# What's your nickname for it when you make a U-turn? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954 "2018-01-06T00:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/41 "2018-01-06T22:05:25Z")
“Bang a u-ey” growing up in New England, and “flip a bitch” as an adult in Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/42 "2018-01-06T23:42:28Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Dewey Yewie That’s exactly what we say in my family too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/43 "2018-01-07T00:31:38Z")
Yoosie unless we’re talking a more dramatic example done in basically a single lane; that one is a Bootleg or “J”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/44 "2018-01-07T06:11:41Z")
Alvy Singer: "You know, I was driving around with some guys from NBC, so I said, uh, ‘Did you turn yet or what?’ and Tom Christie said, ‘No, didchoo?’ Not, did you, didchoo turn? Jew? No, not did you turn, but Jew turn? Jew. You get it? Jew turn?’ ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/45 "2018-01-07T10:35:27Z")
Half an O-Turn. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/46 "2018-01-07T11:18:59Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > _Pull_ a yuey. Not sure why that verb though. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/47 "2018-01-07T16:08:58Z")
My wife used one today we picked up a few years ago on vacation; Michigan Left. “I made a Michigan Left by Davis and came back to Campus Street for the right”. She uses it more than I do which could be why it slipped my brain. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/48 "2018-01-07T16:19:21Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > My wife used one today we picked up a few years ago on vacation; Michigan Left. “I made a Michigan Left by Davis and came back to Campus Street for the right”. She uses it more than I do which could be why it slipped my brain. are either of them divided roads? if not then it ain’t a Michigan Left. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/49 "2018-01-07T17:04:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I’ve always said, “Bang a yooey.” This is the one. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/50 "2018-01-09T17:06:39Z")
Whip a U-ey. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/51 "2018-01-09T18:59:28Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > are either of them divided roads? if not then it ain’t a Michigan Left. I was going to say–a Michigan left is a specific type of turn on a specific type of road, and it’s not a garden variety U-turn. It involves both a U-turn and a right-turn. It is, essentially, a way to go left on a road that doesn’t allow you to do so at the main intersection, but just past it allows you to make a U-turn and a right turn. Or, [see here](http://www.michiganhighways.org/images/MichiganLeft_graphic.png). ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/52 "2018-01-09T19:29:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Making a pickle sandwich. Dill, sweet, or Kosher? ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/53 "2018-01-09T20:51:57Z")
I also say ‘flip a bitch’, but I don’t know where it came from. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/54 "2018-01-09T21:27:03Z")
“Do a turnabout”, usually in an arch British accent. I don’t remember where I heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954/55 "2018-01-09T21:33:47Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Dill, sweet, or Kosher? How should I know? I just made it up for the post! 😛 I mean… Kosher dill. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-nickname-for-it-when-you-make-a-u-turn/805954.md?page=2)