This week’s Slang This! contestant is from Boston. She shares a slang phrase making the rounds among her friends at MIT: “find your pants.” She then tries to guess the meaning of the slang term boilover and the obscure word...
crotch dumpling n.— «I probably shouldn’t be a mother. At least I didn’t refer to it as a crotch dumpling or placenta mooch like I call other people’s kids.» —“I hope we don’t get the six pack…“ by Chrissy...
shoot a fair one v. phr. to have a weaponless physical fight between two people. Editorial Note: Fair one, meaning ‘a fight,’ dates to at least as early as 1958. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)