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Uey

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

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

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

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