University of Chicago Labschool 

The worst place to be if your looking to get sleep or anything like that. All of the people there have bags under their eyes.
The students there are either rich republican snobs that pay full price, or the weirdest and yet coolest faculty kid you've ever met. If you are in 6th grade as of 2024-2025 DO NOT COME HERE. ALL OF THE 6TH GRADERS ARE INSANE. The people you encounter are going to be one of these: 1. nice but the most obnoxious person you've EVER met 2. Incredibly mean and literally all of the ists, and phobics. 3. Beatlemanic 4. smart and insane 5. ridiculous amounts of theater kid 6. video game and war obsessed: failing everything (note: these may occur together in different patterns or alone)

Billy bobby fornire: "I love 80s music, speak German, and I read Dostoevsky for fun."

King Robert the 3rd: "You must go to University of Chicago Labschool."

University of Chicago Labschool by fornire March 8, 2025

I Used to Work in Chicago

A drinking song sang by Rugby types. Usually in the format of call and response chanting about doing misogynistic things to a woman coming into a store and asking for different items. You can be very inventive with this chant, especially after a few pints....

Person: One day a woman into the store asking for a hammer
Chorus: A hammer from the store?
Person: A hammer she wanted, nailed she got!
Chorus: Oh I used to work in Chicago in an old department store, i used to work in Chicago I don't work there anymore.

I Used to Work in Chicago by chigman452 September 30, 2022

Chicagoese 

The speech or language characteristic of Chicago, especially considered as forthright or lacking sophistication.

Yo, Theresa, waja do wit da grachki? Howmy supposta cut da grass if don't git intada grach? Chicagoese

Chicagoese by LK24 May 25, 2021

Chicano

The word comes from an indigenous Mexican/Native word coming from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word for “native.”

Here is a definition according to the scholastic Handbook of Texas:

"According to one explanation, the pre-Columbian tribes (Aztecs) in Mexico called themselves Meshicas, and the Spaniards, employing the letter x (which at that time represented a “sh” and “ch” sound), spelled it Mexicas. The Indians later referred to themselves as Meshicanos and even as Shicanos, thus giving birth to the term Chicano."

Therefore, the term stuck to all Americans of Mexican decent. Sometimes, the word “Chicano” can be applied to a Mexican national who was brought to the United States at a very early age and adapted the “Chicano” lifestyle.

Paisa: Oye guey, dime si el Ramon es paisa?

Homie: No. El Ramon es Chicano porque nacio aqui en los Estados Unidos pero es Mejicano por sangre. Le dicen el Monchi. Trucha guey! No le digas pocho.

Chicano by El Chunti January 15, 2011

Chinagorom 

A Chinagorom is the best person you can ever ever meet, they are rare to find in a life time so if you know a Chinagorom make sure you never let go no matter the situation, a Chinagorom can be male or female but gender doesn't matter when it comes to them because they don't discriminate, very concerned beings, always looking for ways to make the world a better place, they are also religious but it doesn't mean they are critics and they have a lot of pity in store for the whole world, very nice artistic beings and majorly in the arts but if you get to know a Chinagorom that is in the sciences she will end up using her artistic gifts to help the world, they are full of life and can change a moody person within seconds they are also sarcastic, but in a nice way, they are the easiest means of distraction, always there to take your pain away and they derive joy in making you happy... Hold a Chinagorom close because she is ready to give you her all in all. They love a lot of things but their taste in music is still a mystery because they listen to any good music..

So you have a Chinagorom and you never told me, you are really lucky.
She is such a Chinagorom so full of life.

Chinagorom by Naggie February 5, 2020

chicanowash 

Using the gas station windshield cleaner to wash your entire car.

These cheap asses in front of me just pulled a chicanowash,

chicanowash by capn freddy June 22, 2012

Chicagoland 

Chicagoland is a term that carries several common misconceptions. It is believed by many people (usually living in the northern and western suburbs of Chicago) that Chicagoland, or more formally the "Chicago Metropolitan Area" is restricted to only the areas within the Illinois state boundaries. However, due to the fact that a metro area is based on cultural and employment patterns and similarities, this is simply not true.

Because Chicago is such a large city on its own, it boasts a much wider metro area than most others in the country, save for New York and Los Angeles. Dating back to 1950, when statistical analysis for metro areas emerged, Chicagoland included several counties in Illinois (Cook and the adjacent counties such as Will, Lake, and DuPage) as well as Lake County in Indiana which to many a-Chicagoan's surprise physically borders the city. Over the years, due to Chicago's expansion, the definition has also widened to include four more Indiana counties (Porter, LaPorte, Newton, and Jasper) as well as Kenosha County in Wisconsin.

This phenomena is not unique to Chicago, and examples can be seen all throughout the U.S. New York City - New Jersey, St. Louis - southwestern Illinois, Kansas City - western Missouri, and many more. So before you let silly biases like state lines get in the way, remember to check your facts!

As I mentioned above, a metro area is not determined by state lines, but by a shared culture. For example, the types of cuisine unique to Chicago can be found all around Chicagoland. Things like the Chicago Hotdog, the Maxwell St. Polish, Italian beef sandwiches, deep dish pizza, and etc. Other examples include the commuter culture, or the people who travel into the city for work; favorite sports teams; dialects and slang; time zones (Northwest Indiana shares a time zone with the rest of Chicagoland, and not the rest of the state).

Chicagoland by WoodmarBoy March 13, 2014