min pin
n.— «A group that saves miniature pinchers, which are affectionately called “min pins,” says it’s getting calls for help from all over the state.» —“From a home to a cage” by Ken Suarez in Lakeland MyFox Tampa Bay (Florida) Dec. 3, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A writer stumbles upon a tiny, motionless creature on a country road and, against all good advice, takes it home. The resulting memoir, Raising Hare, is a lovely meditation on nature and our relationship to it. And: have you ever invented a fake...
Chase from Jacksonville, Florida, grew up in Sacramento, California, where kids played Rochambeau instead of rock, paper, scissors. Why the difference in names? Nobody knows. Folklorists call this a choosing game, and while the hand-game itself...