U-Z

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.

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

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

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

Ya huh!

Reply to "No Suh!"
Laura McAvoy

Woof

Cocaine, in Charlestown.
The Burke Boys

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."