alligator arms
n.pl.— «But Shell wouldn’t take Moss to task for short-arming catches—an affliction commonly called “alligator arms.”» —“Moss has a case of the dropsies” by Jason Jones in Alameda Sacramento Bee (California) Oct. 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
After our conversation about nighttime wakefulness, a Sacramento, California, woman shares the funny story behind the term she and her husband use for that phenomenon: squeegee. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Nighttime...
Jim in Sacramento, California, was reading The Good Detective (Bookshop|Amazon) by John McMahon, when he came across a description of the Georgia countryside as flatter than a gander’s arch. Just how flat was it, and what’s a gander’s arch? This is...