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Canadian Ballet

sibly influenced by the common use of crosstown streets in New York City as landmarks or reference points, which is similar to the use of geographic latitudes, or parallels, to refer to places and distances in Canada.] Now historical. This term appears to have been used only in Boston and New York City.

1906 Washington Post (Sept. 18) “A.F.L. Council Will Frame Political Plan,” p. 4 ! A committee...appeared, claiming jurisdiction over those boys working at “Canada” points, that is, the wholesale and retail distribution of newspapers at several points in large cities. 1906 Washington Post (Sept. 20) “Abolition of Child Labor Asked by A.F.L.,” p. 2

! It was decided to sustain Newsboys’ Union of Boston by ruling “that the the [sic] wholesaling and retailing of newspapers at the socalled ‘Canada Points’ is comprehended in the charter and jurisdiction of the Newsboys’ Protective Union.” 1937 Canny; Rosenberg LOTJ

(Nov. 29) “Newspaper Deliverers Jargon” ! Canada-point man. Distributes to newsboys from truck at certain sections. 1937 Individuals; Wayne Walden @ NYC LOTJ (Dec. 6) “Slang of Newspaper and Mail Delivery (Rewrite Canny)” ! Canada points—Points such as at 42, 125, Streets, Union Sq. etc. where newspapers dealers may obtain supplies from a seller stations at points. 1938-39 Individual delivery workers at Park Row, New York City @ NYC LOTJ “Mail and Newspaper Delivery Workers’ Slang and Jargon” ! Canada-point man. Man who makes deliveries to dealers and newsboys at points far up-town. 1972

N.Y. Times (July 12) “Lauren D. Lyman, 81, Won Pulitzer Prize” (in Bridgeport, Conn.), p. C8 ! The newspaper was aware that the competition sent copy boys to Times Square, the first delivery point, to check for stories and so the edition with the Lindbergh exclusive was dispatched to so-called “Canada points,” or outlying districts first.

Canadian Ballet n. exotic dancing; a strip club; collectively, strip clubs in Canada. Canada. Slang.

1993 Usenet: rec.sport.football.pro (Oct. 4) “Kelly Out Drinking Before Miami Game” ! When asked what he had been doing in Canada, he responded that he had been bar-hopping. Undoubtedly going to the girlie bars to watch the Canadian Ballet. 1995 Nicole Peradotto Buffalo News (Aug. 13) “Strippers Take a Stand Against Lap Dancing,”

p. E1 ! “Do you wanna dance?” The question, when posed at the Canadian Ballet—the euphemism used to describe the north-of-the- border strip clubs so popular with Western New Yorkers—usually refers to a tangle instead of a tango. 1998 Usenet: soc.subculture

.bondage-bdsm (Apr. 16) “Re: Survey: For Doms, Regarding Obese Subs” ! As for most of the strip clubs in my area, which includes Western New York and lower Ontario, Canada, they are relatively

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clean as are the clientele.... North of the border, these establishments are referred to as the Canadian Ballet. 2004 Josh Fruhlinger Comics Curmudgeon (Baltimore, Md.) (Sept. 4) “Oh, Canada!” (Int.) ! Dozens of strip clubs line the streets of the Canadian towns just across the Niagara River from Buffalo. (These clubs were collectively known as “the Canadian ballet,” a euphemism I find terrifically amusing to this day.)

canine freest yle n. a competitive sport in which a dog obeys a handler’s commands in a routine set to music. Animals. Sports.

1995 Dan Rodricks Baltimore Sun (Md.) (Mar. 15) “Hint to Thief: Don’t Try to Palm Off a Stolen Plant on Its Owner,” p. 1B ! Coming up this Saturday...Joan Tennille on “canine freestyle dancing.” There will also be a pet fashion show. I am not making this up! 1998

Stephanie J. Taunton The Trick Is in the Training (Mar. 1), p. 50 ! There is a new sport called Canine Freestyle, in which handler and dog perform a routine of their own devising to music. 2004 Kathleen Fordyce Miami Herald (Dec. 4) “Pooches Dazzle on Dance Floor—Even with Their Two Left Feet” (Int.) ! Dancing with dogs—or canine freestyle, as aficionados call it—is an emerging sport in the dog world.

cannonball Sunday n. a sparsely attended church service, especially immediately following a Christian holiday. Religion.

