buster slash
n.— «A patch from a Groom Lake unit shows the letter sigma with the “buster” slash running through it, as in the movie “Ghost Busters.”» —“Inside the Black Budget” by William J. Broad New York Times Apr. 1, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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For this week’s puzzle, Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been swapping out a single letter within each of three words in a category. Suppose, for example, the category is fruit. What three fruits might you produce by changing just one letter in each of...