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The process of removing buckles and wobbles from a wheel by carefully adjusting the tension of individual spokes. It is a core wheel-maintenance skill for riders hard on their bikes.

true last boss (tlb)

The boss behind the boss. Beyond the normal ending sits a secret final boss that only unlocks if you meet brutal conditions: no-missing, hitting a score threshold, surviving into a second loop. Usually the hardest fight in the entire game by a country mile.

Authentically Australian, loyal and dependable.

Describes a wheel that is straight and running without any wobble or buckle when spun. Keeping wheels true is basic bike maintenance for riders who grind and case landings.

The two T-shaped metal components mounted under the deck that hold the wheels, allow turning, and are the part you grind on.

Fake, counterfeit, fraudulent. The source is debated; it may relate to older Lunfardo 'trucha' (face/mug) or 'truco' (trick), and the Academia Portena del Lunfardo does not fix a single origin.

A warning — look out, watch yourself, something's about to pop off. Shouted when trouble's incoming.

The bottom or lowest point of the wave, between the crest of one wave and the next.

trouble and strife

A wife. 'Trouble and strife' rhymes with 'wife', and is clipped to 'the trouble', dropping the rhyming word.

The shortened form of 'trouble and strife', Cockney rhyming slang for wife.

Feet; also the name of the Trotter family in Only Fools and Horses.

Refers to the metro as a means of getting around the city.

Extremely intoxicated. Widespread British slang, common in Midlands speech.

A pickup truck. The standard word for one along the border and across Mexican-American Texas — said with affection, especially for a lifted, chromed-out one. Standard Spanish would say 'camioneta,' but nobody actually does on the border.

Abbreviation for the triceps, the muscles on the back of the upper arm.

Describing art, music, or visuals that feel dreamlike and mind-bending.

Being paranoid or stressed about something.

Reaching ten or more in three of points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocks in one game.

A three-story wooden apartment house, one unit per floor, built by the thousands across Boston, Worcester, Providence and the rest of New England between roughly 1880 and 1930 to house mill and factory workers. Long porches stacked out back, flat or low-pitched roof, and almost always wood-frame. If you grew up in Dorchester or Somerville you grew up in one or next to one.

triple witching

Third Friday of March, June, September and December. Three derivative classes — stock options, stock-index futures and stock-index options — expire on the same day. Hedges get unwound en masse, volume explodes, and weird closing prints are a feature, not a bug. (Single-stock futures made it 'quadruple witching' for a while, but those got delisted.)

An offensive stance from which a player can immediately shoot, pass, or dribble, keeping the defense guessing.

Electrician slang for the Greenlee 555, the powered conduit bender that's been the go-to tool for bending EMT, IMC and rigid conduit on commercial jobs since the late '60s. Three fives = triple nickel. Also called the sidewinder or whirlygig depending on the crew.

An honor for a song that wins first place on the same music program for three consecutive weeks. Traditionally led to being exempt from further competition on that show.

To be kidding or messing with someone, or to be amazed. '¿Me estás tripeando?' = are you kidding me?