Sundowner’s n.— «In March, my dad will be 86 years old. He has Alzheimer’s disease. My brothers, sister and I noticed changes in his personality about nine years ago. We are thankful he doesn’t get violent, although the evenings bring on...
jump off the porch v. phr.— «In street language, the decision to join a gang is known as “jumping off the porch.”» —“Police, schools team to stop kids from ‘jumping off the porch.'” by Steve Giegerich St...
lipodissolve n.— «During the last two years, a procedure called lipodissolve, which uses injections of a drug compound to target unwanted fat deposits, has captured the attention of thousands of cosmetic patients in Missouri and Kansas...
poop-butt n.— «It’s hard for you to know whether you can cut it anyplace. Not just here, anywhere. Don’t believe that about “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” That’s bull ——. If you can make it period, that’s...
Kelly day n.— «The city has proposed new procedures to allow firefighters to voluntarily work on “Kelly Days” or scheduled days off that firefighters take each pay period to keep from exceeding federal labor laws on overtime...
heart-attack kids attrib.— «The Bradley Braves, leading the Missouri Valley Conference, “”are the hottest show in town.”…The Braves, dubbed “the heart-attack kids’’ by some fans for their last-second heroics...