Freddy
n.— «The big challenge, Balcomb predicts, will be figuring out which whale produced which poop, because they congregate so closely. And the water here, unlike in the Bahamas, is often cloudy. “Figuring out who did a Freddy is going to be hard.”» —“Hound has a nose for south end of a northbound whale” by Robert McClure Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington) May 22, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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