This phrase pertains to late-19th-century slang when "breeze" meant ... entered the lexicon via Yiddish, a language spoken by Jewish immigrants in the American theatrical community.
Online life changed the way we talk and write—then changed it again, and again, and so on, forever. This is an edition of ...
Software engineering has its own slang terms only heard in the industry. Business Insider polled three IT experts with computer and software engineering experience and/or education who ...
From giggle smoke to Nixon, here are 18 old-fashioned slang terms to describe the ever-popular psychoactive plant. For American law enforcement in the 1930s, giggle smoke was no laughing matter.
It is odd that half of the Latin phrase ad hoc, meaning improvised, is more familiar to many people than “in hock”, originally US slang for “in debt”, let alone the older English hock ...