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It’s a reference to how fishers use catfish to keep cod active during transport.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: During which activity would someone most likely yell “YOLO”?</dt> <dd>Answer: YOLO is an abbreviation for “You Only Live Once” and is often used as justification for reckless behavior.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Which of these people would most likely be described as a <i>wisenheimer</i>?</dt> <dd>Answer: Appearing early in the 20th century, <em>wisenheimer</em> combines wise with <em>-enheimer</em>, a reference to smart-sounding German family names.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Essential to the 1980s Valley girl lexicon, <i>grody</i> is synonymous with what word or phrase?</dt> <dd>Answer: Thanks in part to its use in the 1983 hit song “Valley Girl” by Frank Zappa and his 14-year-old daughter, Moon Unit, the word <em>grody</em> became a hallmark of the 1980s mall scene. However, the word had been seen in use almost two decades before.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: If you are giving someone the <i>side-eye</i>, what are you doing?</dt> <dd>Answer: <em>Side-eye</em> has been in the public eye plenty since it gained popularity about 2010, but it had been sighted before: James Joyce used the phrase in his 1922 novel <em>Ulysses</em>, and the phrase had even been mentioned in 1797.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: What sort of person would be described as the <i>bee’s knees</i>?</dt> <dd>Answer: The phrase <em>the bee’s knees</em> was just one of many nonsense animal possessives that were so pervasive during the 1920s. Others included <em>the cat’s meow</em>, <em>the ant’s pants</em>, and <em>the eel’s ankle</em>.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Which of these flavorful words is synonymous with <i>angry</i> and <i>bitter</i>?</dt> <dd>Answer: Although <em>salty</em> has enjoyed a linguistic resurgence, this usage was first recorded in African American newspapers in the 1930s.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Inspired by how the actor Humphrey Bogart smoked cigarettes, to <i>bogart</i> something means what?</dt> <dd>Answer: Star of classic films such as <em>Casablanca</em>, Humphrey Bogart often would keep a cigarette dangling between his lips until the cigarette was almost gone. <em>Bogarting</em> became slang for consuming something without sharing, thanks to this usage in the 1969 film <em>Easy Rider</em>.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Taken from a French term for “middle class,” which of these is a mildly mocking term for being concerned about wealth and respectability?</dt> <dd>Answer: <em>Bougie</em> (pronounced bü-zhē) is a shortening of <em>bourgeois</em>.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Usually more graceful than something with hooves, a <i>hoofer</i> is what type of professional?</dt> <dd>Answer: Borrowing a term from animal feet, <em>hoofer</em> first appeared well over a hundred years ago but is still being used today to describe professional dancers.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Since the 1840s, which of these have been known as <i>ankle biters</i>?</dt> <dd>Answer: In addition to describing rug rats, <em>ankle biter</em> is sometimes used to mean an aggressive small dog.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: A person in the 1830s going to see the <i>sawbones</i> was going where?</dt> <dd>Answer: <em>Sawbones</em> first saw print in Charles Dickens’s 1837 novel <em>The Pickwick Papers</em>, back when one of a doctor''s primary duties was amputation.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Kids in the 1970s were labeled <i>space cadets</i> if they were what?</dt> <dd>Answer: Before its use in referring to someone whose mind was off in outer space, in 1948 sci-fi author Robert Heinlein wrote <em>Space Cadet</em> about a character who hoped to achieve the titular rank.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: A term originating from the game <i>Among Us</i>, <i>sus</i> is short for what?</dt> <dd>Answer: In the video game <em>Among Us</em>, a group of players work cooperatively to run a spaceship, except at least one player, who is secretly selected to sabotage the efforts of the other players and covertly kill them. 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