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By the way, a Roscoe is pulp fiction slang for a gun...
Medal: A reward given for an accomplishment, such as a good conduct medal in the Military, a Purple Heart for being wounded in action, or a bronze/silver/gold for achievement in the Olympics. 2) a charm to ward off evil such as a St. Christopher's Medal
Fetish:
Fetish: An object emboding a spirit giving it magical powers.
Voodoo
Voodoo: A general class of weird stuff like a doll or poppet that you put pins into after you have made and stuffed it. It is probably best for the innocent people around you if you are a skeptic and don’t believe in this kind of stuff since then you won’t be tempted to experiment and find out.
Charm:
Charm: Something I use to have lots of, when I were a lad, but which apparently vamoosed along with my hair, since nowadays the only ostensible females who'll glance in my direction collect social security.
Girth. And don't get cute.
Girth: In our world where we live in three dimensions, length, width, and height, this would be width. Some of us girth more than others...
Span:
Span: Like length, width or height except it is more associated with time. However it also means clean like a newly split piece of wood so “neat” that one could eat off of it.
Neurosurgeon:
Neurosurgeon: a chap with a scalpel who you hope will only cut through select neurons, and not nick a blood vessel tiny enough to go unnoticed, but vital enough to bleed all over your brain later when you're sipping a mint julip in the recovery room.
You didn't leave us with a new word. I'll make one up that came to mind from another thread:
Boredom:
Boredom: The ancestral home of the Bores.
Echo:
Echo: The shadow of sound
Egad:
Egad: cousin to Gad Zooks! and distant relative of Streuth!
nincompoop
Nincompoop: This comes from an attempt by 17th century academics to sound out the Latin phrase “non compos mentis” without resorting to pig latin. You can still hear the “non” in the initial “nin” sound and the “com” sound is clearly in both, but after that things break down as they inevitably would and “pos mentis” is turned into “poop” which probably generated enough laughter that the original nincompoop felt he got it right.
Pig Latin:
nincompoop: 1) Female noncompoop; 2) person not acquainted, or unenamored, with NIИ; 3) modern ninnyhammer
Rats ! Snaked.
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Pig Latin: Spoken language in the book "Animal Farm" translated into English.
Rhythm and Blues:
I have no recollection of Pig Latin being spoken in "Animal Farm" and think, tailor, that you may be pulling our leg, you heathen.
Rhythm 'n' Blues: A term first coined in 1948 by a chap called Jerry Wexler who wrote for Billboard magazine. It replaced the term 'race music' which, ironically, came from within the black community. It was music of and about the urban African-American experience and was initially marketed to black people. When the blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughters of whitey later started shaking their moneymakers to it, whitey didn't take to kindly to it.
Money maker:
Money maker: Counterfeiter
Morals: