1. Stinky water from the gutters that mixes with garbage. Don't step in the polio water, or else the polio smell will stick with you all day.
2. Polio Water - A puddle of water.
Carry a heavy load or a bulky package for a distance: "The MTA is on strike every Christmas, so we schlep our packages from Macy's to Grand Central"
A nickname for the Port of Miami, due to the brisk business of passenger cruises situated here.
A pickled condiment made from cabbage and various other vegetables and spices.
A local motto in recent years used to promote the city’s eccentricity and diversity. It's featured on innumerable bumper stickers and t-shirts.
Another name for a laundromat, taken from Houston's rich "Spanglish" vernacular.
The oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, and the only section of the city where streets run in a grid and a nexus for aficionados of historical architecture.
Nickname for the city's award-winning daily newspaper, the Providence Journal. This paper holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously published daily in the U.S., having been started in 1829.