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Senior prank. A senior prank, also known as muck-up day in Australia [1] and the United Kingdom, [2][3] is a type of organized prank by the senior class of a school, college, or university. They are often carried out at or near the end of the academic year and are part of school traditions. While most senior pranks are harmless, more severe ...
Sapric. A sapric is a subtype of a histosol [ 1 ] where virtually all of the organic material has undergone sufficient decomposition to prevent the identification of plant parts. [ 2 ][ 3 ]Muck is a sapric soil that is naturally waterlogged or is artificially drained.
Amok syndrome. A pengamuk (lit. 'one who runs amok') in Batavia, Java, c. 1858–1861. A group of people pursue to catch or kill him. Amok syndrome is an aggressive dissociative behavioral pattern derived from Malay world, modern Indonesia and Malaysia, that led to the English phrase running amok. [1] The word derives from the Malay word amuk ...
Mucking or hand mucking may also refer to a form of sleight of hand, [4] and, if used in a card game, is cheating. A player conceals a card through sleight of hand, removing it from play so that it may later be inserted back into the game to the cheater's advantage. For example, in blackjack a cheating player might remove an ace from the table ...
McClure's (cover, January 1901) published many early muckraker articles. The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications. The modern term ...
Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest.It spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then to British Columbia and parts of Alaska, Northern California, Idaho and Montana.
Mukluk. Two pair of sealskin kamiit. Left, winter kamik, right, summer kamik. Mukluks[ 1 ] or kamik (Inuktitut: ᑲᒥᒃ [kaˈmik] [ 2 ]) (singular: ᑲᒪᒃkamak, plural: ᑲᒦᑦkamiit) are soft boots, traditionally made of reindeer (caribou) skin or sealskin, and worn by Indigenous Arctic peoples, including Inuit, Iñupiat, and Yup'ik. [ 3 ]
TinyMUCK or, more broadly, a MUCK, is a type of user-extendable online text-based role-playing game, designed for role playing and social interaction. [1]