sauce-shelf n.— «Pausing from a lucrative Ivy League university lecture tour on particle physics to adjust her sauce-shelf, the one-time MegaStar Live guest has been blethering the first thing that comes into her head.» —“Keep it Simpson” by...
diddle n.— «The diddle shall be as follows—ADO Rules: All matches will begin with the flip of a coin. The coin toss determines who has the option to diddle first. The winner of the coin toss may elect to throw the diddle first or have the opponent...
buzzard’s luck n.— «Something called Buzzard’s Luck continues to plague the National League baseball team.…“Buzzard’s Luck is when you can’t kill anything and nothing will die.”» —“Houston plagued by ‘Buzzard Luck’” in Houston, Texas Lethbridge...
scatter band n.— «Eschewing the more traditional, rigid marching-band image of peers such as Cal and USC, Stanford’s rowdies call themselves a “scatter band.” Also found at most Ivy League schools and others such as Rice and Virginia, scatter bands...
sack dance n. (originally) in American football, a showy celebratory dance performed after the take-down of a ball-carrying quarterback; (hence) especially in competitive events, demonstrative movements or gestures by a person in a (self-perceived)...
conehead n.— «The U.S. government’s CIA-like “Office of Investigations”…proceeds to form the elite- but-unorthodox C.A.T. (Counter Assault Tactical) Squad, rather than going with the usual operatives (“a bunch of Ivy League coneheads spinning their...