New slang?

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Engendering multiple organisms" :  whoa ! somethin' alien goin' on here !

JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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That was sort of my point. I heard the term in a context in which it
clearly meant, "burn rubber" or whatever term has come into use since
the '50's.

Googlling, if not personal experience, teaches us that the standard,
as it were, meaning is aviation jargon that has to do with
heavily-laden airplanes and not with burning rubber while peeling away
from the curb, which latter meaning apears to be new.

FWIW, "take off heavy" appears to have the same basic structure as
"pee down heavy," a BE guy-talk term that means, roughly, "spend the
night fucking and engendering multiple organisms in one's partner."

-Wilson

On 10/21/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
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> Isn't this an aviation term meaning "take off with a full fuel load"?
>
> Flying with Joint Stars over Iraq
> By David A. Fulghum
> 05/15/2005 02:25:30 PM Aviation Week and Space Technology
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> "Crews would like 20-25% more thrust and a higher cool-air bypass ratio
> so they can take off heavier (with more fuel) or operate from shorter
> runways, deliver 14-18% more fuel efficiency and fly higher."
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> > From today's "Judge Greg Mathis" show: "I heard him _take off heavy_."
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> > "Take off heavy" appareently can mean, judging from context,
> > "Floor it hard and drive away noisily, over-revving the
> > engine and burning rubber" in San Francisco.
> >
> > 55,100,000 hits in Google reducible to 280, but not wth this meaning.
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> > -Wilson Gray
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-Wilson Gray

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