Sick Bags
n.— «From a distance, Six Flags towers above the forest like the skeletal remains of a long-dead civilisation—aficionados refer to it as Sick Bags, in gruesome acknowledgment of the franchise’s reputation as the Kingdom of Coasters.» —“Faster than the speed of fright” by Chris Haslam in Jackson, N.J. Times (London, England) May 22, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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