 14:

(Canada, US) A woman who no longer has a reliable source of income from her husband, as a result of divorce, widowhood, disability, etc.


the trash takes itself out

A muscle jerked along her jawline, and then she was moving, winding her way out the doublewide gym doors.
“Thankfully, the trash has taken itself out.”
Mike looked from Elizabeth's stunned expression to Kevin Hunt's smirk.

People commit suicide there just from being kept for a few days. The idea amuses me: trash taking itself out is a goddamn public service. Weak people are terrified of the place.

2020, Ivy Wonder, Endgame: A Dark Mafia Romance:

(informal, Canada, US) An undesirable person leaves.


triple-E

en-adjective

triple-E (comparative more triple-E, superlative most triple-E)

more triple-E (comparative)
most triple-E (superlative)
triple E (alternative)

From having three "E"'s in the initialism.

(Canada, politics) Abbreviation of elected, effective, equal.


hoochinoo

(Canada) A rum-like drink produced by the Tlingit people.


barley sandwich

en-noun

barley sandwich (plural barley sandwiches)

(slang, Canada) A drink of beer, typically taken as a liquid lunch.


shortass

shortasses (plural)
short-ass (alternative)

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) A short person.


desk dictionary

desk dictionary (plural desk dictionaries)

(Canada, US) A large one-volume dictionary.


since Hector was a pup

(Canada, US, colloquial) Since a very long time ago.


May long weekend

May long weekend (plural May long weekends)

(Canada, US) A 3-day weekend with a statutory holiday weekday and Saturday and Sunday, in May, used to mark the beginning of summer season in some industries.

(Canada) The Victoria Day 3-day weekend.

Journée des Patriotes
Journée des Patriotes

Dollard-des-Ormeaux Day
Dollard-des-Ormeaux Day#English

Fête nationale des Patriotes
Fête nationale des Patriotes

(Quebec) The Journée des Patriotes/Dollard-des-Ormeaux Day/Fête nationale des Patriotes 3-day weekend


code white

code white (countable and uncountable, plural code whites)

(Canada, medicine) An incident where a person acts violently.


on the jump

Come on the jump. Bring the needful for first aid. It's a rifle shot through the lungs or heart or both.

1915, Jack London·, The Little Lady of the Big House:

Accordingly Sam Daniels was sent for and arrived on the jump.

2021, Peter B. Kyne, Cappy Ricks Retires:

Everybody was on the jump, and it was a furious crowd that went rushing down toward where the new shell had been laid, along the shore of the river, at a point where a little beach offered an ideal spot for launching.

2021, Allen Chapman, Fred Fenton on the Crew:

My cavalry is on the jump all the time and in every direction, as you know from having seen several detachments, and I will do my utmost to carry out orders and wishes of the authorities.

1892, E.V. Sumner, Annual Report of the Secretary of War, page 231:

Again she bemoans the inroad of interruptions, especially those of the "inexorable" telephone which keeps Polly on the jump.

1937, The New Outlook for the Blind - Volumes 31-32, page 198:

There were many other jobs to be done during the day, for the traditional smartness of a packet was maintained only by keeping the crews constantly on the jump at times when, on an ordinary freighter, they might be taking life more easily.

1938, Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule, page 142:

We have been kept on the jump to stabilize the situation and to maintain some mobile striking power as a general reserve both from defensive and local offensive affairs.

1999, Dwight David Eisenhower, Joseph P. Hobbs, George Catlett Marshall, Dear General: Eisenhower's Wartime Letters to Marshall, page 98:

(Canada, US, informal, dated) Very busy; fully engaged in energetic activity; on the go.


remand centre

remand centres (plural)
remand center (alternative)

(UK, Canada) A jail that holds people who are awaiting a trial or sentencing.


aeroplane mode

aeroplane mode (countable and uncountable, plural aeroplane modes)

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia) Alternative form of airplane mode


CEBL

(Canada, sports) Initialism of Canadian Elite Basketball League.


CCB

Canada Child Benefit
w:Canada Child Benefit

(Canada) Initialism of Canada Child Benefit.


pudding pop

From the brand name Pudding Pops, from pudding and ice pop.

On Friday, the winning class received a special treat, such as a pudding pop or ice cream bar.

1983, School Food Service Journal, volume 37, page 51:

She's really popular, and I'm—well I could go on and on but it's too painful, and you get the idea: Bonnie Bennington and I have just about as much in common as a chocolate soufflé and a pudding pop.

1988, Lisa Eisenberg, Mystery at Bluff Point Dunes, page 4:

(Canada, US) A snack consisting of frozen pudding on a stick.


carioling

(Canada, historical) Travelling over the ice on a sleigh.


fish scale

From the scales of fish, due to the silver colour and the thinness of the coin.

(slang, idiomatic, Canada) An early 5 cent coin of Canada, an early Canadian nickel.


toodlum buck

doodlem-buck (alternative)
doodle-em-buck (alternative)
toodlembuc (alternative)
toodlembuck (alternative)
toodlumbuck (alternative)
toodle-em-buck (alternative)

toodle-em-buck, the game of crown and anchor

1933, Slang To-Day and Yesterday, Eric Partridge, London: Routledge & Kegal Paul, page 294

TOODLUM BUCKS: A Crown and Anchor game, 10/6 for 7/6.

1941 (July 11), “Whitcombes Sale” advertisement, The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, page 1

(New Zealand, Canada, obsolete) The game of crown and anchor.


base chief

chief petty officer
chief petty officer#English

(Canada, military, Royal Canadian Navy) A chief petty officer, the highest ranked warrant officer on a military base.


reporting mark

(rail transport, US, Canada) A code of up to four letters allocated to and used by railroads and other owners of rolling stock for identification purposes, shown on each rail vehicle in combination with an individual number for the vehicle.


hog train

hog trains (plural)
hog-train (alternative)
hogtrain (alternative)

From hog + train. First use appears c. 1850 in the New-York Daily Tribune.

Any means of getting by cheap when travelling, budget transport.


Yankland

(slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory) The United States.


iron ring

From being a finger ring made of wrought iron, traditionally explained as being extracted from the debris cleared from the collapse of the Quebec Bridge.

