repot
v.— «Stuart said in an interview Tuesday that his reasons for retirement from the district court bench were many, but he declined to be specific, according to The Associated Press.…“All of us need to be repotted now and then.”» —“Stuart to Be Administrative Law Judge” Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska) Jan. 15, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In an interview about her magisterial history of the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns (Bookshop|Amazon), Isabel Wilkerson noted that her own writing process poses the same challenge any writer has: “One word followed by another word...
Chris in Omaha, Nebraska, asks about the use of the adjective husky to describe the boys’ clothing section in a department store. This coded term refers to clothes made for heavier fellows. Husky was originally a positive term connoting the...