backhouse

backhouses (plural)
back-house (alternative)
back house (alternative)

→ French: bécosse

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

BACK'HOUSE... a necessary.

1847, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language:

[…] the chlorides Mother was always throwing into the little outdoor backhouse […]

1939, Christopher Morley, chapter II, in Kitty Foyle, page 23:

(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


winninish

(chiefly Canada, dated) Alternative form of wananish.


kiack

Common names for the alewife are gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, or kiack.

2007, “Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)”, in Fisheries and Aquaculture—Government of Nova Scotia, retrieved 2011-11-30:

Finally, I visited a group of kiack fishermen down in Argyle. This was a new fishery to me. The kiack (also called gaspereau and alewife in other areas) is fished with a dip net out of small brooks in the Tusket River area.

2010, William Casselman, Nova Scotia Fish Word: Kiack, www.billcasselman.com (retrieved 29 Nov. 2011)

(Canada) Alosa pseudoharengus, a species of small freshwater fish, also known as the alewife.


diamond lane

Usually painted with a white diamond or lozenge.

high occupancy vehicle
high occupancy vehicle

(Canada, US) A freeway lane designated for sole use by high occupancy vehicles.


thruout

He connected the bulb in circuit with his conventional radio apparatus, using the same circuits for additional electrodes that he had used thruout his experiments with the thing.

1920 May 10, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 78, column 2:

It led to a drive against screeno as used in movie houses thruout the city.

St. Paul arrived in Greece 1,900 years ago this summer. It was a momentous event for the peoples of the western world. To signalize this undevicesimal centennial, the Greek Orthodox church is inviting scholars and religious leaders thruout the world to Athens for a delayed celebration in June of 1951.

1950 March 4, John Evans, “Notes on News in Religion”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CIX, number 54, Chicago, Ill., page 8:

Daily Times-Advocate / SERVES MORE SUBSCRIBERS THRUOUT NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER

1964 May 27, Daily Times-Advocate, volume LI, number 237, Escondido, Calif., →OCLC, page 1:

(US, Canada) Nonstandard spelling of throughout.


no duff

From the RAF slang expression "duff gen" meaning bad information; no duff, by extension means accurate, also: stop operations until ordered otherwise.
No Duff comes from the term "No Direction Finding" in the British Army in regards to radio/signals procedure. It was used when in training or on exercise to pass a message true in nature but not related to the aims of the exercise. This could be an accident, change of exercise requirements etc. This means the message to be sent should not be subject to radio direction finding to locate the transmitting station by either the blue or red side. ie
"Hello zero this is two one alpha, NO DUFF message over".
"NO DUFF two one alpha this is zero, roger out to you, hello all stations this is zero stand by for NO DUFF message out, two one alpha send NO DUFF over".
"NO DUFF hello zero this is two one alpha, two one bravo has rolled their rover over, over".
Normally followed by laughter or expletives from the zero's CP.

“Sunray, No Duff, No Duff, No Duff. We need a medic, we’ve got a man down. Wound to the upper arm, and major blood loss. Over.” ¶ All the other chatter on all the radios went dead with the ‘No Duff.’ It was the signal for a medical emergency.

2001, Ska Child, David Harris, Skavoovee, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, page 152:

“Someone grabbed me from behind and said ‘No duff,’ which means this is real,” said LCdr. Wong. “That’s what everybody heard, ‘Plane crash, 737,’ and all of us started running to our posts,” he told reporters after Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived here to commend those who raced to the scene.

2011 August 24, Gloria Galloway, “When troops heard ‘no duff,’ they knew Resolute Bay rescue wasn’t an exercise”, in The Globe and Mail:

(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, military slang, radio voice procedure) Indicating that this is not a drill or training exercise.


no duff

“Get him in here, and radio a ‘no duff’ [casualty] to HQ.”

1999, Scott Taylor, Canada at War and Peace: A Millennium of Military Heritage, volume 3, Ottawa: Esprit de Corps Books, page 140:

[p 224] I called on the radio and — this was the most horrifying part of this — I couldn’t reach my observation post where my guys were. But I did get the command post in the middle of Srebrenica. I told them, “This is a no duff situation. You’ve got two men down and we’re on the trail.’
[p 236, glossary] No duff The radio code words used to get people off the air because a serious incident has occurred.

2003, “Jordie Yeo: Master Corporal” in John Wood ed., The Chance of War: Canadian Soldiers in the Balkans, 1992–1995, Dundurn Press

(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, military slang, radio voice procedure) An incident that is not a drill or training exercise; an emergency. Also end of exercise. Stop drill immediately. As a ‘tap out’ called by during physical training. Sim munitions training in Australian Swat ‘end ex’.


vapourize

en-verb

vapourize (third-person singular simple present vapourizes, present participle vapourizing, simple past and past participle vapourized)

vapourizes (present singular third-person)
vapourizing (participle present)
vapourized (participle past)
vapourized (past)

Oxford British English and Canada standard form of vaporize.


IMP

(Canada, military, food) Initialism of individual meal package.


butt cheek

butt cheeks (plural)
buttcheek (alternative)
butt-cheek (alternative)


asspussy

From ass + pussy, implying it can be used like a vagina.

I rammed it back home, fucked him on his hands and knees til the hot little asspussy must've danced another thirty feet, leaving a trail of pre-cum in the dust.

2009, John Patrick, Naughty by Nature, page 34:

(Canada, US, very uncommon, slang, vulgar) The anus, as the receiving orifice in anal sex.

rondelle

the anus, as the receiving orifice in anal sex


QST

(Canada, taxation) Initialism of Quebec sales tax.


sharrow

Blend of share (verb) + arrow, coined by Oliver Gajda of the City and County of San Francisco Bicycle Program; see the 21 July 2004 quotation.

If you are referring to the http://www.humantransport.org/bicycledriving/index.html website, I don't believe we have a picture of what has been called the "Sharrow," the Shared-Use Arrow. ... Some of us on another list are in discussion about the Sharrow. Our conclusion seems to be that it is preferable to bike lanes, but should be laterally located in the center of the lane so as to NOT mis-communicate to either party expected bicyclist lateral location.

2004 March 27, Wayne Pein, “Re: LAB?”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-14, message-ID <4065D06D.ABC65A8A@nc.rr.comnews>:

As to the SHARROW Study (E1) Mr. Gajda reminded the BAC that colors have to be approved along with everything else and without CTCDC approval the City would be legally exposed. The BAC has the opportunity to advise the Board of Supervisors of our preferences and the Board can then inform the DPT. After being asked of how SHARROW placement decisions are made Mr. Gajda responded that the first work is done on bike routes that do not have a bike lane. Class three roadways. Volumes, speeds, width, collisions, especially dooring. Mr. Gajda warned that the date is based on citations in collision data base which leaves out all unreported accidents. After being asked about what items in the report DPT recommends action by the BAC Mr. Gajda responded that BAC take action on Policy, Grants, and Funding Legislation. Jerry Ervin (District 8) requested a specific list of where the BAC could expect requests for action from DPT. Mr. Gajda responded: SHARROW, Howard Street, Folsom Street, Octavia, Street Surface Conditions, Bicycle Parking, Baby Bullets, BART Bike Station, Funding.

2004 July 21, San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC), “Regular Meeting Minutes”, in City and County of San Francisco, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:

The principal American road-sharing treatment is sharrows ("shared lane arrows"), a bicycle silhouette topped by a double chevron, usually marked every 200 feet (65 m) in the middle or right third of a travel lane in order to encourage cyclists to ride at a safe distance from parked cars. Sharrows are used on both two-lane and multilane roads. [...] Although some cyclists feel that sharrows given them legitimacy when controlling the lane, there is a danger that sharrows will become a cop-out, a way for the city to claim that it's created bike routes without really doing anything to improve bicycling conditions.

2012, Peter G. Furth, “Bicycling Infrastructure for Mass Cycling: A Transatlantic Comparison”, in John Pucher, Ralph Buehler, editors, City Cycling (Urban and Industrial Environments), Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 130:

If there is not enough room to stripe separate bicycle lanes, perhaps motor-vehicle speeds could be reduced through traffic calming, with sharrows installed in the middle of the traffic lanes. This is not a perfect solution for bicyclists, but perhaps it will meet the minimum service threshold.

2012, Jeffrey Tumlin, “Measuring Success”, in Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design; 16), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 276:

As of this writing, the city has 78 miles of bike lanes, 47 miles of bike trails, and 92 miles of sharrows (streets marked to remind motorists that bicycles have a right to the road).

2014, Gene Bisbee, “Seattle”, in Best Bike Rides Seattle: Great Recreational Rides in the Metro Area (A Falcon Guide; Where to Ride Series), Guilford, Conn.: FalconGuides, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 1:

(quoting Nicholas Ferenchak and Wesley Marshall) It is time that sharrows are exposed for what they really are, a cheap alternative that not only fails to solve a pressing safety issue, but actually makes the issue worse through a sense of false security.

2016 February 5, Eric Jaffe, “Some Bike Infrastructure Is Worse Than None at All”, in Bloomberg CityLab:

(US, Canada) A marking (often consisting of an image of a bicycle with two inverted V shapes either above or below it) on the surface of a paved road shared by both bicycles and other vehicles indicating a portion of the road that cyclists may use.


bencher

(Canada, law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).


suffonsified

en-adj

suffonsified (comparative more suffonsified, superlative most suffonsified)

more suffonsified (comparative)
most suffonsified (superlative)
sophonsified (alternative)

Rice bowls topped with pork, chicken, curry or battered, fried seafood tempura are for sale everywhere. You put your money in a vending machine at the door, hand the chit to a server, and for about $6 you can have a seat at the counter, stuff yourself, then merge back into the passing throngs sufficiently suffonsified.

2004 June 30, John Northcott, “Stupid money”, in CBC News:

(Canada, informal, rare) Satisfied or satiated, particularly in appetite.


sophonsified

sophonsified (comparative more sophonsified, superlative most sophonsified)

more sophonsified (comparative)
most sophonsified (superlative)

"Are you sufficiently sophonsified?" Perdie asks Cordelia. This is a new thing they've taken to saying. It means, have you had enough to eat?

1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN:

(Canada, informal, rare) Alternative spelling of suffonsified.


voltigeur

Borrowed from French voltigeur, from voltiger (“to vault”), Italian volteggiare. See volt (“a tread”).


wavey

According to one theory, from Cree. An alternative etymology, perhaps a folk etymology, attributes the name to their peculiar, wavy flight.

Chen caerulescens
Chen caerulescens#Translingual

(US, Canada, dialects) The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)


metrification

en-noun

metrification (countable and uncountable, plural metrifications)


your guys's

tlb

(chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, chiefly proscribed)

2000, Linkin Park Web Interview http://www.pushmeaway.com/linkinwebint.html
I know that in your guys's official bio from Warner that it says you would tour with anyone because your music touches so many genres.

