U-Z

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Uey

A U-turn - the Official Turn of Boston drivers.
Keith McDuffee

Up Cape

Heading south on the Cape.

Up the line

In Gloucester, a trip that involves heading southbound on Rte. 128 - usually in connection with a trip to Liberty Tree Mall or North Shore Shopping Center: "I gotta go up the line ta finnish my Christmas shoppin'. "
W. Olson

Vinyihd, The

Island south of the Cape.

Wanna go?

"Let's step outside to the parking lot and settle this like real men."

Westa Wistah

Terra incognita; beyond the bounds of civilization (some Bostonians will argue that that boundary is actually Rte. 128).

"I think a Bostonian would much rather go north or south than east to west. There is a sense that anything west of Rte. 495 needs a passport and currency control." -- John Mullin, director of the Center for Economic Development, UMass-Amherst, in the Boston Sunday Globe, 5/31/98.

Whoah-monga

"A favorite insult of my 85-year old maternal grandmother; usually yelled out the window of her car when cut off in traffic on 128, or or when someone is ridin' her bumpah: 'Get offa my ass, ya whoah-monga!' "

Griffin Hansbury

Whole 'notha

A complete replacement; "I got a whole 'notha computa on my desk now."

Wicked

Wicked high tidesWicked high tides are a common problem along Morrissey Boulevard. Photo by Lauren Glynn.

A general intensifier; very: "He's wicked nuts!"

Wicked frickin' pissa

Something that's just absolutely too cool for words.

Wicked pissa

Something that's way cool.

Woof

Cocaine, in Charlestown.
The Burke Boys

Ya huh!

Reply to "No Suh!"
Laura McAvoy

Yar

"Yeah," when followed by a word that begins with the letter I. "Yeah, it's awesome" comes out as "Yarit's awesome."
Matt Ross

Zoo on

To make fun of: "What are you, zooin' on me?" Heard in Hyde Park.
Dan Lebowitz

Zoomie

Graduate of ZooMass, a.k.a, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Jeff Kline

WiFi

Verb. When the mayor takes control of an idea first proposed by a city councilor. Derived from West Roxbury City Councilor John Tobin's idea to build a citywide wireless network, which Mayor Menino latched onto as if he had thought it up (in the end, a few scattered pilot projects were built in Roslindale, Roxbury and the area around City Hall; no citywide network was ever built).

On Sept. 28, 2011, David Bernstein tweeted about an announcement by the mayor about an ad campaign against sex trafficking:

Menino WiFi's Ayanna Pressley. #bospoli MT @mayortommenino: Just launched a human trafficking awareness campaign...: tinyurl.com/6jevq34

World class

What Boston would become if only a speaker's audience would rush right out and do whatever the speaker is asking them to do.