Martha shares the term “hit and giggle”, a bit of sports slang term she picked up while working as an announcer at this year’s Mercury Insurance Open tennis tournament. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Hit and Giggle”
Hey Grant, I have a slang term for you.
You probably already know it, but do you know the term hit and giggle?
I don’t think so.
What is it?
It sounds kind of naughty, doesn’t it?
A little bit, yeah.
But I learned this recently when I was filling in for the announcer at the Mercury Insurance Open tennis tournament here a few weeks ago.
And I heard people in the trailer, the tournament officials, saying, well, we’re going to do the hit and giggle.
And I thought, what? That sounds just vaguely naughty. Hello.
But it turns out that that’s sort of the time during a tennis tournament where they do an exhibition match that’s just for laughs.
Oh, I see. They’re not really right.
Right, or the pro-am where professional tennis players will play along with amateurs who have paid money to do this.
And I never heard that expression, but apparently it’s a term of art in tennis and also golf.
And I guess maybe everyone knows this term but you and me because we don’t get out much.
That’s a great one. I’ve just made a note.
I figured you would.
Hit and giggle.
So what slang have you heard lately?
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