The playground "slide"

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 'a slippery surface, esp. an icy patch on a street or sidewalk adopted by children for sliding on'

This I remember from Saint Louis, but we didn't have a word for it.
Ice-storms and sleet-storms also provided surfaces for this.

There was never enough snow for this in Marshall, where two inches was
the equivalent of a northeaster. I first heard of the legendary "Texas
blue norther" in an episode of "Sky King" that I heard on the radio in
StL.

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