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on one’s bicycle

on one’s bicycle  adj.— «Capitalizing on the expansive 18-foot ring, Sullivan got on her bicycle for the entire fight to avoid the power and hand speed of Zamarron, who trains in the same Austin gym.» —“Nunn takes his time, defeats...

skeempers

skeempers  n.— «My father had a favorite term he used to describe anything that pinched or clasped. Consequently, the kitchen tongs and the snaps on my pajamas came to be called skeempers. The Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam Webster...

noodle

noodle  v.— «If blasting away at fish strikes some as crude, it’s nothing next to noodling. Variously known as hand grabbing, hogging, grabbling, stumping and dogging (depending on what part of the country you’re in), noodling, as they...

tick-tacker

tick-tacker n. at a horse track, a person (often a tout) who communicates information to others by hand signals. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

tick-tacker

tick-tacker  n.— «Tick-tackers lasted longer. Usually wearing white gloves for better visibility, tick-tackers conveyed prices from one enclosure to another by hand signals.» —“Randwick’s last tout: nine tips but none the...

spim

spim  n.— «IM spam, commonly referred to as “spim,” has been flagged by experts as a growing problem.» —“Yahoo to Trillian: Talk to the hand” by Jim Hu ZDNet June 23, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued...

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