PED
n.— «Alex Rodriguez’s recent admission of using performance enhancing drugs has pushed the issue back into the national spotlight once again.…How much impact are “PEDs”—as they have become known in popular culture—having at the local level?» —“High school sports and steroids” by Cam Huffman Aiken Standard (South Carolina) Mar. 1, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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Sock it to Me (episode #1557)
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...
Change One Letter Olympic Event Word Games
Quiz Guy John Chaneski insists that the names of modern Olympic sports resulted from changing one letter in the original names for each activity. For example, he says, the pole vault must have originated from an earlier sport in which participants...