The Letterkenny and Letterkenny Problems dialogue makes extensive use of slang, including many words and phrases from hockey or general Canadian or rural usage.
This list focuses on terms used by multiple characters or on multiple occasions. See separate sections for terms related to sex, drugs, or gym terms.
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Phrase
Meaning
Notes
5-hole
The space between a goalie's legs
Hockey slang. The areas the goalie must cover are numbered: Glove side high is 1, glove side low is 2, stick side high is 3, stick side low is 4, leaving the 5 hole.
10 Ply
How 'soft' someone is—5 times as much as 2 ply toilet paper
An attempt at a joke or conversational topic that falls flat.
From an attempted shot in basketball in which the ball misses so badly it does not hit either the rim, net, or backboard—nothing but air.
All-dressed chips
Potato chips flavored with barbecue, ketchup, sour cream and onion, and salt and vinegar.
Popular in Canada
Appy
Appetizer, i.e. a small course served before the main course at a meal (appies then nappies)
Apple
Assist, i.e. a pass that leads to a goal (one geno, one apple, one tilly)
Hockey slang
B[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
Bar down, Bardownski
An impressive hockey shot where the puck hits the bottom of the crossbar and shoots down into the net, often sounding a ping in the process (biscuits top titties bar downskis)
Hockey slang
Barn
The hockey arena
Hockey slang, a holdover from when minor league and community rinks resembled actual barns on farms
Beaking
Trash talking; steady insults directed at opposing players to unnerve or distract them; instigating a verbal altercation
Hockey slang. The term "beaking" is more common in Western Canada, "chirping" in Eastern Canada.
Beauty, beaut, beautician
Term of endearment for a talented and well-liked hockey player (registered beautician)
Hockey slang
Big city slams
Sexual prospect (slam) from the city.
Typically used by Hockey Players
Big shoots, big shooter
Someone trying too hard (you sure you know what you're signing up for there, big shooter?)
Billet
Staying with a host family when traveling during the season, common in junior hockey, the billet mom being the host mother and billet sisters her daughters
Hockey slang
Biscuit
Puck
Hockey slang
Boat
Championship
Bomber
A very large marijuana joint, also see Cannon (been hoovering bombers and rips)
A couple's fundraising party, usually for funds for a wedding or honeymoon
Also called a stag and doe or a hen and stag
Bucky
Buck Wild
Wayne and Katy weren't allowed to have birthday parties growing up, so they went bucky at Daryl's birthday parties.
C[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
Caesar
Cocktail made from Clamato (or other caesar mix of tomato juice and clam broth), vodka, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce, served on the rocks.
More popular than Bloody Marys in Canada
Calvins
Boxer briefs (heck, you wouldn't mind a quick heads-up from a guy who's about to steam press his Calvins)
T
Cannon
A very large joint (you've been smoking one-gram cannons this whole time)
Celly
Celebration after a goal (wheel, snipe, celly)
Hockey slang
Cheddar, Cheese, Top Cheddar, etc.
The top of the net, or a shot that goes in the goal off or right below the crossbar
Hockey slang
Chel, Chelly
Console video game EA Sports NHL, or playing it (but do you rip Chel? 'Cause we will rip Chel) Say it out loud: N A Chel (NHL).
Chirping
Trash talking; steady insults directed at opposing players to unnerve or distract them (yeah, it's your mom's favourite chirp, too, buddy)
Hockey slang. The term Beaking is more common in western Canada, chirping in eastern Canada.
Chorin'
Doing farm chores (gotta do some chorin')
Clapper, clap bomb
A fast slap shot (just blast clappers at the hash marks at the fuckin' plug tendy of ours.)
Hockey slang
Coast to coast
To skate a puck all the way from one end of the ice to the other (take it coast-to-coast)
Hockey slang
Could ya let the paint dry a wee bit there, eh?
In "The Battle for Bonnie McMurray" (S3E5 4:12) Daryl, Dan, and Katy express interest in dating Bonnie McMurray. Wayne cautions them that although she may be of legal age, perhaps she is too young and they should wait before pursuing her.
