A listener noticed fugacious on a sign at the Orchid House at the San Diego Zoo, where the botanical label refers to flowers that last only briefly, sometimes just a day. The adjective also describes anything passing quickly, including a sudden...
To be on the lam is to be running from the law, and lam likely comes from an older verb meaning to beat or thrash. Because beat it also came to mean run away or scram, lam appears to have followed the same path into slang for fleeing. Colleen in...
rez car n.— «He described his “cat and mouse” tactics: he would purposely allow himself to be seen, and then flee as far as Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia in cars he picked up on the reservations. “Rez cars,” he called them...