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(01-05-2016 07:02 PM)realologist Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 08:14 PM)MY DETROIT PLAYAS Wrote:  Upper-Lower Michigan/Detroit

Jit= short for jitterbug. Used as a verb "Can y'all jit?". Dance that originated in Detroit

Whoop-wop-Dabang=used as short hand when speaking. When it's too much to explain. "So she was telling me how she ended up in jail whoop-wop-dang....basically I told her I wasn't bailing her out"

Chuke= Yooper word for stocking cap

Euchre-popular card game

Party Store=Liquor store

U.P.=upper peninsula

FIP= Fuckin' Illinois people

I'm from Michigan too. All those are good. A couple things to add.

Michigander=person from Michigan

Yooper= person from the upper peninsula

Pop=soda

Dusty=basically calling someone a bum.

Not necessarily dialect but if someone doesn't know where the city is in Michigan they will show you on their hand.

Third Michigander chiming in:

Chautch (Rhymes with Botch, beginning like Ch in Cheese - Ive never seen it written, my High school was pre cell phone normalization times)
----was for kids with Abercrombie shirts, fratty guys, short spiky bleach blonded hair, maybe the front part flipped up with dyed red in it, cargo shorts. A mix between prep and frat. Was quite a popular kind of guy when I was going to high school.

Fucking Chautch.

Trees - Weed. Burn some trees.