D.C. Dictionary: The Diner Slang Dictionary
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- Breath:
- onion
- Cow feed:
- a salad
- Chopper:
- a table knife
- Graveyard stew:
- milk toast; buttered toast, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, and dropped into a bowl of warm milk
- Radar Range:
- microwave oven, from the Amana Radarange, whose parent company, Raytheon, was the first to manufacture and market the microwave oven.
- Sunny-side up:
- the eggs are fried without flipping them, so the yolk looks just like a sun on white background
- Beef Stick:
- bone
- Give it shoes:
- an order to go, a takeaway order. It’s to go. -Synonyms: Go for a walk, Let it walk, On wheels
- S.O.S:
- minced dried beef with gravy on toast, mostly because it was a reviled standard fare in army messes -Synonyms: Shit on a shingle
- Bloody:
- very rare