blue-sky
v.— «(title)» —“Blue Skying For the Future Home” by Aileen Snoddy Edwardsville Intelligencer (Illinois) Nov. 16, 1964. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
thumper n.— «During his unsuccessful bid for the Illinois House this spring, Aaron Patterson brokered a heroin deal and talked of his need to acquire “thumpers,” street slang for guns, federal prosecutors alleged Friday...
smurfing n.— «Missourians had been caught in Illinois on several occasions “smurfing”—that is, buying anhydrous ammonia, iodine crystals, ether and other ingredients from various sources, far from their labs, to avoid raising...
impact incarceration n.— «A prison work camp in southern Illinois will be turned into a military-style boot camp designed to shock youthful offenders out of a life of crime, Gov. Thompson announced Friday. The planned “impact...
cho-mo n.— «“Dude’s a fuckin’ cho-mo,” said the other. “Or he’s a reverse cho-mo, what the hell, it’s almost worse than a child molester. Look at him!”» —“Windy gray” by Steve...
knob knocker n.— «“Imagine a razor shaving your face, but on a much bigger scale,” says Shawn McKinney, president of the Springfield Area Mountain Bike Association about the knob knocker, a device created to shave the bumps off a...