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place to meet any specific threat. That’s part of the “lily pad concept,” on the analogy of frogs hopping around a number of forward bases....

Saudi threats to restrict our use of bases there caused us to build a Qatar lily pad. Would Germany also prove unreliable as a jumping-off point in a crisis? 2004 MSNBC (Sept. 22) “U.S. Expands Military Outposts Worldwide” (in Washington, D.C.) (Int.) ! Among the places the military already has placed or hopes to base such new “lily pads” or jumping off points: the eastern European nations of Bulgaria and Romania; a pier in Singapore; and a tiny island off the oil-rich coast of West Africa.

lilywhite n. a person without a police record; someone who does not trigger suspicions; a CLEAN-SKIN. This is a more specific sense of the adjectival form of lily-white ‘lacking faults or imperfections; beyond reproach.’

1992 Richard Ford, Stewart Tendler Times (London, Eng.) (Apr. 23) “RUC Is Strongest Thread in Web Spun to Destroy the IRA” ! Evertighter IRA internal security and the organisation’s use of “lily whites,” activists with little or no known history of involvement in violence who keep their distance from the Irish community in Britain, have been given as reasons for the recent successes of the IRA’s mainland campaign. 1993 Stewart Tendler Times (London, Eng.) (Feb. 11) “Hidden Camera Recorded Invisible Quartermaster” ! He epitomised the new breed of undercover operator, dubbed “lilywhites” because they have no criminal record linking them to terrorism, and who rouse little suspicion. 2000 John Sweeney

Observer (U.K.) (July 9) “Menace of ‘Clean-Skin’ Drug Dealers,” p. 16

! They use public transport, not Ferraris, pay their rent and council tax on time, hold down a boring job and never get in trouble with the law. These are the “clean skins” or “lilywhites”—the new drugs traffickers who dwarf the activities of the old English crime “families.”

2004 Robert S. Leiken @ Committee on House International Relations Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights (Congressional Testimony by Federal Document Clearing House) (June 16) “Visa Waiver Program and Terrorist Screening” ! We should make no mistake: the recruitment of women, converts, lilywhites and other Western faces is aimed at the United States. 2005

Daniel McGrory Australian (July 14) “The Call That Cracked the Case” (Int.) ! What became quickly obvious was that neither MI5 nor MI6 knew anything about these four. They were, in the vernacular of counter-terror officers, “lilywhites.”

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limb hanger n. a male turkey with long heel spurs. Animals. Sports. United States. [See the last 2004 cite.] Long spurs on a jake are correlated with the maturity and size of the bird.

[1995 Usenet: rec.hunting (Mar. 29) “Re: Which Turkey Calls Are Best?” ! The Primos Limb Hanger is nice too, but difficult to call softly on.] 2002 Richard P. Combs Advanced Turkey Hunting (Feb. 1), p. 49 ! The real limb-hangers are four or five years old or more, and chances are most of them get whipped regularly by twoand three- year-old birds. 2002 Montreal Gazette (Can.) (Nov. 25) “Bash Planned to Mark Wild Turkey Resurgence” (in Ottawa), p. A10 ! “What we’re trying to do is enhance the population by sort of speeding it up, by bringing birds in and releasing them in the area,” said Dave Arbour, a member of Limb Hangers, a NWTF chapter named after the way the birds perch on tree limbs at night. *2004 Gary Caughman

Tomturkey’s Web Page (Union County, S.C.) (Int.) ! I didn’t even have to move the gun, just knocked it off safe and dropped him in his tracks. He scored 18 lbs, 10” beard, and 1 1/2” spurs. A real limb hanger!!! 2004 Bob Gwizdz Kalamazoo Gazette (Mich.) (May 29) “Lt. Gov. Cherry Lends Hand on Turkey Hunt” (Int.) ! The Lenawee Limb Hangers (turkey-hunting parlance for a bird with large enough spurs you could push them into a branch to hang the bird) won the drawing and selected Ellis.

lindy bomb v. phr. to swing dance as a group in a place where it is not normally done. Entertainment.

