K-Hole

[Grant Barrett]

For the record, a "k-hole" is also where you go when you do the drug
ketamine, a.k.a. "special K," an animal tranquilizer.

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

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On Sep 19, 2005, at 16:59, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> NPR correspondent Farai Chideya has been blogging on the Katrina
> aftermath, and she titled one blog entry, "In the K-Hole/Good News/
> Sad Scenes" (see http://faraichideya.com/). Xeni Jardin of the
> Boing Boing blog picked up on this neologism and is now using it...