“I don’t believe that a seven-year term of office for our president should be of any particular concern to you, Mr. Kelly.”
“Well, it is, but that is your guys’s problem.[”]

2005, Megan, Age 14, in Weight Loss Success Stories http://www.blubberbuster.com/board/success_37.html
I still have about 30 lbs to lose, which I would love to lose in 3 months..and after reading all your guys's stories I have gained even more motivation.

2006, Tony Kapel, A Letter to the Parents of http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1411685172&id=_ThYMEfjATgC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&vq=your+guys%27s&dq=%22your+guys%27s%22&sig=IJ9Q8OivUhTnAasdJNFyGTc9Www
“Man your guys’s room is bigger then mine — man you got a balcony — I don’t have a balcony.”


seat sale

(Canada, British) A sale of reduced-price airline tickets.


whistlewing

common goldeneye
common goldeneye#English

Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula#Translingual

(dated, Canada, US) The common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula


booty scratcher

en-noun

booty scratcher (plural booty scratchers)

[…] What in the world is an African booty scratcher?” “Something my sister used to call me. I didn’t know what an African booty scratcher was and I still don’t, but I knew it was something negative things around me had taught me that any and everything referencing Africa had dubious admirable qualities. So what I inevitably sculpted one day were these blue-black, big-lipped, wide nosed, monkey-looking African figures with enormous buttocks, swinging naked from a tree, and landing on the jungle floor to scratch theirs or somebody else’s behinds.

1999, Odessa Rose, Water in a Broken Glass. A novel, La Caille Nous Pub. / Cool Water Publishing House LLC, →ISBN, page 121:

At elite universities, Caribbean students have reportedly excluded African Americans from organizations and study groups, claiming, as part of their immigration narratives, that the latter group lacks the appropriate work ethic to participate. Young Caribbean people learn from their parents the stories of exploitation at the hands of African Americans, or other Caribbean people who had been here longer, when they newly arrived in the United States, and those stories become warning narratives. Most black Americans have minimal contact with black immigrants and derive their information about them from imperialistic and Euro-centric media constructions of third-world, black-populated countries. Hence, immigrated blacks are taunted by them with racist terms like “African booty scratcher” or references to AIDS.

2004, Imani Perry, Prophets of the Hood. Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 17:

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An African person.


death star

From death + star: star as in satellite; death as in the decimation of an industry. Influenced by the Death Star base in Star Wars media.

satellite television
satellite television

cable television
cable television#English

digital satellite television
digital satellite television#English

(slang, colloquial, Canada, US, television, dated) a direct-to-home satellite television satellite (used by the cable television provider industry, to describe their competitors and the effect they would have in decimating the cable industry, prior to the introduction of digital satellite television and the three-foot dish revolution)


cellar dweller

A publicity stunt has gone horribly wrong for Gold Coast United after the A-League cellar dwellers suspended their coach Miron Bleiberg indefinitely over comments regarding teenager Mitch Cooper's appointment as skipper.

2012 February 16, “Gold Coast United suspend coach”, in ESPN Australia:

Cellar dwellers Gold Coast United will not be turned into a travelling road show to combat poor home support according to the club's owner Clive Palmer.

2012 February 12, “No Travelling Road Show For United”, in Australian four Four Two, archived from the original on 2012-09-05:

2006 November 8, “Defending champs downed by cellar dweller”, in Vancouver Sun:

(US, Canada, Australia, sports) A team at the bottom of a league, or in a lower league.


mompreneur

(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumpreneur.


lumberjack breakfast

lumberjack breakfast (plural lumberjack breakfasts)

(Canada) A large breakfast of eggs, ham, bacon, sausages, and pancakes.


metrify

en-verb

metrify (third-person singular simple present metrifies, present participle metrifying, simple past and past participle metrified)

metrifies (present singular third-person)
metrifying (participle present)
metrified (participle past)
metrified (past)

From Latin metrum (“meter”) + -fy. Compare French métrifier.


ticktack

ticktack (third-person singular simple present ticktacks, present participle ticktacking, simple past and past participle ticktacked)

ticktacks (present singular third-person)
ticktacking (participle present)
ticktacked (participle past)
ticktacked (past)

(transitive, Canada, US) To play a prank that involves making noise outside a person's house by various means.


make due

make due (third-person singular simple present makes due, present participle making due, simple past and past participle made due)

makes due (present singular third-person)
making due (participle present)
made due (participle past)
made due (past)


wirehouse

wirehouses (plural)
wire-house (alternative)
wire house (alternative)

Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
UBS
Wells Fargo

1904, wire + house (“company”), from earlier private-wire house (1894). Originally referred to brokerage companies that owned or leased telegraph lines, so that market information could be transmitted more quickly. Later generalized to “major brokerage”. Wirehouses are now defined by that they have a direct access to "Fed-Fund Wires", which is the system in which all banks and only the big brokerage houses can "wire" money directly from one account to another. Smaller brokerage firms do not have their own wire line, but need to send transactions by transmitting them through a bank's wire system.

Ten years ago, the Wall Street wirehouse brokerage firm seemed unassailable – part of the very firmament underpinning the entire investment industry from coast to coast.

2012, Josh Brown, “Perhaps I’ve Been a Bit Too Harsh…”, Wall Street Journal Financial Adviser, January 25, 2012

(Canada, US, finance) A major brokerage company, generally nationwide, with multiple branches.

The so-called ‘wire house’ …is a product of the boom times.

1904, N.Y. Evening Post 18 June, 1904 (Financial Section) 1/7

The “market information” is more diversified than formerly, and in many ways the “wire house” can fill a place that the old-style …

1905, The World’s work, volume 9, Doubleday, Page & Co.:

(Canada, US, finance, obsolete) A brokerage company with a telegraph line, telephone line, or electronic communication network.


private-wire house

en-noun

private-wire house (plural private-wire houses)

private-wire houses (plural)
private wire house (alternative)

1894, due to these brokerage companies owning or leasing telegraph lines (which occurred since 1873), so that market information could be transmitted more quickly.

All the private-wire houses were active on the selling side, those most talked of in connection with the Wall Street bull interest being the most active.

1894, “Chicago Was Afraid of Wall Street”, The New York Times, February 10, 1894, page 2

Commission men, as a rule, will not accept discretionary orders. Their risk is great enough when directions are explicit. The following is the eloquent plea made, in a letter to a private-wire house, …

1895, Forest and Stream,, volume 44, page 463:

Edward Leland of the firm of Leland Ware, which in its line did the biggest private-wire business in the country, was expelled from the Chicago Stock Exchange today on the general charge of indulging in methods detrimental to the interests and contrary to the rules of the institution of which he had been a member only a year.

1899 December 14, “Chicago Broker Expelled: Large Private Wire House Guilty of Connection with Bucket Shops .”, in The New York Times, page 2:


whiteass

And how many times have our people spoke^([sic]) of dreams since the Whiteasses came?

2000, Michael Piedmonte, Split Land of Liberty, page 137:

(Canada, US, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person.


subpena

(Canada, US) Alternative form of subpoena.


subpena

en-verb

subpena (third-person singular simple present subpenas, present participle subpenaing, simple past and past participle subpenaed)

subpenas (present singular third-person)
subpenaing (participle present)
subpenaed (participle past)
subpenaed (past)


chicot

Felling a tree which is supporting a chicot can be dangerous as depicted in the above drawing. The victim in this case was fatally crushed by the falling chicot.

1972, Pulp & Paper Magazine of Canada (volume 73, issues 1-6, page 28)

(Canada, forestry) A tree or tree limb that is dead and may fall and cause injury.


wicopy

From an Algonquian term for "stringy bark"; compare Abenaki wigebi (“stringy inner bark (used as cordage)”), Ojibwe wiigob (“inner bark of a basswood”).

cog

wickape (alternative)
wickopy (alternative)

(US, Canada) Any of several trees, such as the leatherwood/moosewood (of the genus Dirca), the whitewood, or the American basswood/linden (of the genus Tilia).


daycation

You'll want a back-pocket, getaway idea to pull out when you have a free afternoon and the itch to take off for a while. Our "daycations" are just the ticket to satisfy mini wanderlust.

1986 June, Linda Pender, “Daycations”, in Cincinnati Magazine:

(Canada, US) A single-day excursion or retreat.


hoodman

en-noun

hoodman (plural hoodmen or (MTE, slang) hoodmans)

hoodmen (plural)
hoodmans (plural slang)

toronto hoodmans don't even laugh they just yell "yooooo" & "chillll" in different variations and rhythms

2018 January 31, @racquelll_, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-26:

(Canada, chiefly Toronto, MTE, slang) A member of a youth subculture group that listens to urban music, wears puffer jackets and sportswear, uses a heavy Toronto accent (with lingo), is typically uneducated, and may be engaged in illegal activities.


workcation

(Canada, US, informal) A vacation that one spends getting work done.

trabacaciones

a vacation that one spends getting work done


frozen custard

frozen custard (countable and uncountable, plural frozen custards)

(US, Canada) A cold dessert similar to ice cream, made with eggs in addition to cream and sugar.


catbutt

who must now go and prevent her 9 pound cat from kicking the catbutts of two 23+ pound cats.

1996 May 29, Julia A. M. Hayden, “Re: GH:All Alone”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet):

> Probably for the same reason people stare at cats' assholes.
oh i don't know. catbutts are kinda cute, don't you think?

1998 June 3, Erik, “Re: My FINAL reply to Lisa”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):

I have been very conscious of the fact that by declawing her, I rendered her defenseless. However, she has kicked some catbutt when we had intact kitty boarders, not drawing blood, but winning by intimidation.

1998 September 29, Blake, “Re: declawing”, in alt.cats (Usenet):

Hey now, my cats are always sticking their butts in my face to show me what a good job they did cleaning them. I'd rather look at a catbutt than troll leavings any day.

2000 July 1, Noelle, “Re: Oh Hell..Wonder pill lets women conceive at sixty”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

EVERY SINGLE CAT IN THIS HOUSE HAS STUCK HIS BUTT IN MY FACE!! Do I look depressed? <various Patrons shake their heads> Do I look like I NEED a catbutt in my face?

2001 October 7, Kat & Kent [username], “semiRANT! Catbutts!”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):

Within a nanosecond of the book becoming a horizontal surface, there was a catbutt firmly planted upon it.

2002 January 13, Yowie [username], “Considerate [BW][Long]”, in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes (Usenet):

You can buy catbutt refrigerator magnets, clever cards, and fun jewelry and T-shirts by local artists.

