poppy store n.— «Since moving into the neighborhood in 2002, Candi Brown said she’s noticed a lot more “poppy stores”—street slang for bodegas—have turned up on street corners. Some of these stores attract unsavory types...
vinyl village n. a neighborhood or town of plain or cheaply made buildings. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Fedders house n.— «Perhaps most vocal among the complainants decrying the development of “Fedders houses,” as they have come to be known, are residents of Bay Ridge, whose neighborhood awaits city approval of a rezoning...
jump out boys n.— «He emerges from a wood-frame house and quickly rides off, watching vigilantly for Miami police cruisers and “them Jump Out Boys,” the undercover vice cops rolling in unmarked rental cars.…”It’s...
busdown
n.— «What I’m NOT lookin for in a girl…a neighborhood ho…a busdown.» —“lil_smoke2004″ by Smoke Mixedrace.com Feb. 21, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
heater n.— «Bernie Murray, head of the Felony Trial Division in the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, said that though the office handles more sexual assaults in economically depressed areas of the city, he understands when some...