DRIZZLE Slang

DRIZZLE Slang

The very first thing you need to know about slang in DRIZZLE are these frequently used words:
 * System, also known as Inside - This refers to the entire portion of the city (offices, factories, housing, etc.) in which the ordinary residents of the city carry out their boring lives. System also refers to the whole propaganda based society.
 * Outside, also known as the Undercity - This refers to the gang society that live beyond the laws of the System in the crumbling old buildings that exist beneath the infrastructure of the Upper City.
 * Tweener - Someone who has recently escaped from the System
 * Suit - your average office slave on the Inside

Here are some other terms used in the story, listed for your convenience.

Outsider slang Inside - the factories/offices/totalitarian society Outside - the streets/undercity/gang and neutral territory Tween/Tweener - someone who just escaped from Inside

Factory boy* - gay guy Office girl* - gay girl
 * Sometimes these terms are used interchangeably, e.g. you can call a gay guy an office girl and a gay girl a factory boy. It's more joking or derogatory that way depending on the context.

tank - booze/container of booze. This is a general term but it usually refers to something brewed from grains. Fruit tank - wine or cider Rice tank - sake Tweener's tank (TT) - Tank 'watered down' by mixing it with something, even if the original tank used was something strong like whiskey or vodka. Examples: tea tank, coffee tank (Irish coffee), punch, and all sorts of mixed drinks Fire/fire tank - so strong, it burns.

Drunk: Tanked, Fired Hungover: Trashed, Canned

Mostly universal slang C-Type D-Type G-Type E-Type Robot - calling someone any kind of robot generally means they're a jerk, but calling someone a robot in general is a more serious insult Robots! - A frequently used explicative when things go wrong

Systems - can be used as a random explicative Scrap - Crap Rust/Rusty - crap/worthless/degraded "Oh rust!" - "Oh crap!" "What a rust" - what a waste Mattress - weak person (they're squishy) Box spring - weak skinny person "Kiss metal" - Get lost, to put it lightly Birds###/Birdscrap/BS - the words have changed but the meaning is the same Pigeonscrap - coward

Office Slang that spread to the Outside: "Oh papercuts!" - equivalent of "Oh fiddlesticks!" "Benevolent bosses" - the equivalent of Thank God, sometimes also used as Good Grief "Flying cars!", alternately "Flying cars on a spinning robot leg!" or any similar fancy extension - holy cow! Bugged - crazy Dredge - pathetic Trogans- Hell C.O.K. (Coffee On Keyboards). Holy crap! or Oh damn! "Tell it to a C-Bot!" - A harsh way of saying 'Don't talk to me, go away.'

Factory Slang that spread to the Outside: Poked - pregnant Oven - pregnant woman