Word Routes
Exploring the pathways of our lexicon
Word on the Street: Sketchy Traffic Lingo
April 12, 2013
By Ben Zimmer
In my latest column for The Boston Globe, I observed that Beantown has more than its fair share of local terms for sketchy traffic maneuvers: the Boston left, the Boston bump, the Boston block, and so forth. But these regional labels can be found all over the country, and new ones keep cropping up.
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