Regional Slang

Many slang terms and idioms are regional, meaning that there may be some places where they are commonly used and recognized, but in most other places they are unknown or at least very uncommon. These terms are most commonly popular in their places of origin and perhaps the surrounding areas. The reasons for a term being only regional, and not universal are varied. It could be because whatever the term references is only recognized by inhabitants of that area, and therefore inapplicable to other areas, or perhaps because the residents of that area are not known for visiting other areas of the world and carrying the terms on. It could be because the term just never happened to catch on in other places, maybe because certain other areas already have their own slang term to address whatever the object of reference is. And of course, it could simply be that the term is not particularly clever or catchy, and that people in other regions simply prefer not to use it.

For whatever reason regional terms exist, there are quite a few of them, and almost every country, state, province, county, city, town, and even smaller areas like neighborhoods and residential districts, has at least a few of them. Regional slang terms also vary with regional dialects and, of course, languages.