2011, Beth Taylor, Frommer's Seattle Day by Day, page 76:

2011, Alan Scherstuhl, Studies in Crap, SF Weekly, 1951 Planned Parenthood Pamphlet Pretty Much Says Life Begins at Conception, link
Junior got mom's brown hair and dad's catbutt eyes!

(Canada, US, informal, sometimes attributive) The backside of a cat.


momoir

So-called momoirs, first-person accounts exploding some of the sentimentality about motherhood, include Andrea J. Buchanan's "Mother Shock" and Muffy Mead-Ferro's "Confessions of a Slacker Mom."

2006 December 17, Lizzie Skurnick, “Chick Lit, the Sequel: Yummy Mummy”, in The New York Times:

(Canada, US, informal) A memoir written by or about a mother.


Muskoka chair

From Muskoka + chair, after the Muskoka Lakes region of Ontario.

(Canada) A kind of outdoor lounge chair made of wood, with wide arm rests; Adirondack chair.


Adirondack chair

Adirondack chair (plural Adirondack chairs)

After the Adirondacks, a mountain chain in New York State.

Nurse Graves […] wheeled him out onto the veranda, where he was lifted into an Adirondack chair and positioned so that he was facing the sun—or, rather, the spot in the firmament the sun might have occupied if it hadn't gone south for the winter.

1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 104:

(Canada, US) A kind of outdoor lounge chair made of wood, with wide arm rests.


tiger mom

The message to tiger moms: telling your kids that failure is not an option does not set them up for success.

2012 March 30, Stefanie Weisman, “Taming the Tiger of Achievement”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2012-05-17:


monkey trail

(Western Canada) A beaten path where children play.


victory lap

2012 Summer Olympics
Gladys Tejeda
Nastassia Staravoitava
Rasa Drazdauskaitė
Sviatlana Kouhan
Ümmü Kiraz

It’s not just finances that lead to victory laps. Those who study abroad during undergraduate may find it difficult to earn enough credits to fulfill degree requirements in four years.

2013 February 25, Vivien Chang, “The myth of the four-year degree”, in Maclean's:

McNaughton continues, “I took a stroll underneath it before freshman year and I am going to be taking a victory lap.”

2017 April 1, Peter Lenz, “The Clock Tower: The History, The Myths, and More”, in The Racquet:

(Canada, US, education, slang) One or more years of study beyond the traditional four taken to complete one's undergraduate degree.

An examination of the data generated by the survey instrument revealed the existence of a definitive gender disparity between the two groups in that 47.8% (22 of 46) of male respondents reported having taken a victory lap compared to 20.2% (21 of 104) of their female counterparts.

2010 November 18, Patrick Brady, Philip Allingham, “Pathways to University: The ‘Victory Lap’ Phenomenon in Ontario”, in Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, number 113:

Each year as many as 20,000 students head back for a so-called victory lap in Ontario's classrooms, which prompted the province to implement a 34-credit cap in a bid to save up to $22 million annually.

2012 April 9, Teri Pecoskie, “A cap on the victory lap”, in Hamilton Spectator:

(Canada, chiefly Ontario, education, slang) One or more additional years of study in high school.


Greek yogurt

Greek yogurt (countable and uncountable, plural Greek yogurts)

Greek yogurts (plural)
Greek yoghurt (alternative)

So called due to its association with Greece, due to this type of yogurt being eaten by people from the Levantine region and Greece, and later it being mainly exported from Greece to the various parts of the English-speaking world by brands like Fage. Attested since at least 1968.

dahi

any [[yogurt]] that bar [[possible]] [[fruit]]s has minimal [[addition]]s in particular of [[sugar]] or other [[sweetener]]s: normal [[yogurt]]; the same as Greek yogurt minus the step of straining

A form of yogurt that has been strained to remove the whey, resulting in lower fat content and higher protein content.


Crown prosecutor

Crown prosecutor (plural Crown prosecutors)

Crown prosecutors (plural)
crown prosecutor (alternative)

(British, Canada, Australia) The state prosecutor; the legal party responsible for presenting the case against an individual in a criminal trial.


Black English

Greater Toronto English
Greater Toronto English#English

Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.

(Canada) Synonym of Greater Toronto English (“MTE”).


waterhorse

(Canada, dialect) A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.


snow bunny

(Canada, US, slang) An inexperienced, usually female skier.

(Canada, US, slang) A young, attractive, female skier; a sexually active young woman attracted to the promiscuous après-ski way of life.


auto shop

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

(US, Canada) A shop that deals in the repair of automobiles

(US, Canada) A school class dealing with the repair of automobiles.


wood shop

(US, Canada) A shop that deals in woodworking or carpentry

(US, Canada) A school class dealing with woodworking or carpentry


aww yeah

[ɔː˧˧˦ jɛː˨˩ə˩]

Aww yeah, I got a new video game!

(informal, slang, Canada, US) an exclamation of excitement or joy


laugh up one's sleeve

en-verb

laugh up one's sleeve (third-person singular simple present laughs up one's sleeve, present participle laughing up one's sleeve, simple past and past participle laughed up one's sleeve)

laughs up one's sleeve (present singular third-person)
laughing up one's sleeve (participle present)
laughed up one's sleeve (participle past)
laughed up one's sleeve (past)

laugh in one's sleeve
laugh in one's sleeve#English

(UK, Canada, idiomatic) Alternative form of laugh in one's sleeve.


laugh in one's sleeve

laugh in one's sleeve (third-person singular simple present laughs in one's sleeve, present participle laughing in one's sleeve, simple past and past participle laughed in one's sleeve)

laughs in one's sleeve (present singular third-person)
laughing in one's sleeve (participle present)
laughed in one's sleeve (participle past)
laughed in one's sleeve (past)
laugh up one's sleeve (alternative)

Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland "the week that changed the world"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign emissaries of the previous centuries who went to Peking to pay homage at the Chinese Imperial Court. Nixon's hosts must have laughed in their sleeves at his behavior during their meetings.

1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:

(US, Canada, idiomatic) to laugh in secret or to oneself, usually gloatingly

смея́ться в кула́к impf (smejátʹsja v kulák, literally “to laugh in one's fist”)


summary offence

en-noun

summary offence (plural summary offences)

(law, British, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong) A crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.

簡易罪 /简易罪

crime that can be proceeded against summarily


Juan de Fuca Strait

Strait of Juan de Fuca
Strait of Juan de Fuca


RDC

The virtue of the R.D.C. is that it can be used for short inter-city trips such as this, or for branch services, or even for commuting. It is a pity that its spartan accommodation makes it unsuitable for long runs; the introduction by the C.P.R. of an "improved" service between Medicine Hat and Vancouver (nearly 1,000 miles stopping at almost all stations), using an R.D.C., got the hostile press reception it deserved.

1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:

(rail transport, US, Canada) A Budd Rail Diesel Car, a self-propelled railcar for passengers.


truck stop

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Any teamster pulling into a truck stop today will almost surely be vastly outnumbered by nonunion drivers.

1996 December 18, Dirk Johnson, “Nostalgia Shaped Some Teamster Votes”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-07-27:

Nestled in the rolling hills of Lancaster County, the town of Gap is a sprawling collection of clapboard houses, strip malls and a truck stop named Touch O' Home.

2001 June 24, Nadya Labi, “Amiss Among The Amish”, in Time:

(chiefly Canada, US, Australia) A roadside service area, usually consisting of a restaurant and service station and sometimes a motel or hotel, where drivers of long-haul trucks can stop to refuel, eat, and rest.


bazoo

Probably from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). First attested in the mid 19th c..

It goes against the grain to toot one’s own “bazoo”

1894, “Splendid work of the National Association of Dental Faculties”, in Dominion Dental Journal, volume VI, page 221:

Born Charles Westover in Coopersville, Michigan, on 30 December 1939, he learned to play the bazoo, ukulele and, eventually, the guitar.

2012, Sharon Davis, Every Chart Topper Tells a Story:

The bully girl with a crystal optic and tin horn was at the jollification. She “tooted her bazoo” in concert with Hon. Nelson’s horn, and wanted “White husbands or none.”

2017 May 1, Peter Jensen Brown, quoting Leavenworth Weekly Times, July 21, 1870, “Bazoo, Kazoo, Bazooka”, in Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog:

(Canada, US, dated) A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn.


lobster pound

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So sing (if you listen closely) some 5000 lobsters rushed by air freight daily direct from a 1,000,000-capacity lobster pound in Clark's Harbour in the southernmost tip of Nova Scotia to Sea 'n Surf Restaurant on Rte. 9, Framingham.

1963 September 29, “Lobster Fit for Queen At Sea'n Surf”, in Boston Globe, USA, retrieved 2012-07-28, page B18:

The new lobster pound under construction on the east side of Pero Point is expected to begin receiving its first lobsters during the annual fall lobster harvest in November.

1987 March 27, Clayton Beal, "Lobster pound being built on east side of Pero Point," Bangor Daily News (Maine, USA), p. 8 (retrieved 28 July 2012)

Digby County lobster fisherman Paulin Robichaud, who lost 35,000 lobsters in an apparent case of deliberate poisoning last month, is getting out of the business and won't be restocking his lobster pound.

2007 August 8, “Pound won't reopen, says lobster fisherman”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 2012-07-28:

(chiefly Northern Atlantic region of Canada, US) A large commercial enclosure filled with circulating water in which lobsters are kept alive pending sale.


assbrain

Back in a few hours, assbrain.

2002, Andre Perkowski, Along the Edges of Electric Disgust: An Exciting Novel of Tomorrow, page 4:

You, me, all those other assbrains in there, throwing our dollars at Max Hunter.

1993, James W. Hall, Hard Aground, page 4:

It was in the newspapers and on TV how cops all over the country were looking for Buddy, and here this assbrain wanted to know if he was sending postcards, or calling up to chat, or whatever dumb fucking thing she thought.

1993, James Neal Harvey, The Headsman, page 218:

(Canada, US, slang, sometimes considered, vulgar, derogatory or offensive) An idiot; a fool.


bike lane

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(Canada, US) Alternative form of bicycle lane.


survivance

survivance (countable and uncountable, plural survivances)

(Canada) The survival of Francophone culture in the face of Anglo-American hegemony.


scalie

While we were there a couple of scalies came out and started up the street, but seeing the strikers there they turned around and went back into the saloon.

1908 November, “On the Firing Line”, in Machinists' Monthly Journal, volume 20, number 11, page 998:

In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.

1911 March, “From Brittania Lodge, No. 361”, in Railway Carmen's Journal, volume 16, number 3, page 129:

In Dallas, women scalies cursed women pickets; four pickets went to jail for disorderly conduct while the scalies went on to work.

