Chuck E. Cheese law
n.— «The Legislature passed a law commonly called the Chuck E. Cheese law in 1996 that says, if a machine pays out tokens or coupons valued at $5 or less, it is legal. When the adult arcades came to Jefferson County in 2000, they paid in $5 gift certificates to take advantage of the Chuck E. Cheese law.» —“Arcades’ ‘sweepstakes’ called illegal” by Robert K. Gordon Birmingham News (Ala.) Aug. 12, 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...
Cat hair may be something you brush off, but cat hair is also a slang term that means “money.” In the same way, cat beer isn’t alcoholic — some people use cat beer as a joking term for “milk.” And imagine walking on a...