Description
From “go for a rip” to “nosebleeds”, these 10 slang expressions are real English used by native speakers. If you’ve ever watched hockey, talked to Canadians, or listened to native English speakers discussing sports, you’ve probably heard words that made absolutely no sense. In this casual English vocabulary lesson, I teach you real sports slang and hockey slang used in everyday English, especially in Canada. You’ll learn funny expressions like “go for a rip”, “nosebleeds”, “bucket”, “biscuit”, “flow”, “puck bunny”, and more. https://www.engvid.com/funny-english-sports-slang
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More Canadian 🇨🇦 English:
https://youtu.be/QgIqu_8gn3s
https://youtu.be/1MoBQhu9M88
In this lesson:
0:00 Slang from Sports
0:25 clock
1:48 go for a rip
2:37 nosebleeds
4:06 biscuit
4:24 bucket
4:38 lumber
4:53 flow & hockey hair
5:36 hockey teeth
6:05 barn
6:36 puckbunnies & snowbunnies
Transcript:
Polk-a-roo, it's Ronnie, and I'm back with some more slang for you because, yeah, you need to know these things. The theme - sports. Do you like sports? What kind of sports do you like? Football? American football? Hockey? It doesn't matter. Whatever sport you like, basketball, I'm here to help you out with some terms that are pretty cool. I like them.
The first one, "clock". Now, "clock" has three meanings. It's a verb. It can mean "to see". For example, "She clocked him across the street." That means that she saw him across the street. The next meaning, and the one that I use all the time is "clock". I can say, "He clocked his head on the rock." So if you clock your head on something, you hit it. Oh, I clocked my ass on the board. Like, we use this all the time, so it means to hit something. And maybe this one makes sense to you. If you clock something, you time it. So you can say, "The cop", which means policeman or woman or police officer, "clocked me doing 150." So, this means I'm driving my car over the speed limit, so I'm going 150 kilometres per hour, and police have a radar, so they're like, "Oh, damn, this lady's speeding again." So you time someone. I can say, "Oh, clock me around the running circle." So I'm timing to see how fast or slow you're going. So, three meanings, one word. Bonus.
Next one, "go for a rip". For some reason, I think this is predominantly Canadian. I just have that feeling, I think it might be a bit of the Trailer Park Boys influence. "Hey, Ronnie, you want to go for a rip around the lake?" "Yeah." So, "go for a rip" means you drive, run, skate, snowboard, ski, doesn't matter. Whatever action you're doing propelling your body, you're doing it fast. All right? You're like... So, let's go for a rip around the lake. This could be in a canoe. Yeah, probably not in a canoe, because you have to go fast. Right? So this could be, like, a motorboat or a jet ski. Rip around the lake. Yeah.
The "nosebleeds". So this is your nose, obviously, and if something bleeds, it means blood comes from it, comes out of it. So, "nosebleeds" have nothing to do with your nose, actually, but these are seats when you're at a stadium, watching a hockey game in an arena, and these seats are far away from the action. They're usually up very high, so you've got, like, the floor, the really good seats which are really expensive. The "nosebleeds" are super cheap, but they're, like, "Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I see the person. Oh, yeah. Okay." So the "nosebleeds" are cheap, but very far away from the action. You'll hear people, announcers saying, like, "You can hear the fans up in the nosebleeds!" And you're, like, "Why are people's noses bleeding?" But it's just a term for the seats.
Okay. Now, the time you've all been waiting for, the hockey. Right? You love hockey, don't you? If you come to Canada, one of the things that maybe you're going to get into, or maybe not your choice, is hockey. Canadians love hockey. Not everyone, but a lot of people love hockey, and it's kind of a fun thing to do. You watch it, get all excited, but there's going to be some slang terms that your friends are going to use, and you'll be, like, "What are you talking about? The first one is the 'biscuit'." They're, like, "Well, you got cookies, here? I'm down. You got some cookies?" "Yeah, there's no cookies." So the "biscuit" is the puck. Now, a puck is a black, round thing that they shoot into the net, basic. All hockey players have to wear a helmet. This is a hat, but to protect their head. But they don't call it a helmet; they call it a "bucket", which I think is cute. Like, we got a bucket and a puck. Pucket, and a biscuit. The hockey stick, they refer to as lumber. Lumber means a piece of wood, so that makes sense. So to play hockey, you need a biscuit, you need some people, you need a bucket, you need a lumber. […]