Slang Terms

The *Letterkenny* and *Letterkenny Problems* dialogue makes extensive use of **slang**, including many words and phrases from hockey or general Canadian or rural usage.

## Glossary

This main list focuses on shorter cryptic slang terms used in casual dialogue, whose meanings are not necessarily obvious from their context.

* For longer and/or more obvious phrases, see Sayings, below the tables.
* Also see separate sections below the tables for lists of euphemisms for sex, drugs, or gym terms, where approximate meanings are more obvious and less important to understanding the dialog; for example, when jocks are rapidly listing their various gym exercises, or hicks are explicitly listing all the nicknames they know for each drug.

## Sayings

Sayings in *Letterkenny*. Though many of these don't necessarily require much explanation, they are listed here as important parts of the Letterkenny lexicon nevertheless.

* **A little dab'll do ya** - "A small amount [of something] is enough"; used to point out that someone is doing something too much.
* **Ain't no reason to get excited** - Calm down.
* **Bad gas travels fast in a small town** - Bad rumors spread quickly in small towns, so be careful what you say.
* **Can't see a caesar and not want a caesar /** **Can't see a caesar and not want to seize 'er.** - Some subtitles say one, some say the other.
* **Can't win 'em all. -** Aside from the obvious uses, this is also a common response in Letterkenny when hearing news that someone died.
* **Clear eyes, full windsors, can't lose** - From the *Friday Night Lights* rallying cry: "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose." "Full windsors" is substituted in to refer to a full-windsor knot used on men's neckties, to repurpose this rallying cry for a formal event where everyone is hoping to get laid.
* **Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life** - If you love your career it won't feel like work.
* **Don’t bore us; Get to the chorus** - Cut to the chase. Get on with it.
* **Everybody’s an expert (must be nice)**
* **Figure it out** - You're wrong.
* **First impression's a lasting one**
* **Get this guy a fuckin' Puppers** - Ie. "Get this guy a beer," response to someone who's unnecessarily angry.
* **Give your balls a tug** - Check your masculinity/toughness, because it’s questionable.
* **Good 'nuff** - Good enough.
* **Gotta leave this world behind** - The futility and foolishness of the world makes one wonder if life is still worth living
* **Hard no.** - Definitely not.
* **He's a real good guy**
* **Here's the scoop and I'm gonna tell ya...**
* **"How're you now?" "Good 'n you?" "Not so bad."**
* **I should've packed a lunch** - When someone is taking too long to get to the point.
* **I'd have a [beer/dart etc]** - "I feel like having a beer," or something else, like a dart (cigarette). Often used as an excuse to leave a conversation.
* **If you can be one thing you should be efficient**
* **If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything** - If you don't choose a side you're likely gullible.
* **I'm surprised we're not [doing something] right now! -** Indicating that you'd like to start a particular activity immediately.
* **I suggest you let that one marinate** - Think long and hard.
* **It's almost not worth thinking about** - Expressing discomfort with the current topic of conversation, ie. "Let's change the topic, please"
* **It's impolite to talk about [something]**
* **It's never so bad [that] it couldn't be worse**
* **It's never too late to drive truck** - If all else fails, you can always start a new career as a truck driver.
* **I've got so much time for [something]** - Indicating that you find something or someone agreeable or attractive.
* **K** - Generic one-word response when uncomfortable.
* **Let that one marinate** - Think long and hard.
* **Look at what the cat dragged in** - A facetious greeting. Sometimes followed up with "Better than what the cat coughed up."
* **More hands [means/makes] less work** - The more people help out, the easier a task is, and the faster it will be completed.
* **Must be nice** - Disapproval of shows of excess
* **Not my pig, not my farm.** - Not my problem.
* **Old boss is always a dick ‘till ya meet the new one** - It's never so bad [that] it couldn't be worse
* **Pitter patter [let's get at 'er]** – Hurry up / Let's hurry up.
* **Please and thank you** - Filling in obligatory politeness when it was previously missing.
* **Reason fuckin' five million** - Pointing out that the reasoning stated by someone else in the conversation is only the tip of the iceberg, and there's much more that could be said in support of their view.
* **Sitting is quietly murdering you** - From the belief that people sit more than they're meant to these days.
* **Sort yourself out** - Take a look at what you're doing and fix it. Similar to "figure it out."
* **Sure as god's got sandals** - For sure.
* **Take 20 to 25% off there** - Take it down a notch.
* **That was well brought up. Too bad you weren’t** - Sarcastic response to a burp.
* **That's what I appreciates about you.**
* **The less you say now, the less you'll have to apologize for later.**
* **There could be worse things** - That's not so bad.
* **They don't ask how. They ask how many** - For situations where quantity is more important than quality.
* **They're coming land, sea, and air now** - Sarcastically saying the cavalry is on the way; said under one's breath when someone ineffectual promises to handle a problem and you know they can't. Reference to the three types of military units that can respond to a threat (army, navy, air force).
* **To be fair...**
* **Too much fun.** - When the humor in the conversation is getting too corny for comfort.
* **We are first-cousin to [something]** - Something is approaching, usually a bad situation, eg. "We are first-cousin to an emergency."
* **Wheel snipes celly boys, dirty fuckin' dangles boys!** - Variously refers to scoring goals in hockey and scoring with women. See glossary above for explanation of the individual terms.
* **When a [man/friend] asks for help, you help him**
* **You better settle down or I'm gonna come to talk to ya**
* **You don't fuck with tradition**
* **You have a rich inner life** - Sarcastic response to a burp.
* **You shouldn't air your dirty laundry** - You should keep your grievances to yourself.
* **Gonna work the ground Game, huh?** - Taking on a cause. From "ground game" in American football, where "ground game" is running the ball yourself, instead of passing it off to a teammate.
* **Your terms are acceptable** - I'm in.
* **You've had too much sugar cereal -** Expressing that someone said something ridiculous; they must be high on sugar.

