PIB
n.— «The celebrities are easy to spot too. “They invariably wear all-black.…The locals refer to them as PIBs [People in Black], and they make really easy snowball targets schussing down the slopes or walking down Main Street.”» —“Catch a schussing star” by Ken Hegan Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) Nov. 26, 2005. (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...
A writer stumbles upon a tiny, motionless creature on a country road and, against all good advice, takes it home. The resulting memoir, Raising Hare, is a lovely meditation on nature and our relationship to it. And: have you ever invented a fake...