scraper
n.— «I got rid of the dubbs on my white scraper cause they rubbed to much so i slapped on the 17″ wit vouges from my other scraper.» —“Ozzie’s Oldsmobile: ‘The Scraper’” by ozzie94 in Oakland, Calif. CarDomain.com Dec. 10, 2003. (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...