I adopted the term “hillbilly units” as an umbrella term for all these different kinds of measurement units which are normally used by a combination of the US and another random third-world country, and it has made it considerably easier in those situations where one wants to refer to all those measurements not directly derived from the SI units, but where one doesn't actually care about which non-standard system it is exactly.
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