(Canada, engineering) The symbol of a Canadian engineer. A faceted stainless steel or iron ring worn on the little finger of the dominant hand, signifying a trained Canadian engineer, awarded in Canada after an accompanying oath of professional conduct, in a private ceremony with dramatic rites.


momless

Deliberately plot out how we were going to get from complete-Mom-supervision to complete-Momless-independence.

2004, Allie Pleiter, Facing Every Mom's Fears, page 158:

You can have a momless date, and Walker'll get the coffee I owe him and that'll be all.

2014, Christine Johnson, The Gathering Dark, page 42:

(Canada, US, informal) Without a mother.


Greco-Roman wrestling

Graeco-Roman wrestling
Graeco-Roman wrestling#English

Canada, US standard spelling of Graeco-Roman wrestling.


CFB

(Canada, military) Initialism of Canadian Forces Base.


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain non-emergency governmental services

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic service for accessing some government services, depending on jurisdiction


(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 811


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain local governmental services

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic service for accessing some local government services, depending on jurisdiction


next store

I knew my brother John lived upstairs with my aunt, uncle, and cousin. […] I knew my three older sisters Maura, Miara, and Gina lived next store with my other aunt and family.


postal village

postal villages (plural)
post village (alternative)

2016, The Independent, Lost Lambton: The Postal Village of Aughrim:

(historical, Canada, US, Australia) a village having a post office


NRCC

N.R.C.C. (alternative)
N. R. C. C. (alternative)

(Canada) Initialism of National Research Council of Canada.


raggedy-ass

en-adj

raggedy-ass (comparative more raggedy-ass, superlative most raggedy-ass)

more raggedy-ass (comparative)
most raggedy-ass (superlative)

(slang, derogatory) Shabby, miserably inadequate.


CAW

Coordinate term: UAW

Canadian Auto Workers
w:Canadian Auto Workers

(labour, automotive, Canada) Initialism of Canadian Auto Workers.


CUPW

Canadian Union of Postal Workers
w:Canadian Union of Postal Workers

(Canada) Acronym of Canadian Union of Postal Workers.


PSAC

Public Service Alliance of Canada
w:Public Service Alliance of Canada

(Canada) Abbreviation of Public Service Alliance of Canada.


CUPE

Canadian Union of Public Employees
w:Canadian Union of Public Employees

(Canada) Acronym of Canadian Union of Public Employees.


(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or sometimes questioning), two-spirited etc..


douche chills

“You're so gross,” she said, douche chills running up her arms and legs.

2012, Tonya Hurley, The Blessed, page 48:

It gave me douche chills just reading it. I was not particularly looking forward to meeting (or networking) with the people who worked there.

It makes me cringe, gives me douche chills, and I know I'm not alone.

2018, Mark D. Trollinger, Champ and a Bit of Sunshine, page 75:

(Canada, US, slang, often humorous) A physical feeling, akin to chills, in reaction to something contemptibly obnoxious.


Native Canadian

en-noun

Native Canadian (plural Native Canadians)

(Canada) a person born in Canada of American Indian or Inuit descent


en-proper-noun

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

statutory holiday
statutory holiday#English

cultural genocide
cultural genocide#English

residential school
residential school#English

(Canada, holidays) September 30th; A statutory holiday in Canada, for the recognition of the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples in Canada enacted by the colonizers, especially that caused by the residential school system; declared as a law in 2020, and first observed in 2021.

en:Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation

Orange Shirt Day

a coincident observance in Canada that predates the national holiday, first observed in 2013, though the first observance was not on September 30


Orange Shirt Day

Orange Shirt Day (plural Orange Shirt Days)

From orange + shirt + day. From the colour of the shirt worn by a survivor of the residential school system, which was forcibly removed by Christian missionaries, who desired to assimilate indigenous children forcibly enrolled at the schools.

(Canada, politics, memorials) September 30th; A national observance in remembrance of the time of year that Indigenous children were forcibly removed from Native homes to be forced into schools to assimilate into the colonizer's culture and lose their birth culture; and the cultural genocide and deaths of children at the schools, caused by the residential school system. Observers frequently wear orange shirts to stand in solidarity with survivors of the residential schools. First observed in 2013.

A coincident statutory holiday of Canada in remembrance of the cultural genocide suffered by the Indigenous peoples of Canada caused by Canadian government policies. First observed in 2021.


buttful

If the bugger tries to get back into the Corners he may end up with a buttful of Durfee birdshot.

The doctor examined Silent's wounds, bound them, and gave him a buttful of penicillin […]

2016, Vin T. Sparano, Hunting Dangerous Game: True Tales from Around the World:

(Canada, US, slang) Enough to fill a person's buttocks.


FNMI

(Canada) Initialism of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.


momfluencer

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-momfluencer.wav

Blend of mom + influencer, equivalent to mom + -fluencer.

Feeling overwhelmed and maybe a bit underappreciated, we moms gravitate toward the insistence of well-meaning momfluencers who tell us what we "deserve” — we "deserve" a break. Praise. Recognition.

2020 August, Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (And That's Okay), page 43:

The everchanging expectations voiced by an endless stream of “experts” (and the momfluencer with 12K followers and the gingham filter for that perfect orange-y skin glow) makes it impossible to feel like you're succeeding at motherhood.

2020 September, Maggie Combs, Motherhood Without All the Rules:

And now, some of the first Insta Stories I watch as I nurse my baby at 6:23 a.m. are by Hannah of @ballerinafarm, a new face to the momfluencer stratosphere, but one of many conventionally beautiful, straight, white women who perform a version of motherhood that feels like pioneer cosplay hit with a dash of Brooklyn hipster aesthetics.

2021 January 28, Sara Petersen, “Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?”, in Harper's Bazaar:

The soul of this community is local queen bee Sherry Conrad (Search Party alum Shalita Grant, the season’s MVP), an officious, controlling momfluencer with a knack for stealing the spotlight.

2021 October 17, Judy Berman, “You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia”, in Time Magazine:

(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumfluencer.


schlockey

Punning blend of schlocky + hockey. From being an inferior variant of ice hockey.

(Canada) A box game variant of ice hockey, for two players, with two blade-less "schtick" sticks, a puck, a wooden box with two, three, or five slotted dividers, representing pass/shot opposition for the (possible) middle divider(s), and the goal slots for the two end dividers.


international football

Canadian football
Canadian football#English

American football
American football#English

(Canada, US) The combination of Canadian football and American football.


wine mom

wine moms (plural)
wine mum (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wine mom.wav

But the photos very quickly did the rounds, and a man on Twitter decided to use the opportunity to body shame her. “In 10 months Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30s wine mom body,” he wrote.

