wild hundreds
n.pl.— «Wild hunneds: (PROUNOUNCED “HUNNEDS” NOT HUNDREDS) Section of Chicago beginning with 101st & stretches to 130th street beginning with State (0 East) going west to a little past Halsted (800 west) . Labeled “Wild Hunneds” for the type of play that goes on in this area. ex: “I’m going to his crib- he stays in the WILD HUNNEDS.”» —“Y & B’s Chicago Slang dictionary” Y&B.net (Chicago, Illinois) , 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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