muni
n.— «Windsurfing somehow led to last summer’s project of learning how to ride a unicycle (to raise the cool factor, I bought a mountain unicycle, or “muni,” as it’s called).» —“Above the lawn, walking the line” by Adam Bryant AZCentral.com (Phoenix, Arizona) Sept. 9, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Martha from Tallahassee, Florida, remembers hearing older relatives announce they were going for their constitutional, a term that traces back to Latin constitutio, meaning “character,” “disposition,” “nature,” or “the essence of a thing.” Its...
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