1. Blue
What it means everywhere else: The color that looks great on everyone.
What it means in Idaho: The color of your blood, because you BLEED Broncos blue.
2. Buster
What it means everywhere else: Buster Posey, Buster Keaton, or if you’re really looking to show your age, Buster Brown lace up shoes.
What it means in Idaho: The wild, the untameable, reverse centaur mascot for the BSU Broncos who is so awesome, he made Sports Illustrated as the third most powerful mascot, Capitol One’s mascot of the year, and also has his own book. Yeah, be impressed.
3. Traffic Jam
What it means everywhere else: The maddening sea of brake lights and gridlock every day at 5 pm.
What it means in Idaho: Occasionally being held up by cattle.
4. Dog House
What it means everywhere else: The place you always heard your mom saying your dad was.
What it means in Idaho: Having a guesthouse shaped like a giant beagle at the Dog Bark Park Inn is much more entertaining in reality than it sounds.
5. Midwest
What it means everywhere else: Where everyone thinks Idaho is located.
What it means in Idaho: Not where Idaho is located.
6. Boise
What it means everywhere else: The city of Boy-Z.
What it means in Idaho: The awesome city of Boy-See.
7. Huckleberry
What it means everywhere else: Huckleberry Finn, a literary boss for being Tom Sawyer’s best bud and being created by Mark Twain.
What it means in Idaho: Pie, jellies, jams, salads, and vodka –yes, vodka! Huckleberry all the things!
8. Finger Foods
What it means everywhere else: Pigs in a blanket, pizza rolls, and anything else you can stuff in your face without wasting the time it takes to poke with a fork.
What it means in Idaho: Finger steaks. Fried strips of steak that you eat with your fingers, not made up of fingers, otherwise known as the best midnight drunken snack on planet earth.
9. Potato
What it means everywhere else: As a food, you can eat it. As a Mister, you can put a mustache and opposable limbs on it.
What it means in Idaho: A food so perfect, you can eat it baked, French fried, mashed, cheesy, or tater totted. It’s also probably the reason ketchup was invented. And as potato king of the country, Idaho made it all possible, just for you. Believe the hype.
10. Potato Bowl
What it means everywhere else: A bowl full of potatoes, preferably mashed.
What it means in Idaho: Only the best football game there is. What’s your Super Bowl filled with, hot wings? How cute.
11. Fry Sauce
What it means everywhere else: Ketchup.
What it means in Idaho: The magical concoction of ketchup and mayo that makes everything better. No fry sauce? No fries.
12. Treefort
What it means everywhere else: What you begged your dad to build you in the tree in your backyard, but you had to settle for a cardboard box with a window cut out instead.
What it means in Idaho: Drinking your way through the groovy sounds of the Treefort Music Festival in Boise.
13. Fiddle
What it means everywhere else: That violin-looking instrument that you’re not sure if anyone actually plays anymore. Can instruments go extinct?
What it means in Idaho: As the Fiddle Capital of the World, the town of Weiser is here to let you know that no, the fiddle has not gone extinct. Not as long as Idaho’s around, anyway.
14. Oregon Trail
What it means everywhere else: How you got virtual smallpox in third grade.
What it means in Idaho: Reenacting Three Island Crossing of pioneer wagons crossing Snake River the second week of August annually, where faux-dying of smallpox is even more dramatic in person.
15. Vandals
What it means everywhere else: Those criminy hooligans who graffiti up the town and eat their pudding before they eat their meat.
What it means in Idaho: The other team in Idaho worthy of Idaho love, the University of Idaho’s Vandals.
16. Smurf
What it means everywhere else: Those blue forest creature cartoons in the 80s who had a thing for matching white hats and pants with no shirts.
What it means in Idaho: Smurf Turf!
17. B*tch
What it means everywhere else: A derogatory term that will get you slapped across the face.
What it means in Idaho: Jesse Pinkman’s catchphrase on Breaking Bad, b*tch! Actor Aaron Paul proudly hails from Emmett, Idaho.
18. Hell
What it means everywhere else: The place you’re probably going because of that time you put the Ex-Lax in your aunt’s eggnog at Christmas so that she wouldn’t have time to ask you about your love life. Oh, wait, that’s just me?
What it means in Idaho: Taking a little trip down Hells Canyon.
19. Sand
What it means everywhere else: The stuff that burns the skin off the bottom of your feet at the beach.
What it means in Idaho: The “mountains” of Bruneau Dunes State Park, perfect for sand-sledding.
20. Spring
What it means everywhere else: That glorious season that tells winter to suck it.
What it means in Idaho: Soaking in the healing and unbelievably calming properties of Idaho hot springs. It’s not confirmed, but chances are that the water is filled with unicorn tears.
21. North And South
What it means everywhere else: The Northern and Southern states in the Eastern U.S., divided by the Mason Dixon line, accents, and preference over how sweet one likes their iced tea.
What it means in Idaho: The northern and southern sections of the state, divide by the Coeur d’Alene river, how one tills their land, and the preference of just how red one’s politics get.
22. Slopes
What it means everywhere else: The property that describes the steepness of a line, otherwise known as why I got a C in calculus.
What it means in Idaho: With ski resorts and Olympic medalists around every corner, does it really need an explanation?
23. Moscow
What it means everywhere else: A city in Russia covered in ice.
What it means in Idaho: The town in Idaho not covered in ice. Except when it is. But hey, no communism, so score!
24. The Scenic Road
What it means everywhere else: Driving out of your way to take the back roads that offer the best landscape.
What it means in Idaho: Every road is a scenic road in Idaho.
25. Hello
What it means everywhere else: What people say on the street to make you give them a funny look. What do you want from me, stranger?
What it means in Idaho: What everybody says on the street to each other, friends or stranger. Feel free to throw a high five in there while you’re it. Because you’re in Idaho and that’s enough to celebrate.
26. Corn
What it means everywhere else: What you eat off the cob at barbecues.
What it means in Idaho: Sweet, sweet, sweet corn, what you eat every chance you get.
27. Gone Fishin’
What it means everywhere else: Casting lines with your dad for eight hours to end up with nothing but a raging sunburn.
What it means in Idaho: Reeling in one prized-catch after another.
28. Freak
What it means everywhere else: Those proverbial misfits who come out at night, according to Whodini.
What it means in Idaho: The amazing art found throughout Freak Alley that serves as the world’s best selfie background.
29. Privacy
What it means everywhere else: A myth that exists stating that there exists a place where everybody doesn’t have the ability to find out every detail of your personal life at a moment’s notice.
What it means in Idaho: That whole “own private Idaho” thing isn’t just the title of a movie. If you want privacy, it’s remarkably easy to find.
30. Breathtaking
What it means everywhere else: Awesome landscapes you see mostly in pictures.
What it means in Idaho: Idaho is so awesome, it sets the sky on fire every night to remind everyone. What does your non-Idaho sky do, just get dark? How fun.
What other words mean something different in the Idaho? Tell us in the comments below! 
