weed n.— «Dantonio wanted to get guys to quit, wanted the weak, or the “the weeds” as he called them, to leave. It was a risk. Maybe he’d lose some talent, but what good is it if the character is corosive?» —“Spartans...
flake n.— «I prefer mulches that break down readily in the soil and are easy to lay down. I used to buy salt hay, which grows in coastal marshes, because the seeds it contains don’t germinate in gardens. But it’s less available now, so I...
whiskey plate n.— «Odds are you’ve seen cars carrying plates bearing the telltale W. Some still wonder what that lone letter designates while others think they know exactly what it means. While those plates are colloquially referred to as...
jump truck n.— «The workday for a Chicago area Good Humor man back in 1969 began at one central location with 175 men, each dressed in white, climbing into 175 identical white trucks, and going out on their routes. The open air trucks...
caddilac v.— «What a good well. We’re sitting there, cadillacing at 8 million a day and they are going to co-mingle on upper zone. And we really don’t know what that upper zone is capable of doing, but if its 50% of what the lower one is...
endarkenment n.— «Yet there were also ominous signs of the days that Eric Burdon of the Animals refers to as “the endarkenment.” There was a series of rock-star drug busts, most notoriously the raid on Keith Richards”...