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Sco

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)

dipping

dipping  n.— «Baeza’s passengers said Gonzalez’s van, which was alongside theirs, was “dipping,” a street term for a driver hitting the gas then braking and swerving to make it rock.» —“Man captured, admits killing father...

spluckle

spluckle  n.— «A splitter just drops straight down at the end. Rich’s knuckles out of his hand and floats around and then drops. It’s a splitter that knuckles. It’s a spluckle.» —“Notes: Harden has the full arsenal” by...

Tom walkers

Tom walkers  n.pl.— «What are “Tom walkers,” you say? Why, bless yoru heart, don’t go talking about “stilts” out there in Oakland City. They are “Tom walkers” to everybody and every kid.» —“‘Tom...

sideshow

sideshow  n.— «They had to get to the “sideshow,” a dangerous and illegal frenzy of speeding and acrobatic driving perhaps best described as vehicular break dancing.» —“Deadly Swerves and Spins” by Louis...

sidin

sidin  n.— «Maneuvers include sidin’—another term for doughnuts—and dippin’, in which a driver hits the brakes and the gas to make a car rock back and forth in time to, say, Tupac Shakur’s “Starin’ in My Rearview” or Mac Dre’s...