guitar pull n.— «There’s a scene in Heartworn Highways, the late Jim Szalapski’s 1975 documentary on singer/songwriters, that takes place around Guy Clark’s kitchen table on Christmas Eve. It’s a “guitar pull”—a term used to...
convivium n.— «Miami and Tallahassee have chapters, which the Slow Food folk refer to as conviviums. I guess it is slower and more impressive to say than “chapter.” And the plural “convivia” clearly has more cachet...
gaunch n.— «“Didja see the way I incapacitated him with my monkish gaunch pull?” cried Dingbat excitedly. There was a pause. “Uh, Dingbat, he’s not wearing a gaunch.”» —“Humorous Story (Part Two)” by...
gonch
n.— «We go to bingo then get together for a spirited game of gonch pull, or more commonly know as—wedgee.» —“Hi!” Usenet: k12.chat.senior Nov. 20, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Johnny Jihad n.— «love the skyline and stars out here, i can’t say that enough. amazing…only in the middle east…I gotta hand it to johnny jihad, this place is beautiful at night.» —“Is That A Straight Six?…I Got A...
tin medal n.— «For some kind of tin medal for having made the least valuable contribution toward solving the strike situation in defense industries, we nominate those gentlemen who rose in the Senate and House and shrieked for “the...