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Names for Tourists

What do you call tourists in your hometown? In New England, they have leaf-peepers. In Wisconsin, it’s berry-pickers or shackers, as in “people who rent cottages.” Coastal areas have pukers, a reference to people who charter boats but then can’t...

swoob

swoob  n.— «It’s so hot that I have a swass/swoob combo. I love being a girl.» —“Imagine you’re Johnny Carson. You say, “It’s so hot…“ and the audience says, “How hot is it?” And you say…“ by Annie Gapers Block (Chicago) July 30, 2006. (source:...