2020 November 13, Alex Light, Annabelle Spranklen, “Is Billie Eilish's new music video a big FU to the body shamers, stalkers and paparazzi after being targeted for ‘putting on weight’?”, in Glamour:

(Canada, US, informal) A mother who drinks alcohol to relieve the stress associated with parenting.


TEE

(Canada, US, medicine) Initialism of transesophageal echocardiogram.


special area

(Canada) Any one of three specific rural municipalities in Alberta, Canada, governed by the Special Areas Board.


walk-in closet

(US, Canada) A small room adjoining a domestic bedroom where people may dress or undress in privacy.


butt-kicking

(slang, Canada, US) A beating; a decisive or humiliating defeat; a severe reprimand.


butt-kicking

en-adj

butt-kicking (comparative more butt-kicking, superlative most butt-kicking)

more butt-kicking (comparative)
most butt-kicking (superlative)

(slang, Canada, US) Aggressive, violent, tough; strong, powerful.


basketball shoes

en-noun

basketball shoes pl (normally plural, singular basketball shoe)

desc

バスケットボールシューズ

→ Japanese: バスケットボールシューズ (basukettobōru shūzu)

→ Korean: 바스켓볼 슈즈 (baseuketbol syujeu)

Originally designed for basketball players, then later became used by the general public.

(Canada, US) A pair of bulky athletic shoes, manufactured to be shock absorbent and stable for the footing.


kick someone's ass

en-verb

kick someone's ass (third-person singular simple present kicks someone's ass, present participle kicking someone's ass, simple past and past participle kicked someone's ass)

kicks someone's ass (present singular third-person)
kicking someone's ass (participle present)
kicked someone's ass (participle past)
kicked someone's ass (past)

With their star quarterback back on the field, the Doves are going to kick the Pigeons' asses tonight.

(idiomatic, sometimes considered, vulgar, chiefly US, Canada) To clobber someone; to beat someone severely.

Then the horse kicked Pat's ass. Needless to say, she was not happy!

(literally, sometimes considered, vulgar, chiefly US, Canada) To actually kick someone in the buttocks.

potkaista persuksille

literally: to kick someone in the buttocks


It is particularly important to make this distinction because LGBTQ2S+ movements are often mistakenly historicized as being led by the white middle class, despite their tremendous diversity on a world scale, as well as within Canada […]

2019, Megan Walley, Incorporating Nonbinary Gender Into Inuit Archaeology: Oral Testimony and Material Inroads, unnumbered page:

The LGBTQ2S+ community engagement meetings revealed 2 key areas that triggered individuals and made them uncomfortable: sirens and law enforcement vehicles.

2020, Edmonton Pride Festival Society, quoted in Alexa DeGagne, "Pinkwashing Pride Parades: The Politics of Police in LGBTQ2S Spaces in Canada", in Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities?: Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow (eds. Alexandra Dobrowolsky & Fiona MacDonald), page 273

Schools can help LGBTQ2S+ children and families by creating a safe and supportive environment for all students: one that prohibits bullying, harassment, and violence.

2020, Carole Massing, Bonnie Anderson, Carol Anderson, The Educational Assistant's Guide to Supporting Inclusion in a Diverse Society, page 10:

(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or sometimes questioning), two-spirited plus.


Horny Tim's

(Canada, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons


Timmy Ho-Ho's

(Canada, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons.


Tim Whoreton's

(Canada, vulgar, slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of Tim Hortons


statutory instrument

en-noun

statutory instrument (plural statutory instruments)

delegated legislation
delegated legislation

(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, law) In some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an act of parliament.


above the rim

I believe in playing above the rim on the court, and in my career.

1995 June, Lloyd Ward, quoted in Lloyd Gite, "Playing Above the Rim" Black Enterprise p. 214

Who can tell the fabric of state government stories better? Who can tell those fabric stories first? And who can do what I call playing above the rim, which is you're in such close contact with legislators and state officials that you can stay ahead of the news.

2004 Eileen N. Gilligan, Competing for News: Reporter's Use of Competition and Cooperation in the Production of News (Thesis, University of Wisconsin–Madison) p. 122

2021 February 16, Shawn Jefferson, quoted in Darren Urban, "Shawn Jefferson's Padded Resumé For Coaching Receivers" azcardinals.com
Jefferson, who once coached new Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson in Detroit, said DeAndre Hopkins is "probably the only one in the league I can compare to Calvin right now, has the skillset Calvin had, playing above the rim and in those competitive situations coming down with the ball."

(figuratively, Canada, US) at a high level of excellence


later, tater

“Later, tater,” she said, trying to keep the tremble from her voice.

2015, Jamie McGuire, Among Monsters, page 9:

“Later, tater.” Austin waved and disappeared.

2019, Erin McCarthy, Ghosts Like It Hot:

“I gotta go,” she said. “Later, tater.”

2019, Emma Chastain, Notes from a Former Virgin: Junior Year, page 137:

(slang, Canada, US) Au revoir, see you soon.


color of authority

(Canada, US law) The claimed legitimization of a person's acts by his/her role as an agent of governmental power.


caker

He loves hockey and poutine; he's such a caker.

(slang, Canada) A Canadian, especially an Anglophone one exhibiting stereotypical or archetypal Canadian traits.


Indigenous Canadian

Indigenous Canadian (plural Indigenous Canadians)

(Canada) An Indigenous person of Canada, belonging to either the First Nations, Inuit or Metis (FNIM) Peoples; an Indian.


boogerball

Slowly, but surely, the Killer Nose clumsily wobbled across the kitchen floor towards Jamison. Instinct told him to climb up on the kitchen sink, but the frantic detective soon realized he was still vulnerable. Jamison pointed his pistol at the Nose hoping to land a fatal bullet. In an instant, the creature reared back on its haunches and spurted out a gargantuan nugget! The immense boogerball shot out of the nasal cannon and enveloped Jamison's entire hand and firearm, rendering them both useless.