2003 John W. Wurster (First Presbyterian Church) (Findlay, Ohio) (Dec. 28) “Ode to Christmas” (Int.) ! ’Tis three days after Christmas/And I don’t know what to say./No one really wants to preach/On a Cannonball Sunday. 2004 J. Dale Suggs Torrey Pines Christian Church (La Jolla, Calif.) (Feb. 22) “Enough Is Enough” (Int.) ! I’m amazed that anybody is here this morning. I advertised for weeks that today we were going to talk about giving generously. Stewardship sermons have a way of creating what we call in the business “cannonball Sunday.”

2004 Stephen Van Etten Hunterdon County Democrat (N.J.) (Dec. 22) “Area’s Churches Have Open Arms, Full Pews” (Int.) ! Attendance at his church picks up slightly for Christmas, but he calls the following week’s service “Cannonball Sunday.” 2004 Alan Kimber RecordNet

(Stockton, Calif.) (Dec. 25) “Spirited Words” (Int.) ! On these great festivals of the Christian faith, churches are crowded, often to overflowing while on some other Sundays the exact opposite is true. In fact, the Sundays after these great festivals are sometimes referred to as “cannonball Sundays,” meaning you can fire a cannon through the congregation and probably not hit anyone.

cardinal n. a chairman of any subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. Politics. United States.

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[Probably from the similarity to the College of Cardinals at the Vatican, a body of men who collectively wield great power and influence.]

1989 Dan Morgan Washington Post (June 30) “In College of ‘Cardinals,’ a Summer of Frustration,” p. A1 ! This is turning into a difficult summer for the 13 chairmen of the House Appropriations subcommittees, the powerful legislators known reverentially on Capitol Hill as “the cardinals.” 1995 James V. Grimaldi Orange County Register

(Calif.) (Dec. 12) “Packard Now Backs Bosnia Plan,” p. A1 ! As a socalled “cardinal,” or appropriations subcommittee chairman, Packard will influence the debate. 1997 Peter Hardin Richmond Times-Dispatch

(Va.) (Jan. 8) “‘Safe’ Wolf Was ‘Present,’ ” p. A8 ! The 57-year-old Wolf is a so-called cardinal on Capitol Hill, the term for chairmen of subcommittees of the House Appropriations Committee. 2001 Jim Myers Tulsa World (Okla.) (May 16) “Istook Says No to Run for Governor,” p. 7 ! Istook gained even more influence after being named a so-called “cardinal,” the moniker given to those who chair an appropriations subcommittee. 2002 Abner J. Mikva Chicago Tribune

(Mar. 14) “Kaszak Support,” p. 18 ! The editorial mentioned that the district encompasses a good part of the old district of Sidney Yates, and talked about him as a so-called “cardinal” (a chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee). 2005 Bob Kemper @ Washington, D.C. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Ga.) (Feb. 10) “Kingston’s Panel Axed in Changes” (Int.) ! Subcommittee chairmen are sometimes referred to as “cardinals” on Capitol Hill, for the influence they wield.

care leaver n. a person who has been a ward of the state but no longer qualifies for or receives any government assistance. Australia. Health. Jargon. United Kingdom.

1989 Tim Lunn Guardian (U.K.) (Mar. 22) “A Package Pressed for Time” ! The list of young people, like care leavers and abuse victims, who can claim benefit because they live away from home is being extended to include young people who are—in the words of the DSS—”genuinely estranged from their parents.” 1995 COI’s Hermes

(U.K.) (Mar. 7) “Department of Health—John Bowis Addresses Leaving Care Conference” ! Leaving care arrangements must be evolutionary over a period often of many years and links should remain for as long as a young care leaver needs them. 2004 Claire Halliday The Age

(Melbourne, Australia) (July 4) “Who Cares?” (Int.) ! Wards of the state are officially referred to as Care Leavers but the people who have been brought up this way don’t like that title. They would argue that no care was given to them at all.

