This week’s “Slang This!” contestant from the National Puzzlers’ League tries to pick out the real slang terms from a puzzle that includes the expressions beagle-chased, green-shifted, kiln-fired, and shovel-ready. This is...
mommy factor n.— «With U.S. soldiers and Marines now serving 15-month combat tours, with casualties on the increase, and with deployments to a combat zone a virtual certainty for new soldiers, military experts blame the “Mommy...
tumpsy n.— «“Is that Dawn’s tumpsy?” “It does look like it, doesn’t it? But there is more hair. Derek likes hairy pie.”» —“Archive 11797” by thisnthat, Dawn Syndrome b3ta.com board (United...
jiggy-vous n.— « “Jiggy-vous.” That pie slice of French-Canadian patois was a favorite saying of the teenage Gordon Lightfoot. It means “all right.” » —“If you could read his mind” by Steve...
bake blind v. phr.— «When recipes tell you to bake blind, they don’t mean cover your eyes. Baking blind is the term for cooking a pie shell—partially or completely—without any filling. You shouldn’t just pop the shell in the oven. It’ll...
cutie pie n.— «In one conversation, Moore talked about a cutie pie, slang for 9 ounces of cocaine. Moore: “I’m at Pacman’s house. I’m just laying around…“ Caller: “I’m just wondering if I could get a cutie pie from...