hunnert-mile-an-hour tape
n.— «The holes they have in them are adequately held together by duct tape, or as we used to call it on the Colorado river, “hunnert-mile-an-hour tape.” And if you run across noisy, obnoxious New Yorkers or Texans, two or three inches does nicely to seal them up, too!» —“Re: Volkl’s (was Re: SKI SALES)” by Kelly Shuldberg Usenet: rec.skiing Aug. 30, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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