Reverse Dictionary: NEW YORK

NOUNS
► ALPHABET CITY the Lower East Side of New York City in the vicinity of Avenues A, B, C, and D → 1980 New York City usage
► APPLE, THE originally, Harlem; later, New York City → 1939 US sl.
► AVENOODLES the elite residents of New York City → M19 US sl.
► AVENUE, THE Fifth Avenue in New York → 1940s US homosexual sl.
► BIG A, THE New York City → 1980 US sl.
► BIG APPLE, THE Broadway and the jazz and entertainment centres of New York City; hence, New York City itself → 1909 US sl.
► BIG BOARD, THE the New York Stock Exchange Inc. → 1984 US sl.
► BIG BURG, THE New York City → 1918 US sl.
► BIG RED APPLE New York City → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
► B-WAY Broadway, a major avenue in New York City → 1850 Amer. sl.
► CROOKLYN Brooklyn, New York City → 1990s African-American sl.
► DEUCE, THE New York’s 42nd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues → 1980s sl.
► FIFTH AVENOODLES the elite residents of New York City → M19 US sl.
► GREAT WHITE WAY Broadway in New York city → 1901
► HARLEMESE a regional type of speech characteristic of the inhabitants of Harlem → E20
► LAND OF DARKNESS Harlem, New York City; hence, the Black district of any city → 1930s African-American sl.
► MAIN BURG New York City → 1910s US sl.
► MAIN STEM, THE the theatre district of Broadway, a principal thoroughfare in New York City → 1927 Amer. sl.
► MAIN STROLL, THE Seventh Avenue in Harlem → 1940s African-American sl.
► MAIN THRILL, THE the main street; Seventh Avenue in Harlem → 1930s African-American sl.
► MEAT STREET West 14th Street, New York → 1997 US sl.
► MECCA Harlem, New York → 1996 African-American sl.
► MEDINA a nickname for Brooklyn → 1990s African-American sl.
► MET, THE ► METT, THE  the Metropolitan Opera House, New York → L19 US sl.
► SILK STOCKING DISTRICT the Upper East Side of Manhattan → US sl.
► SOUL CITY the Harlem area of New York city → 1964 African-American sl.
► SOULVILLE Harlem, New York → 2006 African-American sl.
► TRACK, THE the Savoy ballroom, New York; a major night spot on Lenox Avenue between 140th and 141st Streets in New York from 1927 until the 50s → 1946 US sl.
► VILLAGE, THE 1. the Lower East Side, New York City → L19 US sl.
2. Greenwich Village, New York City → 1910s US sl.
► VILLE, THE Greenwich Village, New York City → 2000s sl.
► YORK STATE the state of New York → 1780 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ADIRONDACKER a native or inhabitant of the Adirondack region in New York State → 1870
► BEEP a New York City borough president → 1952 Amer. political sl. 
► EEL a resident of New York → 1848 Amer. dial.
► GETTY a street-corner organ grinder, usually one with a monkey trained to collect coins thrown by the audience (pronounced jet-ee) → 1998 New York sl. (Bk.)
► HARLEMITE a person born in or residing in Harlem, New York → L19
► MOSE the generic name for a typical ‘Bowery b’hoy’, a proletarian New Yorker who might work as a fireman but whose main occupation was running with a gang, mixing street thuggery with life as a political mercenary → 1849 US sl.
► MOUSE a New York City Police Department trainee → 1988 New York Police sl.
► SACHEM a political leader; one of the leaders of New York’s Tammany Society → 19C US sl.
► YORKER an inhabitant or a soldier of New York → 1755
► YORKIE a New York yuppie → 2006 Amer. sl.  (Bk.)