Anyone thats familiar with Baltimore slang?

[TMR23]

Originally Posted by Woodlands

Not always... in Baltimore "street" slang .....'hold' is the involuntary reaction of someone gripping the entry point of a bullet. Picture the old western shows where the cowboy after being shot in the chest....grasps (or holds) their chest before they make their slow decent to the floor.....Hence when someone yells:

"$#%@ sucker, hold dat!!!" while they are shooting.

I was told that by a BPD Officer....

hold=borrow
fugg=cigarette, particularly a Newport

[ceilinglamp]

Originally Posted by TMR23

hold=borrow
fugg=cigarette, particularly a Newport

Soft pack!

[Richard Martin]

I once had a man ask me if I knew where an owl pump was.

[peachgeek]

Hold being used to mean borrow isn't just a Baltimore thing. It's also used in Georgia. Fugg and dug on the other hand are new to me being up here. A cigarette in GA is just cigarette or port (short for Newport). It is funny how different people sound in different places. I got it hard my first month a work but now they are used to my speech.

Anyone know what these mean?

Mash the spacebar. - Georgia
Up on the ruf. - Ohio

[allniter89]

Originally Posted by peachgeek

Hold being used to mean borrow isn't just a Baltimore thing. It's also used in Georgia. Fugg and dug on the other hand are new to me being up here. A cigarette in GA is just cigarette or port (short for Newport). It is funny how different people sound in different places. I got it hard my first month a work but now they are used to my speech.

Anyone know what these mean?

Mash the spacebar. - Georgia
Up on the ruf. - Ohio

Mash the spacebar. - Georgia
"get down" cuz when u mash the spacebar on laptop screen scrolls down? OR
"go faster" as in push down hard on the gas pedal of a car, the accelerater resembles a space bar?
Up on the ruf. - Ohio
Up on the roof?
In central Delaware we often used "simple" in place of "stupid", ie "You're simple! Anyone else use this?

[TMR23]

Originally Posted by allniter89

Mash the spacebar. - Georgia
"get down" cuz when u mash the spacebar on laptop screen scrolls down? OR
"go faster" as in push down hard on the gas pedal of a car, the accelerater resembles a space bar?
Up on the ruf. - Ohio
Up on the roof?
In central Delaware we often used "simple" in place of "stupid", ie "You're simple! Anyone else use this?

mash=press, or push
we say "simple" in baltimore too.

[peachgeek]

Originally Posted by TMR23

mash=press, or push
we say "simple" in baltimore too.

yea, mash = press or push. In Ohio they seemed to think it was weird until I heard them say ruf. Simple is used in GA also but more particularly when referring to females (idk why).

[End-User]

Originally Posted by Hamish Forbes

I would be interested to see someone communicate the ideas of algebraic topology, existentialism, or an unambiguous patent specification using the "grunts and expletives" dialect now so common.

Existentialism was tackled by the show The Wire (I know this forum gets tired of hearing about that show). I like many of the conversations between Bodie and Poot even thought I had to rewind to understand half of what they were saying. Some of their conversations seemed wildly out of place for a drug corner, but I suppose that's why Poot was one of the only 2 teenagers in the story to make it out of the drug trade and get a legal job.

Now that I think about it, patent specifications should be easy considering some of the complicated drug production and diluting methods. But I don't suppose a patent would be granted for the Johnboy's latest meth formula.

[boreatwork]

Baltimore slang is weird but the dialect is even weirder

I swear this dude was tryna get in the club and was talking in syllables like"
"Mah yoh why aint let me in club yoh"....yall know what im talking about. Also its like yall talk in OOOO's or something I need a sound byte bc I cant even describe it

[BlondeLocks]

this is hiliarious ...

being a native baltimore myself