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1. Trenton Train Station: The Trenton Rail Station is the main passenger depot in New Jersey; operated by NJ Transit and also houses the Sout...  
2. Garden State, The: New Jersey's "official" nickname (meaning it's on their license plates).  
3. Papa's: A pizza joint that's been around since 1914, making it one of the oldest in the U.S., and one of the best places to...  
4. Filling Station: Also known as LFS (Lisa's Filling Station is the 'full' name of this place), this restaurant serves up some of the ...  
5. Rossi's: Rossi's Bar & Grill is legendary in Trenton for their HUGE hamburgers ("Rossiburgers").  
6. Cesare's: Cesare's Cafe serves hamburgers so infamously large that you have to eat them with a fork and knife; and they're su...  
7. Pete's Steakhouse: Trenton is close to Philadelphia, and so Trentonians know a good cheesesteak when they taste it; Pete's makes one o...  
8. Quoits: Trenton has its own 'style' of this lawn game, where one pitches round metal quoits (sort of like metal hoops or ri...
9. Harry's Army & Navy: One of the few places you can buy real Trenton quoits.  
10. Meadowlands, The: The famous Meadowlands Arena and Sports Complex is located in East Rutherford. The gigantic venue(700 acres) hosts ...  
11. yerp: yerp is a new form of greeting someone. It can be used in a variety of scenarios effectively. Like for example if s...  
12. Pitching: Pitching is what you do with quoits. "Tossing" or "throwing" is improper nomenclature.  
13. Always Turned On: A catchy slogan for Atlantic City  
14. Monopoly: The famous Parker Brothers board game, which was inspired by Atlantic City. Tourists can even go on a Monopoly tour...  
15. Monopoly City: An Atlantic City namesake because of its role as the inspiration for the Parker Brothers board game.  
 
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She-had-a-boy-again is a play on the Sheboygan's name. I heard of this recently when speaking with a friend of mine who's a Sheboygan native. As far as my friend knows, the meaning doesn't go any deeper than the phonetic relationship.

Notorious nearly right angle turn on Interstate 90 in the southeastern section of downtown.

A popular--and relatively new--nickname for the city of Houston, which refers to “chopped and screwed,” an authentically Houston style of music.

Watertown is the birthplace of variety retailing, known in other parts of the country as dollar stores, but known in Watertown as "five and dime".

This was the alternate nickname for the "Phi Slama Jama" University of Houston Cougars basketball team from 1982 to 1984 that featured basketball legends Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon. The fraternity had a joyful reunion during the 1994-1995 NBA season when Clyde Drexler was traded to the Rockets at mid-season, solidifying what was to be the second-straight championship team for the franchise.