crankbait
n.— «Walleye regulars refer to night crawlers as “meat;” they also occasionally troll crankbaits such as Hot’n’Tots, referring to them as “plastic.”» —“Walleye numbers still rising” by Steve Griffin Midland Daily News (Michiga) June 22, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Havertown, Pennsylvania, listener wonders why her mother used to answer queries about how she was doing with phrase that sounded like either fair to midland or fair to middling. Middling has long meant “just OK” or “right in the middle,” and the...
“Nurdle” Means a Small Bit of Something: Toothpaste on a Brush, Plastic Pellets, and Pocket Detritus
The word nurdle, sometimes spelled nerdle, can be used to denote various “small bits of things,” such as styrofoam packing material or detritus in one’s pockets. It may be related to the word nodule. Like thingamabob and whatsit, the word nurdle...