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  • Slangin’ around
    by Noah Tarnow

    Identify these amusing entries from the slang dictionary:
    1.Ten letters, n: “A devotee of heavy metal rock music [taken from the frenetic reactions of such persons to the music].”
    2.Three letters, interj: “What was stated is emphatically not true.”
    3.Three letters, four letters; vb: “To approximate the sex act, without penetration or divestiture, and typically without orgasm.”
    4.Two letters, four letters; interj: “Is that right? You wouldn’t lie to me, would you?”
    5.Four letters, two letters, seven letters; sentence: “How are you? [a genial greeting, usually from one man to another, inquiring about the condition of the genitals].”
    6.Two letters, two letters; interj: “An exclamation announcing one’s arrival or some revelation [originally a two-note musical phrase introducing a performer].”
    7.Two letters, five letters, three letters, two letters, five letters; sentence: “This cannot happen or have happened without more than one person; cooperation or connivance is indicated [from the name of a 1950s song].”
    8.Four letters, five letters; n: “A homosexual who is particularly and nearly exclusively concerned with the length of penises.”
    9.Three letters, suffix: “A disgusting or unpleasant person; similar to -bag, -ball and -head, it is a very productive element of forming insults [taken from several sources, including ‘a quantum of semen,’ ‘a mass or lump of something’ and ‘the male genitals’].”
    Noah Tarnow hosts the Big Quiz Thing Aug 11; visit bigquizthing.com.


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