skid
n.— «As a kid, I was a skid and no one knew me by name./I trashed my own house party cause nobody came.» —“Fat Lip” by Sum 41 in song Fat Lip Aug. 28, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A South Carolina listener recalls that his father referred to the younger man’s girlfriend with a term that sounded like jing floogy or jing floogie. The word floogie has long been a synonym for floozy, a term applied to women, and often...
Responding to our discussion about thin places, those spots where the boundary between this world and other realities seems narrow or permeable, a listener in Kirkland, Washington, sent us some eloquent thoughts about her own experiences of that...