Holly from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, remembers her grandmother loading family dinners with pepper and saying they wouldn’t get the pip. The pepper appears to be a folk-remedy flourish, not part of the word’s origin. The pip, also the pips, has...
sink oyster n.— «When I wake up it feels like the cat’s been sleeping in my throat and I can hack up the most thick, sticky wads of yellow & green sink oysters that I’ve ever had.» —by bump Fazed Mar. 11, 2005. (source:...