2002 Clark Breyman SFSWING (Mailing List) (San Francisco) (July 5) “Any Lindy Bombing the Fillmore Jazz Fest?” (Int.) ! I’m not familiar with any of these acts? Are any of these bombable? 2004 [E:go] Buzzlife Message Board (Mar. 20) “Demographics Follow-Up Poll, Take 2” (Int.) ! There’s nothing better than lindy-bombing the techno scene! (God I love that swing dancing works with EDM!) 2004 Florida Swing Dancing Club SWINGUF-L (Mailing List) (Fla.) (July 1) “Lindy Bomb at Turlington” (Int.) ! To get some exposure and let everyone know about Friday’s dance, we will be lindy bombing turlington plaza on thursday from noon till whenever everyone’s too tired to dance.

2004 [Nightowl] 23 Skidoo (Denver, Colo.) (Nov. 19) “Dan and Tiffiny Class FAQ” (Int.) ! What is a Lindy Bomb? When dancers converge on one non-swing location with some sort of portable music source to dance, exposing the public to the dance. Another version is to go to hip hop/seventies club etc and dance swing. This was all the rage for a while until it was discovered that the actual effect was opposite of the

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intended effect (to get people to want to dance). 2005

[JesusWithShoes] Swing Society (Champaign, Ill.) (Mar. 28) “Lindy Bombs!” (Int.) ! Who wants to lindy bomb the mall? Who has a boombox for lindybombing use?

listicle n. a (newspaper, magazine, web site, etc.) article consisting primarily of a list. Media. United States. [list + article] This term is often used in a deprecating way, to describe an article or news story that required very little effort to produce.

*2001 John Davin John Davin’s Web site (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (July 14) “My Comments and News” (Int.) ! Added an article to the listicle to the lists section. 2003 Elizabeth Spiers Gawker (NYC) (July 31) “The Daily Listicle: Corn, Castro & Che” (Int.) ! I’ve decided to default to one of the magazine world’s last great lame clichés—lists. Lists as articles. Listicles. (I feel dirty even saying it.) Consider this my homage to sappy service journalism. 2003 [Joey] Tale of Two Cities (NYC)

(Nov. 13) “Our Mutual Friends” (Int.) ! It’s called “Out Mutual Friends,” and it’s an alphabetical rundown of things we like, hate, think are cool, think suck, are funny, are not funny, etc. Yes, a “listicle” if you will, of things that are currently impacting the zeitgeist.

2004 Anil Dash Anil Dash (Oct. 6) “Best of Best of” (Int.) ! People who haven’t worked in the publishing industry (or haven’t worked at the Voice) don’t necessarily know that “best of” issues are generally a chance for the editorial staff to phone it in. Inside jokes, lazy writing, and the triumph of the listicle; it’s everything I love in a paper that’s mainly funded by ads from whores. I say that because I love my Voice friends!

Lochnerism n. generally, a form of judicial activism in which court decisions are made based upon presumed rights not specifically addressed by existing (constitutional) law, especially when influenced by political or personal beliefs. Eponym. Law. Politics. [From Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), a U.S. Supreme Court case that declared unconstitutional a law that limited bakers to a maximum 10-hour workday and 60-hour workweek.]

1978 John Hart Ely Harvard Law Review (Nov.) “The Supreme Court, 1977 Term,” vol. 92, no. 1, p. 97 ! Even if the Court extends this mode of scrutiny to review social and enactments generally, it does not seem necessary to wave the bloody shirt of Lochnerism. 1990

Henry J. Abraham The Constitutional Bases of Political and Social Change in the United States (Apr. 23) “Of Courts, Judicial Tools, and Equal Protections,” p. 324 ! The Court’s meddlesome approach towards state economic-proprietarian legislation, often under the

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guise of substantive due process, ended—only to be replaced by the still more meddlesome spirit of the double standard, largely fueled under the guise of the new equal protection. A new “Lochnerism” had come of age. 1996 Roberto Mangabeira Unger Modern Law Review (Jan. 1) “Legal Analysis as Institutional Imagination,” vol. 59, no. 1,

p. 14 ! American legal theory regularly congratulates itself on its rejection of “Lochnerism,” the fetishistic acceptance and constitutional entrenchment of a particular private rights-system against all efforts to redistribute rights and resources and to regulate economic activity. 2003 Douglas T. Kendall, Timothy J. Dowling Washington Post (Sept. 19) “Judicial Throwback,” p. A25 ! She has written that she “initially accepted the conventional wisdom” that the doctrine used in Lochner was “a myth invented by judicial activists that were up to no good,” and that “Lochnerism is the strongest pejorative known to American law.” Brown now rejects that conventional wisdom, however, and she chides conservatives for their “dread” of judicial activism. In her words, it “dawned on me that the problem may not be judicial activism. The problem may be the world view— amounting to altered political and social consciousness—out of which judges now fashion their judicial decisions.” 2005 Stuart Taylor, Jr.

