With the establishment of the docks, the dock workers formed a number of tight-knit local communities with their own distinctive cultures and slang.

" Much of the TMRC's jargon was later imported into early computing culture, because the club started using a DEC PDP-1 and applied its local model railroad slang in this computing context.

In Internet slang, a luser ( sometimes expanded to local user ; also luzer or luzzer ) is a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user.

In local slang, it is known as " quatre-vingt quinze " ( i. e. " ninety-five ") or " neuf cinq " ( i. e. " nine five ").

Some Malay dialects, however, show only limited mutual intelligibility with the standard language ; for example, Kelantanese or Sarawakian pronunciation is difficult for many fellow Malaysians to understand, while Indonesian contains many words unfamiliar to speakers of Malaysian, some because of Javanese, Sundanese or other local language influence, and some because of slang.

" Oggy " is a slang term for a Cornish pasty, derived from its Cornish name, " hoggan ", and was used by local Devon & Cornish sailors at the Devonport Dockyard in in reference to pasty sellers who once stood outside the famous gates.

It can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects, and other forms of native or local speech, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant.

Often these patois are popularly considered " bastardizations " of English, " broken English ", or slang, but cases such as Jamaican patois are classified with more correctness as a creole language ; in fact, in the Francophone Caribbean the analogous term for local variants of French is créole ( see also Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole ).

* In H. Beam Piper's science fiction novel Four Day Planet, the protagonist is a " NewsTaper " reporting the local news ; he sprinkles 1950s-era newspaper slang in his conversation.

Artists normally rap in English, Swahili or the local Sheng slang.

Die Antwoord has challenged conventions of hip-hop through its blend of English, Afrikaans and local slang, and sparse House-influenced production, reflecting the new ' Zef ' counter-culture in its cheap-and-dirty values.

In the North-East of England ( particularly County Durham ), there is a popular dish known as tattie fish-" tattie " being the local slang for potato, and " fish " because the pancake resembles a deep fried piece of fish.

The Northern American version of the show uses the original British footage, but dubs the voices in local accents and slang ; for example, the word " soccer " is used instead of " football " to avoid confusion with the gridiron forms of the game ( though sometimes this is done haphazardly ; in one episode, a " soccer field " is referred to but later it talks about " football tricks ").

In Semnan people have local language with special words and slang. the base of this language which it drived from is Pahlavi language the ancient language form Parthian.

The term may have been formed directly as a contraction of blackbird catching ; blackbird was a slang term for the local indigenous people.

A Boofe ( plural: Boofen ) is local slang for sleeping out overnight in the open under a rock overhang and has a long tradition in Saxon Switzerland.

According to local legend, the city was founded by a crooked ( Ukrainian slang for one-eyed ) Cossack named Rih.

As a result, its popular nickname is Kolejorz, which means The Railwayman in local slang.

The term " goolie " is British slang for " testicles " and was so called ( and still is called by the Royal Air Force ) because, in the areas where the chits were used, local tribesmen were said to turn over aviators to their womenfolk, who castrated the pilots for use as servants.

The local slang dialect and phrases of the South Wales Valleys communities have been referred to as ' Wenglish ', with often comic effect.

The local African French vocabulary not found in standard French ranges from slang frowned upon by educated people, to colloquial usage, to words that have entered the formal usage ( such as chicotter ).

As slang terms, the words have come to have variations in meaning, depending on local subcultures in a region, without the stability provided for dictionary-defined words.

Railroad historian Richard Palmer attributes it to a slang term for a slow local passenger train or way freight.

The city has several shopping centers and bazaars which includes, Baldia Shopping Center, Shahi Bazaar and Khisakpura Rasheed Ahmed Siddiqui Shopping Arcade Khipro Stand & Irshad Ahmed Siddiqui Shopping Strip ( in local slang ), which sells traditional garments, modern crockery, etc.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

As a source of investment capital, the system is beneficial to local communities and encourages the development of industries in rural areas.

This problem of fair and equitable assessment of value is a difficult one to solve in that the determination of fair valuation is dependent on local assessors, who in general are non-professional and part-time personnel taking an individualistic approach to the problem.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

The Federal Government is aiding local governments in several places to survey residential, commercial and industrial buildings to determine what fallout protection they would provide, and for how many people.

In the event that agreement is not reached on the use of the rupees for grant or loan purposes within six years from the date of this Agreement, the Government of the United States of America may use the local currency for any purposes authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

A minor is subject to tax on his own earnings even though his parent may, under local law, have the right to them and might actually have received the money.

and it is to be noted also that confidence should grow from remembering that great men often appeared in the past to turn local catastrophe into future good for all mankind.

Having a boat financed through a local bank is done much the same way as an automobile loan is extended.

It is always wise to consult your marine dealer, local yacht or boat club secretary, or local law enforcement officers if you are not positive what the regulations are.

However, there is also much to be gained by making use of the abilities of the local people who are available and interested in recreation.

Not a year goes by but what several local companies in the U.S. and Canada, even overseas, write to Fueloil & Oil Heat to inquire if it's feasible and where it is being done.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

Oddly enough, this is an amulet against housebreakers, presented to the mem and me by a local rajah in 1949.