1935, International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union Journal, volume 30, page 830:

(Canada, US, dated, derogatory, slang) A strikebreaker.


freshman fifteen

I gained the dreaded "freshman fifteen," whereas Ophi became unnaturally thin from eating too little.

1997, Tali Edut, with Dyann Logwood and Ophira Edut, “HUES Magazine: The Making of a Movement”, in Leslie Heywood, Jennifer Drake, editors, Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 85:

Having gained the regulation freshman fifteen meant that my skirt that day fit.

1999 August 4, Alice Sebold, Lucky, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, →OL, page 37:

The freshman fifteen is the stuff of urban legend — a horror story that wreaks havoc on the psyches of high school seniors everywhere, for fear that it too might touch their lives, leaving them crying in the Sears dressing room shopping for pants two sizes larger.

2012 August 9, Tiana Kupinski, “Getting mean on the Freshman 15”, Sun Belt Collegiate, in Explorer:

(colloquial, US, Canada) The amount of body weight (thought to be 15 pounds) gained by a student during their first year of college.


Crown attorney

(Canada) An attorney who represents the federal or provincial government in a court of law.


lieutenant governor

lieutenant governor (plural lieutenant governors)

lieutenant governors (plural)
lieutenant-governor (alternative)

(Canada, government) The representative of the Crown in the provincial legislatures of Canada.


moving violation

moving violation (plural moving violations)

Under present law, the Department of Public Safety can suspend a license from 30 to 90 days when the holder accumulates three moving violations.

1959 May 20, Taking Violators Off the Road, St Petersburg Times, p. 8A

(US, Canada, Australia, law enforcement) Violation of the law by the driver of a vehicle while in motion.

Verkehrsverstoß

violation of law by the driver of a moving vehicle


watap

watap (usually uncountable, plural wataps)

wataps (plural)
watape (alternative)
wattape (alternative)

(US, Canada) The root of the spruce, and sometimes also of the pine, split lengthwise into strips and used in the construction of baskets and canoes.


wejack

From Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”) or Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”). Doublet of woodchuck and woodshock.

Pekania pennanti
Pekania pennanti#Translingual

Martes pennanti
Martes pennanti#Translingual

(US, Canada, rare) A fisher, Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti.


whisky-jack

(Canada) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).


creton

(Canada, New England) A spreadable paste made from pork fat, ground pork trimmings, onions.


woodshock

From the same Cree term ocêk, otchek (“fisher, marten”) or Ojibwe term ojiig (“fisher, marten”) which was taken into English as wejack in reference to the marten and as woodchuck in erroneous reference to the groundhog. Woodchuck may derive from woodshock.

(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The marten, or its pelt.

(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The groundhog, or its pelt.


klootch

Either a shortening of klootchman, or simply from the Nootka łuuč (“female”); that is, from the first part of that word without the addition of the second part.

(US, Canada, western dialects, uncommon) klootchman: woman, wife (especially if Native American).


high muckamuck

From Chinook Jargon hiyu muckamuck (“plenty of food”). Compare muckamuck.

He would become well when he reformed his eating habits and submitted himself to the regimen prescribed by Dr. John HArvey Kellogg and the high muckamucks of health.

1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 94:

(Canada, US, colloquial) A person in a position of power, authority, or status.


squaw winter

squaw + winter. The Narragansett word squaw was applied by Europeans to a large number of unrelated things; see the Derived terms section of the entry squaw.

(Canada, Northwest Territories) A mild onset of winter.


private member's bill

private member's bill (plural private member's bills)

(law, British, Canada, Australia) A proposed law introduced by a member of a legislature who is not acting on behalf of the executive government.

私人條例草案 /私人条例草案

proposed law introduced by a member who is not acting on behalf of the executive


for days

Her legs went on for days.

(US, Canada, informal) For a large amount or distance; a lot.

She has legs for days.

That kid has charisma for days.

(US, Canada, informal) To a great degree; very much.


methy

From Woods Cree mathay (“burbot”); compare Cree miyay.

The occow, or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or doré, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the gadus lota, or burbot, of Europe.

1824, John Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, volume 1, page 144:

In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy, and several sucking-carp.

1836, Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, volume 1, page 53:

Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish, […]

1873, Anual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the year ending the 30th June, 1872, page 191:


indictable offence

indictable offence (plural indictable offences)

(law, British, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong) An offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury, in contrast to a summary offence.


assholish

en-adj

assholish (comparative more assholish, superlative most assholish)

more assholish (comparative)
most assholish (superlative)

(vulgar, Canada, US, informal) Like an asshole; objectionable, confrontational, etc.


refrigerator mom

en-noun

refrigerator mom (plural refrigerator moms)

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(Canada, US, informal) refrigerator mother


(Canada, informal) A 26-ounce bottle of alcoholic drink.


is it

issit (alternative)
izit (alternative)
izzit (alternative)

- I'm feeling tired.

- Is it?

2007, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, "Thou Shalt Always Kill" on Angles
Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Brad at the club last night by saying "is it?"

"I mean what now - the bet is cancelled but they are both going to ask her, is it?"

2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 187:

(Canada, South Africa, India, MLE, MTE) really? is that so?


show one's butt

en-verb

show one's butt (third-person singular simple present shows one's butt, present participle showing one's butt, simple past showed one's butt, past participle shown one's butt or (US) showed one's butt)

shows one's butt (present singular third-person)
showing one's butt (participle present)
showed one's butt (past)
shown one's butt (participle past)
showed one's butt (US participle past)

They've been showing their butts (misbehaving), and so you know they haven't been out.

As of tonight those Federal goons in there showing their butts aren't law enforcement officers any more. They're the criminals now.

2005, H. A. Covington, A Mighty Fortress, →ISBN, page 152:

Granddaddy Jaybird always did something to, as Dad said when he thought I wasn't listening, “show his butt,” and today would be no exception.

2008, Robert McCammon, Boys' Life, →ISBN, page 65:

Las' night he tried ta show his butt by standin' up ta his ole man. I don't reckon he'll try that again anytime soon.

2009, Barry Reed, The Innocent Pirate, →ISBN, page 267:

He really showed his butt when he screeched in anger and frustration at finding it empty. He proceeded to rip the hell out of the bamboo, pulling it out of the ground with his beak and talons.

2010, Laura Lacey Satterly, Survival 2033, →ISBN, page 65:

He caused us to be late getting on the road because he was playing the “poor, pitiful, no-one understands me” card. It was around this time I learned a new expression from his family. He was showing his butt.

2012, Tracie Crawford, I Changed My Mind, →ISBN, page 76:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar, idiomatic) To misbehave or act defiantly.


lamesauce

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) Something that is undesirable or detrimental.


lamesauce

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) An expression of frustration or disappointment.


flip the script

flip the script (third-person singular simple present flips the script, present participle flipping the script, simple past and past participle flipped the script)

flips the script (present singular third-person)
flipping the script (participle present)
flipped the script (participle past)
flipped the script (past)

Some people walk with a panther or strike a buffalo stance that makes you wanna dance. Other people flip the script on the day of the jackal that'll make you cackle.

2003, Deborah Gregory, The Cheetah Girls: Livin' Large!, page 405:

But sometimes she'd flip the script and come out with some tight shit on, turning that magnetic strength up to full power.

2008, Brian Peterson, Move Over, Girl: A Novel, page 63:

We need to flip the script and start showing that same level of compassion and love toward each other, and perhaps we will then gain respect and control over our communities.

2010, Inkwell, Children in the Belly of the Beast: Breeding Ground for Social Pathology, page 148:

And we're not talking about me. We're talking about you. What's with you Kings? You're always trying to flip the script on me.

2011, Adrianne Byrd, King's Promise, page 94:

I know there are exceptions, and I’m not trying to flip the script and reveal the reactionary face of Hollywood, though it’s true that in the years of the Production Code (from the mid-’30s until the late ’60s), Hollywood upheld a fairly conservative vision of American life.

2022 June 2, A. O. Scott, “Are the Movies Liberal?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Canada, US, informal) To reverse a situation, especially by doing something unexpected.


you gals

Hey you gals! How you doin'?

You gals headin' down to the beach?

(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) You (plural).

the list of other second-person pronouns in you


garbage mitt

A type of mitt once commonly seen worn in cold weather by garbagemen.

Western kids often wore what they called “garbage mitts”—padded for heavy duty by city workers—instead of hockey gloves; Maritimers used their father’s work gauntlets, with heavy leather up the wrists. But the essential rules were the same everywhere: no goal-sucking, no raising, unless whoever’s younger brother was stuck in goal was also foolish enough to wear shin-pads, no long shots, no throwing your stick to stop a breakaway.

1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004, page 77:

She looked like a man, like a miniature version of Buck wearing his old red toque with the ragged pompom, his garbage mitts stained with fish blood, the army green parka.

2004, Cara Hedley, Twenty Miles, Toronto: Coach House Books, published 2007, page 188:

I would get into the most fabulous fistfights — dropping my garbage mitts and hurling my fluxing body onto another adolescent, and we would roll around in the freshly plower street tasting salt and each other’s fists.

2005, Jon Paul Fiorentino, “Electrolux”, in Asthmatica, Toronto: Insomniac Press, page 29:

(Western Canada, especially Manitoba, chiefly in the plural) A thick hide mitten, with thick pile lining.


duck hawk

duck hawks (plural)
duck-hawk (alternative)

Falco peregrinus
Falco peregrinus#Translingual

(US, Canada) peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)


buttmuncher

(Canada, US, somewhat vulgar, slang, humorous) Term of abuse


cheezie

From the name of the Canadian cheese puff brand Cheezies (derived from cheesy), produced by W.T. Hawkins Ltd, through trademark erosion.

A table beside it was crowded with empty cola bottles and half-eaten bags of chips and cheezies.

1994, Margaret Buffie, The Warnings, Kids Can Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 125:

Within seconds, the air was thick with flying potato chips, cheezies and other odds and ends.

2006, Michele Martin Bossley, Swiped, Orca Book Publishers, published 2006, →ISBN, page 6:

Day-glo orange cheezies are highly processed and practically nutrient-free—the diet equivalent of entertainment television.

2007, Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit, Healthy Mum, Happy Baby: How to Feed Yourself When You're Breastfeeding Your Baby, Random House Canada, →ISBN, pages 60–61:


forced-birther

[…] that we are English, for there is something peculiarly English about modern abortion, and that is why we can bravely claim to be, as the forced-birthers snarl, the abortion capital of the world, no less.

1997, The American Spectator, volume 30, page 88:

(chiefly US, Canada, politics, informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who desires that abortion be illegal, and thus that pregnant women be required to carry to term and give birth in all or most cases; a pro-lifer.


buttprint

Putting a dirty buttprint on the bed probably wasn't the nicest thing to do, but it couldn't be helped.

