pimp cup
n.— «The pimp cup. When the gold-encrusted goblet favoured by purveyors of women becomes so ubiquitous that former Nickelodeon star Nick Cannon is rocking it in a video, you know it’s time to retire it.» —“Missteps, misfires and misjudgments mark the year in pop music” by Nekesa Mumbi Moody Canadian Press Dec. 22, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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...
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