The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, led by president Charles Gillett (1915-1995), re-popularized the term "Big Apple" with its advertising campaign in the 1970s. In May 1975,…
"There's a sucker born every minute" has been attached to showman P. T. Barnum, but a detailed examination of everything he ever wrote has failed to produce the phrase. He either…
"Theyhattan" (they + Manhattan) is a jocular name to get the "man" out of the borough of "Manhattan." "I am offended by this. It should clearly by Theyhattan or…
YouTube is an American video-sharing website that began in February 2005. In November 2006, Google purchased YouTube. Those who have criticized Google's operation of YouTube (such as issues of…
"Thieves' Alley" was a criminal area located at 5 Norfolk Street. It was destroyed in the 1890s to create Mulberry Bend Park, now known as Columbus Park. "Thieves'…
The Longacre Square area of Manhattan -- called Times Square since 1904 -- didn't have theatres in the 1880s and early 1890s. The crime-ridden area was known as the "Thieves'…
There was a Manhattan market between Delancey and Houston Streets that sold items often of questionable ownership. The WPA Guide to New York City (1939) stated: "The stretch between Delancey…
Twitter, an online social networking service, is not an acronym, although many backronyms (back acronyms) have been made ending in "that everyone reads." "TWITTER = Texting What I…
Think Progress is a blog from the progressive think tank, Center for American Progress. Critics of Think Progress have dubbed it "Think Regress" (or "ThinkRegress") since at…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Urban DictionaryThinspiration The inspiration people have to become skinny usually archives of skinny sometimes emaciated people.My thinspiration is Paris Hilton!by Izzy E…
Entry in progress -- B..P. Urban Dictionarythinspo Abbreviation for "thinsporation," aka pictures of bone-thin women that girls with ana/mia use to remind themselves of their goals to…
A March 14, 2012 New York (NY) Times "Dealbook" article explained: "A 'Third Avenue guy' is someone on Wall Street who is not smart enough to work for a company with…
The United States has an east coast and a west coast, but it's sometimes said to have a "third coast." In the 1960s and 1970s, the "third coast" was the Great Lakes region…
"The thrid degree" was the punishment the police inflicted on a prisoner to procure a confession. It was officially made illegal in the early part of the 1900s. The third degree is the…
The fictitious town of Tuna, Texas is the "Third Smallest Town in Texas." Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard wrote a comic trilogy to Tuna, Texas: Greater Tuna (1981), A Tuna…
"Thirsday" is a drinking slang name for a day of the week. "Thirsday" is often simply a mispelling of "Thursday," but it's also a version of "thirst…
"Thirst trap" is a social media term for when someone posts a statement or a photograph (usually a sexually suggestive selfie) on Twitter or Instagram or elsewhere, creating sexual thirst…
"Thirst trap" is a social media term for when someone posts a statement or a photograph (usually a sexually suggestive selfie) on Twitter or Instagram or elsewhere, creating sexual thirst…
"Thirstday" is a drinking slang name for a day of the week. "Thirstday" usually (but not always) occurs on a Thursday, when many college parties start the weekend. Drinks on…
"Thirsty Thursday” is a drinking slang name for a day of the week. "'Thirsty Thursday' Special" was cited in print in 1961 regarding root beer; "Thirsty…