1998 October 30, CW, “A Halloween Story...”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet):

Hey Bwian, if I had wanted to talk to somebody with your IQ, I would be at the supermarket talking to the produce. Why don't you go back to doing what you do best; picking your nose and making boogerballs for your mucous collection.

2000 November 3, El Duderino, quoting Trent Worthington, “Gigabyte has confirmed there are problems with AMD's new 760 DDR chipset,”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (Usenet):

You ate hot lunch if you were the kid with the mustache or the boy who picked his nose, rolled a boogerball, then flung it across the room, adding machine-gun sound effects.

2008, Stephanie Klein, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, pages 18–19:

(Canada, US, informal) A spherical booger.


summer vacation

summer vacation (countable and uncountable, plural summer vacations)

(US, Canada) a school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year


light someone's ass up

en-verb

light someone's ass up (third-person singular simple present lights someone's ass up, present participle lighting someone's ass up, simple past and past participle lit someone's ass up)

lights someone's ass up (present singular third-person)
lighting someone's ass up (participle present)
lit someone's ass up (participle past)
lit someone's ass up (past)
light up someone's ass (alternative)

(Canada, US, idiomatic, slang, vulgar) To scold or castigate someone severely.


bush party

Many stories are told over there about the bush parties to which the men go. I saw a one-act play, one might call it, depicting the men enjoying themselves at one of these beer bush parties and the consequences of over-consumption of this terrible stuff manufactured under very primitive and unhygienic conditions. The ladies enacted the bush party, and it seemed to me a wonderful moral lesson to the young people to keep away from beer parties of that nature.

1961 September 7, John Mathison, quotee, New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), volume 328, Wellington, New Zealand: R. E. Owen, published 1962, page 2113, column 2:

Young people were largely allowed to have unsupervised grad bush parties where liquor and drugs were assumed to be freely available. This was not seen as an isolated Spring event, but rather part of the whole fabric of the community.

1983, Alcoholism: Strategies for Northern Alberta, Northern Alberta Development Council, page 72:

Lang has had a certain amount of experience with big vehicles, having put in a stint as the driver of a five-ton grain truck before she became a legendary “progressive country” singer, and having spent her adolescence in a small town on the Alberta prairie, where “bush parties” are part of growing up. Bush parties involve a lot of nighttime drinking around a bonfire somewhere out of town, frequently from the back of a half-ton pickup. “This Chevy would be an asset at a bush party because you could slide open the back window and blast the stereo,” she noted.

1990 April, Mark Ginsburg, “Truckin’”, in Vanity Fair, volume 53, New York: Condé Nast, retrieved 2022-01-21, page 202:

Bush Parties and Booze Cruises were shaped mainly out of the necessity to find a “place to party” but they did represent more than the material practicalities of space. Both activities became symbols of rural identity and as such were proliferated to mark and proclaim that identity. The Bush Party was heralded as a badge of hardiness. In the small town, rural people were closer to nature and partied under the stars, in the great outdoors.

2003, Robert A. Wardhaugh, “‘Bush Parties and Booze Cruises’: A Look at Leisure in a Small Town”, in Raymond Blake, Andrew Nurse, editors, The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan: Canadian Plains Research Centre, →ISBN, pages 82–83:

Well this guy- he lived out on the highway um, near Haileybury. And he had like a huge property and in his backyard he had this bus. Um, and so it was like a bush party but there was a big bus there and people were just going crazy in and on top of the bus and I remember um people being on top of the bus and like shooting fireworks in the air and-stuff

2010, Carrie Tippman, quotee, “Bush Party”, in Ontario Dialects Project, Toronto: University of Toronto, retrieved 2022-01-21:

(chiefly Canada) An outdoor social gathering held in a wooded area or a field, especially one attended primarily by young people at which alcohol is drunk.


deuce less

From deuce, "two year sentence," with less as a shortening of the phrase "two years less a day."

(Canada, slang) A sentence of two years less a day (entitling the offender to serve the sentence in a provincial institution, rather than a federal penitentiary as for sentences of two years or more).


school division

en-noun

school division (plural school divisions)

The system of Free Schools may also be commended upon the ground of its tendency to promote unity and mutual affection among the inhabitants of each school division.

1851, E. Ryerson, Annual Report of the Normal, Model and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year 1850, Toronto: Lovell and Gibson, page 204:

(Canada, Philippines, Virginia, historically Ceylon) An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.


Queen's

Queen's University, Kingston
w:Queen's University at Kingston

(Canada, informal) Ellipsis of Queen's University, Kingston.


choral scholar

(UK, Canada) A student at a university, school or church who receives a stipend or scholarship for singing in that institution's choir.


organ scholar

(UK, Canada) A student at a university, school or church who receives a stipend or scholarship for being an assistant organist at that institution.


miss one's guess

en-verb

miss one's guess (third-person singular simple present misses one's guess, present participle missing one's guess, simple past and past participle missed one's guess)

misses one's guess (present singular third-person)
missing one's guess (participle present)
missed one's guess (participle past)
missed one's guess (past)

I guess somebody hasn't been any worse off for a chance to get married than they have; and if they don't feel spiteful when they see the bridegroom, then I miss my guess.

1859, Mrs. Mark Peabody, Miss Slimmen's Window, and other papers, page 139:

(Canada, US) To be incorrect in one's assumption.


buttplugging

en-noun

buttplugging (usually uncountable, plural buttpluggings)


Trudope

Trudope spews all the right cliche progressy talking points, such as aboriginal consultation, then he flips the aboriginals the bird […]

2017 April 11, Chom Noamsky, “‘We are very disappointed’: Loss of Northern Gateway devastating for many First Nations, chiefs say”, in can.politics (Usenet):

We spend millions processing illegal immigrants each year after Trudope told them to come here […]

2019 February 4, Greg Carr, “Law Enforcement In Canada Overwhelmed By Online Child Porn.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

March against Trudope and his tyranny. This march is your march. Make your voice heard.

2019 October 15, Covfefe (quoting a Million Canadian March press release), “[Breitbart Sedition] City police call B.S. on Breitbart report of massive pro-Trump Ottawa Parliament Hill rally”, in can.politics (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.


Turdeau

This stupid experiment in social engineering began under Turdeau back in the late sixties with the francoization of both radio and TV English stations and channels.

