Transportation
Name for the kids/teens who "clean" drivers' windshields at red lights, whether they were asked to or not.
DOUBLE POINTS: Name the shape these kids/teens might draw on your windshield, particularly if you are a woman.
"Squeegee" Kids/Boys
DOUBLE POINTS: A heart
The HBO show that turned Baltimore's street corners into required viewing for film students who've never left the suburbs.
The Wire
In Baltimore, this is how you refer to literally any person, place, or situation.
Yo
This is the object you’ll see sitting in the street with no context, no owner, and no urgency.
Any random piece of furniture
Baltimore residents use this seasoning like it’s a personality trait.
Old Bay
People who drive this vehicle in Baltimore often treat red lights as a suggestion and the city's streets like a racetrack.
Dirt bike
Honorable mention: Nissan Altima
The spray Baltimore residents are casually told to keep on them at all times, just in case.
Narcan
If somebody says "meet me at the chicken spot," there is a 90% chance they're talking about this chain.
Royal Farms OR HipHop Fish & Chicken
Place in Baltimore where you can buy a single cigarette, counterfeit money, a crack pipe, and a pickle through three inches of bulletproof glass.
Any corner/liquor store
Idris' favorite thing about attending Johns Hopkins University.
The abundance of Asian women
MARC
The metro stop more famous for a mass overdose than for trains.
Penn North
This word sounds like an insult everywhere else, but here it can mean your friend, your enemy, or just a random person.
Dummy
The name for when a sidewalk becomes a living room, parking lot, and social club simultaneously.
A regular block in Baltimore
The official Baltimore lunch meal, available in a box.
Chicken Box
The average price of a light rail ticket.
Free
The word dealers in Baltimore use to describe more intense drugs, beyond things like weed and alcohol.
Hard
Phrase that people say when they want to prove they have a Baltimore accent.
Aaron earned an iron urn
A traditional childhood game that street dwellers in Baltimore have started playing on sidewalks or buses and sometimes even bet money on.
Jacks
The spot where groups of people gather and hang out whenever there are no cops and good weather.
The sidewalk in front of 5 East North Avenue.
The most reliable mode of transportation in Baltimore City, other than owning a car.
What do drug addicts in Baltimore jails say DOC stands for?
Department of Connections
This is the default response when someone says they’re meeting you at North Avenue.
Be careful
Something in Baltimore that happens even quicker than getting a package delivered with Amazon Prime.
Having that package stolen off your doorstep
The official time estimate for anything involving the clothing store being built underneath 5 E. North Avenue.
Who knows?