pooch
n.— «Knight seems to be experimenting with a new “squib” onsides kick-off and Bragg concentrates on “pooches” and “skyrides,” punts designed either to go out of bounds or come to rest deep in the opposition’s territory.» —“Redskins’ Seminar Specializes in Kicks” by Kenneth Denlinger in Carlisle, Pa. Washington Post July 29, 1972. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...
A librarian opens a book and finds a mysterious invitation scribbled on the back of a business card. Another discovers a child’s letter to the Tooth Fairy, tucked into a book decades ago. What stories are left untold by these forgotten...