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carpet-crossing n. the act of joining an opposition (political party) or conceding to its policies. Also sometimes called crosstitution.

Politics.

1993 (Inter Press Services) (Jan. 26) “Opposition Parties Showing Their True Colours” (in Dakar, Senegal) ! Political observers here view the opposition carpet-crossing as an attempt to secure ministerial posts if, as is widely expected, Diouf wins a third term in office.

2000 Alan Kachamazov Izvestia (Russia) (June 27), p. 3 in Defense & Security (June 30, 2000) A. Ignatkin “First Success” ! Presidential Advisor Sergei Yastrzhembsky views the commanders’ carpet-crossing to the side of the federal troops as a significant success for Akhmed Kadyrov. 2004 Thomas Imonikhe Daily Champion (Lagos, Nigeria) (Aug. 16) “Why Indiscipline Thrives in Parties” (Int.) ! Indiscipline among politicians took various forms including working against the overall interest of one’s party and dumping it for another after an election. This decampment, was also known as “carpet crossing” while such anti-party activities were usually visited with stiff penalties.

cashish n. money. Money & Finance. [From cash ‘money in the form of bills or coins.’ Imitative of hashish ‘a hallucinogenic resinous extract of the hemp plant,’ which also lends a connotation of illicitness or addiction.]

1989 Usenet: comp.sys.mac.digest (Apr. 4) “Info-Mac Digest V7 #63”

! Thanks to everyone who has sent the life-giving cashish through. It keeps me posting. 1992 Usenet: rec.music.phish (Nov. 2) “Columbus, OH, Show” ! Drinks at the Newport are heavy on the wallet...mucho cashish. 1999 Isobel Kennedy @ NYC Market News International

(Oct. 18) “Talk from Trenches—US Stocks, CPI Will Tell It All” ! If you started out Sept. with $50,000 in a 401k plan, you would now have only $46,150. And that is a lot of “cashish-ola” even if it’s only on paper. 2000 J.J. Connolly Layer Cake (Apr. 6), p. 15 ! After a few false starts and offers of hare-brained, get-rich-quick schemes that would only get me put away for stretches, I started moving bits and pieces around town just to keep my hand in really and to top up my dwindling cashish reserve. 2005 [theperfectcrime] Ask Metafilter

(June 10) “My Debit Card Was Lost/Stolen and Fraudulently Misused” (Int.) ! The system told me that my balance was several hundred dollars overdrawn, and when I checked the most recently posted transactions, the amounts ($50-75) did not immediately ring a bell. I also knew that my shit was not fucked up to the tune of (at least quite) that much cashish.

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cat face n. aberrant surface features or an irregular appearance on fruit, vegetables, or trees, especially when caused by healthy tissue growing over damage. Also v., adj., attrib. Food & Drink.

1890 Montgomery M. Folsom Atlanta Constitution (Ga.) (Mar. 9) “My Blue-Eyed Babies,” p. 13 ! I mentioned to her the fact that there was a bumble bee’s nest in the big cat-faced pine just over the branch.

1905 Washington Post (Mar. 26) “Their Speech Is Vivid,” p. F1 ! You may hear that...much of the timber is “cat-faced”...that “cat face” is a scar made by a fire in a tree. 1934 Frank Ridgway Chicago Daily Tribune (Aug. 24) “Roasts, Canned Goodes, and Fruit Cheap This Week,” p. 17 ! Wholesale vegetable men are commenting upon the excess waste in some of the tomatoes they are handling at low prices. Many show cracks from alternate drought and rain and the fruit blotches referred to by the trade as “cat faces.” 1955 George Abraham Chroni- cle-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) (May 13) “Green Thumb Queries,” p. 27

