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The Lords of Flatbush – A nickname of the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn. The Trolley Dodgers – A nickname of the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn. This was the name of the team before it was shortened to "Dodgers" in the 1930s. The Evil Empire of the West – Used by detractors.
Restaurant Den Gyldne Måge. Denmark. Comedic nickname to make McDonald's sound like an expensive restaurant. It means "Restaurant The Golden Seagull" (referring to the infamous logo of McDonald's). Макдак (McDuck) Russia. The slang nickname is similar to the family name of Clan McDuck. It was proposed as the new name for McDonalds after ...
(often as Big Jesse, derogatory insult for a man) Non-macho, effeminate, sometimes gay. A male name (uncommon in the UK). A shortening of the female name Jessica (usually spelled "Jessie"). jock a Scotsman (slang) a Scottish private soldier (slang) (UK: squaddie) slang term for an athlete
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
According to Enjoy Travel, “brick” is a Georgia slang word that means time. Used in a sentence: “I haven’t seen you in a brick.” One monkey don’t stop no show
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty. [6] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
The nuance is why Bisbing says she looks at “big back” and “fatty” as “two distinct phenomena.”. Still, “big back” now gets used interchangeably with other current terms in this ...
Boris Johnson. Al, used by his friends and family as a shortening of his legal first name Alexander. [ 122] Boris, Johnson has been described as one of the few politicians to be more commonly referred to by his given name than his last name. [ 123] BoJo, a portmanteau of his forename and surname.