I have heard the term for years. It means to purposefully do donuts. I’ve never heard it used to be exactly synonymous with “hang a youie”. (Or “pull a youie”, which seems more popular here.)
A friend and I used to find empty icy parking lots at 2 am and whip shitties while listening to loud classical music. Good times, good times.
What the hell is wrong with you people?!
You don’t hang a youie, you bang a youie.
At least that’s how it’s done in Boston (and everyone knows that Boston drivers are right about everything!)
Except that I’m from Alberta, and hadn’t ever been to Minnesota until I was an adult. It’s very, very common in central Alberta.
Dave was giving me a hard time yesterday, saying that ‘whip a shittie’ should be something like a guy going apeshit on you. He also said that I’m the only person in the whole world who uses that term, so I called my brother to tell him otherwise.
I’m glad some people know what it is, and not just a pocket of Albertans.
Same thing as “doing donuts” isn’t it? Somewhat dangerous snowy-parking lot activity. People don’t say that here, but I’m pretty sure it’s what it means.
I’m now a Minnesotan, but I grew up in Cleveland and Denver, and never heard it until I got here. I haven’t heard it to mean the same as “doing donuts”, but rather to make a hasty U-Turn.
My favorite term for that, however, was to “flip a bitch”.
I’ve lived all over the US, generally south of the snow line. Never heard of the OP’s phrase.
I grew up in CA and we either whipped or pulled our you-ies, which seems to be the usual term here in the Midwest as well. We’d hang a louie when a particularly interesting left turn was involved, but IIRC there was no corresponding term for a right turn. Somehow right turns just weren’t as exciting or available with as much variety I guess.
And some exposition - I grew up in Durand, WI, 26 miles from the aforementioned Eau Claire. It’s in very common usage 'round those parts; I bet you’d be hard pressed to find someone from my hometown who didn’t know what it meant.