quad
n.— «Jam skating—a mix of break dancing, hip-hop dancing and gymnastics—has sales of four-wheeled roller skates soaring. Sales of quads, as they’re known, are up 150 percent from last year.» —“Jam on a roll” by John Tanasychuk Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) July 9, 2005. (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...
Chad in Hilliard, Florida, wonders about the expression old as Methuselah, meaning “extremely advanced in years.” The phrase references Methuselah, a figure in Jewish, Islamic, and Christian tradition said to be 969 years old when he...