National Journal (May 2) “Does the President Agree with This Nominee?” (Int.) ! What lawyers call “Lochnerism” was the basis for dozens of decisions striking down minimum-wage, maximum-hours, and other worker-protection laws as infringing “freedom of contract”—a right that, as Bork has put it, can be found “nowhere in the Constitution.” Almost all modern constitutional scholars have rejected Lochnerism as “the quintessence of judicial usurpation of power,” in Bork’s words.

lolicom n. Lolita complex, the attraction of older men to girls or very young women. < English. Entertainment. Japan. Japanese. Sexuality.

1993 Usenet: rec.arts.manga (Dec. 19) “Re: The Shoujo Myth” ! It seems that the path of yaoi growth is exactly the same as that of lolicom thing: from doujinshi to anthologies and magazines. 1997 Stuart Young (Reuters) (Feb. 13) “Japanese Seek to Shed Child Porn Tag”

! The reports have said that one of the most disturbing features of the teenage prostitution phenomenon is the premium younger girls fetch from “lolicom” clients—older men with “Lolita complexes” for little girls. 2005 Ines Cho JoongAng Daily (Seoul, S. Korea) (Jan. 18) “The Words of a New Generation” (Int.) ! Lolicom “Lolita” + “complex.” When a man is infatuated with pretty young girls. Example: He’s married to an older woman, but he has a Lolicom online.

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looping n. in the American education system, the practice of a teacher staying with the same students through more than one school year, as opposed to the usual method of a different teacher each year. Education.

1994 Meredith Carlson Hartford Courant (Conn.) (Mar. 3) “ ‘Looping’ Could Provide Pupils with More Continuity,” p. C5 ! School administrators are likely to implement “looping” next year. Teachers would flip-flop grades so that one teacher would move up with youngsters while the other teacher moved down a grade. 1994 Ruth Yodaiken

Washington Post (Sept. 15) “Non-Graded School Brings Innovation, Optimism,” p. J3 ! Another feature of the Nongraded School is “looping.” Students will spend up to two years in the same class before they “loop” to another level. 1997 Jim Grant Looping Q & A (Sept. 1), p. 12 ! Looping is a practice which allows single-grade teachers to remain with the same class for a period of two or more years. 1999

Martha Kaufeldt Begin with the Brain (Apr. 1), p. 17 ! In a multiage (two or three grade levels mixed together) or looping classroom (single graded, but teacher moves with entire class up to next grade), students may stay with the same teacher for two or three years. 2005

Alan Finder @ Ardsley, N.Y. N.Y. Times (July 11) “Goodbye, Class. See You in the Fall” (Int.) ! Having a teacher stay with a class for more than a year—or looping, as it is known—is on the rise.

lose the dressing room v. of a sports team manager or coach, to not have the respect of the players. Sports. United Kingdom.

1993 Glenn Gibbons Observer (U.K.) (Oct. 10) “Can Macari Be Kellys’ Hero?” ! The Irishman’s placidness was also perceived as a handicap in a job which requires infectious animation and this was confirmed by a player who said Brady had “lost the dressing room and when that goes, everything goes.” 1996

(Aug. 18) “Arsene About!” ! When a manager loses the dressing room, he loses everything. 2004 Stuart Cosgrove Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) (Aug. 19) “Scots Bosses Must Look Out for Each Other” (Int.)

! The biggest favourite for the tintack is Southampton boss Paul Sturrock, who in football parlance has “lost” the dressing room.

love-cum-arranged marriage n. matrimony between a mutually acceptable and consenting couple that has been facilitated by the couple’s parents. India. [Cum is Latin for “with” or “together with.”]

