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Diesel

1. In Roxbury, it's heroin, but in West Roxbury, Hyde Park and Roslindale, it's angel dust.

2. A person who works out a lot.
Jeff Kline, an Emerson student and Chuck Evangelista

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re: Diesel

By gin (not verified) | Sun, 06/06/2004 - 12:20am

In Somerville, a lesbian cafe

re: Diesel

By Dayna (not verified) | Wed, 02/16/2005 - 12:54am

For students in the Back Bay area, "Diesel" is more of an adjective for someone who works out a lot, rather than a noun.

re: Diesel

By Ka (not verified) | Sat, 06/16/2007 - 10:30pm

In Charlestown, which was always known for the Angel Dust, we call Diesel, Diesel Fuel, Rocket Fuel

re: Diesel

By Josh (not verified) | Tue, 07/10/2007 - 10:44am

In Rockland (and possibly wherever else), diesel pretty much means the same thing as pissa:"My probation ends next Tuesday""That's fackin' diesel kid!"

re: Diesel

By Victoria (not verified) | Mon, 08/27/2007 - 1:26pm

I agree with Dayna that diesel is more used as an adjective to describe a very buff person. and Josh that it is a word to positively accentuate something. Also of note, it's sometimes used to describe the potency of weed. "That was a muthafucking diesel hit man"Also, Sour Diesel is a specific kind of weed, more from Woony and surrounding area, but also found around Boston.

re: Diesel

By Zoe (not verified) | Sat, 12/01/2007 - 8:57pm

"For students in the Back Bay area, "Diesel" is more of an adjective for someone who works out a lot, rather than a noun."I happen to be a student in the Back Bay area, and we say something like "diesed" like "that guy is wicked diesed" meaning he's got a lot of muscles, more than saying someone is a diesel

re: Diesel

By JD (not verified) | Sun, 05/25/2008 - 9:05pm

It was diesel in Somerville as well, and further nicknamed "swizzle."

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