Professional wrestling may be staged, but its insider vocabulary is vivid and precise. The PW Torch newsletter’s online glossary records phrases such as red means green, the old ringside saying that a wrestler who bleeds during a bout earns a...
In baseball, rhubarb is a dust-up or argument, the sort of on-field flare-up that can get a manager tossed. James in Dallas came across the word in the 1951 movie Rhubarb, based on H. Allen Smith’s book about a cat that inherits a baseball team...