Utah claw
n.— «“Very proud to say she has never had a spiral perm nor big, crunchy bangs.”…”Around here we call it the Utah Claw.”» —by kimncyn@aol.comspamiam (Cyn) Usenet: alt.radio.talk.dr-laura Nov. 16, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Language is always evolving, and that’s also true for American Sign Language. A century ago, the sign for “telephone” was one fist below your mouth and the other at your ear, as if you’re holding an old-fashioned candlestick...
Brittany in Green Coast Springs, Florida, says that when she was grumpy or irritated as a child, her mother would say a phrase that sounded like Don’t be such a scooch. This bit of Italian-American slang, often rendered as skutch, denotes a “pest”...