1995 December 5, Cerise Lopez, “French TV in English Canada a Shocking Waste of Taxpayers' Money”, in ont.general (Usenet):

Chretien is yesterday's man. He failed Canada along with Turdeau back in the 1960s and '70s and he is failing us again.

1996 November 10, George Skorpios, “Re: Conrad Black supports Reform Party”, in ont.general (Usenet):

This does not mean, however, that the Liberals in Ottawa under Jean Chretien have reformed from the wasteful, irrational spending of the Turdeau era.

1997 October 8, Erik Trammel, “Auditor-General Assails Ottawa Grits' Crazy Spending”, in ont.general (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

Turdeau...not ready, not smart, likes carbon tax.

2015 August 23, Roy, “Re: Mulcair's NDP making inroads in Alberta . . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):

Turdeau has already broken his promise to run a modest 10 billion dollar deficit it only remains to be seen how huge a hole he will dig.

2016 February 23, Greg Carr, “Re: Liberals Shuckin' & Jivin' Over Deficit.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

The tail doesn't wag the dog. The Americans allowed this. Turdeau has ZERO influence.

2019 May 17, Liberals are VERMIN!, “Re: Another major coup for our Trudeau government . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):


GDL

graduated driver's licence
w:graduated driver licensing

(Canada) Initialism of graduated driver's licence.


From 1, used to dial special numbers and 976, a reserved local exchange code.

976-5555 is a 1-976 number that you have to pay for.

(Canada, US, telephony) Of telephone numbers dialed in North America, having an additional charge assessed to the caller, part of which is returned to the owner of the number.


butts up

(Canada, US) A playground game based around throwing a ball against a wall and catching it on the rebound.


mommy wars

mommy wars pl (normally plural, singular mommy war)

mommy war (singular)
mummy wars (alternative)

(chiefly Canada, US) Disputes between mothers over parenting methods, especially those between working mothers and stay-at-home mothers.


grape jelly

(Canada, US) A preserve made from sugar and grapes.


seafoam candy

Honeycomb toffee
honeycomb toffee#English


IAMAW

w:International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

(Canada, US) Initialism of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.


UFCW

United Food and Commercial Workers
w:United Food and Commercial Workers

(Canada, US) Initialism of United Food and Commercial Workers.


McDick's

We called it Mickey's or McDick's or Mickey D's—a frequent stop on our aimless nocturnal rambles.[…]Mostly, there was talk of parties. You went to McDick's when you wanted to find out whose parents were out of town.

2007 December 18, Rich Cohen, Lake Effect, Vintage, →ISBN, page 36:

McDick's is a little busier than the rest of town.

2012 October 1, Craig Marriner, Stonedogs, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:

I mean I doubt I would make more working at a McDick's or sweeping floors or something.

2021 October 23, Conor Kerr, Avenue of Champions, Harbour Publishing, →ISBN:

(Canada, derogatory, slang) McDonald's (the fast food restaurant chain).


Ralph bucks

Named after Ralph Klein, who was premier of Alberta when the payment was issued.

The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund. When they need votes, they buy them. The $1.3 billion in "Ralph Bucks" dished out in 2005 to Albertans in $400 cheques is only the latest example.

2010, William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care), Knopf Canada, →ISBN, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 158:

The so-called Ralph bucks, named for then-premier Ralph Klein, though much derided by critics as an attempt to buy the electorate with their own money, could also be read as a populist attempt to include the population in the windfall profits the government was then reaping from the sale of oil leases and royalties.

2016, Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 205:

(Canada, politics) A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus.


cakesicle

(Canada, US) A snack consisting of cake and frosting prepared in a popsicle mold and served on a stick.


buttlike

en-adj

buttlike (comparative more buttlike, superlative most buttlike)

more buttlike (comparative)
most buttlike (superlative)

It was all girls in tight shirts with enormous buttlike cleavage and boys falling over their own tongues hanging out their mouths, the kind of thing that makes you wonder if there's any truth to evolution after all.

(Canada, US, slang) Resembling or characteristic of the buttocks.


land acknowledgement

en-noun

land acknowledgement (plural land acknowledgements)

land acknowledgements (plural)
land acknowledgment (alternative)

(Australia, Canada, New Zealand) A formal statement that a public event is taking place on land originally inhabited by indigenous peoples.


go cup

(Canada, US) A cup of drink purchased in an establishment to be taken away and drunk elsewhere.


dumbassity

Every now and then, I apparently suffer from the consequences of my own dumbassity.

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) The state or condition of being a dumbass.


ULC

(Canada, standards, products, testing) Initialism of Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada., a product-safety testing laboratory.

standards; products; testing; standards; products; testing

unlimited liability corporation
unlimited liability corporation#English

(Canada, taxation, business, law) Initialism of unlimited liability corporation.


Timmies

(chiefly Canada, slang) Synonym of Tim Hortons


man camp

(chiefly Canada, US) a temporary settlement created to house workers in resource extraction projects


junior jump

2021 November 19, Jared Dubin, “Tyler Herro Went Through A Sophomore Slump. Now He's Making A Junior Jump.”, in FiveThirtyEight:

(Canada, US) A return to success after a sophomore slump.


all-dressed

Calque of French toute garnie. From tout (“all”) + garnir (“garnished”), literally “all the garnishings”

com

all-dressed chips

(Canada, cooking) Having all the standard or expected toppings, dressings, condiments, seasonings, etc.


hands-in

Chris rallied the team with a "1, 2, 3, Go Tigers!" hands-in and they went on to win the match and the cup.

Have a seat. Great scene. I think this is going to work out. Hey, one last group thing. Everybody back on your feet. Stand up. Hands in. Come on. Hands in. (She sticks her hand out and tries to the best of her ability to do a “hands in” with the audience.)

2010, Joe Janes, 365 Sketches: One Comedy Sketch a Day for a Year, →ISBN, page 671:

I did a hands-in.

2011 July 17, “The Safe House”, in Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 8, episode 2, spoken by Marty Funkhouser (Bob Einstein):

At two routines til go time, Mandy Lockley assembles us into a circle and we do a hands-in. “Go, Puffins,” we whisper, without exclamation point, without joy

2019, Mariah MacCarthy, Squad, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, →ISBN, page 108:

Dad gives a little pep talk, then says, “On three … G-Beatz!” We all give a hands-in and the rest of the boys shout.

