tuckle
n.— «“We’re just here looking at the tuckles ladies,” Jamal Wilson, 19, says as he stands under the square’s big screen with three friends. Tuckles, he explains, is the 416’s new word for fly, which was the new word for cool.» —“A party with 600 cops” by Robyn Doolittle Toronto Star (Canada) Aug. 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s book Demon Copperhead is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield set in today’s Appalachia. Martha shares memories of a long-ago visit to Kingsolver’s family farm in Virginia, where they...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has clues to several rhyming pairs of words separated by the word and. For example, what do you call the technique for narrowing the aspect ratio of a wide-screen movie so it will fit on your TV screen? This is part of a...