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

Heading south on the Cape.

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

Island south of the Cape.

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

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.

How are you?

"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

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

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

Something that's just absolutely too cool for words.

Something that's way cool.

Cocaine, in Charlestown.
The Burke Boys

Reply to "No Suh!"
Laura McAvoy

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

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

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