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New Orleans Dialect / Glossary
United States of America [US]
The dialect of New Orleans
Word: Shot gun
Meaning:
Usually part of a double --a single row house in which all rooms on one side are connected by a long single hallway--you can open the front door and shoot a gun straight through the back door without hitting a single wall...now I have no idea who has tried this or even why this is the way one describes these houses!Other Words from New Orleans
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