! When you pick up a gnarly apple or peach, or a misshapened strawberry...the cause of this damage has been attributed to cold weather, frost, lack of pollination, disease, etc., but in most instances you can put the finger of guilt on a group of “cat-facing” insects.... Although the healthy tissue around the injured spot grows, a scar is formed over the damaged spot and normal development is slowed down at this point. When this happens...you get a “cat-faced” or deformed fruit hardly fit to eat. 1987 Peter Korn @ Ore. Chicago Tribune (Nov. 15) “Hotshots on the Line Battling a Forest Fire,” p. 12 ! Salladay’s greatest fear is of cat-faced timber—a tree burned out at the base by fire, leaving what appears to be a solid tree but is now just a shell with no support inside. This tree is dangerous to fell but too dangerous to let stand. 1988 Melissa Balmain Weiner Orange County Register (Jan. 14) “Irvine Farmers Examine Effects of Chill on Strawberries,” p. 1 ! Temperatures dipped to about 30 degrees Fahrenheit the last week of December, not quite low enough to kill entire plants, they said. Winds at times were strong enough to dent, or “cat-face” fruit. 1988 Jeff Barnard L.A. Times (May 15) “Some Species Need Forest Fires to Survive Plants Sprouting in Charred Oregon Woodland,” p. 4 ! The cat face is a ring of bulging bark that has grown to heal a scar left by a fire. Because the healing bark is loaded with pitch, it tends to burn more intensely each time fire sweeps past, and the cat face grows.

2001 C.L. Chia, Richard M. Manshardt @ College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources Fruit and Nuts (Manoa, Hawaii) (Oct.) “Why Some Papaya Plants Fail to Fruit,” no. 5, p. 1 (Int.) ! Cool winter weather or high soil moisture can lead to a shift toward femaleness, where the stamens fuse to the carpals or ovary wall. The resulting

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fruits become severely ridged (carpelloid, or “cat-faced”) and hence are deformed and unmarketable. 2004 Florence Fabricant N.Y. Times

(Dec. 21) “Forget About Taste, Florida Says, These Tomatoes Are Just Too Ugly to Ship” (Int.) ! Unlike the smooth, round baseball-size tomatoes usually shipped from Florida from mid-October through mid-April, the lush, vine-ripened UglyRipes have what the industry calls a “cat face,” full of uneven crevices and ridges.

cereal test n. the judgment of an editor or a producer as to whether (news) material is appropriate to publish or broadcast. Also breakfast test, Wheaties test. Media.

1987 Lou Gelfand Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) (Feb. 8) “Editors Were Wise to Withhold Photographs of Aborted Fetuses,” p. 31A ! Fleming said those pictures “surely pass the ‘Wheaties’ test,” meaning that one could look at them while eating breakfast.

1991 Mark Guidera Baltimore Sun (Md.) (June 21) “Nudes at 11 Is No News in This Bureau,” p. 10 ! Running such pictures would not pass that unshakable tenet of the newspaper business: The Breakfast Test.

1991 Mike Foley St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) (July 21) “Demi Moore Cover Photo Had People Talking,” p. 3D ! Editors apply what is generically referred to in the newsroom as the “cereal test.” Photos that might upset a reader over breakfast are screened very carefully, and are used only if the subject matter or news value warrants it.

1996 Geneva Overholser Washington Post (July 21) “Ombudsman: Policing the Issue Ads,” p. C6 ! Rosenberg applies what he calls “the breakfast-table test” to any gruesome picture, titillating image or vulgar word. He doesn’t want to make people sick over their cornflakes.

2005 Ryan Pitts Mail Tribune (Jackson County, Ore.) (Jan. 23) “Graphic Images: Too Much?” (Int.) ! Many journalists invoked the socalled “cereal test,” newsroom slang for a simple question: Would I want my family to see this photo at the breakfast table tomorrow morning?

chalk n. the personnel and equipment that make up the load of an aircraft. Jargon. Military. Almost certainly an extension of a chalk as a record-keeping mark, which dates at least 400 years.

