hotbox
v.— «“I feel sorry for you, just try to find a safe place outside that you can go and smoke”… “try hot boxing a car 🙂 it works… although you have to be careful, and out on some old gravel road.”» —“Re: smoking in dorm room” by jgwacker@iastate.edu (Jay) Usenet: alt.drugs Feb. 18, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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