Why do we say something is jet black? Does it have to do with the color of a 747’s exhaust? Or skid marks on the runway? Or something else entirely? We provide a color with a mineralogical answer. This is part of a complete episode.
blue jacking n.— «At the age of 10 he sold newspapers in downtown Toledo.…They didn’t have a normal paper route like most kids, delivering to the same house every day in nice, quiet neighborhoods. This young boy and his friend...
skid n.— «Rock n roll shirts (GnR and Metallica, i was never a skid, tho a genuine fan….i’d actually wear em out to trendy nightclubs…now everyone’s got a fu%^in motley crue or led zeppelin shirt).» —“You know how people...
skid n.— «There were no real cliques in my school, but for one exception. the skids, they hung out in the “skid pit,” some were goth, some were punk, some were whiggers, some were just those kids who dont stand out, all of...
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n.— «As a kid, I was a skid and no one knew me by name./I trashed my own house party cause nobody came.» —“Fat Lip” by Sum 41 in song Fat Lip Aug. 28, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
skid n.— «Making his way out into the night he abandoned his preppy boy look, and resembled what some people might call a thug, or a skid.» —“ Long read. Comments appreciated. Edited version in process” by Anne Muted...