soap scrimmage
n.— «The same thing happened in our soap scrimmage.…But I didn’t catch it. I didn’t even see it.» —“Late TD Pass Lifts Bulldogs Past Northeast” by Larry Porter in Lincoln Omaha World-Herald (Neb.) Sept. 7, 1985. (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...
Chris in Omaha, Nebraska, asks about the use of the adjective husky to describe the boys’ clothing section in a department store. This coded term refers to clothes made for heavier fellows. Husky was originally a positive term connoting the...