spooty adj.— «My keyboard has just died on me. I’m using the spooty On Screen one instead and pressing the characters with my mouse, which is why it’s taking me forever to type/click this post.» —by Indira (ze_manx_mouse) Go and...
sucker line n.— «A “sucker line” is when one team seems like it should be a clear underdog but is somehow favored. People place tons of money on the other team. And those people are called “suckers,” because the...
Y V Ulluq Q n.— «Hazy light started lingering on the southern horizon deep into the months when the sky normally would contain nothing but stars.…The sharp difference between the cold air on the ground and the warmer air above...
shack n.— «The operative on the ground radioed confirmation: “That’s a shack,” slang for a direct hit.» —“Over Afghanistan, Gantlets in the Sky” by Steve Vogel in Aboard The USS Carl Vinson Washington...
blue-sky v.— «He insisted he was merely “blue skying” the idea. He swore he had never used the report, which he had promoted while at NIAAA, to solicit loans from banks to build a private treatment center.» —“The...
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v.— «(title)» —“Blue Skying For the Future Home” by Aileen Snoddy Edwardsville Intelligencer (Illinois) Nov. 16, 1964. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)