mull pipe n.— «I stopped at a red light and some obnoxious kid in school uniform started pointing at me to his friends and yelling “look, mull pipe!! Mull pipe!!” (that’s pot pipe in your parlance).» —“Re: Funny episodes...
cutter n.— «I am referring to the “cutters” closet, where kids who indulged in what psychiatrists call self-injurious behavior (SIB) have been hiding during the school year.» —“Students’ scars point to emotional...
gank v.— «In their confession to police, the two youths said they would go “make a run” or “gank an o.g.,” which means they would drive around until they spotted an elderly woman, usually at a bank or shopping...
bank v.— «The Bella Vista Boys—named, in a fashion, after the Baltimore neighborhood Belle Vista—didn’t just blame Rabb, they “banked” him, or ganged up on him to teach him a lesson.» —“Schoolyard squabble ends in boy’s...
hikikomori n.— «In fact, as many as a million young men—mostly teenagers, but increasingly older men as well—suffer from what is known here as hikikomori. It’s a condition in which they seclude themselves in their rooms for weeks at a...
brodie n.— «Spying a largish dirt lot off the road, B. turned into it and began whipping brodies in the lot. (For the uninitiated, this is making your car spin in circles fast.) This teenage tradition probably has a little to do with the...