(slang, Canada, US) The mark or impression left by buttocks having been pressed against a surface.


assprint

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If you sat on it, your assprint was impossible to rub away.

2011, Peter Orner, Love and Shame and Love: A Novel:


rubegoldbergian

en-adj

rubegoldbergian (comparative more rubegoldbergian, superlative most rubegoldbergian)

more rubegoldbergian (comparative)
most rubegoldbergian (superlative)
Rube Goldbergian (alternative)

/ɹuːbɡəʊldˈbəːɡɪən/

The machinery of government is often rubegoldbergian, with complex arrangements of devolution and special status and power-sharing and affirmative action, and the contraption is held together by a few national symbols such as a rugby team.

2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 633:

(Canada, US) Achieving a simple objective by absurdly complicated means; overcomplicated, elaborate and impractical.


manther

Cougars and manthers (which you should have heard of by now—or you can at least intuit) are always on the hunt for the energetic, supple, and naive.

2010, Brian Griffin, The Trustafarian Handbook: A Field Guide to the Neo-Hippie Lifestyle Funded by Mom and Dad, Adams Media, published 2010, →ISBN, page 195:

(Canada, US, slang) A woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men.


manther

“Jolo was a dick magnet but preferred manthers (older men who preyed on younger women) who spend lots of cash on her and me.”

2011, Dennis J. Stevens, Wicked Women: A Journey of Super Predators, iUniverse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50:

All of these questions and more will be answered when Loverboy unleashes its well-oiled, classic rock canon on a sea of sweaty cougars and manthers grinding against one another to “Turn Me Loose,” April 21 at the Commodore.

2012 April 20, “Picks of the week”, in Vancouver Courier, page A37:

(Canada, US, slang) A man who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger women.


rum-runner

rum-runners (plural)
rumrunner (alternative)
rum runner (alternative)

Near-synonyms: bootlegger; moonshiner, shiner

(US, Canada) An alcohol smuggler, especially from the Prohibition era.


Timmy's

Now to end the past 7 days of hell I have gotten the wrong order at Timmy's!!!!!!

2001, WANDA BRAUGH, “ATTENTION DRIVE THRU EMPLOYEES”, in ott.singles (Usenet):

"Where do you want to go?" "Just down to Timmy's." She felt all Canadian-like, calling the Tim Hortons donut chain by the nickname the locals used.

Back in the car, I turned on the cruise control at a safe 110 kilometres an hour and, thanks to Timmy's donuts and coffee, I began to wake up.

2011, Ron MacLean, Kirstie McLellan Day, Cornered: Hijinks, Highlights, Late Nights and Insights:

(Canada, MTE, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons.


butt dialing

I love this phone because it has GPS on it as well as the flip covers the keypad..so no more purse or butt dialing! LOL

2002 July 8, Aclavern33, “Re: Is there a great deal on any SPCS phone now for existing customer?”, in alt.cellular.sprintpcs (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-06, message-ID <20020707220838.13072.00004393@mb-mu.aol.com>:

[I'm curious why they would include such a feature in the first place.] Butt dialing. Especially since some phones call 911 if you hold down one key on the phone for several seconds, it's easy to accidentally dial 911. On certain Nextel phones you hold down "9" for a couple of seconds and it dials 911.

2007 November 24, Gordon Burditt, “Re: Design flaw in Verizon cell phones let criminals know you are dialing 911 via audible tone.”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-06, message-ID <13kh1sbqrvo335f@corp.supernews.com>:

The Moto-G is the only one without a fingerprint sensor, which probably means it's more vulnerable to butt-dialing, unless they have new techniques I'm not familiar with.

2016 July 8, crankypuss, “unlocked phones: Moto-G vs OnePlus 3 vs iPhone SE?”, in comp.mobile.android (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-06, message-ID <nlnv5h$nn9$1@gioia.aioe.org>:

(Canada, US, colloquial) The action of making a call from a cellphone in one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed


assplant

(Canada, US, slang) An unintentional landing on one's buttocks.


assplant

en-verb

assplant (third-person singular simple present assplants, present participle assplanting, simple past and past participle assplanted)

assplants (present singular third-person)
assplanting (participle present)
assplanted (participle past)
assplanted (past)

I assplanted in the parking lot.

(Canada, US, slang) To land on one's buttocks (unintentionally).


give one's head a shake

give one's head a shake (third-person singular simple present gives one's head a shake, present participle giving one's head a shake, simple past gave one's head a shake, past participle given one's head a shake)

gives one's head a shake (present singular third-person)
giving one's head a shake (participle present)
gave one's head a shake (past)
given one's head a shake (participle past)

If you're thinking about topping your burger with ketchup, mustard, relish and perhaps a couple of pickle slices, you might want to "give your head a shake."

2009 August 20, Joanne Chianello, “New program asks you to pass on the sodium”, in The Windsor Star:

But give your head a shake, people. Stop pushing for Wi-Fi at campgrounds around B.C. The entire premise of going camping is to escape from the hustle and bustle of our busy lives.

2011 August 19, Roxanne Hooper, “Please, keep the wilderness wild”, in The Record, New Westminster, British Columbia:

Talk about focussing on the unimportant. Give your head a shake, Google.

2011 December 5, Cam Cole, “Leafs lying scandal blown out of proportion”, in National Post:

(idiomatic, Canada) To reassess the common sense of one's behaviour, ideas, etc.


BGH

Initialism of Brockville General Hospital.

Brockville General Hospital
Brockville General Hospital#English


buttbreath

buttbreaths (plural)
butt-breath (alternative)
butt breath (alternative)

From butt (“buttocks, backside”) + breath.

No, like Reverend King, buttbreath, she said.

1994, James W. Hall, Hard Aground, Dell, published 1994, →ISBN, page 130:

"Buttbreath," said Travis, catching on.

1997, Steve Gannon, A Song for the Asking, Bantam Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 64:

“Did you see that buttbreath I pitched out into the street?”

2002, Chris Bunch, Star Risk, LTD., Prologue Books, published 2002, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar, derogatory) Synonym of arsebreath.


Schadenford

2008, blend of schadenfreude (“malicious enjoyment of another’s misfortune”) + Ford (“surname”). Coined by Philip Preville in the title of a Toronto Life article.

blend

[title] Schadenford: The arrest of Rob Ford, city hall hoser

2008 March 28, Philip Preville, “Schadenford: The arrest of Rob Ford, city hall hoser”, in Toronto Life:

The situation prompted some Twitter users to resurrect the term “schadenford” — taking pleasure at the mayor's misfortunes — and a play on the German word schadenfreude.

2011, Colin Perkel, “Police chief backs Mayor Ford on 911 call after ‘22 minutes’ fiasco”, Canadian Press (St. Albert Gazette), October 28

In 2013, there's nothing remotely acceptable about engaging in Schadenford, a term coined by Toronto Life in 2008, when then-councillor Rob Ford was charged with assault and uttering death threats in a domestic incident involving his wife.
Already a national punchline, Rob Ford went international, with U.S. TV talk shows engaging in their own particular form of Schadenford -- sketches about a nice, polite Canadian city with a buffoon leader who does a modern-day Marion Barry impression.

2013 May 26, Bartley Kives, “When the Ford jokes stop”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

(Canada, humorous) Perverse pleasure derived from observing the foibles of Toronto mayor Rob Ford.


Robert Borden

Robert Bordens (plural)
Borden (alternative)
Sir Robert Borden (alternative)

From the depiction of Robert Borden, former Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920, on the front of the Canadian hundred-dollar note.

Short of spraying magnums of Veuve Clicquot over backbenchers while lighting cigars with Robert Bordens, Paul and Co. announced a pre-budget teaser of how he and his pals planned to spend! spend! spend! on all sorts of crazy "please have us back" projects, things like fancy new transit system improvements, hundreds of millions of dollars for struggling farmers, and a program to curb gun violence in our fair city.

2005 November 29, Jose Loureno, “Give me $50 now, and I might even vote”, in Toronto Star:

As for hopes of perhaps finding a load of gold bars or wrapped up stacks of Robert Bordens once they get inside, Quince isn’t holding his breath.

2011, Andrew Zwicker, "Wine, chocolate and chamber music aim to crack the code of the BMO safe", The Rossland Telegraph (Rossland, British Columbia), 9 February 2011

Well, well, J.D. Rockefeller, stick to our foolproof guide and you’ll be rolling in the Robert Bordens in no time.

2012, Wade Wilson & Edward Blake, "Topz (With a Z): Top Ways to Make Money", The Iron Warrior (University of Waterloo), 4 July 2012

(Canada, slang) A Canadian hundred-dollar note.


charter member

(Canada, US) An original member of an organization; a member named in an organization's charter.


poutinerie

poutineries (plural)
poutinery (alternative)

Smolkin says he's hit every expansion target since the poutinerie's launch in November 2008.

2016 July 8, Aleksandra Sagan, “Is Smoke's on the path to global domination?”, in CTV News, archived from the original on 2020-12-04:

Hana had been up until 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday preparing poutine for the Rockin' River Music Festival in Merritt, B.C., where the poutinerie is slated to be a vendor.

2019 July 31, Dominika Lirette, “Large poutine food truck stolen from owner”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2021-07-31:

One of the poutinerie's walls bears the scrawled names of current and former staff.

2022 December 27, Eric Andrew-Gee, “How immigrants from Benin saved a Quebec town's storied poutinerie”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

(chiefly Canada) A restaurant that specializes in making poutine.


Molson muscle

From Molson, a popular Canadian beer brand, + muscle.

Molson's muscle (alternative)
Molson-muscle (alternative)

We also needed to make the message entertaining. Therefore, we associated the distribution curb [sic] with what is amusingly referred to in Canada as the "Molson Muscle".

1986, Norman Giesbrecht and Ann E. Cox eds., Prevention, alcohol and the environment: issues, constituencies, and strategies, Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, p 180

Jim, sporting a gradually growing Molson muscle, is too tired when he gets home from work. He watches T.V. every night and keeps company with a six pack.

1996 [2004], Lee Stones and Michael Stones, Sex May be Wasted on the Young: For Boomers and Beyond, 2nd ed., Concord, Ont.: Captus Press, pp 137–38

Frank, the Molson-muscle heavyweight, was straightforward.

2004, Darlene Barriere, On My Own Terms, Bloomington, Ind.: Trafford Publishing, page 197:

Hallam took a can of Molson Export out of the lunch pail. He popped the tab and guzzled noisily, wiping his mouth with the palm of his hand. He slapped his huge gut. It sounded as if he were slapping a concrete wall. “Gotta keep up the old Molson muscle, eh? Wanna take a shot? Go ahead. I won’t feel a thing.”

