chones
n.pl.— «Amy Blodgett, who runs a screenprinting business in Tempe and an Internet T-shirt business, concedes her “Keep It Underwear” line of chones won’t stop kids from having sex.» —“Inside the Tucson enchilada” by Cathalena E. Burch Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) May 17, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Eric often drives past cotton fields near his home in Tucson, Arizona, which has him wondering about the phrase He’s walking in tall cotton, meaning “Things are going well.” Variants include to be in tall cotton and to walk in high...
Diana from Tucson, Arizona, reports that when she was young, her Irish grandmother would chase her and her misbehaving siblings around the house yelling, “You omadhauns!” Also spelled amadán, this word of Celtic origin means...