trombone
n.— «Some of us would sacrifice a useful, even sensitive, part of our anatomy to shoot “trombones”—golfing slang for a 76—just once in our lives.» —“The beauty that is the U.S. Open” by Rial Cummings Missoulian (Montana) June 19, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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