Crop Dusting
"Farting"
Crush
To consume or execute voraciously (we're gonna crush a couple sandos before, too)
Akin to other youth slang evoking extreme or violent action like kill or take down
D[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
Dangles
Skilled stick-handling on the ice, and by extension elsewhere; refers to dangling the puck in front to distract players from body movements during maneuvering.
A single portion of oral tobacco, also lipper, chaw, pull, hogger, dang-er, hammer (none of these dunces ever had a dinger?). Also, a single hit of cocaine; thus, dick dinger is a line of cocaine snorted from an erect penis.
Dip
Chewing (smokeless) tobacco.
Alternatively the drug tend of a cigarette dipped in drugs or chemicals.
Tobacco Slang: Chewing or smokeless tobacco that is consumed by placing the tobacco between the gums and the lips (more commonly the bottom lip and gum), the hockey players are portrayed to do tobacco dip, although they are never seen placing it in their mouths. ("Smokes are for jokes, bud", "Hold my spitter")
Drug Slang: A cigarette or joint that has been dipped in PCP or other chemicals such as embalming fluid that induce a strong high. The skids are known to do dip cigarettes. (Eating zoomers and taking mad dips)
Donk
To mess around, or act like an ass (I could donk all day boys)
Donkey juice
A cocktail improvised from whatever leftover liquor and mixers are available, also known as donkey punch or jungle juice (donkey juice'll make ya spit).
The alcohol is chosen for its alcoholic content, not its taste, hence this term overlaps with drinks that may be known variously as hairy buffalo, trashcan punch, Purple Jesus, and so on
Donnybrook
Brawl; a fight involving more than two people, where serious bodily harm occurs (we find the skids and have that fuckin' donnybrook, buddy)
French name used as the first part of the name of virtually all male members of Les Hiques; adapted into nicknames for the Hicks, i.e. "Jean McMurray/John McMurray"
Jill strap
A pelvic protector, an undergarment designed to protect female genitalia (her Jill-strap's got more skid marks than a runaway truck lane on a coastal mountain highway).
By analogy to jockstrap, although a jockstrap only provides protection if used with a cup
K[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
King Cobra Coil
A big poop
L[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
Lacrosstitute
A female whose interest in lacrosse is primarily based on her interest in lacrosse players (whereas hockey players have puck bunnies, lacrosse players have lacrosstitutes).
Laneway
A driveway, a road leading up to a house, or group of houses.
Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs (it must be like "A Boy at the Leafs' Camp.")
Never "leaves"
Leg Day
A workout that engages leg muscles, including running, leg presses, etc., usually to help keep leg muscles proportionate to the other muscles developed in bodybuilding. Some bodybuilders prefer to skip Leg Day so that their upper body will appear particularly large and muscular in proportion to their legs; Reilly, Jonsey, Dax and Ron are frequent skippers of Leg Day and have even developed a social networking site for Leg Day skippers to hook up.
Gym slang
Legion
The Royal Canadian Legion, a veterans organization for former members of the Canadian military, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and other police. Most towns in Canada have a branch, and most branches have a meeting hall often used as a community centre (Well, everybody knows the cheapest beers are at the Ukrainian Center, with the Legion being a close second.)
Although often mentioned, neither the local hall nor any of its members have been depicted on the show.
Les douches de campagne
Les Hiques term for degens from upcountry; a more literal translation would be "idiots from the countryside."
Douche is a borrowing of the English insult douchebag, as the normal meaning of douche in French is "shower."
Lights lamp
The "lamp" refers to the flashing red light and siren behind the the goal that go off when a goal is scored. To "light lamp" is therefore to score, and by extension to enjoy success. (kid lights lamp. hashtag lamp life)
Hockey slang
M[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
McMurray is a piece of shit
Initially a campaign slogan for Wayne running against McMurray at the Ag Hall, it has become an all-purpose acknowledgment of McMurray's creepiness, drunken behavior, macho tendencies, and numerous other shortcomings
Mitt, mitts
A player's gloves or hands, thus silky mitts are skilled hands and dropping the mitts is removing gloves to start a fight. A female player's mitt may refer to her vulva (your mitt has more spiderwebs than a No Doubt set list); "gash" is also frequently employed by the Letterkenny Shamrockettes.
