pee in the pickles v. phr.— «My old man referred to it as peeing in the pickles. Only he used a different word. I never got the connection but I knew he meant taking your eye off the ball. Or in Tony Stewart’s (7-1) case not paying...
whack v.— «We made good time. In motorcycling parlance, I whacked Mississippi, traveling at speeds over 80+ mph virtually the whole way. Mapquest calls it 365 miles and I traveled it in just over 6 hours.» —“Tuscaloosa” by...
wing suit n.— «Zielinski was wearing what’s called a “wing suit” for the jump, Grimm said. Such a suit when used by sky divers can slow their descent down to about 70 to 80 mph from the more typical speed of more than 100 mph...
ecoshell n.— «The next best step for Mr. Pressler was to build hurricane shelters using the same technique but on a smaller scale.… These 10ft ecoshells as they are called are engineered to withstand 160 mph winds...
longhorn n.— «The train was going 45 mph on a railroad track that has a 49-mph speed limit, McClary said. That’s too fast, said Susan Fernandez, who lives across the street from the tracks where the “longhorns”—as she calls...
Nintendo slider n.— «He’s 6-foot-10, has a 97 mph fastball from the side and has a Nintendo slider.» —“Orioles do a shuffle for matchup with Johnson” by David Ginsburg in Seattle, Wash. AP Oct. 1, 1997...