mutant
n.— «MUTANT: A complimentary term for expert climbers.» —“It’s ‘mutants’ against the ‘rock’ at new indoor climbing center” by Rick Ansorge Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph (Colo.) Feb. 15, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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...
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