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Bang

Make an abrupt left turn (see hook for the right-turn equivalent): "He went to bang a left and take a uey but lost control." For more normal turns, the appropriate word is "hang."

Steve Trinward elucidates: ''Two frat-brothers of mine, back in '69 or '70, once double-dated two Long GUYland-raised ladies, and later regaled us all with their tale of the drive back from picking up their dates. Doug (from out Stuhbridge-way) was driving, Jim (from western Maine and a part-time cab driver) was navigating; the girls were in the back seat. As Doug wound his way through Boston's notoriously snarled traffic, Jim, in an effort to bypass the worst tie-ups, kept barking out directions, as in "Bang a left here, then hang a right at the next light, etc." After about three rounds of this, the gals in back couldn't stand any more, and in their best Lower Island hard-g whine, said simultaneously:

HANG-AH? BANG-AH? WHAT DO THESE WORDS MEAN?"

Keith McDuffee and Steve Trinward

Comments

I recently had a friend from Seattle come down, and we were in a "cah" with someone else drivin the wrong way down "sturradrive" so I told him to "bang a Uey" the friend from seattle was confused, I told her what it meant, and she said oh you mean "flip a bitch" so you should put that in the definition of "bang" :)

steve on March 9, 2004 06:24 PM.

Where I was growing up it was never "take a uey", it was always "Bang a uey" !!!!!!

nancy on January 11, 2005 11:58 AM.

Don't forget to "Bang" in sick i.e., fake sick day.

rick on March 2, 2005 02:06 PM.

It is and always has been "bang a uey". Any other way of saying it just doesn't sound right.

Jimmy on April 9, 2005 03:56 PM.

I had to chuckle when I read "ban a uey". We always said that, in fact I probably still do without realizing it.
I live in Florida now and cling dearly to my Boston Cultcha.
I love reading this vocabulary section-brings back sweet memories of home
Thanks

Judy on June 10, 2005 06:45 PM.

I'm a born and rasied Floridian and I've always said "Pull a Uey"

Kristi on August 3, 2005 01:22 AM.

Bang a uey. Or sometimes I ask for a passenger's opinion "can I do a uey here?"

I had a Japanese roomate name Uyi once, so 'Bang a Uyi" was a running joke.

katey on August 31, 2005 06:46 PM.

In Washington state, you flip a uey and you bang your girlfriend.

Connie on June 30, 2006 12:31 AM.

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