whiskey tango
n.— «It’s not like it’s a bad neighborhood. it’s just three houses in a row, right across the street, that contain dipshits, drunks and what darci likes to call whiskey tango types—white trash (w.t. in copspeak is whiskey tango and her dad’s a cop, so…).» —Wet Work (St. Catharines, Ontario, Can.) Aug. 18, 2005. (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...
Rowan in Ottawa, Ontario, says her Irish mom used a puzzling word to indicate a sort of restless discontent not caused by anything in particular. It may be neamhchinnte, which means “uncertain” or “indecisive.” This is part...