Sco
n.— «“Sco to the O” (meaning, “San Francisco to Oakland”).» —“Mixtape Shmixtape” by Tamara Palmer SF Weekly (San Francisco, California) Nov. 9, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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