shoulder peak n.— «Shoulder peak/early peak—returning from the day out and preparing to go out for the evening. This segment also covers the popular soaps.» —“Vimto Expands Into Holiday Market” by Ian Tinker Media Week (20) June 28, 1991. (source:...
hiplife n.— «Hiplife was almost solely the brainchild of Reginald “Reggie Rockstone” Osei. Memory lane: Whilst we were both in Accra from London on Christmas holidays in 1994, I vividly recollect meeting Reggie at a friend’s place and hearing him...
bullrush n.— «Bullrush is tops too—just a massive group of people on one side of the field. One person (or two sometimes) would be chosen to be in, and they’d stand in the middle and yell “BULLRUSH” and everyone would run across the field. The idea...
billy cart n.— «Billy Carts are awesome—they’re just wooden seats on wheels pretty much…with some form of steering. You’d ride em down ur street (I lived on a very quiet street with a tops hill) and it was awesome fun.» —“Two-Day Holiday...
choc-top n.— «Choc-tops are just an ice cream that you’d get from the movies—small ball of ice cream on a cone covered in chocolate. They came pre-made, so they were different to normal ice cream with chocolate. But they were always a special treat...
elastics n.— «Elastics was mostly a girl-thang… but it’s where you have a large loop of elastic and put it round the ankles of two ppl and they stand apart a bit. Then ppl would take turns jumping on it, in it, outside it… there was a routine I’m...
