U.S. SENATOR RHYME TIME
Shortened Slang
RAPPER'S DELIGHT
WHERE'S THE BEEF?
Phrase History
100

McConnell's curveballs

MITCH'S PITCHES

100

It rhymes with vacay & means a vacay where you don't leave town

Staycay

100

Chance the Rapper said his 2019 album The Big Day was inspired by how he was dancing on this day

Wedding Day
100

On a menu beef or steak this means it comes only one way--raw!

TARTARE

100

The alliterative more this for your buck was popularized by a 1950s Secretary of Defense

BANG

200

Booker's anecdotes

CORY'S STORIES

200

In an interview in 2020 Hillary Clinton had some thoughts on Senator Sanders' online Bernie these

BROS

200

Just like Oprah Chicago rapper Noname started one of these in 2019 that thousands of people joined

Book Club

200

Clara Peller famously asked Where's the beef? in TV ads for this old fashioned hamburgers chain

WENDY'S

200

A 1918 song title said this Is Hard To Find

A GOOD MAN

300

Cruz' prescription pills

TED'S MEDS

300

It's a 4-letter shortened way to say very apparent

Obvy

300

This Cadillac has been a favorite ride of many rappers; in 2018 Remy Ma got one from her husband Papoose after giving birth

AN ESCALADE

300

Mmm! Here's this Southern fried favorite with a different type of meat in its name

CHICKEN-FRIED STEAK

300

Marshall Field's Chicago department store popularized the expression The customer is this

ALWAYS RIGHT

400

Independent Angus' violin section

KING'S STRINGS

400

Take an adjective for theater that's serious & artistic-minded cut it in half & you get this word as MC Hammer knows

LEGIT

400

Atlanta rapper Killer Mike tries to build one of these Thomas More title communities on an episode of his show Trigger Warning

A UTOPIA

400

The name of this French boeuf dish beef braised in red wine means it's prepared in the style of Burgundy

BOURGUIGNON

400

1970s Budget Director Bert Lance got people saying If it ain't broke this

DON'T FIX IT

500

Sherrod's new teeth

BROWN'S CROWNS

500

Merriam-Webster says this word for something that gives you great ideas follows in the footsteps of convo & rando

INSPO

500

Rapper Danny Boy O'Connor loved the Tulsa house used in the film version of this author's The Outsiders so he restored it

S.E. HINTON

500

Though best known Kobe is just one variety of this expensive beef whose name translates to Japanese cow

WAGYU

500

John Donne's 1624 Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions is the source of the phrase No man is this

AN ISLAND