slang list

[Alice Faber]

Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> Dictionary of New Terms
>
> Compiled by the History of the English Language classes at Hope College,
> 1997-2002
>
> http://www.hope.edu/academic/english/gruenler/newterms.htm
>
> An alphabetical list of 574 expressions, many of them college slang and
> many of them local to Hope College. Some are familiar to me, many are
> not; some may be of interest to readers of this list. Some examples:

>     gaposis n. The condition that arises when the fabric between the
> buttons on a shirt does not lie flat and instead comes apart to expose
> the skin. "I shouldn't have worn this shirt without something under it,
> I have been experiencing gaposis."
>

My father (born NYC, 1920-ish) regularly used gaposis, in this meaning,
when I was growing up.




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