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 board butter, cap room, mad pancakes, and mad gangster. This is part of a complete...
This week’s Slang This! contestant is asked to guess the meanings of the slang terms gauge and head-up. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Gauge and Head-Up” You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m...
This week’s Slang This! contestant, a professor of medieval history at the University of Santa Cruz, tries to guess the meaning of the slang terms quizzam and snirt. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Quizzam and Snirt:...