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Coffin

A regular automobile such as a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry. The name refers not to the safety of the car but to the fact that the people driving them don't really live. They are already dead.
My mom wanted to buy a coffin but my dad would let her.
by Joe Iron February 15, 2008
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Imam

A prophet or mentor to young males. Typically a male a few years older than the youth he mentors. Usually, he has his own place, a "real job" and a live-in girlfreind.
Kids today have MTV to show them how to be men, all we had was Imam and Buddy.
by Joe Iron June 8, 2007
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slushing

Since the 1970s, this was driving a car with wide tires in the centerlane after a snow storm. The centerlane was usually not plowed. This resulted in slush being sprayed into the oncoming traffic.
We went slushing in the delta last night.

I tried going slushing in a honda but the tires weren't wide enough to do any good.
by Joe Iron March 25, 2008
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ExplodingMan

A nickname used by the youth of Whiting, IN for the wild celebrations of Independence Day. It's similar toBurningMan's tribal and primitive feel. Northwest Indiana's fourth of July celebrations were documented in the movie The Fourth of July and Other Disasters.
Yeah, let's go to ExplodingMan.

I went to ExplodingMan last year but I got to work this year.
by Joe Iron August 13, 2007
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Boulevard House

This definition dating from the jazz age is a house on the major street where all the action is. People living there would near fine restaurants, live music and nightclubs. Out your window you would see people wearing their sunday best as they walked down the boulevard.
Life was never better than when we lived at the boulevard house.

One thing I miss about the boulevard house is looking out the window and seeing all those people dressed to the nines.
by Joe Iron February 23, 2008
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proletariat

One of the masses or regular people. Worker.
My mom told me to quit going out with that proletariat girl.

Hey give me that copy of Gallery, it's the magazine for looking at proletariat chicks.
by Joe Iron February 1, 2008
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shire

A nickname for Whiting, Indiana, typically used by residents of Northwestern Indiana usually in their 60s and 70s. The nickname is believed to orginate with Whiting's orginal name Chelshire. Chelshire was renamed to Whiting in the 1890s but the nickname stuck.
by Joe Iron June 5, 2007
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