2007, Michael Blair, The Dells: A Joe Shoe Mystery, Toronto: Dundurn Press, page 132:

He was in his early thirties but was as roly-poly as a middle-aged man. My dad chuckled when he referred to the grocer’s considerable belly as a “Molson’s muscle” and said that Mr. Marlton had enjoyed too much of his own fat meat.

2010, Doug Taylor, Arse Over Teakettle: An Irreverent Story of Coming of Age During the 1940s in Toronto, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, page 79:


have one's head up one's ass

en-verb

have one's head up one's ass (third-person singular simple present has one's head up one's ass, present participle having one's head up one's ass, simple past and past participle had one's head up one's ass)

has one's head up one's ass (present singular third-person)
having one's head up one's ass (participle present)
had one's head up one's ass (participle past)
had one's head up one's ass (past)

(slang, derogatory, Canada, US, vulgar) To be oblivious to the real state of things, from either stupidity or stubbornness.

olla pää perseessä (subject in adessive)

think the sun shines out of someone's arse


isolation pay

(Canada) Additional money paid to workers based in remote communities to compensate for higher living and travel costs.


PSC

Public Service of Canada
w:Public Service of Canada

(Canada) Initialism of Public Service of Canada.


OTTW

(Canada, rail transport) Abbreviation of Ottawa.


TRTO

(Canada, rail transport) Abbreviation of Toronto.


peameal

en-noun

peameal (usually uncountable, plural peameals)

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wobbly pop

wobbly pop (countable and uncountable, plural wobbly pops)

He describes the association as a very nice informal group who periodically gets together to swap stories and share their latest elbow-grease experiences over a wobbly pop, which is Canadian for beer.

2002, Dieter Loibner, The Folkboat Story: From Cult to Classic — the Renaissance of a Legend, Sheridan House Inc., →ISBN, page 131:

An occasional wobbly pop is one thing, but the consistent use of alcohol significantly diminishes any possible real long-term spiritual connection or spiritual awareness.

2012, Paul Pacific, The Spirit Within: How We Are Connected to "God" Each Other and "All-Things", Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 45:

I'd stay with my folks and visit my probation officer, get a job— something I could do with my hands—go to the Cairncroft Lounge on Saturday nights for a wobbly pop with Sam Bovine, meet a woman who wasn't put off by histories and scars.

2013, Craig Davidson, Cataract City, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN:


pedaheh

A mondegreen of Ukrainian пироги (pyrohy). The “d” in spelling is probably due to intervocalic flapping.

(Canada, US) A type of Ukrainian dumpling, similar to Polish pierogi. Traditionally called pyrohy or varenyky.


spieler

spielers (plural)
shpieler (alternative)
speiler (alternative)

From German Spieler (“player, gambler”) or from spiel.

(Canada, US, broadcasting, informal) A radio or television announcer.


change the channel

en-verb

change the channel (third-person singular simple present changes the channel, present participle changing the channel, simple past and past participle changed the channel)

changes the channel (present singular third-person)
changing the channel (participle present)
changed the channel (participle past)
changed the channel (past)

Repeated attempts to "change the channel" to pocketbook issues that traditionally favor Democratic candidates have flopped.

2002 October 20, Thomas M. Defrank, “Dems Can't Cash In on Economy”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2013-10-17:

“This is all smoke and mirrors because the issue in this campaign is taxes, which candidate is going to raise them and which candidate is going to cut them,” Harris said. “Bill McBride doesn’t want that to be the focus so he’s trying to change the channel.”

2002 October 26, Ken Thomas, “McBride Ad Reveals Praise from Bush”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, Florida, retrieved 2013-10-17, page 6B:

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper tried to change the channel on a campaign of distractions Wednesday as he deftly neutralized the Afghan mission as an election issue.

2008 September 10, “Harper’s Fresh Commitment on Afghan Pullout Neutralizes War as Election Issue”, in The Guardian (Canadian Press), Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, archived from the original on 2016-03-04:

[Big banks] have become the perfect foil for the White House as it tries to lead the Democratic Party out of its post-Massachusetts morass — and to change the channel from the seemingly unending debate over health insurance.

2010 January 22, Jackie Calmes, “With Tougher Stance, Obama Takes on Banks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-15:

Hudema responded, “This government doesn’t want to have a public discussion on the industry’s disastrous safety record, or the toxic effects that spills from a 1,170-kilometre tarsands pipeline would have on indigenous rights, the Rocky Mountains, the B.C. coast, or the more than 1,000 rivers and streams this pipeline would cross. Instead, they try to change the channel by inventing scapegoats and bogeymen. […]”

2012 January 9, Les Whittington, “Environmentalists Hit Back Over Pipeline Hearings”, in Toronto Star, retrieved 2013-10-17:

(chiefly Canada, idiomatic) To redirect someone’s attention.


partitionist

(Canada, politics) A political partisan who favours the partition of the province of Quebec with the western, southern portions and Montreal forming a separate province or country from the rest of Quebec.


PBO

en-noun

PBO (countable and uncountable, plural PBOs)

Parliamentary Budget Officer
w:Parliamentary Budget Officer

(Canada) Initialism of Parliamentary Budget Officer.


dogfucker

dogfuckers (plural)
dog fucker (alternative)

How many of you dogfuckers does it take to keep this aisleway cleared and swept?!

(slang, derogatory, offensive, vulgar, especially Canada) A worker who is dogging it (soldiering).

Near-synonyms: goldbricker, loafer; see also Thesaurus:idler

Don't be such a dogfucker about bothering to floss your teeth. Your gums will rot if you can't be arsed.

(slang, derogatory, offensive, vulgar, by extension, especially Canada) A lazy person.


disgrossting

/dɪsˈkɹəʊstɪŋ/

/dɪsˈɡɹəʊstɪŋ/

(slang, Canada, US, uncommon) gross and disgusting


cottage cheese ass

cottage cheese ass (plural cottage cheese asses)

cottage cheese asses (plural)
cottage cheese arse (alternative)
cottage-cheese ass (alternative)

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(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) Buttocks of visible cellulite.


donair

(Canada) A Nova Scotian variant of the doner kebab, including breadcrumbs and spices, and served with a sweet sauce made from evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar, and garlic.

(Canada) A British Columbian variant of the doner kebab, served as a wrap and with a choice of three sauces (tzatziki, sweet garlic sauce, or hot sauce), but no breadcrumbs or spices.


elevator shaft

You know when winter comes to visit these big cities and / the wind starts howling through the elevator shafts

1979, The Boomtown Rats, “Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing:

Any visitor to New York over the past few years will have witnessed this curious new breed of pencil-thin tower. Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, raw extrusions of capital piled up until it hits the clouds.

2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-05:


Belgian endive

Belgian endive (countable and uncountable, plural Belgian endives)

Cichorium intybus
Cichorium intybus#Translingual

(Canada, US) Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, grown without sunlight to produce pale leaves.


fakeout

(Canada, US) Synonym of fakeaway (“homemade meal intended to replicate takeout food”).


SHU

administrative segregation

security housing unit or special handling unit

special handling unit
special handling unit#English

(Canada) Acronym of special handling unit.


slushbreaker

(Canada, derogatory, shipping) An icebreaker with poor icebreaking capabilities, unable to operate year-round in Arctic or polar conditions.


beaver eater

beaver eaters (plural)
beaver-eater (alternative)

...we baled up our peltry, and on the 23d of May left Lac la Mort, with four small birch canoes richly laden with the skins of beavers, otters, martens, minx, loup serviers, beaver eaters, foxes, bears, &c.

1791, John Long, Voyages and Travels (2006 reprint), page 132:

This animal, which is known in Canada by the name of Carcajou, and the Beaver Eater, is of a clumsy appearance, about a foot and a half high ...

1819, D. B. Warden, A statistical, political, and historical account of the United States of North America, volume I, pages 200–201:


PPC

People's Party of Canada
w:People's Party of Canada

(Canada, politics) Initialism of People's Party of Canada.


Chavril

However one feels about the engagement of Canadian pop stars Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger, one thing is certain: When People magazine stunned the world with the news late Tuesday, the reaction was instantaneous. Twitter was afire with news of Canada’s answer to Brangelina. In Chavril, Canada had its own royal couple.

2012 August 23, Marsha Lederman, “Is Chavril our own Brangelina pairing?”, in The Globe and Mail:

Avril Lavigne is rumoured to have been married in her "favourite place to be."
The Here's To Never Growing Up hitmaker was set to tie the knot with Chad Kroeger in Cannes, France, on Monday.

2013, "Chavril hitched in France", The Province, 2 July 2013 (only used in title)

A three-album compilation by various adult artists, including Canuck crooners Sarah Harmer, The Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan and Canada's pre-Chavril sweethearts Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida.

2013 September 17, Lyranda Martin Evans, Fiona Stevenson, “Kids' CDs even parents will like”, in Metro, Edmonton, page 35:

(Canada, slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne, together from 2012 to 2015.


dumbassery

Speaking of savages, Bruce Cowell and his pack of jock-wannabes, who'd been kicked off every school team because of attitude problems and/or the use of illegal substances, were right on schedule for their weekly feats of dumbassery.

2008, Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl, →ISBN:

Wikileaks has always had a healthy sense of self-importance—one that seems, at least in part, well-deserved. But there's something uniquely hubristic about accusing a major newspaper (and former collaborator) of "gross negligence or malice" over the release of 251,000 unredacted top-secret cables—when the fault lies with the website itself. [see title]

2011 August 31, Max Read, “Wikileaks^([sic]) Freaks Out at Newspaper Over Its Own Dumbassery”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2011-09-25:

“Honestly god bless the olive oil war, this is exactly the kind of ludicrous startup-brain-worms low-stakes drama that the world needs more of right now,” tweeted Helen Rosner, a New Yorker staff writer who covers food. “No villains, no victims, just top notch public ego dumbassery.”

2023 April 28, Madison Malone Kircher, Anna Grace Lee, “This Week’s Tiniest Social Media Drama Is About Olive Oil”, in The New York Times:

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) Immature, foolish behavior; behavior typical of a dumbass.


Chilean sea bass

Chilean sea bass (plural Chilean sea bass)

Patagonian toothfish
Patagonian toothfish

Dissostichus eleginoides
Dissostichus eleginoides#Translingual

(US, Canada) Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)


scrunchion

scrunchions (plural)
scruncheon (alternative)
scrunchin (alternative)

(Canada, Newfoundland, usually in the plural) A small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.


bachelor apartment

bachelor apartment (plural bachelor apartments)

(Canada) An apartment consisting mainly of one large room which is the living room, dining room, and bedroom combined.


correction line

correction line (plural correction lines)

(Canada) A place where a north–south grid road jogs to correct for the northward convergence of meridians.


grid road

(Canada) A road that follows the one-mile section grid established by government land survey.


front bum

[…] you had still started to notice a few changes, a metabolic slowdown that left you wondering whether, on top of being alone for the rest of your life, you were also going to end up with one of those stomachs that could only be described as a “front bum.”