1994 Usenet: soc.culture.tamil (Jan. 29) “Re: Matrimony—FAQ&A—Tip 1:2” ! Provided your mAmA’s (or any suitable relative’s) ward is an acceptable spouse for you. Slowly make your parents sort-of-choose

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him/her for you. This is a type of “Love-cum-Arranged marriage”— as you should fall in love with your would-be-partner. Warning: Considered the fashion, but still works out greater than many of those “Love Marriages” and pure “Arranged Marriages.” 1997 Anupama Chopra India Today (July 28) “Govinda: The Lovable Hero,” p. 76 ! “I came home one day from shooting and my mother said it’s high time I got married. Sunita and I were married the next morning at 4.30 a.m.” Govinda describes it as a “love cum arranged marriage.” 1999

Susan C. Seymour Women, Family, and Child Care in India (Jan. 28), p. 213 ! “Instead of seeking extensively for a bride,...consulting lots of people and taking much time, I suggested to him a girl he had known for some years. I would not have proceeded had my son not agreed. I would never force him into such a decision.” Another member of the family referred to this as a “love-cum-arranged marriage.” 2005

Shambhu Sahu Times of India (Aug. 11) “What’s the Right Choice Baby?” (Int.) ! So we have the bold, the beautiful and the handsome asserting that a love-cum-arranged marriage is more stable than an arranged one.

L’s n. In the United States, a driver’s license. Acronym. Automotive. Slang. United States. In Australia, L’s is widespread and refers to the learner’s “L-plates” and learner’s driving license, precursors to the driver’s permit—one’s P’s—which grants full driving privileges. In the United States, the learner’s permit is not issued with special plates. These citations encompass only the American L’s, which refers to the full driver’s license and likely originated independently and more recently.

2002 Usenet: rec.music.hip-hop (Apr. 7) “Let Me Help Build Mr. Rick Up” ! On tops of all that my L’s been suspended & my car got impounded like 3 times since Sept. 2004 [Daddy Rich] @ San Francisco Bay area, Calif. RapTalk.Net (Jan. 21) “(What Yall Smobbin)?” (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 real quick.

2004 Cannabis Edge (Feb. 19) “Have Cops Ever Helped?” (Int.) ! He woke up from a drug induced coma cuffed to a hospital bed with a leo standing over him...gets more time than the driver, who was driving on a suspended L’s for dui. 2004 [ototpnoy4o8] @ Sacramento, Calif. Xanga.com (Mar. 17) (Int.) ! I found out AK got locked up...at least that’s what DT told me...he got caught ridin in his scraper i guess and he didnt have his “L’s.” 2004 [C.U.D.D.I.E. Tha Mouthpiece] @ Bay Area, Calif. RapTalk.Net (Apr. 8) “Savage C...“ (Int.) ! It’s hard to connect when we live in dff cities, me with no L’s.

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lumberjill n. a female lumberjack.

1937 Alice Hughes Washington Post (Sept. 11) “A Woman’s New York,” p. 13 ! The vogue for bright plaid sport coats is going to brighten up the stands to no end.... Topping the ensemble...will be a gay beret to match; the whole effect being that of a fancy lumber-jill in technicolor! 1940 Clearfield Progress

(Pa.) (Aug. 24) “ ‘Lumberjill’ Does Her Bit,” p. 3 !

Handling tree trunks like this is as easy as falling off a log for this sturdy British “lumberjill.”...She’s doing her bit for Britain’s defense by taking over a lumberjack’s job. 1984 Ira Berkow N.Y. Times

(Nov. 23) “The Gobblers’ Last Stand,” p. D15 ! At Northland College in Wisconsin, the teams are known as the Lumberjacks and the Lumberjills. 2005 Molly Gilmore-Baldwin Olympian (Olympia, Wash.)

(June 2) “Forest Festival Shows Off Skills” (Int.) ! The lumberjacks— and, as they are called, lumberjills—will compete in events including cross-cut sawing.

lung-opener n. a sporting event that begins a series of contests or a season. India. Ireland. Sports. United Kingdom.

1993 Christopher Dodd Guardian (U.K.) (Mar. 25) “Rowing: Lightly Forceful” ! Oxford reached a rating of 45 in a 25-stroke lung-opener to the scratch’s 42 and continued to pull out leads in their subsequent work. 1999 Brandon D’Souza Times of India (Sept. 15) “Exciting Golfing Season in the Offing” ! In the season’s lung opener Cosmo-Hindu Open, Vijay Kumar winner of the Order of Merit for last two years, was a picture of excellence. 2004 Khalid A-H Ansari Mid-Day (Mumbai, India) (July 17) “Thank the Lucky Stars” (Int.) ! To that extent, the lung opener, to borrow an expression from horse racing lexicon, was useful in fine-tuning the team for the stern tests ahead, starting with the clash against Sri Lanka at Dambulla tomorrow.

