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safety tips and stupidity from Brittania & GT
BMX/ENGLISH DICTIONARY

ballooner:  a cruiser
banzai:  hanging it way our
blazin':  refer to bookin ', cookin ', or hookin' it on
bogus:  tame, unfair, improper, not right, a snaky deal
bookin':  moving with great haste over a BMX track
bozo:  a cross between a squid and a dork
chew:  to biff, to crash, to eat it
cookin':  blazin' around a BMX track
cool:  hot
cosmo:  very sophisticated, very classy, cool
dialed-in:  fine-tuned to the max
eat it:  bite the dust, crash and burn
fruit loops:  a little bit weird, somewhere between a turd and a bozo
full-toot:  wide open, going as fast as you can
gnarly:  rough, rugged, scary, spooky, good, hot, cool, factory
grind:  eat, chow down, munch
hectic:  really good, wild
honkin':  big
hot:  cool
intense:  total concentration, goin' for it, scary stuff
kamikazi:  totally crazy; goin' for it
kickin' bootie:  winning; beating everybody
lame:  crummy, inferior

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mean motor scooter:  a fast hombre
mega:  big, huge, lots, ultra, awesome, tons, etc.
moto:  a group of eight riders of the same class who will race each other
neato jet:  pretty cool, qual stuff
nurd:  friendlier than a squid but still ain't firin' on all his cylinders
nurdette:  a female of the species nurd
OTB:  over the bars
outrageous:  hectic, intense, unreal, far out, gnarly, rad
qual:  very good, close to the best, quality
rad:  contraction of radical
radical:  wild, insane, unreal, outrageous, crazy
sano:  clean, well maintained, fine equipment, sanitary
skoot:  a bicycle; a derivation of scooter
superqual:  the finest quality, the best available
thrasher:  a bike used primarily for thrashing
thrashing:  jumping, sliding, and generally getting crazy in the dirt
trick:  an item of racing equipment that is really hot, often modified
trickenometry:  the advanced study of trickology
twanged:  the inadvertent reshaping of some structural member of your bike
ultradyno:  even better than dyno-rhino
woobie:  a mello bozo
yo yo:  somewhere between a squid and a klutz

Brittania would like to thank the following for their help: the American Bicycle Association, the National Freestyle Association, BMX Action and Freestylin' magazines.


Brian Blyther & Ron Wilkerson: double airs