Mike, a retired Air Force pilot in Mondovi, Wisconsin, asks why the bomb-release switch on an aircraft is called a pickle button and why pickle off means to drop bombs or fuel tanks. The likely trail starts in the U.S. Navy, where torpedoes were...
Pickle, baboon, cupcake, snorkel, pumpkin, Kalamazoo—let’s face it, some words are just plain funny. But what makes some words funnier than others? Martha and Grant consider this question with an assist from Neil Simon’s play (and movie)...
pickle park
n.— «Pickle park…A roadside rest area.» —by Robert L. Chapman New Dictionary of American Slang , 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)