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maconha n. marijuana or hemp. Brazil. Drugs. Portugal. Portuguese.

1951 Roberval Cordeiro de Farias (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) (Jan. 1) “Use of Maconha (Cannabis sativa L.) in Brazil” (Int.)

! Maconha is true hemp—Cannabis sativa L.—which has become acclimatized in Brazil under a wealth of popular names, being variously known in different areas as diamba, pango, liamba, dirijo, birra, elva, fininha and fumo de Angola. 1995 Rosângela Petta (Aug.) “Quando a Maconha Cura” (Int.) ! Está provado. Os efeitos medicinais da maconha beneficiam pacientes de câncer, Aids, glaucoma e esclerose múltipla. Mas os médicos do mundo inteiro se vêem num dilema crucial. 2004 Love in Rio (Brazil) (Apr. 25) “Brazil, Legalize Drugs, Now!” (Int.) ! Amidst the fray, no one dared whisper an obvious option: complete legalization of pot (maconha, in local parlance) and cocaine.

Madibaland n. South Africa. Politics. South Africa. [Madiba is the name of the Xhosa clan to which Nelson Mandela belongs, and it is applied to him by transference as a familiar title.]

1998 Denis Beckett Madibaland (S. Africa) (title). [1999 Stephen Smith Libération (Paris, France) (June 17) “Nelson Mandela, le crépuscule du père de la nation arc-en-ciel” ! A Qunu, son village natal au fin fond du Transkei, Mandela a par ailleurs fait construire un véritable Madibaland. Au coeur du complexe, qui intègre une ferme, se trouve la réplique de sa dernière prison, la cage dorée (une villa de trois pièces avec accès, de plain-pied, à une piscine) mise à sa disposition en 1986 dans le périmètre du centre pénitentiaire de Paarl, près du Cap.] [2004 Roger Gbégnonvi La Nouvelle Tribune (Benin)

(Feb. 26) (Int.) in Le Bulletin des OSCB (Nov. 25, 2004) Gbaguidi Akpovi Olivier “La Revision De La Constitution A L’ordre Du Jour!”

! Les révisionnistes auront ensuite à cœur d’adopter très rapidement la nouvelle division du pays que viennent de concocter sept sages pour qu’on en finisse avec les promiscuités indignes, honteuses et dangereuses: Madibaland, plus réduit, ira des Collines à l’océan Atlantique.] 2004 [danhyk] Kick Off (Cape Town, S. Africa) (May 25) “FNB to Be Renamed After Madiba?” ! As much as I admire Madiba, I think to call every building after him is taking it too much.... But I must admit I like the Madibaland suggestion for our country.

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2004 Matome Sebelebele BuaNews (Pretoria, S. Africa) (Nov. 23) “Why Sell SA Short? Tutu Asks” (Int.) ! Archbishop Tutu affirmed that the country, which he coined “Madibaland,” had come a long way and was now reaping socio-economic and political fruits, producing more heroes and heroines every day.

magalog n. a catalog-like magazine with an exceptional amount of advertising or product-focused articles. Entertainment. Media. [magazine + catalog]

1970 Jo Moreland Walla Wall Union-Bulletin (Wash.) (Apr. 3) “Feminists Taking to the Warpath,” p. 4 ! The 75-page “magalog” features models in very little lingerie designed “for girls who don’t like to wear underthings” and a mod boudoir scene with a young couple preparing for bed—sans wedding bands. 1983 Beverly Bowen Globe and Mail

(Toronto, Can.) (Apr. 14) “Fashion,” p. P17 ! The people at Simpsons have dubbed their new concept—a cross between a catalogue and a magazine—a “magalog.” 2004 Lisa Keys Jewsweek (May 2) “Crazy like a Foxman” (Int.) ! As editor in chief of Condé Nast’s latest venture, Cargo, a shopping magazine—or, as some cynics prefer, “maga- log”—for men, the younger Foxman told the Forward he’s out to empower men.

mahoff n. a person of importance; a big shot. Slang. This term is associated with Philadelphia.

