con-con
n.— «Proponents of the proposed constitutional convention on property taxes refer to it in shorthand speak as a con-con.» —“Codey’s down-to-earth, humorous speech matches the guy” by Bob Ingle Asbury Park Press (N.J.) Jan. 16, 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...
A young caller from the Hudson Valley of New York wonders about his grandmother’s use of stemwinder to praise a speech she thought was excellent. In the early 1800s, people used pocket watches that had to be wound with a tiny key. Once someone...