soap scrimmage
n.— «We started playing good basketball Wednesday. In our soap scrimmage Tuesday night, we shot 20 percent.» —“Lin. Christian Survives Rush By Geneva for 67-65 Victory” by Stu Pospisil Omaha World-Herald (Neb.) Dec. 7, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Kerry from Omaha, Nebraska, wonders why smack dab means “precisely in the middle.” Long used in Appalachia and the American South to make a term more emphatic, smack also appears in such phrases as right smack now and smack jam and smack...
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...