worm dirt
n.— «Tim lobbed a small green disc across the garage at Noel and said, “Worm dirt.” Noel caught the disc, opened it. He held the tobacco to his nose.» —by Lee Durkee Riders of the Midway Feb., 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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Andrew from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recalls a phrase his grandmother used: You’ve got to eat a peck of dirt before you die. A peck is a unit of dry measure equal to a quarter of a bushel. Peck is also a term of approximate measure, as in to be in a...