bubblehead

bubblehead
 n.β€” Β«Drivers are divided into “incredibly nutty drivers” and “incredibly wacky drivers” with names to matchβ€”such as “Commodore Bubblehead,” who “seems to have spent a little too much time bumping his head on the hatchways in the submarine service.”Β» β€”β€œHarboring Liberty In Pursuit Of Happiness, Visitors Find Bean Town Full Of Revolutionary Ideas” by Katherine Calos Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia) July 5, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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Use Your Clyde

In 1968, students at Cheyenne High School in Cheyenne, Wyoming, compiled a collection of their own slang, including the word Clyde, used to refer to one’s head, as in Use your Clyde! This is part of a complete episode.

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