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Alabama slang: regional words, sayings, and how locals talk.

This page collects regional vocabulary from Alabama: slang you'll hear in conversation, sayings that travel through families, and pronunciations that mark a person as a local. Pick a city to narrow the list, or keep "All cities" to see the full Alabama picture.

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15 words

bless your heart Phrase

Sympathy on the surface, often condescending or passive-aggressive.

Texas · Georgia · Alabama · South Carolina · +3 more

britches Dialect

Pants or trousers.

Alabama · Georgia · Tennessee · Kentucky · +2 more

Shopping cart.

Alabama · Georgia · South Carolina · Tennessee · +3 more

catawampus Dialect

Crooked, askew, sideways.

Tennessee · Kentucky · West Virginia · Alabama · +1 more

Generic word for any soft drink (not just Coca-Cola).

Alabama · Georgia · Mississippi · Louisiana · +3 more

doctor Regional

To adjust food or drink to taste (verb).

Texas · Tennessee · Georgia · Alabama · +1 more

drawers Dialect

Underwear (rural South / Appalachia).

Kentucky · Tennessee · West Virginia · Alabama · +1 more

fixin' to Phrase

About to do something; getting ready to.

Texas · Alabama · Georgia · Tennessee · +2 more

frog strangler Phrase

A heavy, sudden downpour.

Texas · Oklahoma · Mississippi · Alabama · +1 more

To press (a button, a pedal).

Alabama · Tennessee · Georgia · Mississippi · +3 more

over yonder Phrase

Over there (often pointing).

Texas · Tennessee · Alabama · Kentucky · +2 more

To think, suppose, or expect.

Tennessee · Kentucky · West Virginia · Alabama · +2 more

supper Regional

Evening meal (when "dinner" is the midday meal).

Alabama · Mississippi · Georgia · Tennessee · +5 more

Second-person plural pronoun (you all).

Texas · Georgia · Alabama · Mississippi · +4 more

young'un Dialect

A child (young one).

Alabama · Tennessee · Kentucky · West Virginia · +2 more