Chicago words

Chicago Magazine presents the top forty English words produced by the city. Before reading the list, "clout" (which came in at #3) was the first word that came to mind, though I didn't realize it was from Irv Kupcinet - I had always associated it with Mike Royko. Other personal favorites on the list are smoke-filled room, Mickey Finn, razzmatazz and Dopp kit (that's what my Chicago-native dad always called a toiletry kit), and I had no idea that many of the other, more common words (like cloud nine, jinx, jungle gym, egghead, midway and yuppie) had Chicago origins.

(Via Wordorigins.org.)