throw down
n.— «This has been a major embarrassment for the BATF. They would need to prove what they claim just to save face. Just like a cop carrying a “throw-down.” It happens.» —“Re: What the media isn’t saying about events in Waco” Usenet: talk.politics.misc Mar. 5, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Aubrey in Waco, Texas, says her mother used to warn the kids against contracting honkus of the bonkus, a fanciful name for a contagious disease. This colloquial term probably comes from the words bonk and konk, meaning “to hit” or...