The way I’ve always heard it, a left turn (90 degrees) is a Louis, a right turn (again, 90 degrees) is a Ralph, and a U-turn is a Yooey or a 180. In my experience they are usually prefixed by “hang” (hang a Louis, hang a Ralph, hang a yooey).
In Australia you chuck a uey.
This is the drum.
This is wrong, has too many syllables for any dinkum Aussie hoon.
U-Turn. Yes, I’m boring
I’ve always “flipped a u-ey” but the best one I’ve heard is, “to whip a shitty.”
My grandfather( born in 1900) used to say, I can’t make a U turn I can make her eyes bulge. I was a middle age adult before it was Ewe instead…:eek:
U to Ewe? Eww!
Same here, but “Ralphie” for right. Hang a Louie/Ralphie/Yooey.
YES, that’s how it went. I was going to post “Ralph” for right turn. So it would have been a yooey (U for yooey).
that would have been in the 1970’s. It would be interesting to see how far back the expressions went. It woudln’t surprise me if it went back to the earliest days of driving.
Make a yewie.
I’ve never heard it called hanging, banging, whipping, flipping, chucking, balls, bitches, tits, shits, deweys, louies, ralphs, teds, or rewinders.
Something we came up with spontaneously one night many years ago: hang a Luigi
It was very funny at the time.
A U-ey. Although to be fair, I like to be a little colorful in my speech, so I would call it the “Semi-Legal, [Location] U-ey.” As in, in Springfield I would sometimes make a “Semi-Legal, Central Illinois U-ey,” and in my current location I say “Semi-Legal, Southeast Missouri U-ey.”
I say “bang a donut”; I read it on a list of slang when I was a kid, and it stuck with me.
EDIT: I Googled the term and I found out I made the same comment in 2011.
Even though it’s not accurate, I’ve always called it a “Batturn”.
I’ve always referred to the manuever as “Turn around” or “Go back.”
In my grouchy old bastard opinion, “Hang a UE” et.al. sounds like a pre-teen driver wanna-be.
Google maps of course calls it, “At the next roundabout take the fourth exit.”
Making a pickle sandwich.
if it’s a U-turn on a normal undivided road, then we call it a U-turn.
if it’s making a U-turn across the median of a divided road to comply with Michigan’s unique laws about left turns onto divided highways, it’s called a “Michigan Left.”
Pull a yuey. Not sure why that verb though.
Ah, yes, “pull” or “hang.”