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four-spotting

four-spotting  n.— «Like most professional golfers, Lowery has suffered through his own trail of lament.…There was losing his TOUR card and the two years of surviving the vagaries of Monday qualifying, “four-spotting” as...

Single Coast Bicoastal

Those who commute coast-to-coast are bicoastals. But what do you call someone who commutes along the same coast—between, say, Miami and New York? A woman who now travels regularly between Northern and Southern California to visit the grandchildren...

burn

burn  v.— «“He said, ‘I burned the cracker that took my money,’” Blanding said. “That’s the street term for when you shoot somebody, you burn somebody.» —“Witnesses refuse to testify in murder trial” by Carolyn...

tippler house

tippler house  n.— «He welded in the coal preparation house, or the tippler house in mine parlance, for 11 years. He was up top where he could see the sun, the fog and the rain and feel the breeze.» —“He welded way through med...

zuke

zuke  n.— «Besides the locally grown “zuke,” as the vegetable is affectionately known, there are pageants for boys and girls that will choose, for instance, the Duke of Zuke and the festival’s Zuqueenie.» —“From the...

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