Hockey slang
Mix a batch
To masturbate (if a fella has "Keep Calm Chive On" on his t-shirt he's likely mixed a batch 4-6 times today)
Faking illness to avoid playing a game at the Rez. Many Native teams were known for their toughness and the sheer brutality of their game. (Fever. Body aches. Nausea. All symptoms fraidy-cats fake to get out of playing the natives.
Noooooooooooo-ah!
Self-explanatory expressing of extreme disappointment, specifically distinguished from a mere “No!”
O[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
Oh, Bonnie McMurray!
Breathless acknowledgment of Bonnie McMurray's great beauty; also used on occasion to acknowledge her kindness, and at least once to express dismay at her interest in the hockey players' sexual proclivities
Oh bother
Understated expression of discomfort or acknowledgement of something going wrong
A useless hockey player, one who is nothing but a target
PIM
"Penalty Infraction Minutes," nowadays known as "penalty minutes," a measure of the total time a player or a team spends in the penalty box for game infractions.
Hockey slang
Pitter patter
Short for pitter patter, let's get at her: stop wasting time; get to the point; hurry up, etc.
Plug
A useless player, one which sits like a plug (I snowed our plug tendy no less than nine times)
Hockey slang
Plus-minus
A hockey statistic that compares goals scored versus opponent goals scored when a player is on the ice (all-time leaders in points, PIMs, and plus-minus)
Hockey slang
Poopy-Pants
One who undercuts a good time or entertaining conversation through the use of excessive details or reminders of unfortunate aspects of reality; most frequently used among the Hicks
Praccy
Hockey practice (like, I'm just gonna praccy like a donkey)
A female whose interest in hockey is primarily based on her interest in hockey players (whereas musicians have groupies, hockey players have puck bunnies)
Hockey slang
Pump the brakes
A call to slow down or take things down a notch
Puppers
A type of beer popular in Letterkenny (get this guy a fuckin' Puppers)
Puppers was entirely fictional, but Stack Brewing released an authorized lager in summer 2017. Available in Ontario and for a limited time in 2019 in Alberta.
Pylon
A slow player who is skated around, much like a practice pylon
Hockey slang
Q[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
R[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
The Rez
The native (First Nations) reserve (reservation in the USA)
From bong rip or rip a line, to snort drugs; to do something with intensity (just rippin' bent over rear delt raise with head on bench); to go out for an excursion or adventure
Rippers
Strippers, or a strip club
Roadie
Road trip for an away game (big roadie to the big city this weekend, Schmelt)
Hockey slang
Rocket
A sexually attractive woman; a hottie (whose billet sister's a fuckin' rocket, boys?)
S[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
Sally
A weak or fearful person; a sissy (slammed the sally)
Sally Anne
The Salvation Army, or a thrift shop operated by the Salvation Army (you can get a glove for free at the Sally Ann.)
A saucer pass. A touch pass that involves floating the puck over an opposing player's stick like a flying saucer before landing on the ice just before the blade of a teammate's stick. (Sauce me a sauce pass and I'll sauce you a stretch ass)
Hockey slang
Scheddy
Schedule (I don't give a shit about the scheddy)
Schmelt
A rookie on the hockey team, especially a poor-performing or disliked one (talk is for schmelts, you little bitch)
Hockey slang
Schneef
Cocaine or uncut caffeine powder for snorting (I hoovered up a bit of the schneef in my day). Usually pronounced with a long e (as in "three") but sometimes with a short e (as in "left").
Diarrhea (my farmhand just texted me and said he's got the scoots)
Scrap
Fight
Ship
Championship
Shirt tucker
Skid term of disparagement for the Hicks
Show, The Show
National Hockey League (NHL)
Hockey slang
Sled
Another word for snowmobile
Snapper
Vagina or vulva (This place is about to be crawling with snapper)
Atlantic fish, think of comparisons of female anatomy to tuna. Also see Sex
Snappy
Photograph (gotta crack a snappy for the winstagram, buddy)
Snipe
A particularly difficult or satisfying goal (wheel, snipe, celly); by extension, any difficult or impressive score; by further extension, "snipe" or "sniper" might refer to a very attractive woman. A swipey snipey is a hookup arranged through Tinder or similar dating app.
