Are These the 13 Rhode Island Slang Terms We "Need" to Know?

According to the folks over at Mental Floss, the following 13 terms are the slang words we need to know.

  1. The AMP (used to be the Dunk)
  2. Awful Awful (you know what it is)
  3. Bubblah (it's spelled with an "e-r" but let's allow them to be annoying once)
  4. The Bucket (the official name of Pawtucket)
  5. Cabinet (didn't we already have an Awful Awful on this list?)
  6. Dandle (they also numbered this one #5...it's our term for see-saw)
  7. Downcity (it's downtown Providence in case we forgot)
  8. Grindah (again, spelled with an "e-r" and we already gave them one of these "a-h" numbers)
  9. Hot Wiener (3 all the way?)
  10. Pizza Strip (they said it doesn't have cheese but I detect some Parmesan on that!)
  11. ProJo (whoa...they're still printing that paper? Kidding...let's all re-subscribe)
  12. South County (if you live north of Warwick you consider this any place further south of Warwick Mall)
  13. Stone Ender (a house with a stone chimney along the outside wall)

So what did they miss?

Obviously car-b-q's, gagger, quahog, wicked, referring to anywhere as near the old Alma's, not knowing exit numbers (I know they just changed...you're now forgiven"! But seriously...this list must be longer!


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