D.C. Dictionary: The Diner Slang Dictionary
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- In the weeds:
- a waitress/cook that can't keep up with the tables. Refers back to chefs' military roots, where being in the weeds would cause your army to be slaughtered.
- Flop two:
- two fried eggs, over easy
- Lumber:
- A toothpick
- Halitosis:
- garlic -Synonyms: Bronx vanilla, Italian Garlic
- Bridge:
- four of anything (from bridge the card game) -Synonyms: Bridge party
- Whistleberries:
- Baked beans, so called because of the supposed flatulence they cause. -Synonyms: Bullets, Saturday night
- Put out the lights and cry:
- an order of liver and onions, "Lights" is a term sometimes used for the edible, mainly internal organs of an animal
- Crowd:
- three of anything (possibly from the saying "Two's company, three's a crowd")
- Two cows, make them cry:
- Two hamburgers with onions
- Fifty-five:
- a glass of root beer