Hockey slang
Snow
Intentionally stopping in front of the goalie so that your skates spray ice shavings ("snow") (I snowed our plug tendy no less than nine times)
Sort yourself out
An admonition to someone making poor choices to figure out what they should be doing.
Spare parts
Term of derision for someone speaking or acting contemptuously. (You're spare parts, aren't ya bud?)
Spit
To vomit (that's pertnear the whole point of donkey juice. Like, you know you'll have a spit.)
Spitter
A receptable for tobacco spit, especially an improvised one such as an empty drink bottle (hold my spitter).
1. a suicide pass, i.e. an up-ice pass where the receiver must look behind himself toward the passer, thus leaving him vulnerable to a check from the opposing team up-ice (just tossing mad sueys up the middle, bro). 2. suicide sprint, an exercise where you run or skate between two points, also known as a ladder sprint.
Sweater
Hockey jersey (sweaters never touch the floor)
Hockey slang
T[]
Phrase
Meaning
Notes
Take about (x) percent off there, buddy
Used to shut down overtly flirtatious statements towards a woman; most frequently used by Wayne with regards to a conversation with Katy
Takedown
Crude term for a sexual conquest.
Tape-to-tape
A crisp stick-to-stick pass, i.e. direct from the hockey tape on one stick to the other. (not sure what a tape-to-taper is anymore, buddy)
Hockey slang
Tarp
Shirt (sheddin' tarp, boys)
Tendy
Hockey goaltender
Hockey slang
Texas-sized 10-4
Firm agreement or acknowledgment, i.e. a 10-4 as big as Texas
10-4 or Roger is a common public safety radio code in North America for affirmative or acknowledged
Masturbation (female solo) – Flicking bean, diddle my skittle
Masturbation (male solo) – batching (from "mixing a batch"), beating the bishop, dishonourable discharge, distributing free literature, feeding the ducks, feeding the geese, firing wristers, hand-to-gland combat, making a bald man puke, mixing a batch, playing five-on-one, playing one-man couch hockey in the dark, pulling your horn
Penis – bobby dangler, chutney ferret, custard slinger, dink, disco stick, friendly weapon, ground squirrel, hard drive/floppy disk, hollow point, horn, impaler, joystick, love muscle, middle stump, PhD, sticky grenade, pork sword, WMD.
Vagina - box, furry cup, snapper, front bum, mitt
Other[]
Flatulence - air biscuit, ass flapper, colon bowling, crack splitter, rectal turbulence, steam pressing your Calvins, see also "crop dusting" - the practice of farting and walking away
Gym Terms[]
Based on descriptions at BodyBuilding.com
Advanced alternate air bike ab roll – an abdominal exercise involving lying on ground on one's back with legs performing a cycling motion and head and shoulders lifted into a crunch position, bringing the right elbow to the left knee and left elbow to the right knee in succession.
Advanced kettlebell windmill – a core exercise in which a kettlebell is held above the lifter's head; the lifter lowers the body to one side, keeping the kettlebell locked out and overhead, then returns to the starting position.
Alternate dumbbell bicep curl – a bicep exercise in which the lifter curls a dumbbell while rotating it at the elbow until the back of the hand is facing outwards, then lowers and twists to return, continuing with the other arm.
Alternate one-arm dumbbell preacher curl – a bicep curl with the upper arm rested on a preacher bench.
Animal Stak – a body building supplement.
Anti-gravity press – a shoulder exercise performed with the lifter prone on an incline bench, with chest and hips on the pad, holding weights with an overhand grip; the weight is reverse curled to bring the weights to the chest, then press out in front of the head, keeping the arms parallel to the ground throughout the mvoement, hence the "anti-gravity" in the name.
Barbell half-squat - a squat done with a barbell in which the lifter bends about halfway down, remaining above parallel (i.e. the position where the thighs are parallel to the floor).