1951 William Moore @ Washington, D.C. Chicago Daily Tribune

(Feb. 20) “ ‘Big Shot’ Tells of Gifts to Cop in Philadelphia,” p. 15 ! The man known as “the big mahoff” of Philadelphia gambling told the Kefauver senate crime committee today that he...denied cash payoffs to Richardson for protection.... Rosen and Weisberg, both Russian born, came to the hearing together.... Weisberg explained that “the big mahoff” means “the big shot,” but denied he had ever heard Rosen called that. 1990 Carmen Brutto Harrisburg Patriot (Pa.) (Dec. 17)

“ ‘It’s Not Who’s Pro Tem, It’s Who Has Votes,’ Pardee Hack Says,” p. A11 ! The pro tem is the big mahoff in the Senate, the guy with the title and the money and the power. 1991 Toronto Star (Can.) (Aug. 29) “Come Peer into Future of Baseball,” p. C2 ! A number of other baseball people—including big mahoffs from the Expos, Pirates, Brewers, Braves and the brand-new Florida Marlins—are on record as viewing at least some of these giant steps as not only good, but necessary to keep baseball afloat. 1996 Carrie Rickey Gazette (Montreal, Can.) (Jan. 21) “How the Golden Globes Went Legit,” p. F3 ! Hollywood mahoffs and celebs, those very people who make fun of the event, have helped transform the Golden Globes ceremony...into what more than one studio honcho calls “the second-most-important

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awards event in the entertainment industry.” 2002 Bill Kent Street Money (Oct. 10), p. 300 ! Nobody ever raided this place, as long as it was in the family. Not when my grandfather, not when my father owned it. Too many big shots ate here. Mahoffs. What they want with a raid? 2004 [Al Beer] Padraigin Creen ’04 (May 9) “Bio” (Int.) ! Our immediate office consists of an Assistant General Counsel for Legislative and Regulatory Affairs (the big “mahoff”—i.e., the “BOSS”).

mahogany reef n. a place where alcoholic drinks are served, especially in a seaside community. This is a jocular expression associated with sailing and fishing. It is sometimes used as the name of an actual drinking establishment, but it is often capitalized even when it is not. A similar term in skiing is mahogany ridge ‘the last ski run of the day,’ which is also often used as the name of drinking establishments. Another nautical variant is rum squall, a euphemism for a session of alcohol drinking after a fanciful weather formation said to prevent a quick return to shore.

1986 Bob Wacker Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) (May 25) “The Executive Went Fishing,” p. 29 ! If you’ve got $550 to spend on a day’s sport, he’ll meet you at a Lake Montauk bar he calls The Mahogany Reef and take you to some of the finest fishing you’ll ever enjoy.

1994 Dick Gillespie Denver Post (Colo.) (Jan. 19) “It’s No Fish Story: Yacht Sales Brisk in Landlocked Yuma,” p. 10C ! Old-time sailors with hangovers explained away their misery by saying they had been caught in a rum front and hung up on a mahogany reef (a bar). 1996

Noel Peattie Typhooner (Winters, Calif.) (June), p. 2 (Int.) ! We were glad when the club opened its doors, “Mahogany Reef” (a.k.a. the bar) was ready for business, and we all sat down to a very good dinner. 2004 Phil Downing Royal Natal Yacht Club Home Page (Kwa-zulu Natal, S. Africa) (Oct. 21) “Words from Our Rear Commodore” (Int.)

! Brian Miller who positioned himself at the Mahogany Reef in our celebrating went to inspect the Flying Fifteens and was struck down by a mysterious force. Brian tells me that he was staring at one of the Fifteens and all of a sudden his legs were taken from him. 2004

Trazz’s Home Page (Cape Town, S. Africa) (Dec. 8) “Race Reports/Voyages 2004 Summer Season” (Int.) ! The South-Easter was honking up to 40+ knots and only four boats crossed the start line, which meant I was forced to abandon the race as there were no valid minimum class entries. Most skippers sensibly remained at their moorings or at the “mahogany reef.” 2005 Tom Gogola Fairfield County Weekly (Conn.) (Apr. 7) “As the Anchor Drags” (Int.) ! Jake was watching with owl-like contempt from the sundeck, and his classic line, oft-repeated at the “mahogany reef” (slang for “bar”) when I repeatedly failed to gaff a bass was, “Well, he managed to beat one into submission.”

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