salt
v.— «Salt—To muscle in on or disrupt someone else’s relationship: “Hey, I’m sorry I salted your game, man”—(Seth apologising to Ryan for messing up his date with Marissa).» —“Guide to OC vocabulary” Telegraph (U.K.) Oct. 16, 2004. (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...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski serves up a Common Bonds puzzle, in which the object is to guess the common idea in each of three things. For example, what’s the one word that connects a grade on a report card, USDA inspected beef, and an incline? This...