If someone tells you they want you to get your bib and tucker on, they’re telling you to get dressed up in your Sunday best, tucker being a bit of lace formerly worn at the neckline and bib being a shirtfront. This is part of a complete...
lace bite n.— «The problem that you are describing is something which is commonly called “Skate bite” or “Lace bite.” Skate bite almost always occurs due to a new pair of skates being worn for the first time. Skate bite almost always...
shootie n.— «Also called “shooties,” the shoe-boot trend first became popular more than 20 years ago in a variety of incarnations including lace-covered granny booties popular in the late 1980s and booties with a country and...
fuwari n.— «The Fuwari embroidery technique is the first major change in the industry in thirty years. Fuwari is a Japanese word for “soft and furry”; no pictures can do justice to how it looks and feels in person. There is no...
buncomize v.— «To “buncomize” is to “talk bunkum,” and no one does this with a better vocabulary than pseudoscientists, who lace their hokum narratives with scientistic jargon.» —“Bunkum!” by...
wet n.— «According to court documents, Edwards and Larry Sr. were locked in a dispute over a drug called “wet,” the slang term for a mixture of PCP and formaldehyde. It is used to lace marijuana or other smoking materials to...