Georgia chrome
n.— «“Maybe he kin get ya’ some of the ‘Georgia’ chrome!” “Yeah, I’ll run on down to K-Mart and get a couple cans and we’ll chrome plate that sucker.”» —“Re: 2004 International meet” by Jerry Forreste Usenet: alt.autos.studebaker July 18, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Joan from Augusta, Georgia, says her grandfather used to pronounce the word onions as if they were spelled ernions. The word onion is adapted from the French cognate oignon, and thanks to variations in dialect, geography, and other factors, this...
Penny in Savannah, Georgia, recalls that her father, a Navy veteran who served in the South Pacific, would say of someone who was clueless or didn’t know what he was talking about: That person doesn’t know if he’s punched, bored...