1993 Dept. of the Army Field Manual 55-9: Unit Air Movement Planning (Apr. 5) “Glossary” (Int.) ! Chalk—Designated troops, equipment, and/or cargo that constitute a complete aircraft load.

1999 Dept. of Army 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Gold Book

(Fort Campbell, Ky.) (Feb. 4) (Int.) ! The following information is placed on a 3x5 inch index card and handed to the pilot by the chalk leader. This serves as a contract between the pilot and the chalk of

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soldiers to ensure coordination of LZ data. In case the chalk lands in a different LZ, the pilot will write the grid of the new LZ and hand the 3x5 card back to the chalk leader before the soldiers exit the helicopter. 2004 Joseph M. Bossi Screaming Eagle Veterans Web site

(Jan. 25) “327th Infantry and Other Units Come Home!” (Int.)

! Included in this Chalk was also most of Abu Company members and other attachments from the 101st Airborne Division.

2005 [majorsamuel] The Kosovo Kronichles (Jan. 17) “Out of Washington” (Int.) ! The evening before the flight I was informed, joy of joys, that I would be the movement commander for one plane load of soldiers (in military parlance a “chalk”). *2005

Airsoft (Feb. 1) “Glossary” (Int.) ! Chalk—A squad of soldiers, usually about a dozen, assigned to a helicopter.

chamcha n. a sycophant, toady, or hanger-on. Hindi. India. Pakistan. Politics. Urdu. [From the Hindi and Urdu word for ‘spoon.’]

1989 Stuart Auerbach Washington Post (Mar. 26) “Nehru and His Nation” ! Akbar has been called a chamcha (which means spoon in the Hindi language and has become a slang word for sycophant) to the Gandhi family. 1994 William Dalrymple City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Dec. 1) “Glossary,” p. 340 ! Chamcha Sycophant (lit. ‘spoon’). 1997 Ghulam Nabi Azad India Today (June 23) p. 13 ! I have my own standing in the party. I cannot be anybody’s chamcha (stooge).

1997 Sudhir Vaishnav Times of India (Aug. 24) “A Very Political Exercise” ! Several hangers-on. They are available aplenty everywhere in the country and are often known in the local market as Chamcha.

1998 P.S. Sharma Times of India (Jan. 17) “In Praise of Chamchagiri”

! No doubt, the British also had their sycophants—toadys, bachhas, jholichuks and hukkabardars—but chamchas of the modern vintage they had none. Chamchas are a breed apart. A chamcha verily is more than a favourite. He is a catalytic agent to activate the Sahib’s ego and cloud and obfuscate his thinking. 2004 Krishnakumar Mid Day (Mumbai, India) (Sept. 21) “Leaders’ Chamchas Get Lucky” (Int.) ! All three have pulled strings in their respective parties to get Assembly poll tickets for their puppets and close confidants, better known in political parlance as chamchas. 2004 [Ambar] rvinst (Bangalore, India) (Oct. 2) “Advanced Kannada Slang” (Int.) ! Chamcha: A person who uses lot of “Maska” to promote his self interest. The villain in old kannada movies, nowadays portrayed as a statesman. 2005 Asra Nomani American Prospect (Mar. 5) “Pulpit Bullies” (Int.) ! Speaking in Urdu, the language of South-Asian Muslims, local Muslims who opposed the posse had taken to calling its members chumcha, or “spoons,” a cultural concept akin to being a lackey.

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cheese cutter n. especially among motorcyclists, a roadway guard rail made of cable, rope, or high-tension wire. Automotive. Slang.

1996 Usenet: uk.transport (Sept. 22) “Re: Stick & Rope Crash Barriers”

! In view of the poor reputation which I recall for the two wire system from the 1960s, I suspect this has more to do with the improved quality of protection in modern cars.... Most modern cars have a passenger cage, which should resist the cheese cutter effect much better.

