demoflush
n.— «And as for the “demoflush” figures for summer’s traditional last weekend, they weren’t available today: Like workers across the county, the man who computes the numbers and employes of the sanitation commission had the day off.» —“Throngs of Labor Day Sunseekers Cap Healthy Season Along Eastern Shore” by Saundra Saperstein, Victoria Churchville in Ocean City, Maryland Washington Post Sept. 4, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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