CALIFORNIA
ADJECTIVES
1990 — CALI Californian → sl.
NOUNS
1840 — CALIFORNIA BANK NOTE a hide used as a medium of currency in pre-Gold Rush California → Amer. dial.
..L19 — CAL California → US
..20C — SAN FRAN San Francisco → US sl.
1901 — L.A. Los Angeles, California → Amer. sl.
1930 — CALI → CALLY California → US sl.
1930 — SAC Sacramento, California → US tramps’ & criminals’ sl.
1930 — WALL CITY San Quentin prison, California → US criminals’ sl.
1931 — DAGO San Diego, California → US sl., derogatory
1940 — LAND OF FRUIT AND NUTS California → US sl.
1942 — BEAR STATE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — CALIFINORIA California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — EL DORADO (STATE) California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — EUREKA STATE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GOLD COAST California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GOLDEN POPPY STATE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GOLDEN STATE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GRAPE STATE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GRIZZLY BEAR STATE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — HOT FURNACE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — LAND OF GOLD California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — LAND OF PERPETUAL SUNSHINE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SUNKIST STATE California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SUNNY CAL → SUNNY CALIFORNIA California → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1953 — HOLLYWEIRD Hollywood, California → US sl.
1960 — TACO TOWN San Jose, US → US sl., derogatory
1960 — TAMALEVILLE San Jose, US → US sl., derogatory
1966 — THE AVENUE Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California → US sl.
1967 — THE HAIGHT the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco → US sl.
1968 — LOTUS LAND California → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1970 — SIF San Francisco → US sl.
1970 — TINSELTOWN Hollywood, California, as a centre of the movie industry → colloq.
1971 — PANSY PATCH an area in west Hollywood, California, largely populated by homosexual men since the 1960s → US sl.
1972 — LA-LA LAND Los Angeles, California → sl., orig. US
1974 — CALIFAS California → US sl.
1974 — EAST LOS east Los Angeles, California → US sl.
1978 — LAH Los Angeles, California → US jocular usage
1980 — LOTUSLAND Los Angeles, California → Amer. sl.
1980 — QUIET VILLAGE Venice, California → African-American sl.
1983 — SWISH ALPS the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, a homosexual enclave → US sl.
1987 — S AND M Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California → US sl.
1990 — MO the Fillmore area of San Francisco → African-American teen sl.
1990 — NICKEL SHOT a 5-storey public housing building in the Fillmore area of San Francisco → African-American teen sl.
1990 — OAKTOWN Oakland, California → local & rap music usage
1990 — S.C. South Central Los Angeles → African-American teen sl.
1990 — THE KILLIN’ FIELDS East Oakland, California → African-American teen sl.
1996 — LA-LA Los Angeles, California → US sl.
2001 — OC Orange County, California → US sl.
2004 — OLD COUNTRY Beverly Hills, California; used with irony by transplants to the San Fernando Valley → US sl.
2004 — SAN BERNAGHETTO San Bernadino, California → US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1857 — ANGELENO a resident of Los Angeles, California → Amer. dial.
1910 — BANKER a person who makes a business of picking up wreckage on the coast of California (Bk.)
1910 — NATIVE SON a White man who is a native of California → Amer. sl.
1918 — PRUNE PICKER a Californian → sl.
1930 — POISON-OAKER a native Northern Californian → Amer. dial.
1971 — AB CHASER a resident of the coastal area → Boonville California usage (Bk.)
1971 — ABALONEYITE a coast dweller, esp. of Albion, Mendocino County → Boonville California usage (Bk.)
1977 — CHIP → CHIPPY an officer of the California Highway Patrol → Amer. sl.
1978 — CALIFORNICATOR a Californian, esp. one who has moved to Oregon or Washington state → US sl.
1982 — VALLEY GIRL a teenage girl from San Fernando Valley in southern California, esp. one whose characteristic mode of speech is ‘Valspeak’, a type of US slang, featuring approval and disapproval words such as awesome, mega, tubular, grody, gross, gnarly, and the use of filler words, esp. ‘like’ and ‘totally’, and a girlish, giggly style of delivery
2004 — HARDBODY a young Californian male, esp. one involved in body-building → US sl.
2006 — BAKE a person from Bakersfield in the Central Valley of California → Amer. surfing sl. (Bk.)
2006 — HOLLYWOODER → HOLLYWOODIAN → HOLLYWOODITE a native or inhabitant of Hollywood, California
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