Fobbit
n.— «I am a sentry in our FOB (forward operating base). I am what people call a Fobbit, because I never leave the “wire.”» —“Living in Iraq” by Sri Lausier in Camp Liberty, Iraq MaineToday.com July 18, 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...
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