2016, Marissa Stapley, Mating for Life: A Novel, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 122:

(Canada, US, slang) A bipartite mass of abdominal fat.


kick at the can

kick at the can (plural kicks at the can)

kicks at the can (plural)
kick at the cat (alternative)

"We're now in a situation where you get just one kick at the can," Mr. Elderfield said.

2005 June 17, Carol Vogel, “The Modern Buys 'Rebus'”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-02-13:

He figured that Canadian political leaders got only two kicks at the can, and he'd now had both of his.

2011, Paul Litt, Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner, →ISBN, page 389:

How many companies get the chance to flail around for 6 years and then get a second kick at the can?

2012 January 20, Eric Jackson, “In Defense of Jerry Yang”, in Forbes, retrieved 2014-02-13:

(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic) An attempt or an opportunity.


kick at the can

en-verb

kick at the can (third-person singular simple present kicks at the can, present participle kicking at the can, simple past and past participle kicked at the can)

kicks at the can (present singular third-person)
kicking at the can (participle present)
kicked at the can (participle past)
kicked at the can (past)
kick at the cat (alternative)

(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic) To make an attempt; to try.


substitute teacher

en-noun

substitute teacher (plural substitute teachers)

(Canada, US, India, Ireland) A supply teacher.


pleasure centre

pleasure centre (plural pleasure centres)

UK and Canada spelling of pleasure center.


stump detective

stump detective (plural stump detectives)

(Canada, US, derogatory) A forestry official charged with measuring waste in logging operations.


passport baby

Three townhouses in Richmond, B.C., are being used to house foreign nationals pregnant with “passport babies,” and are among numerous local housing destinations for birth tourists.

2012 March 7, Byron Chu, “Hotel Linked to ‘Passport Babies’”, in Toronto Sun, retrieved 2014-02-18:

(chiefly Canada) Synonym of anchor baby.


polling booth

(British, Ireland, Canada, Australia) A voting booth.


mommy brain

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Together, this leads a new mom to have “mommy brain” where she's happy but easily distracted and unfocussed.

2010, Maryanne Fisher, Victoria Costello, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Chemistry Of Love, Alpha, →ISBN:

Whatever method of warming you use, always shake the bottle well and check the temperature every time before serving by shaking a few drops onto your wrist—you may have performed the same ritual a hundred times, but "mommy brain" can strike and cause you to make a mistake at any time.

2010, Erica Wells, Lorraine Regel, The Survival Guide for Rookie Moms: Things You Need to Know (That No One Ever Tells You), Wiley, →ISBN:

Mommy brain can cause you to do things like forget parts of the English language and being forced to watch your vocabulary dwindle, telling the same stories week after week like it's still news […] and lose your car keys twenty three times a day.

2011, Karen Savage, Instructions Not Included: The Adventures of New Motherhood, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 71:

(informal, Canada, US) A state in which a new mother is forgetful, absent-minded, or easily distracted.


bum deal

(Canada, US, slang) Synonym of raw deal.


weeniehead

(colloquial, derogatory, rare, Canada, US) A stupid, useless, or mean person.


fuck that noise

[…] And it's please and thank you and you gotta call the old man 'master.'”
“Fuck that noise!”

1977, Jake Logan, White Hell, Playboy Press, page 46:

“If you mean the Provincial Mental Hospital – yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about.”
“Fuck that noise. My Earl's not going anywhere near that place.”

1989, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Homesick, Emblem Editions, published 1999, →ISBN:

'You should always return calls as a courtesy.'
'Fuck that noise.'

2012, Cordelia Strube, Milosz, Coach House Books, →ISBN:

(US, Canada, slang, vulgar) Used to express rejection of or objection to something.


kick ass and take names

en-verb

kick ass and take names (third-person singular simple present kicks ass and takes names, present participle kicking ass and taking names, simple past kicked ass and took names, past participle kicked ass and taken names)

kicks ass and takes names (present singular third-person)
kicking ass and taking names (participle present)
kicked ass and took names (past)
kicked ass and taken names (participle past)

We kick ass and take names and call muster.

1987, Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, page 394:

Hell, I thought, if I were wearing that star, I'd kick ass and take names and have this place turned upside down in a week.

1990, David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman, About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, page 217:

“Fitz,” Assistant Director Roy McKinnon said the day he summoned me to his office at headquarters in Washington in late 1980, “we need an Irishman to go to Boston to kick ass and take names.”

2012, Robert Fitzpatrick, Betrayal, page 17:

(idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To beat someone in a competition, fight, or other situation.


cigarette boat

cigarette boats (plural)
cigarette-boat (alternative)

(Canada, US) A small, fast boat with a planing hull used to smuggle cigarettes to avoid taxation.


spruce beer

en-noun

spruce beer (countable and uncountable, plural spruce beers)

German Sprossenbier. Sprosse (“sprout, shoot”) was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia, or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce.

(Canada, US) A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree.

(Canada, US) A spruce-flavored soft drink.


Queen's cowboy

(Canada, slang) A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.


concession road

concession road (plural concession roads)

So called because the land that comprised a row of lots that spanned the entire length of a new township was conceded by the Crown for this purpose.

(Canada, historical) A road laid out by the colonial government through undeveloped Crown land to provide access to rows of newly surveyed lots intended for farming by new settlers.


mainstreeting

When fog over the British Columbia interior caused the Liberal leader to abort a campaign trip last week and repair to a shopping mall in downtown Vancouver for some "mainstreeting" among the shoppers, John C. Turner stole the show.

1988 November 12, John F. Burns, “Reporter's Notebook: A Legend Campaigns In Canada”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-22:

Practising in Northfield what his staff calls "mainstreeting"—pottering past shops talking to passers-by—he ducks into an artist's supply shop.

2008 June 19, David Usborne, “Al Franken's time: Can a comedian conquer the US senate?”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-05-22:

Horwath opted for mainstreeting rather than new policy announcements Tuesday. She visited a mall food court, where she glad-handed and chatted with patrons.

2014 May 13, Colin Perkel, “Horwath blasts Liberals on auto insurance”, in Hamilton Spectator, Canada, retrieved 2014-05-22:

(chiefly Canada and US, informal, of a politician or celebrity) Greeting and interacting with people in a public place.


bozo eruption

Smokin’ Tom not only teaches political “science” […] he's a rich old white guy who advises our prime minister and his underlings on how to avoid “bozo eruptions.”

2010 December 9, David J. Climenhaga, “Smokin’ Tom Flanagan! Jumpin’ Steve Harper! Bozo eruptions erupting all over!”, in rabble.ca, retrieved 2014-05-27:

But things shifted the last week with the pro-Caucasian and anti-gay “bozo eruptions” from Wildrose candidates.

2012 April 23, Graham Thomson, “Progressive appeal of Conservatives wins 2012 election”, in Edmonton Journal, Canada, retrieved 2014-05-27:

NDP MP Pat Martin, known for the odd bozo eruption, is seeking the public's help for a legal defence fund.

2012 September 11, Matt Gurney, “The NDP's hothead needs your money”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 2014-05-27:

Rob Ford remains Mayor of Toronto. . . . [A]re some correct in saying that in our quest to prevent disastrous Ford-style "bozo eruptions" on the campaign trail, we may have gone too far?

2013 May 20, David P. Ball, “What If Political Parties Stood behind Their Bozos?”, in The Tyee, Canada, retrieved 2014-05-27:

McKay says on a recording obtained by CTV News that he thought Trudeau had a “bozo eruption” and didn’t think about what he said when he declared that anti-abortion candidates won’t be allowed to run for the Liberals.

2014 May 26, “Liberal MP criticizes Justin Trudeau over abortion edict”, in Toronto Star, Canada: The Canadian Press, retrieved 2014-05-27:

(Canada, slang) A (usually unscripted) remark by a politician or other public figure which is especially ill-considered and foolish, and which has negative repercussions for that individual and their affiliated group.


fish pound

the River St. Francis and its tributary Rivers and Streams should at all seasons remain open and unencumbered by fish pounds, so that Salmon may be left unmolested at and in ascending to their spawning places

1841, The Provincial Statutes of Canada:

(US, Canada, dialect) A net attached to stakes, for catching fish; a weir.


you're good

(colloquial, chiefly Canada, US) It's OK; it's not a big deal.


wartime house

Using funds from the sale of their wartime house in Montreal, they purchased a handsome old log house on seven acres of white sand beach in the then still-active fishing community of Port Joli.

1997, Marion Kelsey, Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, →ISBN, page xvi:

On average, a four-room wartime house cost $2,700, and a six-room $3,400. The homes were a hot commodity.

2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, →ISBN, page 150:

The house that inspired this prayer is a small wartime house in a working-class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta.

2005, Gregory A. Scofield, Singing Home the Bones, →ISBN, page 109:

Originally, a tiny wartime house sat on the corner lot facing on Dunsmure St.

2008 December 20, Tracy Hanes, “Christmas comes early for Hamilton family”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 2014-06-11:

If you were driving from Saskatoon to Vanscoy early this morning, you may have seen a wartime house from Spadina Crescent rolling down the highway.

2014 June 5, Alyssa McMurtry, “Out with the old, in with the new”, in The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Canada, retrieved 2014-06-11:

(Canada) Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.


butt floss

"A woman doesn't put on butt floss and hooker heels to attend a garden party," Briggs said.

2004, JoAnn Ross, Out of the Blue, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 369:

I saw a flash of her white panties—real panties, not butt floss like Cheyenne wore […]

2013, Elana K. Arnold, Burning, Delacorte Press, →ISBN:

“That butt floss,” he snapped. “Why the fuck are you wearing a thong to work at a daycare? Are you seeing him again?”

2013, Joanna Wylde, Reaper's Property, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 83:

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A pair of thong underpants or a swimsuit in the same style.


trash for brains

(Canada, US, derogatory, informal) A stupid person.


Jiggs dinner

Jiggs’ dinner (alternative)
jiggs dinner (alternative)
jiggs’ dinner (alternative)

Probably named after the main character in the comic strip Bringing Up Father, whose favourite meal was corned beef and cabbage.

