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What it means to everyone else: A term for “friends” that went out of style many years ago.
What it means to people in Georgia: The Georgia Bulldogs
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What it means to everyone else: The time of the year in which temperatures drop and leaves start to fall.
What it means to people in Georgia: The time of the year in which everything else comes to a grinding halt during college football season.
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What it means to everyone else: A hot drink served in a tiny cup.
What it means to people in Georgia: A drink that’s always cold, loaded with sugar, and garnished with a slice of lemon.
What it means to everyone else: Coca-Cola.
What it means to people in Georgia: Anything (ANYTHING!) that’s carbonated and filled with sugar.
What it means to everyone else: A form of transportation that consists of a cart being pulled by a horse.
What it means to people in Georgia: A shopping cart.
What it means to everyone else: The part of the flower that causes someone to sneeze.
What it means to people in Georgia: Something that coats the entire state in a layer of yellow dust.
What it means to everyone else: To be courageous.
What it means to people in Georgia: A member of the Atlanta Braves.
What it means to everyone else: White flakes that fall from the sky, turning the outdoors into a winter wonderland.
What it means to people in Georgia: A step below a natural disaster, something sure to cause grocery shelves to go empty and traffic to come to a grinding halt.
What it means to everyone else: A house made of waffles.
What it means to people in Georgia: A restaurant that specializes in breakfast known for its miraculous ability to cure hangovers.
What it means to everyone else: An article of clothing worn for additional warmth that is yellow in color.
What it means to people in Georgia: The mascot for Georgia Tech, a bitter rival of the Bulldogs.
What it means to everyone else: A tree that grows peaches.
What it means to people in Georgia: The name of seemingly every road, street, and avenue.
What it means to everyone else: Predatory birds.
What it means to people in Georgia: The state’s professional football team, the Atlanta Falcons.
What it means to everyone else: Unused plural form of a word that means strength in character.
What it means to people in Georgia: The backbone of every breakfast.
What it means to everyone else: To rest on top of liquid without sinking.
What it means to people in Georgia: To travel down a waterway on an inner tube with a beer in hand and friends by your side.
What it means to everyone else: A large pasture that houses horses and cattle.
What it means to people in Georgia: A condiment that can instantly make anything taste 10x better.
What it means to everyone else: Light from the reflection of the moon.
What it means to people in Georgia: Homemade liquor that is often very strong.
What it means to everyone else: The “page not found” error sometimes encountered while browsing the internet.
What it means to people in Georgia: One of the Atlanta area’s area codes.
What it means to everyone else: A 1998 film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.
What it means to people in Georgia: A period of time in which everyone in Atlanta decides they need to go somewhere causing extremely slow moving traffic.
What it means to everyone else: Something that is underneath the ground.
What it means to people in Georgia: A shopping and entertainment district in Atlanta, mostly above the ground.
What it means to everyone else: Someone’s tail end, often referred to as a heinie, booty, or keister.
What it means to people in Georgia: A county in the northern part of Georgia that over 20,000 people call home.
What it means to everyone else: A fun way of saying “Atlanta.”
What it means to people in Georgia: The annoying way that tourists say “Atlanta.”
What it means to everyone else: Repairing something.
What it means to people in Georgia: Planning or deciding to do something.
What it means to everyone else: A fat man that sneaks into houses on Christmas Eve to deliver gifts and eat cookies.
What it means to people in Georgia: A small town in Georgia with a population of 165.
What it means to everyone else: Hard shelled legumes often roasted and covered in salt. See also: Charlie Brown and company.
What it means to people in Georgia: A treat found at roadside shacks that is prepared by boiling in extremely salty water. Think we’re doing it wrong? Well, Georgia is the number one producer of peanuts in the country so, yah, we KNOW our way around a peanut.
What it means to everyone else: A blessing.
What it means to people in Georgia: A sarcastic saying that’s actually a slam.
What it means to the rest of the world: A small country in Eurasia.
What it means to people in Georgia: A land filled with peaches, peanuts, and sunshine that’s an awesome place to call home.
What other words mean something different in the Georgia? Tell us in the comments below!