2021, Mae Respicio, How to Win a Slime War, Random House, →ISBN, page 94:

(chiefly US, Canada, college, school, amateur sports) A show of unity and usually optimism at the end of an informal huddle of players whereby the players simultaneously extend a hand horizontally towards the center of the circle and then raise their hands in the air with a short team chant.

college; school; amateur sports; college; school; amateur sports


come in hot

en-verb

come in hot (third-person singular simple present comes in hot, present participle coming in hot, simple past came in hot, past participle come in hot)

comes in hot (present singular third-person)
coming in hot (participle present)
came in hot (past)
come in hot (participle past)

The chopper came in hot, with guns blazing.

(military, idiomatic) To enter the scene of conflict quickly and aggressively.


catalogne

Named after one Sieur de Catalan, who lived in the 17th century.

(Canada) A French-Canadian woven rag rug or blanket.


denticare

(Canada, medicine) Dentistry subsidized through the medicare system.


1 Sussex Drive

(Canada) The office of the governor general of Canada.


HoC

(UK, Canada) Initialism of House of Commons.


sit one's ass down

sit one's ass down (third-person singular simple present sits one's ass down, present participle sitting one's ass down, simple past and past participle sat one's ass down)

sits one's ass down (present singular third-person)
sitting one's ass down (participle present)
sat one's ass down (participle past)
sat one's ass down (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sit one's ass down.wav

Take those silly glasses off and sit your ass down.

(idiomatic, vulgar, Canada, US, imperative) A rude and vulgar directive requesting someone to take a seat.


fancy seeing you here

(UK, Canada) An informal greeting, expressing that one did not expect to see that person at this location.

qué sorpresa verte / encontrarte aquí / acá


trashmover

From trash + mover, implying that such a storm will move or shift refuse on the street.

(slang, climatology) A fairly heavy winter storm.


go country

go country (third-person singular simple present goes country, present participle going country, simple past went country, past participle gone country)

goes country (present singular third-person)
going country (participle present)
went country (past)
gone country (participle past)

Coordinate term: go Hollywood

He's gone country
Everybody's gone country
Yeah, we've gone country
The whole world's gone country

1994, Bob McDill (lyrics and music), “Gone Country”, in Who I Am, performed by Alan Jackson:

en:adopt or further embrace country life or country music

(especially US, Canada) To adopt or further embrace the culture of country life or country music.


butt-clenching

en-adj

butt-clenching (comparative more butt-clenching, superlative most butt-clenching)

more butt-clenching (comparative)
most butt-clenching (superlative)

(informal, Canada, US) Synonym of buttock-clenching


Barrack Hill

From barrack + hill.
* (Canada): From being a rise and promontory over the Ottawa River that hosted barracks of the military outpost.

(Canada, historical) Former name of Parliament Hill. A hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

(Canada, historical, military) A former military outpost in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.


Parliament Hill

From parliament + hill.
* (Ottawa): From being a rise and promontory over the Ottawa River hosting parliament buildings.
* (Quebec): Calque of French Colline parlementaire From being a rise and promontory over the Saint-Lawrence River hosting parliament buildings.
* (London): From being a gathering place for troops of the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) during the English Civil War. Apocryphally, the location where the Gunpowder Plot was planned, to blowup the Palace of Westminster (Parliament).

(Canada) A hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

(Canada, politics) The Canadian federal government and its houses of parliament


mom test

Coined by Rob Fitzpatrick in 2013. The idea is that someone could use the method against their own mother, despite the usual positive bias that she would have for her child's ideas.

(business, Canada, US) A method of asking open-ended questions to consumers about a product or business idea, in order to gain honest feedback.


crackalackin'

crack-a-lackin' (alternative)
crack-a-lackin (alternative)
crackalackin (alternative)
crack-a-lacking (alternative)
crackalacking (alternative)

What’s poppin’ wit’chu? What’s happenin’? What’s crackalackin’? How you mackin’? You still bad actin’?

2003, “Let Me Hear Sumn”, in Love & Hate, performed by Edwin Hayes (Aceyalone):

I keep it crackalackin’
 I’m all about them plaques and figures
 I’m a platinum nigga

2003, David K. Williams (Roscoe), Patrick Brown (Sleepy Brown), Ray Murray, Rico Wade (writers), “What I Look Like”, in Young Roscoe Philaphornia, performed by David K. Williams (Roscoe):

“Wuzz crackalackin’?” he says, a homeboy greeting that could mean anything.

2005, Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 211:

“[…]I can’t work a calculator without coffee.”[…]“One cup. Then I gotta get crack-a-lackin’.”

2007, Suzann Ledbetter, Halfway to Half Way, Mira, →ISBN:

What exactly will be crackalackin at this party? Will her parents be there?

2012, Gena Showalter, Alice in Zombieland (The White Rabbit Chronicles; book 1), Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 201:

When we got back with the new recruits, it was time to get crackalackin’; we had a party to get started!

2012, Howie Momo, The Biker Chihuahua, →ISBN:

So! What is crackalackin, yo? We there yet?

2014, M. Anderson, Avian, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

"Almost got what you need?" "Oh yeah, crackalackin," he says. "Goin' junior high for that call out?"

2018, Russ Linton, Crimson Son 3: Ashes, →ISBN:

If you want to grow in your competence of reading Scripture and have a crackalackin good time doing it, read this book!

2021, Michael F. Bird, Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible, Zondervan Reflective, →ISBN:

The high-pitched sound of these wicked sirens wailing pierced his ears and made them pop. Hell indeed was crackalackin.

2022, Jennifer Peaks, Soul Enemy, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, slang) Happening; doing; occurring; working.


community organizer

en-noun

community organizer (plural community organizers)

(US, Canada) One who leads other people who live in proximity to each other or share some common problem into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.


xerox machine

(Philippines, India, dated in Canada, US) A photocopier.


asspat

Maybe everyone else wants to give you asspats for changing your tune, but me? I'd say the real heroes are the kids who were never delinquents to begin with.

2019, Sadanatsu Anda, Adam Fogle, Kokoro Connect Volume 5: Clip Time:

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, mostly in plural) Undeserved sympathy or approval.


Lesbaru

Blend of lesbian + Subaru. Subaru was known for intentionally marketing to a lesbian demographic.

