nut up
v.— «Children: Nut up, get out on the blacktop, and throw that dodgeball back at that little shit harder than he threw it at you. » —“Warning: This post could piss you off” in San Francisco Craigslist Oct. 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...