Monstru Slang
In any society or community, language begins to evolve into a more specialized vocabulary. This list is a start to what you might hear on the road or behind the wheel in the Monster World of Monstru.
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Acorn - A small bomb or grenade. Very dear.
Ace Note - A $100 Crowbuck
Bally - A Rig's hidden area for contraband, most often used by smugglers.
Boi - A fella. A common dude. "BOI! Fetch me some doomshine!"
Blacktop Market - An improvised roadside marketplace.
Bucket - A CrowBot trooper.
Carnival - A really nice rig, often tricked out.
Cavity, Cavities - Pot holes.
Cookhole - The kitchen in a Rig.
Cove - A dead end road.
Crew - Your companions. The folks that share your Rig. Your family and partners.
Dear - Something that is expensive, or that requires many CrowBucks.
Dirt pickle - A turd. Something of little to no value.
Donkey - A really slow rig, or one with excessive exhaust.
Doomrunner - A person who hauls doomshine for a living.
Doomshine - A powerful illegal liquor brewed by trolls. In stumps.
Dunt - Fuel, most often coal. "We're gettin' low on dunt. Find an Oni Mart, splash!"
Fistus - A really big spanner. Or, a hammer.
Flea - A small Boi. Most often the nickname for any goblin Crew.
Floss - Rope, or chain. "The road is all flossed-off. We need to find a detour."
Fodd - A real jerkweed. "Get this FODD outta my face!"
Gimick - A trap.
Herald - An undercover spy patrol Rig.
Itch - To gamble. "That boi, he likes to itch."
Jib - To clown around or make fun of something. "You jib me."
Jibber - One who clowns around, perhaps a little too often. "Pike the Jibber, I can't take him anymore."
Jollies - Jolly Beans. Candy-food for furnace goblins.
Kak - Alcohol so bad that it can hardly be swallowed. It's cheap.
Kite - To steal. "Let's kite this rig, b'fore the buckets get here".
Lincoln Logs - A roadside barricaded checkpoint, most often run by Buckets.
Lolly - A hitch hiker.
Lollygrunt - A mouth-breathing hitch hiker. One that stays too long and snores.
Lollydoll - A cute or attractive Lolly.
Muzz - A sugary brew that comes in shiny cans. Very popular, because there are few alternatives.
Pike - To stab, jab, or poke. Impale. "I saw it, at it was all piked up in the swill."
Rig - Your steamcar. Where you live. An armored vehicle. The most important thing to help you survive.
Roadside attraction - A whorehouse.
Rube - A pal, or buddy. A member of your Crew.
Shink - To lie. A fake. False. "She was a member of our shink crew. She shinked the whole time."
Spanner - A wrench.
Splash - Quickly. "Get me a spanner, splash!"
Stug - Dead or killed. "Lorry got all stug in the wreck."
Swill - The gutter or the side of the road.
Swit -?
Throne - The Wheel's seat. "I ain't arguing. You're the Wheel."
Tin - The armor plating found on most rigs. It has to be replaced quite often.
Wagon - An insult for a poor vehicle, especially a slow one. "Sweet wagon."
Wheel - The driver of the Rig. The person in charge. The leader.
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This is just a start. My first quick brainstorm. I'll be adding to this later...
What's your roadside slang?
