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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Cities Atlanta Austin Boston. Chicago Detroit Los Angeles. New York San Francisco Archive. Filed under: San Francisco News. Strangely, 4. I only say "San Francisco".
I say "San Fran". SFGate predicted awhile ago that the young and hip would revive it. Search-Icon Created with Sketch. KQED is a proud member of. Always free. Sign In. KQED Inform. Save Article Save Article. Bay Curious. Listen 10 min. Vinnee Tong. Mar 2, Failed to save article Please try again. People love to hate the San Francisco nickname Frisco. But why? Frisco is the nickname we love to hate. Rena Yang has been wondering why some people don't like "Frisco" for years.
Sheet music from is among the earliest known documents that uses the word "Frisco. Caen wanted San Francisco to be more classy, more chic. Frisco is Loved, Too Now, many people associate the word with an earlier generation. And rightly so. Which brings us back to Rena, our question-asker, who suddenly felt out of place because she was called out for using Frisco. Well, we have some good news for Rena. The famous Herb Caen eventually flip-flopped on Frisco a couple of times in the s.
SFGate predicted awhile ago that the young and hip would revive it. This article originally appeared on KQED. Another Bay term gone mainstream, is now the universal number associated with weed. San Francisco, baby. And even more so now that the area code has been discontinued for new phone numbers.
If you went to a Bay Area high school in the last 30 years, you probably had a few scrapers in the school parking lot. A classic scraper is a Buick or a Pontiac although any big American-made car will do that is modified with massive rims, a bangin sound system and custom paint job.
Slang for a vehicle, possibly of a more expensive make, but generally used to describe all cars. An admittedly dangerous activity wherein the driver of a scraper puts his car or golf cart, if you're Marshawn Lynch in neutral and jumps out of the vehicle to dance either next to it or on top of it for a higher level of difficulty while the car coasts along. Bonus points if you can gracefully jump back into your car before hitting a pole. A gathering of cars often quite large that are performing tricks like donuts and ghost-riding your whip.
The term is thought to have originated in Vallejo and refers to a close associate or friend; cousin. Some people spell the word "cutty" and say the word is used similarly to "janky.
The ultimate Bay slang: So great that the rest of the world has slowly but surely embraced it. Linguists believe hella has its origins in the Hayward area and has existed since the mids. Hella gained popularity in the early 90s when it became a mainstay of the hip hop vernacular. Short for "hyperactive," hyphy was popularized by Oakland rapper Keak da Sneak.
Oversized sunglasses, often worn at night, while getting hyphy. Can also refer to sunglasses in general. Bad, gross, terrible.
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