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1. Buggy : A supermarket shopping cart.
2. Coffee Regular : Coffee with cream and sugar.  
3. East Carson Street : A funky neighborhood in South Side Pittsburgh that features bars, tattoo shops and eclectic...  
4. Gum Bands : This slang for rubber bands in Pittsburgh speak, not to be confused with bubble gum bands, which are singing groups...  
5. N'at : Slang for "and that". There are even pizza places called "Pizza N'At"  
6. Philly Cheese Steak : Philadelphia's signature cuisine, a greasy but delicious mess of thinly sliced meat, onions, and gloppy cheese stuffed...  
7. Scanner Dan : A guy, "Scanner" Dan Mathison, who hangs out in downtown Madison with a police scanner at his hip. Scanner Dan is still...
8. Terrace Chairs : The colored (orange, yellow and green) metal chairs outside at the Memorial Union Terrace. You can buy replica terrace...
9. Whiz Wit : A cheese steak with Cheese Whiz.  

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Philadelphia's area code and a colloquial term for Philadelphia itself, as in the following sentence: "Allen Iverson was really representin' the 215 in Los Angeles last night when he torched Kobe."

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Satan's Steed with his devily eyes with the Denver airport in the background

Satan's Steed is one of the nicknames of the blue horse sculpture just outside of the Denver International Airport. The horse's creepy red eyes attract all sorts of disgust from the Colorado public, who lament the fact that the sculpture is placed so prominently at the gateway to the city. Adding to the mustang's mystique, scupltor Luis Jimenez died when the horse's head broke off and fell on top of him. His sons finished the job and had it installed in February of 2008.

Dragonfly

A nickname for those that move to warmer climates in the winter (usually Florida or Arizona) and then back to Wisconsin in the summer.