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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    im not from the hood in chicago but i was playing 21/V with a guy that was and everytime i shot the ball he would yell "ghost" signifying being scared to try to throw me off.

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    I remember being called "unibomber" when I went to Venice Beach and was raining 3's.

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    Pretty sure didn't start in my neck of the woods but I like to use "onions."

    Because it's funny.

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    In my country

    travelling - "without passport"

    ballhog - "crocodile", "lacoste"

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    Quote Originally Posted by KLovin
    Probably not unique to New York City, but I was playing a bunch of black dudes once and my jumper was particularly wet that game. After hitting a bunch of them in quick succession, one of them went, "He got da ratchet." Again, perhaps not unique to my city, but "the ratchet" was something I'd never heard of before.

    That first sentence has me laughing out loud.



    Quote Originally Posted by hangintheair
    In my country

    travelling - "without passport"

    ballhog - "crocodile", "lacoste"


    Without passport lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adamcz
    I've lived a few places and heard a lot of different slang.

    In NYC, a bounce pass is known as "french fries." As in "yo dawg, that was a great french fries when I was surfing to the movie theatre."

    However in NJ, boxing out for rebounds is known as "turd sandwich." As in, "yo dawg, how's anybody supposed to open an elephant suprise when you're turd sandwich the biscuit?"
    Dude....what?

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    When your shot is leche its lucky.

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    Idk if it's common but I often here someone say "Get up" when they want the ball handler to shoot.

    Other than that I can think of nothing really unique compared to what I here others say.

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    "boosties" instead of "hops", not sure if that was local and that was 6 yrs ago , in los angeles area
    Last edited by flipogb; 11-30-2012 at 02:28 AM.

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    Quote Originally Posted by Timmy D for MVP
    Idk if it's common but I often here someone say "Get up" when they want the ball handler to shoot.

    Other than that I can think of nothing really unique compared to what I here others say.
    Over here in NYC, "get up" is used more as a term of derision towards someone whose man got a rebound on them.

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    "bunny hopping in the pea patch"

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    Quote Originally Posted by flipogb
    "boosties" instead of "hops", not sure if that was local and that was 6 yrs ago , in los angeles area
    boosties is OLD...they were saying that when I used to play ball...20 years ago.

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    Most of the ones I know have been said already, but there's "jimmy". Someone who has a nice looking jumpshot has a "jimmy".

    People yell "get big" and "get up" when they're fighting for boards.

    If someone gets crossed, he got "cracked".

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    In San Francisco basketball player's moves are just "gay."

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    Default Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?

    money.

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