raincoat crowd
n.— «It’s a popcorn and Pepsi kind of movie house.…Somehow I don’t think the raincoat crowd is going to fully appreciate the Granada.» —“Linda and Georgina” in Dallas, Texas Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 1975. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
Aubrey in Waco, Texas, says her mother used to warn the kids against contracting honkus of the bonkus, a fanciful name for a contagious disease. This colloquial term probably comes from the words bonk and konk, meaning “to hit” or...