1999 Brent Davison Newcastle Herald (Australia) (Jan. 2) “Winners & Losers,” p. 29 ! The NSW State Government for installing motorcycle rider-unfriendly “cheese cutter” wire cable fencing on our highways.

2002 Motorcycle Riders Foundation (Washington, D.C.) (Feb.) “Making Crash Barriers and Road Maintenance Practices Motorcycle-Friendly” (Int.) ! Study existing crash barrier designs in the United States to identify those most hazardous to motorcyclists (e.g., “cheese cutter” cable runs) to prioritize those systems for replacement. 2002 Steve Sellers @ South Arm Hobart Mercury (Australia) (Feb. 21) “Wire barriers,” p. 18 ! Your recent photo of the vehicle that mounted the dividing strip and wire-rope barriers...is a graphic demonstration of the incorrect and dangerous practices that Transport Tasmania follows when installing these controversial cheap “cheese cutter” barriers.

2003 Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland) (Dec. 17) “By-Pass Risk to Bikers,” p. 50 ! This type of barrier is known as a human scale “cheese cutter” and has been identified...as the worst possible choice from a motorcyclist’s perspective. 2005 Pierrette J. Shields Daily Times-Call

(Longmont, Colo.) (June 12) “Road to Safety” (Int.) ! Some motorcyclists are wary of the tensioned wires in the new guardrails. “In the motorcycle world, in our vernacular, we call those cheese cutters....

They could have a guillotine effect on a motorcyclist’s body.”

chevrolegs n.pl. a jocular reference to one’s legs, particularly by comparison to an automobile. Automotive. Colloquial. United States. [Automobile brand Chevrolet + legs]

1994 Usenet: misc.writing (Nov. 17) “Re: Bumper Stickers?” ! “My Other Car Is My Feet.” “Which model? Chevrolegs or Toyotoes?”

1999 Usenet: alt.cellular.sprintpcs (Aug. 4) “Re: Shipping/Handling— Where Do YOU Work?” ! When gas is $1.35 around here (which it hasn’t been in years), I just use my Chevro-Legs a little more often. [2000 Preston Williams Washington Post (July 2) “Long Journey Behind Him, Reliever Marr Still Has Sights on Moving Up,” p. V10

! Cannons reliever Jason Marr was so upset that he walked from Pfitzner Stadium to his home, a trip that took nearly as long as the game. This season, Marr has not had reason to “Chevroleg it,” as he calls it.] 2001 Usenet: rec.models.rockets (Oct. 12) “Re: [ANN] Rocket

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City Blast Off Scheduled for Oct 27/28” ! Lemme just throw on my shoedabakers and start my chevrolegs and truck on down there.

2004 [Daddy Rich] RapTalk.net (Jan. 21) (Int.) ! My 5 point toes my chevrolegs I aint got shit right now but I use to have 2 72 chevelles but I got my L’S revoked. 2004 Usenet: rec.sport.pro-wrestling

(Feb. 14) “Re: (Poll) The Official RSPW Poll” ! “What do you drive?” “Chevrolegs. Can’t afford a car.”

chicane n. a barricaded, tightly curved, or zig-zagged roadway that forces traffic to slow while still permitting it to pass; the series of structures that form such a roadway. Architecture. Automotive. Jargon.

1956 Frank M. Blunk N.Y. Times (Aug. 10) “New Auto Racing Era,” p. 14 ! They will spend Saturday, Aug. 18, practicing on the course, which will have the usual “chicane” and the usual quota of sharp turns. 1960 Palladium-Times (Oswego, N.Y.) (Oct. 8) “Crack Drivers

Race Sunday at Watkins Glen” (in Watkins Glen, N.Y.), p. 9 ! Race officials have bypassed the abrupt chicane curve at the southern end of the 2.3-mile closed course to speed lap times. 1977 Barry Lorge @ Monte Carlo Washington Post (May 22) “Checkered Flag for Ambience,” p. C1 ! The course is filled with curves and straight ways, hairpins and chicanes that are familiar to racing buffs around the world.