We have the Subaru Outback, or as it's more commonly known in the industry, the Lesbaru.

By then I was out and proud, with Martina Navratilova telling me to buy a Subaru. I liked the Lesbaru.

2016, Fay Jacobs, For Frying Out Loud: Rehoboth Beach Diaries, page 66:

(Canada, US, slang) A Subaru automobile, regarded as a popular choice of lesbian drivers.


take for granite

en-verb

take for granite (third-person singular simple present takes for granite, present participle taking for granite, simple past took for granite, past participle taken for granite)

takes for granite (present singular third-person)
taking for granite (participle present)
took for granite (past)
taken for granite (participle past)

We take for granite as we are growing up
 That we will live to a ripe old age
 The things we take for granite
 Would more than fill a newspaper page

2011, Kenneth Harrison, “One Thing For Sure”, in Poems for the Soul, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 13:

take for granted
take for granted#English

(US, Canada) Eggcorn of take for granted.


LDU

(Canada) Initialism of local delivery unit (postal system code).


inclined elevator

en-noun

inclined elevator (plural inclined elevators)

inclined elevators (plural)
incline elevator (alternative)


nonparlor

a nonparlor house

(Canada, US, historical) Not having a room designated as a parlor.


frosh week

But a year after Western University's frosh week ended with a mass walkout in the wake of multiple sexual assault allegations and claims of toxic campus culture, student leaders say additional supports and training are a key part of their orientation plans.

2022 September 4, Jordan Omstead, “Ontario students excited for frosh week, but safety top of mind for organizers”, in CTV News:

(university slang, Canada) A week of activities dedicated to new students at a college or university, held to prepare them for their first academic year.


Jefferson has been a leader in the LGBTQ2A community for over three years. […] Jefferson is the owner of the event coordination company, Jefferson Presents, and has coordinated […] Ride for Pride Home, a spin-a-thon supporting Saskatoon's LGBTQ2A youth and Welcome To The Club, a fundraiser for the GLCR.

2018 November 14, “Meet 2018's third batch of 10 Future 40 winners”, in CBC:

(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, two-spirited, and allied/asexual/aromantic/agender.


momminess

(US, Canada, informal) The quality of being motherly; motherliness.


who put a quarter in you

Suggesting the insertion of a coin into a machine such as a jukebox.

(Canada, US, colloquial) Who upset you, or caused you to behave in a certain way? criticizing somebody perceived as making an unreasonable or negative remark


truckline

Coordinate term: airline

(Canada, US) A company that uses trucks to transport goods.


Excited States of America

the Excited States of America (canonical)

Blend of excited + United States of America. From perceived excitability of the American people.

blend

The longest serving host of the NBC political chat show Meet the Press passed to his eternal reward recently, and the Excited States of America lived up (or down) to its somewhat sardonic anglophilic nickname.

2008 June 23, Douglas Bell, “Falling over ourselves to pay tribute to Tim Russert”, in Toronto Life, Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

Over the past number of years, I’ve warmed to his writings in The National Post; a newspaper he started and once owned. The takedown of Diane Francis for her column suggesting that Canada be bribed to join the “Excited States of America” should be required reading for all Canadians.

2015 February 25, Tony Wilson, “Conrad Black and that meddlesome Supreme Court”, in Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Canada:

The fact that 148 years after Confederation, 10 provinces and three territories eventually married and stayed married without blowing up (literally and figuratively), is to be celebrated, especially when it would have been so easy (and yet so sad) to have packed it all in and joined the Excited States of America.

2015 August 28, Tony Wilson, “Confederation Day”, in BarTalk, British Columbia, Canada: Canadian Bar Association in British Columbia:

One in which English and French would work together and one which would leave pettiness and ‘small Canada thinkers’ behind. It would have been easy to be de-railed from the Big Picture of a Big Canada. Returning to the old-prejudices of the past would have been comforting to many, but then what? A set of small squabbling colonies slowly dropping one by one into the “Excited States of America”? If this were to be the case, there would have been no chance for a North American state where change would be peaceful and evolutionary; no chance for a state which cares for all its citizens.

2017 July 5, John Edwards, “John Edwards writes on Canada”, in The Millstone, Mississippi Mills, Ontario, Canada:

The Excited States of America may have had the most trusted television news anchor in the universe, Walter Cronkite, but Canada had the most trusted weather prognosticator: Winnipeg-born Saltzman.

2019 February 20, Claude McIntosh, “Do you think the weather man is fake news?”, in Seaway News, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada:

Comparing elections between Canada and the Excited States of America is a bit like comparing the halftime shows at the Super Bowl and the Grey Cup.

2020 November 6, Jon Snobelen, “Canada, let's resist the urge to watch down south with smugness”, in Toronto Sun, Toronto, Ontario, Canada:


mommyless

(US, Canada, informal) Without a mother; momless.


honorware

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-honorware.wav

From honor + -ware, since the user is not forced to pay for the software but expected to do so as an honorable gesture.

(software, Canada, US) Synonym of donationware


meat sceptre

Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of meat scepter.


butt lift

butt lifts (plural)
buttlift (alternative)

Fixing onto your voice, I simultaneously, in my mind's eye, check to see how Babs is doing with the plastic surgery, her buttlift, and I know she's made no attempt at all to reduce, but instead steadfastly clings to her fat.

1984, H. L. Stryker, Obsessed: two novels:

(informal, Canada, US) A type of cosmetic surgery to increase the size of one's buttocks.


penny candy

en-noun

penny candy (usually uncountable, plural penny candies)

(Canada, US) Candy, historically sold by the piece at one penny each, now usually sold in bulk by weight.


The centre is receiving free kits as part of a national distribution pilot called Test Now, a program run by the Community-Based Research Centre in Vancouver, seeking to improve testing access for LGBTQ2A+ people.

2021 June 18, Zak Vescera, Gillian Francis, “HIV self-tests hard to come by in Saskatchewan”, in The StarPhoenix:

(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, two-spirited, allied/asexual/aromantic/agender etc.


Silver Cross

From silver + cross from the shape of the medal, being cross-shaped, and the colouration of the medal, being silvery.

Coordinate term: Gold Star (U.S.)

(military) A high-level military service award.

(Canada) A Canadian award for those who died in active service, such as in combat


Claritin

From Latin clāritās + -in (“a pharmaceutical product”).

