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Whether it's a modern day city or a medieval castle or a steampunk inventor's shop, most places that maintain a steady population long enough develop a bit of their own vernacular. For example, a street may have an official name, but locals probably have something else they call it. Food and drink, locations, practices, and events, can all develop their own unofficial names according to local flavour.
Your task here is very open-book and simple; create a slang term for something and explain the origin of this slang; I'll start with some examples to get you started:
Slang: To plant a flag
Meaning (if applicable): to get something stuck to the point of being unrecoverable
Origin: The mayor at the time, stuck the national flag into a pit on the nation's holiday to commemorate the day, but he wedged it in so hard that it couldn't be got out without cutting the flagpole, so they decided to leave it there.
Slang: The Ghost Locker
Meaning (if applicable): N/A, it refers to a location
Origin: a string of missing persons cases was solved when several bodies turned up in a storage locker; the corpses had been there a long time and had decomposed considerably; they were dumped in without ceremony and the killer committed suicide before he could be arrested. Legend says the ghosts still haunt that area, seeking vengeance for their untimely demises.
Slang: Trucker's Route
Meaning (if applicable): to take the most straight or direct route without stopping; to leave by the most direct route.
Origin: used in a town where the economy is supported largely by freight services based there. Most of the deliveries are to and from surrounding cities and townships, and so the drivers typically drive straight onto the appropriate highway and get going.
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Your task here is very open-book and simple; create a slang term for something and explain the origin of this slang; I'll start with some examples to get you started:
Slang: To plant a flag
Meaning (if applicable): to get something stuck to the point of being unrecoverable
Origin: The mayor at the time, stuck the national flag into a pit on the nation's holiday to commemorate the day, but he wedged it in so hard that it couldn't be got out without cutting the flagpole, so they decided to leave it there.
Slang: The Ghost Locker
Meaning (if applicable): N/A, it refers to a location
Origin: a string of missing persons cases was solved when several bodies turned up in a storage locker; the corpses had been there a long time and had decomposed considerably; they were dumped in without ceremony and the killer committed suicide before he could be arrested. Legend says the ghosts still haunt that area, seeking vengeance for their untimely demises.
Slang: Trucker's Route
Meaning (if applicable): to take the most straight or direct route without stopping; to leave by the most direct route.
Origin: used in a town where the economy is supported largely by freight services based there. Most of the deliveries are to and from surrounding cities and townships, and so the drivers typically drive straight onto the appropriate highway and get going.
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