## Synonyms

More comprehensive lists of nicknames, euphemisms, or alternative terms, referring to sex or drugs, that have been used on *Letterkenny*. Many of these terms have been mentioned only once, are fairly obvious based on context, and/or are not essential to understanding the dialogue.

### Drugs

* **Anabolic steroids** - A-bombs, anti-hero, gear, gym candy, juice, roids, sauce
* **Cocaine** - booger sugar, devil's dandruff, nose beers, schneef, snooter, stripper salt, uptown
* **GHB** - G
* **Marijuana** - assassin of youth, dank, devil's dart, dutch, electric lettuce, gateways, Jamaican broccoli, jazzy, johnny red-eye, keef, pot, potent peace pipe, reggae cigarette, sublime ragtime
* **MDMA** - the beans, bombers, dancin' shoes, disco biscuits, E, e-bombs, ecstasy, hug drug, (don't say) molly, roly-poly
* **Magic mushrooms** - boomers, cracker stackers, simple simon, zoomers
* **Methamphetamines** - the beans, bombers, meth
* **Ritalin** - rits

### Sex

* **Copulation** - bacon makin', building the beast with two backs, building the blanket monster, crawl up the skin slide, dirty dangles, going to the bone yard, hizzin’ in the skizzins, making feet for children's stockings, pituitary poke, smash, stank on the hangdown, takedown, testing the tube steak, throwing hip, toe-curling, wheeling, yessing
* **Erection** - boner, glizzy, home wrecker, lap rocket, red rocket, stiffy
* **Fellatio** - blowie, blowjob
* **Heterosexual (male)** - clam slammer
* **Homosexual (male)** - backdoor bandit, bum bumper, Donald Trump of rump, donut puncher, knob jockey, Oklahomo, pipe fitter, rear admiral, shit disturber, uphill gardener
* **Masturbation (female solo)** - Flicking bean, diddle my skittle
* **Masturbation (male solo)** - batching (from "mixing a batch"), beating the bishop, dishonourable discharge, distributing free literature, feeding the ducks, feeding the geese, firing wristers, hand-to-gland combat, making a bald man puke, mixing a batch, playing five-on-one, playing one-man couch hockey in the dark, pulling your horn
* **Masturbation (mutual)** - glover, handjob, handy, squeezer
* **Penis** - bobby dangler, chutney ferret, custard slinger, dink, disco stick, friendly weapon, ground squirrel, hard drive/floppy disk, hollow point, horn, impaler, joystick, love muscle, middle stump, PhD, sticky grenade, pork sword, tube, WMD
* **Vagina** - box, gash, front bum, furry cup, mitt, slit, snapper, chuff, minge

### Other

* **Flatulence** - air biscuit, ass flapper, colon bowling, crack splitter, rectal turbulence, steam pressing your Calvins; Also *"crop dusting"*: the practice of farting and walking away.
* **Vomit** -to call Earl, to call Huey, to meat sauce, to spit / have a spit, to toss a sidewalk pizza, to yack(Uncle Eddie's Trust)

## Malapropisms

Some terms on Letterkenny that may appear to be slang terms are actually just words commonly mispronounced by the characters.

* **Cousint** - Cousin
* **Exposed to** - Supposed to *(eg. "You're not exposed to give dogs human names.")*
* **Irregardlessly** - Regardless
* **Libary** - Library