(Canada, US, pharmacology) A brand of loratadine.


give someone ass cancer

en-verb

give someone ass cancer (third-person singular simple present gives someone ass cancer, present participle giving someone ass cancer, simple past gave someone ass cancer, past participle given someone ass cancer)

gives someone ass cancer (present singular third-person)
giving someone ass cancer (participle present)
gave someone ass cancer (past)
given someone ass cancer (participle past)

I think you just gave me ass-cancer, ye bastard.

2006 April 15, HellPope Huey, “what's so funny about a goat?”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

No good lugging a lot of hate around. It will give you ass cancer.

2012 March 25, “Chapter 19”, in David Gordon Green, director, Eastbound & Down, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Kenny Powers (Danny McBride):

Oh, right. I hate that guy. I always forget that he exists, because being reminded of him gives me ass cancer.

2018 April 18, Sean Garrison, “A Q&A with Rob Pennington about the new By the Grace of God record”, in LEO Weekly:

For instance, consider this excerpt, quoted verbatim, that I received from such a 'troll', replete with slurs of various kinds and send ^([sic]) anonymously of course: 'You are ... retarded, and...your "research" literally gave me ass cancer. […]

2020, The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) To intensely annoy or frustrate someone.


give someone butt cancer

give someone butt cancer (third-person singular simple present gives someone butt cancer, present participle giving someone butt cancer, simple past gave someone butt cancer, past participle given someone butt cancer)

gives someone butt cancer (present singular third-person)
giving someone butt cancer (participle present)
gave someone butt cancer (past)
given someone butt cancer (participle past)

Having to recurse into subdirs on every one of those occasions would give me butt cancer.

2003 May 24, Jøhnny Fävòrítê, “virtualize”, in alt.internet.talk.haven (Usenet):

give someone ass cancer
give someone ass cancer#English

(Canada, US) Synonym of give someone ass cancer


honkydom

From honky (“white person”, ethnic slur) + -dom.

suf

honkiedom (alternative)
honkeydom (alternative)

(Canada, US, derogatory or offensive) The realm or sphere of white people; whites collectively.


honkiness

From honky (“white person”, ethnic slur) + -ness.

honkieness (alternative)
honkeyness (alternative)
honkyness (alternative)

(Canada, US, derogatory or offensive) The state, quality, or condition of being a white person.


CADPAT

Canadian disruption pattern
Canadian disruption pattern#English

(Canada, military) Acronym of Canadian disruption pattern.; The copyrighted digital pixelated squared camouflage pattern used by the Canadian Armed Forces first introduced early in the 21st-century, inspired by dual-tex and inspiring U.S. MARPAT that inspired U.S. UCP.


OECTA

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(Canada) Acronym of Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association.


neighbourlike

en-adj

neighbourlike (comparative more neighbourlike, superlative most neighbourlike)

more neighbourlike (comparative)
most neighbourlike (superlative)
neighborlike (alternative)

(British, Canada) Synonym of neighbourly


draft snake

(Canada, US) A long, flexible draught excluder that lies along the bottom edge of a door, sometimes designed in the likeness of a snake.


MAID

en-noun

MAID (countable and uncountable, plural MAIDs)

(Canada, uncountable) Acronym of medical assistance in dying.


beav

Clipping of beaver (“vulva or public hair near a vulva”).

clipping

(chiefly Canada, US, slang) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.


pantdress

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Most deceptive pantdress is this deep-pleated one in bonded blue crepe from Stchli.

1967, Ebony, volume 23, number 1, page 165:

Classic, box-pleated skimmers and pantdresses stay crisp and fresh, won't wrinkle or wilt!

1969, The New York Times Magazine (part 3)

Girls wore the pantdresses and culottes forbidden during school hours. Miniskirts and pantdresses “would have been unthinkable in this section of the country earlier,” a reporter observed.

2000, Ruth Rubinstein, Society's Child: Identity, Clothing, And Style, page 222:

(Canada, US) A pair of loose pants/trousers for women, resembling a dress.


dumbassness

(vulgar, informal, Canada, US) The state, quality, or condition of a dumbass.


committee rooms

en-noun

committee rooms pl (normally plural, singular committee room)

Hats were thrown in the air at the west end committee rooms when when victory seemed certain and the crowds surged up and down the stairs in the west end committee rooms to offer congratulations to the victorious candidate.

a. 1946, The Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers Journal, International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers:

One of the factors in the success of the party in Verdun in polling a sizable vote was the role played by these voluntary workers in canvassing, distributing literature, and staffing committee rooms.

1946, Herbert F. Quinn, The Quebec Provincial Election of 1944: An Analysis of the Role of the Election in the Democratic Process (master’s thesis), Montreal: McGill University, →OCLC, retrieved 2022-12-07, page 44:

With the party candidate in Winnipeg North, he shared a cramped committee room in the northern district, across the street from the Conservative auxiliary office.[…]

1964, T. Peterson, I. Avakumovic, “A Return to the Status Quo: The Election in Winnipeg North Centre”, in John Meisel, editor, Papers on the 1962 Election: Fifteen Papers on the Canadian General Election of 1962, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, pages 94–95, 100:

COMMITTEE ROOMS:
1915 Osler Street

1975, NDP... Keeping Saskatchewan Alive, Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan NDP; republished Quebec City, Quebec: Centre for Public Policy Analysis, c. 2006, retrieved 2022-12-06, page 17:

When I came to Moosomin 30 years ago, the Liberals, NDP and Conservatives all had active local constituencies, all had well known supporters, all would set up committee rooms during the election, get their lawn signs out and work for their candidate.

2019 October 7, Kevin Weedmark, “Canadian Politics Is No Longer Right Versus Left, It’s Urban Versus Rural”, in The World-Spectator, Moosomin, Saskatchewan, retrieved 2022-12-06:

(Canada, UK, dated) One or more election campaign offices.


kick someone's butt

en-verb

kick someone's butt (third-person singular simple present kicks someone's butt, present participle kicking someone's butt, simple past and past participle kicked someone's butt)

kicks someone's butt (present singular third-person)
kicking someone's butt (participle present)
kicked someone's butt (participle past)
kicked someone's butt (past)

kick someone's ass
kick someone's ass#English

(Canada, US, euphemistic) Alternative form of kick someone's ass