kite tube n.— «They were riding what’s called a kite tube—it’s an inflatable tube that’s pulled behind a boat and eventually becomes airborne.» —“Kite Tubing Dangers” WTVM-TV June 15, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued...
heroic dose n.— «An ounce in twenty-four hours, and a drachm at a dose, are heroic prescriptions, and not to be generally imitated.…In cases wherein the physician might be tempted to overstep nature with these heroic doses of...
sandbank left n.— «In the argot of surfers, the “sandbank left” in Mundaka was a magical, adrenalin-pumping wave that produced “intense barrels” as it ran for 400 metres of surfing heaven. It broke to form a...
green room n.— «In the argot of surfers, the “sandbank left” in Mundaka was a magical, adrenalin-pumping wave that produced “intense barrels” as it ran for 400 metres of surfing heaven. It broke to form a classic...
flavor saver n.— «I have a tube of toothpaste to clean up with a little later…and a bar of soap to clean up the flavor saver—er—beard and moustache.» —“Lynn Gold wants to know “why oral sex…“” by...
seat of ease n.— «It’s a pissdale; it’s essentially a urinal.…Basically it’s just a tapered lead tube that leads from the “seat of ease” as they called it out into the water.» —“QAR dive produces interesting...