apple turnover
n.— «It took a slew of Pistons mistakes—the always colorful Rasheed Wallace referred to them as “apple turnovers”—in order for the Heat to escape with a close Game 2 win at home.» —“Heat haven’t shown they can win” by A. Sherrod Blakely in Auburn Hills Mlive.com (Mich.) May 29, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski serves up a Common Bonds puzzle, in which the object is to guess the common idea in each of three things. For example, what’s the one word that connects a grade on a report card, USDA inspected beef, and an incline? This...