reef
v.— «My father in law told me about returning a huge socket he broke when he reefed on it using a six foot cheater pipe.…My father in law asked him if he didn’t want to hear how he broke it, thinking that his use of excessive force would negate the warranty.» —“Re: Why do you buy Snap-on tools?” by Corky Scott Usenet: rec.aviation.homebuilt Nov. 7, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A listener named Tami contacted the show by WhatsApp to say that whenever someone would be talking about a subject that nobody else knew anything about, her father-in-law would respond with I had one of those, but the wheels came off. This is part...
A Kentucky listener says her father often prefaced statements with the phrase I tell you what’s the truth. This regionalism appears in the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English (Bookshop|Amazon). A shorter version is I’ll tell you...