Slugging is a form of hitchhiking in DC that benefits both the hitchhiker and the driver. The driver can use the much faster HOV lane after taking on a passenger.
A local reference to a messy section of merges and interchanges on I-240 & 55 where a relatively high proportion of accidents occur as a result of the confused roadways.
A nickname for Fort Worth, Texas.
A nickname for the Port of Miami, due to the brisk business of passenger cruises situated here.
An infamous legal trial that took place in Phoenix in the 1960s, a complicated fiasco involving an inheritance and "scientific proof" for the existence of a human soul.
A person from Connecticut
Pejorative nickname given to Madison by political conservatives due to its long history of progressive politics. (Also see "60 square miles surrounded by reality".)
Local slang for a type of hard-shell clam, later, a fictional suburb of Providence featured on the "Family Guy" television show.