miracle
n.— «A “miracle” in the parking lot parlance of jam band fans and Deadheads often refers to a ticket for that night’s show. It comes from a song written by Weir and Barlow, and you can find the chorus “I need a miracle” scribbled in dayglow markers on cardboard or sung out by someone looking to score a ticket.» —“Straight To Hell: The Death of an iPod” by Bodhi Shugenja Pogical Logitism and the Semiotic Shokgun Deluxe (Atlanta, Ga.) Mar. 30, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In the 15th century, the word respair meant “to have hope again.” Although this word fell out of use, it’s among dozens collected in a new book of soothing vocabulary for troubled times. Plus, baseball slang: If a batter...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...