roboing

roboing
 n.— «He mesmerized the audience with tales of being shot 13 times and attacking opponents while “roboing”—being high on the cough syrup Robitussin.» —“U Too Need Jesus, Christian Rockers Say; Concert Rocks for Jesus Christ” by Peggy Fletcher Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) May 4, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Further reading

It’s All in a Dezzick

The word dezzick is defined in an 1875 dictionary of the Sussex dialect as “a day’s work.” This is part of a complete episode.

Related

Sleepy Winks (episode #1584)

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...

Recent posts