1984 Washington Post (Sept. 22) “Criticism of Security at Embassy Rises” ! A maze-like series of four concrete barriers known as a chicane was constructed at the head of the street where the building was located. The suicide van managed to get through that series of barriers. 2004 Centre Daily (State College, Pa.) (May 24) “Glossary of Terms” (Int.) ! Chicane: A series of curving curb extensions that alternate from one side of the road to the other.

chi chi man n. a homosexual. Derogatory. English-based Creole. Gay. Jamaica. Sexuality. The second 2001 cite contains lyrics from the song whose title is mentioned in the 2000 cite; the release date for the album lagged behind the song’s success in the dancehalls of Jamaica.

2000 Usenet: rec.music.reggae (Nov. 26) “Playlist DANCEHALL VIBES October 7, 2000” ! 20. T.O.K. - Chi chi man. 2001 Nicole White Miami Herald (Fla.) (Aug. 5) “Rhythm of Hatred: Anti-Gay Lyrics Reflect an Island’s Intolerance,” p. 9M ! Being gay or lesbian—a “chi-chi” man/gyal or a “battyman”—is the ultimate sin in Jamaica, an island paradise so steeped in religion that it holds the Guinness Book of World Records title of having the most churches per square mile and where it is still legal to arrest two men caught having sex. 2001 T.O.K.

My Crew My Dawgs (Oct. 1) “Chi Chi Man” (Int.) ! From dem a par inna chi chi man car/Blaze di fire mek we bun dem!!!! (Bun

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dem!!!!)/From dem a drink inna chi chi man bar/Blaze di fire mek we dun dem!!!! (Dun dem!!!!) 2004 Peter Moore 365gay.com (June 25) “Concert Cancelled After Complaints of Homophobia” (Int.) ! In Jamaican patois slang, “batty man” and “chi chi man” are the equivalent of “poof” and “faggot.”

chili-dip v. when swinging a club in golf, to hit the ground before hitting the ball. Jargon. Sports.

1967 Jim Murray L.A. Times (July 5) “When It Comes to Golf, TV ‘Tells It Like It Ain’t,’ ” p. B1 ! Encourage these guys to chili-dip shots to get on camera. 1978 Ben Gieser Washington Post (May 11) “Hollenbeck, Looney Lead,” p. D8 ! Looney dou-

ble-bogeyed the 390 yard, par-four finishing hole when she “chilidipped” a chip shot and three-putted after hitting two fine shots to be close to the final green. 2001 Bob Rotella Putting Out of Your Mind (June 5), p. 159 ! Many amateurs, I know, worry about skulling or chili-dipping their short shots, particularly from tight lies.

chillax v. to relax, take it easy, chill out. Slang. United States. [chill + relax]

1994 Usenet: bit.listserv.cinema-l (Dec. 6) “Re: Devil Worshipping Mom Beaters” ! Chillax my friend.... This juvenile form of attacking others who don’t share your opinion isn’t going to help you win anyone over to your side. 1998 Usenet: uk.music.rave (Sept. 8) “Re: Hello from a 1st Timer” ! yo wut up, home slice! welcome to our crib. we’re usually just kickin back and chillaxin, ya know wut i’m sayin. 2004 Lim View jigsaw jazz & the get-fresh flow (Singapore) (May 19) “My Nose & I (We Have a Love-Hate Relationship)” (Int.) ! Okay, the few things I can look forward to, over the coming few months:...chillaxin’ (new word I picked up) with friends.

chippy adj. irritable, temperamental, or fractious. Colloquial. Sports. Oxford English Dictionary cites this meaning as early as 1885 as a colloquial form of ‘given to chipping, ready to chip.’ In recent decades in North America it has become most commonly, though not exclusively, used in connection to sports play, especially hockey, where it is perhaps reinforced by the idea of rough play causing the ice to chip.

1959 Don Maclean Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Can.) (Nov. 26) “Native Sons Gain Entry in Five-Team Hockey Loop,” p. 10 ! The game was wide open with end-to-end rushes and very little chippy stuff and

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