Bent over rear delt raise with head on bench – a shoulder exercise in which the lifter bends over and rests his or her head, commonly on an incline bench, then lifts dumbbells to the side with arms extended until the arms are parallel to the floor, then lowers them again.
Bent press barbell side bend – a bent press in which a barbell is held at shoulder height, then maintained as the body is bent to one side and returned.
Burpee box jump – a lower body plyometric in which the athlete jumps onto a box or step with both feet, then off again, then does a burpee
Cable hammer curls with rope attachment – a bicep exercise in which the standing lifter curls using a rope attached to a low pulley.
Cable rope overhead tricep extension – a tricep exercise using a pulley machine, in which the lifter, facing away from the pulley, grips the handle and holds it above his or her head, then slowly lowers it behind the head.
Close grip EZ bar curl with band - a bicep exercise performed standing, with the EZ curl bar attached to a fixture using an elastic band.
Concentration curl – a bicep exercise in which the lifter, seated on a bench, curls a dumbbell from between the legs until it is shoulder level, keeping the upper arm stationary, then returns it.
Cross body hammer curl - a bicep and forearm exercise in which the lifter, standing with dumbbells at each side, curls a dumbbell to the opposite side of the chest from the arm in which it is held and returns it, then doing the same with the other arm.
Drop sets – a strength training regimen in which the amount of weight lifted is gradually dropped with each set, allowing the lifter to complete more reps.
Forced rep – a term for a rep completed with the assistance of a spotter. The spotter lifts an increasing percentage of the weight in later reps, allowing the lifter to complete the set.
Judo flip – a core exercise using a cable machine, in which the cable is held over the shoulder and pulled by bending around, as if performing a judo flip.
Kettlebell sumo deadlift – a leg exercise in which the lifter starts in a sumo stance, with legs wide apart, and deadlifts the kettlebell from the ground to waist level.
Lying close grip bar curl on high pulley – a bicep exercise done on a pulley machine in which the lifter, reclining on a bench, curls the bar down towards the head.
One arm cable curl – A standing bicep curl using the cable machine.
Plyometrics - exercises designed to develop bursts of muscle power, most often taking the form of various types of jumps
Rollout incline heel touch – an incline heel touch is a core exercise lying on an incline with legs raised and bent, touching the right hand to the right knee, then the left hand to the left knee.
Russian cable twist – a core exercise using a cable machine and Swiss ball, in which the lifter reclines on the ball perpendicular to the cable, then rotates the body to pull the cable with both hands/
Sandbell slam – a plyometric in which a Sandbell is lifted up over the head, then slammed down to the ground.
Skull crusher – a.k.a. lying triceps extension, in which the lifter reclines on a bench with the head hanging just off the top, holds the weights (or handle) overhand above the head with arms bent, and extends the arms to work the tricep group.
Standing dumbbell reverse spider curl – An arm and shoulder exercise where the dumbbells are reverse curled while the lifter is leaned on a preacher bench, instead of an incline bench.
Standing one-arm bicep curl over incline bench – a bicep curl done standing behind an incline bench with the upper arm rested against it, palm facing up.
Standing V-bar pushdowns – see V-Bar tricep pushdown.
Superset – a strength training regimen in which the lifter moves from one exercise to another without resting in between.
Swiss ball jackknife – a core exercise in which the lifter starts in the pushup position with legs resting on a Swiss ball (a.k.a. exercise ball, balance ball); then bends the legs, rolling the ball inward until the thighs touch the abdomen; then extends again.
Two-arm barbell wide grip preacher curl - a curl performed at a preacher bench with the arms gripping the barbell wider than the shoulders.
V-Bar tricep pushdown – a tricep pushdown performed with a V-bar; the lifter stands in front of the high pulley machine, grips the V-bar overhand, and pushes down on the bar, then returns it, keeping the upper arms stationary.
Videos[]
Letterkenny Lexicon (Vol. 1)
How Well Do You Know Hick Slang? Rachel David and Michelle Mylett
Jared Keeso of Letterkenny explains 10-ply and other slang
