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goon (6/12/08)
This week's word is yet another example of how bad things become good in slang. In 1987, Michael Jackson released his album Bad, which really meant good. Since then, we've heard teenagers praise things with words like ill, sick and even nasty.
In its earliest incarnations, a goon was a fool. In the iconic 1950s family show, Leave it to Beaver, for example, Eddie Haskell explains to his friend Wally, "...if you can make the other guy feel like a goon first, then you don't feel like so much of a goon." (The same decade ushered in...(read more)
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April 2008
- April 10 - wooden overcoat, cement kimono, cement shoes, concrete overcoat, Chicago overcoat, Chicago typewriter, Chicago piano, Chicago lightning. Celebrity quote: Singer/songwriter John Wesley Harding
- April 17 - scuppie, yuppie, guppie. Celebrity quote: Maria Puente, USA Today
- April 24 - Hail Mary pass, Flutie effect. Celebrity quote: J.P. Vettraino in Auto Week
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- February 7 - bang a uey, frappe, tonic, spa, spuckies . Un-Celebrity quote: Tim, posting on bostoncrazydriving.blogspot.com
- February 14 - dap. Celebrity quote: Singer Sharon Jones
- February 21 - honey wagon. Celebrity quote: Filmmaker Thomas Hildreth
- February 28 - blow-off, grifter, bally, cooch, flattie, scratch, mark. Celebrity Quote: Former Circus Historical Society owner A. W. Stencell
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January 2008
- January 3 - bad hair day. Celebrity quote: Ruth Ryon for the LA Times
- January 10 - gwap, lettuce, kale, cabbage, dough, bread, potatoes, cheddar, bricks. Celebrity quote: Rapper Havoc
- January 17 - four fifth, fifth. Celebrity quote: Rapper Kaos
- January 24- crank, counterfeit crank, the falling sickness. Celebrity quote: Elizabethan author Thomas Harman
- January 31 - chillax, moob, fucci, bootylicious . Celebrity quote: Jawaiian Reggae duo Def Tech
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- November 1 - jockey box. Celebrity quote: Free Speech TV Community
- November 8 - Breathing While Black, Walking While Black, Driving While Black, DWB, Walking While Brown, Driving While Hispanic, Flying While Muslim. Celebrity quote: University of Louisville, Kentucky
- November 15 - talkie, talker, speakie. Celebrity quote: Actor Conrad Veidt
- November 29 - beard, straight, outed. Celebrity quote: Author Wayne Barrett
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- April 25 - snorgle, redonkulous, tocks, honk-shu, anerable, ree-dick, elish, paps, InWhySee, Hell-Ay. Celebrity quote: Meg Frost of Cuteoverload.com
- April 12 - grindhouse. Celebrity quote: Peculiar Works Project
- April 5 - Emerald City, Big Apple, Beantown, the Big Salmon . Celebrity quote: Real estate expert Lawrence Yun
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February 2007
- February 22 - wicked pisser, wicked pissah . Celebrity quote: Rocketscience singer and guitarist Andy Galdins
- February 15 - first life, meat space. Celebrity quote: blogger Darren Barefoot
- February 8 - tea, spliff, dope, pot, reefer. Celebrity quote: Singer, actress and game show babe Kitty Carlisle
- February 1 - props, hoes, propers, pimp. Celebrity quote: Author Wahida Clark
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