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#Trump4Treason
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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Doomguy
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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Championship or bust
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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Why so Serious?
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
In my country
travelling - "without passport"
ballhog - "crocodile", "lacoste"
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Linja Status
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
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.
Originally Posted by hangintheair
In my country
travelling - "without passport"
ballhog - "crocodile", "lacoste"
Without passport lol.
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Dunking on everybody in the park
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
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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Top 3 Family
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
When your shot is leche its lucky.
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Chuck Hayes Stan
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
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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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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Banned
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
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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Good college starter
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
"bunny hopping in the pea patch"
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Good college starter
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
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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Dunking on everybody in the park
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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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
In San Francisco basketball player's moves are just "gay."
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Re: What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
money.
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