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What’s the Good Word? 205: I noted the disappearance of ‘get off my back’ and the emergence of ‘get off my case’.at get off someone’s case (v.) under case, n.1
What’s the Good Word? 205: I noted the disappearance of ‘get off my back’ and the emergence of ‘get off my case’. What’s The Good Word? 300: Gut courses — where ‘gut gunners’ get an ‘easy Ace’ (A) as opposed to a ‘Hook’ (C) or ‘Flag’ (F).at ace, n.
What’s The Good Word? (1983) 81: airish, inclined to put on airs.at airish, adj.1
What’s The Good Word? 301: Staying awake the whole night through to ‘cram’ is called ‘pulling an all-nighter’. [...] An ‘all-nighter’ is never ‘spent,’ never ‘had,’ but only ‘pulled.’.at pull an all-nighter (v.) under all-nighter, n.
What’s The Good Word? 79: Tude is short for ‘attitude,’ and means exactly that — mindset or outlook.at attitude, n.
What’s The Good Word? 302: A ‘tool’ or ‘grind’ is somtimes called [...] an ‘auger’ — a boring tool.at auger, n.
What’s The Good Word? 302: A ‘stud’ — the horse-breeding term used until recently to admire sexual prowess — is a now a derogation of a BMOC.at b.m.o.c., n.
What’s The Good Word? 83: ‘I got your back’ (i.e. ‘I’ll be there with the second;’ in other words ‘I’ll help you fight.’).at have someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
What’s The Good Word? 79: This idealistic phrase [i.e. get down] should not be confused with to get off, ‘to achieve satisfaction,’ or to get back, ‘to reconsider’.at get back, v.
What’s The Good Word? 79: Bent [...] can also mean drunk.at bent, adj.
What’s The Good Word? 84: He is from Planet Lovetron where the brothers be bad and the ‘biddies’ be brickhouses.at biddy, n.2
What’s The Good Word? 300: Students of linguistics engage in ‘Blabs in Labs’.at blabs in labs (n.) under blab, n.
What’s The Good Word? 303: Yes [...] ‘Praying to the Great White Porcelain God’ is quite descriptive, but may I offer my own personal favorite? ‘Blowing your chunks.’.at blow (one’s) chunks (v.) under blow, v.1
What’s The Good Word? 301: Other schools prefer ‘veg out’, [...] to turn into a vegetable, after one ‘blows off,’ or fails.at blow off, v.1
What’s The Good Word? 301: New terms for ‘cramming’ are ‘shedding’ (from ‘woodshed’), ‘speeding,’ and ‘heavy booking’ or ‘mega-booking.’.at book, v.1
What’s The Good Word? 304: If I do too much brew, I’ll get wicked-faced, boot, and maybe even pass.at boot, v.6
What’s The Good Word? 84: A box being one of those big portable radio/cassette players the bros carry around.at box, n.1
What’s The Good Word? 84: He is from Planet Lovetron where the brothers be bad and the ‘biddies’ be brickhouses.at brickhouse, n.2
What’s The Good Word? 84: A box being one of those big portable radio/cassette players the bros carry around.at bro, n.1
What’s The Good Word? 302: ‘Cutting’ is practically never used any more [...] The new terminology is ‘bucking.’.at buck, v.2
What’s The Good Word? 79: Some words that are used in black slang here are: [...] looking chilly (looks nice) and crib — means ‘home.’.at chilly, adj.
What’s the Good Word? 304: The ‘eunuch’ drinks a few and ‘chirps’.at chirp, v.
What’s The Good Word? 300: Music appreciation is ‘Clapping for Credit.’.at clapping for credit, n.
What’s The Good Word? 300: More recent examples [of nicknames for courses] are astronomy’s ‘Stars for Studs,’ art’s ‘Nudes for Dudes,’ psychology’s ‘Nuts and Sluts,’ European civilization’s ‘Plato to NATO,’ anthropology’s ‘Monkeys to Junkies,’ and comparative religion’s ‘Gods for Clods’.at gods for clods, n.
What’s the Good Word? 213: In the late fifties [we] used the expression crumped out often. When we were tired, we would ‘crump out’.at crump (out), v.
(con. late 1950s) What’s the Good Word? 213: Once in a while our hair dryers or some mechanical apparatus would also ‘crump out.’.at crump (out), v.
What’s The Good Word? 302: ‘Cutting’ is practically never used any more [...] The new terminology is ‘bucking.’.at cut, v.4
What’s The Good Word? 87: ‘Cheese-eater’ [is] related to ‘cutting cheese’ as an expression for farting.at cut the cheese (v.) under cut, v.2
What’s The Good Word? 52: ‘I dinged him’ means ‘I communicated my desire to have this straightened out.’.at ding, v.3
What’s the Good Word? 56: I’m papering the wall behind my desk with dings.at ding, n.1
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