bicycling
n.— «They call it ‘bicycling.’ It’s East St. Louis slang for the Election Day process whereby one will ‘bicycle’ from polling place to polling place, voting multiple times for extra cash. Election officials know who these voters are and play along.» —“Follow the leader” Madison County Record (Edwardsville, Illinois) Nov. 21, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital is a sensuous, exhilarating meditation about the strangeness of life on a space station, with its mix of tedious tasks and jaw-dropping views. And: a musician who rode the rails in his youth shares the slang he...
Steve, a singer-songwriter from Rock Springs, Wyoming, shares some slang he picked up while months riding the rails and busking. Spanging refers to panhandling, from asking for “spare change.” The term bull refers to a type of security...