D.C. Dictionary: The Diner Slang Dictionary
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- Roach cake:
- raisin cake or huckleberry pie -Synonyms: Fly cake
- Hockey puck:
- a hamburger, well done
- Warts:
- olives
- Balloon juice:
- seltzer, soda water -Synonyms: Alka Seltzer, Belch water
- Groundhog:
- a hot dog -Synonyms: Bow-wow, Bun pup, Tube steak
- Give it shoes:
- an order to go, a takeaway order. It’s to go. -Synonyms: Go for a walk, Let it walk, On wheels
- Eve with a lid on:
- apple pie, referring to the biblical Eve's tempting of Adam with an apple. The "lid" is the pie crust
- 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
- Let the sun shine:
- 2 fried eggs with unbroken yolks -Synonyms: Fry two
- Hounds on an Island:
- franks and beans