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Plyometrics sounds exactly like the Charles Atlas course I bought in the early 1960s.
I'll have to remember not to kick sand in your face…
Back then I looked like the 'after' pictures even before I started the course because I was doing extensive training four evenings a week and playing Rugby at weekends.
I have come across this next word enough times now to want to know a bit more;
gruel - noun 1. a thin porridge 2. chiefly British: PUNISHMENT
grueling or gruelling - adj trying to the point of exhaustion: PUNISHING
Unless the eating of it is the case, what does porridge have to do with punishment?
Thanks, Harold, for the info on Charles Atlas. And thank you, once again, Og, for taking the time to post slang words. So, I guess I sling ink or am an ink slinger, although ink is only used when printing the document out these days. I had to look this word up, of course;
gaol - noun chiefly British, variation of JAIL
"Inside and Outside" will be used in future books of mine, I predict.
I used gaol during a Scrabble game against my wife and son, earned too many points, according to them. I was told I could no longer use words I learn on this thread.
I used gaol during a Scrabble game against my wife and son, earned too many points, according to them. I was told I could no longer use words I learn on this thread.
LOL
Congratulations AllardChardon, for starting and maintaining a fun thread that has reached 99 pages.
Only a few more posts and it will reach its century.
Therefore, from Historical Slang:
century - £100, from horse racing circa 1860; 100 runs or more scored at cricket circa 1880 hence centurion - one who has scored 100 runs or more.
I found it strange to discover that a Roman Legion's "Century" did not have 100 men. It had 80.