blue angel

blue angel
 n.— «There is a fraternity at a college in the Midwest where the initiation rite is lighting a fart, and the frat members are known colloquially as “The Blue Angels.”» —by Robert Buckman Human Wildlife Feb. 15, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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