For Canadian/Americanisms:
Washroom vs Restroom.
Tuque
Chinook
Two-Four
Deck Al (not DEE kal)
Zed
Die Wrecked (Opposite of indirect)
Sowester (Storm from a certain direction)
How Zit Goan, Eh?
Tronno
26er
alcool
Chesterfield
deke, deke out
double-double
ghetto blaster (apparently is obsolete down south: any corroboration?)
Grit
Habs
Hogtown
Cowtown
hooch
homo milk
# kay or a kay
# klicks
Lotus Land
mickey
mountie
Newfie
pogey
The Rock
Screech
T.O.
The Soo
Tory
Anglophone
Francophone
Twofer
Oh, and Yankee = All Americans
dick all (or "dick")
Lacrosse (in Quebec, has.. yet another meaning)
Bluenoser
Those are the one's I recognize from some "Canadian" slang lists I found.
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