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador

(Canada, chiefly Newfoundland) A traditional Sunday evening meal eaten around Newfoundland and Labrador, typically consisting of salted beef boiled with vegetables.


douchebagness

(Canada, US, slang) The quality of being a douchebag.


ass crack of dawn

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From ass crack jocularly replacing crack in the (preexisting) noun phrase crack of dawn (= "break of dawn"); although ass crack (cleft, gap) and crack (break) are cognate, the jocularity nonetheless rests on the disjunction that is cognitively close to (albeit by some standards not technically) a pun.

(Canada, US, vulgar) An intensifier, used in the same contexts as crack of dawn, but more intense.


butt crack of dawn

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By the same jocular replacement as examined at ass crack of dawn § Etymology.

(Canada, US, informal) An intensifier, used in the same contexts as crack of dawn, but more intense.


labour law

(UK, Canada) The body of statute law that regulates the relationship between employer, employee, labour union and government.

የሰራተኞች ሕግ

yäsäratäñoč ḥəg


Native

Therefore, in 1885 Congress passed the Major Crimes Act whereby jurisdiction in the case of seven major crimes (the list of crimes was later expanded) occurring on Native lands was placed in the hands of federal courts.

2005, Native American Issues: A Reference Handbook, →ISBN, page 82:

Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)

(US, Canada) Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.


Native

An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)


whip-smart

/ˈʍɪpˌsmɑːt/

Inversion of earlier smart as a whip (compare rock solid, from solid as a rock; snow-white, from white as snow; etc.). Possibly an allusion to how quickly the tip of a whip moves when the whip is cracked.

Seeing them here in town, smart in American-style uniforms, Peru's Army looks extremely well-trained, whip-smart.

1948, Ray Josephs, Latin America: Continent in Crisis, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC:

[Reed F.] Cutler, 350-pounder from Lewistown in the strip coalmining area, was a constant thorn in the Democratic side. A whip-smart parliamentarian, he effectively filled the role of "needler" as House Republican Leader.

1949, Don E. Chamberlain, “Illinois: The ‘New Look’”, in Robert S[haron] Allen, editor, Our Sovereign State, New York, N.Y.: The Vanguard Press; Toronto, Ont.: Copp Clark Company, →OCLC, page 208:

A big hug for the whipsmart, feisty Soho Teen team: Janine Agro, Meredith Barnes, Juliet Grames, Bronwen Hruska, and Rachel Kowal—what a fascinating journey, thank you so much for all your work to make it happen.

2014, Adele Griffin, “Acknowledgements”, in The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, New York, N.Y.: Soho Teen, →ISBN:

Like Cabin In The Woods, it manages the extraordinary balancing act of delivering actual scares (more so than Cabin) while being a whip-smart critique of how scares are manufactured.

2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05:

The singer, real name Emma Grankvist, deals in whip-smart lyrics and striking melodies that offer a refreshing perspective on the world around her, all wrapped up in a package that’s brilliantly tough to pigeonhole.

2023 June 28, Nick Reilly, “Meet eee gee, the singer who refuses to put her music in one box”, in Rolling Stone UK:

(Canada, US, informal) Very intelligent.


macaroni and cheese

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(US, Canada) Alternative form of macaroni cheese.


ornge

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Canada, US, very rare) Pronunciation spelling of orange.


dogfennel

dogfennels (plural)
dog fennel (alternative)
dog-fennel (alternative)
dog's fennel (alternative)

From Middle English dogfynell; equivalent to dog + fennel.

“I aint been teasing him.” Luster said. “He was playing with that bottle full of dogfennel and all of a sudden he started up bellering.”

1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:

(chiefly Canada, US) Any of various similar American plants, especially Eupatorium capillifolium, a perennial plant.


red ensign

(historical, Canada) Such a flag bearing the coat of arms of Canada, formerly used as a semi-official national flag of Canada.


up the stump

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Met him at a dance, a skinny little French-Canadian who shot her a line of bull and put her up the stump before waving goodbye from the troop train.

1976, Richard B. Wright, Farthings Fortune's, Macmillan of Canada, →ISBN, page 266:

"I'm real glad that you told me. When your mom and I got married, it was because she was up the stump, you know that, huh?"

1987, Anne Cameron, Stubby Amberchuk & The Holy Grail, Harbour Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:

You're up the stump, Edith Fulton. You're going to have a baby.

1989, David Helwig, A Postcard from Rome, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 100:


asshattish

en-adj

asshattish (comparative more asshattish, superlative most asshattish)

more asshattish (comparative)
most asshattish (superlative)

Since *this* breakup was even more public than the last *and* he's been especially asshattish about it, […]

2006 May 10, Rob Jensen, “Re: PREDICTIONS...”, in alt.tv.gilmore-girls (Usenet):

This way, others can peruse the site at their leisure (which is much more convenient than waiting for the random unattributed post from you) and you can appear slightly less asshattish. Win-win!

2010 January 5, Dunbar, “Re: Wal-Mart -- Why not be a bitch for dinner tonight?”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Btw, I read the Marco Polo assignment, and while I'm just tickled gay he was able to meet Kublai Khan, I found him otherwise unfocused and asshattish.

2013, Aiken Avery, The Disaster Tourist, unnumbered page:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar, derogatory) Like an asshat; obnoxiously foolish, rude, etc.


Queen E

(Canada, informal) The Queen Elizabeth Way, the QEW.


RBC

Royal Bank of Canada
w:Royal Bank of Canada

(Canada, finance) Initialism of Royal Bank of Canada.


cube van

(chiefly Canada) A truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area.


assholey

assholey (comparative more assholey, superlative most assholey)

more assholey (comparative)
most assholey (superlative)

(slang, vulgar, US, Canada, derogatory) obnoxiously inconsiderate or objectionable


FPT

This November's meeting of the FPT health ministers will provide an excellent opportunity for governments to propose critical next steps in this area.

2011 November 17, Heart and Stroke Foundation: Sodium Reduction Must be a Priority for Canada:

(Canada) Initialism of federal, provincial, territorial.


gross indecency

en-noun

gross indecency (countable and uncountable, plural gross indecencies)

(UK, Canada, law) Any of various sexual criminal offences, including sex with a child and (formerly) male homosexuality.

grobe Verletzung des Anstandes f (unofficial translation)


Crown land

Crown land (countable and uncountable, plural Crown lands)

Crown lands (plural)
crown land (alternative)

Aboriginal groups could apply to jointly manage all Crown land under the most radical overhaul of native title settlement proposed in Victoria.

2009 January 6, Jewel Topsfield, “Native title reform bid”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 2014-08-26:

The Crown Estate confirmed today they would allow shooters taking part in one of two pilot culls to access Crown land in west Somerset. . . . The Crown Estate manages the Queen’s property portfolio but revenues go to the Treasury.

2013 September 21, Charlie Cooper, “Crown Estate permits badger cull on its land”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-08-26:

LINZ administers three million hectares of Crown land or eight percent of New Zealand's land area.

2014, “LINZ's Crown Property Role”, in Land Information New Zealand, Government of New Zealand, retrieved 2014-08-26:

The Province of Alberta recognizes its obligation under the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement (Constitution Act 1930) to transfer provincial Crown land back to the federal government to allow the settlement of aboriginal land claims.

2014 July 10, Lorne Beloud, “Opinion: In wake of decision, who owns Canada?”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2014-08-26:

(UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, land that is owned by the state, nominally titled to the reigning King or Queen of England, and whose use and disposition is controlled by a government within that Commonwealth country or by an official representative of the monarch.


pith and substance

In determining the “pith and substance” of the legislation, ‘it is necessary to identify the dominant or most important characteristic of the challenged law’.

c. 1985, Peter Hogg, Constitutional Law of Canada, 2nd edition, page 313:

(Canada, law) The content or subject matter, the leading feature or true nature and character of a law.


underbutt

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From under- + butt, by analogy with underboob.

Strengthens and slims your underbutt!

2009, Karon Karter, The Ultimate Body Shaping Bible, page 116:

Most of the time it's just like any other dressing room, and I try not to cry when I'm forced to confront my underbutt under the bluish fluorescent light the three-way mirror.

2010, Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way, page 92:

My struggle is with my underbutt. Not my butt, but my underbutt, that chunk between the butt and the legs.

2017, Beth Behrs, The Total ME-Tox: How to Ditch Your Diet, Move Your Body & Love Your Life, unnumbered page:

(Canada, US, informal) The lower part of the buttocks, especially as revealed by certain clothing such as skimpy shorts.


dillweed

dillweed (countable and uncountable, plural dillweeds)

Compound of dill + weed. From Old English dili (“dill”).

...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.

1996, Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty, page 207:

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A contemptible person; a fool.


eat ass

en-verb

eat ass (third-person singular simple present eats ass, present participle eating ass, simple past ate ass, past participle eaten ass)

eats ass (present singular third-person)
eating ass (participle present)
ate ass (past)
eaten ass (participle past)

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dumbbutt

We don't need people with ambiguous agendas telling us how to deal with problematic owners/advocates of either the mucho dumbbutt or Pollyannaish variety.

1999 February 3, JFRCHRDSN, “Pit Bulls - what are they: beasts or beauties?”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):

Why is Suntimes publishing Ebert's dumbbutt political opinions?

2000 November 13, MAN...an ancient race, “TRUTH ABOUT EBERT”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

2002 December 28, but i'll tell ya why this LOR business is so dumbbutt., “why LOR sucks and probably Two towers too”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet):

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, neologism) Stupid.


dumbbutt

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A stupid person; a fool.


sanctimommy

I'm late for pediatrician appointments. I can't make straight parts in my girls' hair. I forget to send them in the snow with hats, as the kind sanctimommies of the neighborhood are delighted to point out with their eyebrows raised as far as Botox will allow.

2009, Liz Gumbinner, “Type B Mom”, in Beth Feldman, editor, See Mom Run: Side-Splitting Essays from the World's Most Harried Blogging Moms, Plain White Press, →ISBN, page 140:

She even has to endure the occasional judgments from sanctimommies—women who are much, much better mothers than Kelly and who sometimes wonder aloud, "Why can't her kids swim yet?" or "Why is she drinking a glass of wine at her daughter's birthday party?" (God no!)

2010, Colin Sokolowski, The Accidental Adult: Essays and Advice for the Reluctantly Responsible and Marginally Mature, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 104:

But Waldman’s reaction spoke for any vulnerable young mother holding a bottle subjected in public to a drive-by comment from the lactation police that “breast is best,” or, who, desperate for a few consecutive hours of sleep, let her child cry for ten minutes in her crib before settling, was made to feel as though she had subjected her offspring of child abuse, by one of the Bialik-style “sanctimommies.”

2012 November 26, Allison Kaplan Sommer, “Mayim Bialik: When an attachment parent detaches from her marriage”, in Haaretz:

(Canada, US, informal, derogatory) A mother who exhibits a superior attitude and openly judges others' parenting.