hat racking
v.— «The freeze was severe enough to cause some defoliation and twig die-back or death of the ends of some limbs. But it added that the tree damage wasn’t as bad as in 1962 when there was widespread hat racking, which is the death of all but the largest limbs of the trees.» —“Florida Growers Put Heat on Jack Frost; Result Is Uncertain” by Bill Paul in Haines City, Florida Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 1977. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Debbie from Crawfordsville, Florida, says that when she and her husband reach an impasse while working on something, they’ll say Let’s grok about it, which they use to mean “Let’s think about it.” Grok was coined by...
In Cockney rhyming slang, apples and pears is a synonym for “stairs,” and dustbin lids means kids. Plus, sniglets are clever coinages for things we don’t already have words for. Any guesses what incogsneeto means? It’s the...