In mining country, a stripper is an huge piece of machinery churns up the soil in search of coal veins. This caused no end of hilarity one Christmas Day for a Terre Haute, Indiana, family when a new in-law was scandalized by the thought that all the...
An Atlanta native wants to know why she and her fellow Southerners grew up using the word plum, as in “plum tuckered out.” Martha explains the connection between that kind of “plum” and “plumbers.” This is part of...
popcult n.— «Marilyn remains iconic—no doubt for me, my friends, and everyone we know, because Gwen and Madge have name-checked the legendary screen star enough to canonize her place in the popcult lexicon.» —“TTC brings you...
plig n.— «Richard Holm, whose father had 11 “celestial wives” and 60 children, remembers cruel comments about “pligs”—a derogatory term for polygamists—on the rare occasions when family members would troop into a...
J-cool n.— «Mitsubishi Motors’ brand image will be distinguished by the contemporary, edgy look put forward in the new campaign, which incorporates subtle elements of Asian influence in U.S. pop culture, often referred to as...
woobie n.— «I don’t actually even know how to spell the word “woobie.” All I know is that the Engineer always used it to mean “a shirt that is really warm and comfortable, but that is in such bad shape that you could...
