While watching the movie Maestro, Mary in Newark, Delaware, noted that while playing Leonard Bernstein, Bradley Cooper says at one point that he misread the room. Is that phrase an anachronism, or is it appropriate for a plot taking place in the...
200-mile-an-hour tape n.— «However, there’s even a better than best (though some might protest that characterization) known as the “nuclear grade,” which is used at reactors and a “200 mile an hour” tape made by...
sky buster
n.— «Servatious poked out the sky buster and when it came down Servy was on second.» —“Champs Shove Us Down The Ladder” Newark Daily Advocate (Ohio) Sept. 7, 1907. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
strap v.— «“Newark is rough, man,” he said. “These kids have some of the best weaponry, and they’re quick to kill. You get into an argument with a 14-year-old, and they’re strapping,” he said, using a street term for...
Florida T n.— «The second alternative is a configuration known as a “Florida T.” A “Florida T” would channel traffic so that northbound through traffic on Capitol Trail would move continuously and would not be controlled by a traffic...
C.U.‘d adj.— «In reality, Flagg and Pierson had not been married but rather “joined in civil union”—”C.U.’d,” as it is sometimes called—in a legally binding rite the Vermont Legislature established in 2000...