## Gym terms

Based on descriptions at BodyBuilding.com

* **Advanced alternate air bike ab roll** - an abdominal exercise involving lying on ground on one's back with legs performing a cycling motion and head and shoulders lifted into a crunch position, bringing the right elbow to the left knee and left elbow to the right knee in succession.
* **Advanced kettlebell windmill** - a core exercise in which a kettlebell is held above the lifter's head; the lifter lowers the body to one side, keeping the kettlebell locked out and overhead, then returns to the starting position.
* **Alternate dumbbell bicep curl** - a bicep exercise in which the lifter curls a dumbbell while rotating it at the elbow until the back of the hand is facing outwards, then lowers and twists to return, continuing with the other arm.
* **Alternate one-arm dumbbell preacher curl** - a bicep curl with the upper arm rested on a preacher bench.
* **Animal Stak** - a body building supplement.
* **Anti-gravity press** - a shoulder exercise performed with the lifter prone on an incline bench, with chest and hips on the pad, holding weights with an overhand grip; the weight is reverse curled to bring the weights to the chest, then press out in front of the head, keeping the arms parallel to the ground throughout the mvoement, hence the "anti-gravity" in the name.
* **Barbell half-squat** - a squat done with a barbell in which the lifter bends about halfway down, remaining above parallel (i.e. the position where the thighs are parallel to the floor).
* **Bent over rear delt raise with head on bench** - a shoulder exercise in which the lifter bends over and rests his or her head, commonly on an incline bench, then lifts dumbbells to the side with arms extended until the arms are parallel to the floor, then lowers them again.
* **Bent press barbell side bend** - a bent press in which a barbell is held at shoulder height, then maintained as the body is bent to one side and returned.
* **Burpee box jump** - a lower body plyometric in which the athlete jumps onto a box or step with both feet, then off again, then does a burpee
* **Cable hammer curls with rope attachment** - a bicep exercise in which the standing lifter curls using a rope attached to a low pulley.
* **Cable rope overhead tricep extension** - a tricep exercise using a pulley machine, in which the lifter, facing away from the pulley, grips the handle and holds it above his or her head, then slowly lowers it behind the head.
* **Close grip EZ bar curl with band** - a bicep exercise performed standing, with the EZ curl bar attached to a fixture using an elastic band.
* **Concentration curl** - a bicep exercise in which the lifter, seated on a bench, curls a dumbbell from between the legs until it is shoulder level, keeping the upper arm stationary, then returns it.
* **Cross body hammer curl** - a bicep and forearm exercise in which the lifter, standing with dumbbells at each side, curls a dumbbell to the opposite side of the chest from the arm in which it is held and returns it, then doing the same with the other arm.
* **Drop sets** - a strength training regimen in which the amount of weight lifted is gradually dropped with each set, allowing the lifter to complete more reps.
* **Forced rep** - a term for a rep completed with the assistance of a spotter. The spotter lifts an increasing percentage of the weight in later reps, allowing the lifter to complete the set.
* **Judo flip** - a core exercise using a cable machine, in which the cable is held over the shoulder and pulled by bending around, as if performing a judo flip.
* **Kettlebell sumo deadlift** - a leg exercise in which the lifter starts in a sumo stance, with legs wide apart, and deadlifts the kettlebell from the ground to waist level.
* **Lying close grip bar curl on high pulley** - a bicep exercise done on a pulley machine in which the lifter, reclining on a bench, curls the bar down towards the head.
* **One arm cable curl** - A standing bicep curl using the cable machine.
* **Plyometrics** - exercises designed to develop bursts of muscle power, most often taking the form of various types of jumps
* **Rollout incline heel touch** - an incline heel touch is a core exercise lying on an incline with legs raised and bent, touching the right hand to the right knee, then the left hand to the left knee.
* **Russian cable twist** - a core exercise using a cable machine and Swiss ball, in which the lifter reclines on the ball perpendicular to the cable, then rotates the body to pull the cable with both hands/
* **Sandbell slam** - a plyometric in which a Sandbell is lifted up over the head, then slammed down to the ground.
* **Skull crusher** - a.k.a. lying triceps extension, in which the lifter reclines on a bench with the head hanging just off the top, holds the weights (or handle) overhand above the head with arms bent, and extends the arms to work the tricep group.
* **Standing dumbbell reverse spider curl** - An arm and shoulder exercise where the dumbbells are reverse curled while the lifter is leaned on a preacher bench, instead of an incline bench.
* **Standing one-arm bicep curl over incline bench** - a bicep curl done standing behind an incline bench with the upper arm rested against it, palm facing up.
* **Standing V-bar pushdowns** - see V-Bar tricep pushdown.
* **Superset** - a strength training regimen in which the lifter moves from one exercise to another without resting in between.
* **Swiss ball jackknife** - a core exercise in which the lifter starts in the pushup position with legs resting on a Swiss ball (a.k.a. exercise ball, balance ball); then bends the legs, rolling the ball inward until the thighs touch the abdomen; then extends again.
* **Two-arm barbell wide grip preacher curl** - a curl performed at a preacher bench with the arms gripping the barbell wider than the shoulders.
* **V-Bar tricep pushdown** - a tricep pushdown performed with a V-bar; the lifter stands in front of the high pulley machine, grips the V-bar overhand, and pushes down on the bar, then returns it, keeping the upper arms stationary.

## Videos

Letterkenny Lexicon (Vol. 1)How Well Do You Know Hick Slang? Rachel David and Michelle MylettJared Keeso of Letterkenny explains 10-ply and other slang
## External links

* Rykoff, Amanda, "From biscuits to wristers, a guide to hockey speak," ESPN.com, June 1, 2011
* Schoeninger, Bill, "How to Talk Like a Hockey Player" at TheHockeyWriters.com, November 7, 2018

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