skybust
v.— «Forget about magnums or, at least, don’t believe it’s a license to skybust. Skybusting is awful. There’s simply no point in shooting too high. You either miss, wasting ammunition, or you cripple, wasting ducks.» —“Savvy in the slough” by Ron Schara Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota) Oct. 12, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Carrie Ann and her cousin Danielle from Minneapolis, Minnesota, wonder about the pronunciation of the word rhetoric. Is the stress on the first syllable or the second? This is part of a complete episode.
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