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Things you read on the UK forums- 
Dodgy Of questionable merit or character ("sketchy"/"shady")
Agro Trouble
Spanner Wrench
Tyre Tire
Saloon Sedan, 4 door car
Motorway Specific type of roadway, like our Highway, numbered like how we have the Interstate (I69) they would have the M69, or A234
Roundabout Circular turn around
Wonky poorly or hastily crafted / unreliable ("shaky"/"kludgy")
Lump Engine
Peckish ungry
Petrol gas
Take a recky
Have a ganders
Dizzy Distributor
Pub Crawl A night spent imbibing alcoholic beverages with friends around the local inns
Aerial Antenna
Boot Trunk Lid
Silencer Muffler
Yonks a long time
Chuffed Very happy
Bonnet Hood
Banger sausage (or cylinder), sometimes an old car
Snubber Struts or Shock Absorbers
Pinking
Tat
Nicked Stolen
In the Nick In prison. In Jail
Windscreen Windshield
Naff Bad, Not fit for the purpose. "These pirellis are naff in the wet"
Porkies ming slang - "Pork Pies - Lies."
Pork Pies A specific type of pastry with some form(s) of pork in it. The area around Hethel has awesome ones.
Blimey Sort of like way we would use "Crazy!" or "Wow!"
OAP Old Age Pensioners, "geezer", not a nicer term to use
Estate Station Wagon
Fanny Female Genitalia *Don't refer to a fanny pack as a fanny pack - call it a waist pack or something else. Fanny pack has a WAY different meaning in the UK.
Big Girl's Blouse wimp
Are you taking the piss? Are you making fun out of me? (mildest)
or : Are you trying to take advantage of me?
It can be teasing. A colloquial term (in London anyway) as a substitute is "Extracting the Urine"
Dodgy Of questionable merit or character ("sketchy"/"shady")
Agro Trouble
Spanner Wrench
Tyre Tire
Saloon Sedan, 4 door car
Motorway Specific type of roadway, like our Highway, numbered like how we have the Interstate (I69) they would have the M69, or A234
Roundabout Circular turn around
Wonky poorly or hastily crafted / unreliable ("shaky"/"kludgy")
Lump Engine
Peckish ungry
Petrol gas
Take a recky
Have a ganders
Dizzy Distributor
Pub Crawl A night spent imbibing alcoholic beverages with friends around the local inns
Aerial Antenna
Boot Trunk Lid
Silencer Muffler
Yonks a long time
Chuffed Very happy
Bonnet Hood
Banger sausage (or cylinder), sometimes an old car
Snubber Struts or Shock Absorbers
Pinking
Tat
Nicked Stolen
In the Nick In prison. In Jail
Windscreen Windshield
Naff Bad, Not fit for the purpose. "These pirellis are naff in the wet"
Porkies ming slang - "Pork Pies - Lies."
Pork Pies A specific type of pastry with some form(s) of pork in it. The area around Hethel has awesome ones.
Blimey Sort of like way we would use "Crazy!" or "Wow!"
OAP Old Age Pensioners, "geezer", not a nicer term to use
Estate Station Wagon
Fanny Female Genitalia *Don't refer to a fanny pack as a fanny pack - call it a waist pack or something else. Fanny pack has a WAY different meaning in the UK.
Big Girl's Blouse wimp
Are you taking the piss? Are you making fun out of me? (mildest)
or : Are you trying to take advantage of me?
It can be teasing. A colloquial term (in London anyway) as a substitute is "Extracting the Urine"