bub
n.— «“I’m a bub now,” Joe says with a smile as he uses the term CMU linemen affectionately call themselves referring to their big old bellies.» —“Making the call” by Eric Herter Morning Sun (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) Aug. 3, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
David from Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a former truck driver who remembers that his fellow users of CB radio tended to sound similar, no matter what part of the country they were from. Is there such a thing as an occupational accent? Many of those truck...
Katie in Kalamazoo, Michigan, wonders about the expression throw the book at, meaning to “try every means possible.” Did it originally involve literally throwing books? It’s just a metaphor in which the book refers to “the...