prairie
Regional
- Meaning
- Chicago term for a weedy vacant lot.
- Type
- Regionalism
- Used in
- Chicago, Illinois
What does “prairie” mean
In Chicago, any overgrown vacant lot in a residential neighborhood, where kids play and imagine they are in the open prairie. Elsewhere people would just say 'empty lot' or 'field'.
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