Turkey Tamale Pie (Turkey Tamales)
Tamales are often made with pork, but turkey tamales have been popular on Thanksgiving. "Turkey tamales" are cited in print from at least 1897. A turkey tamale pie often includes…
1930s: Jazzing the Big Apple
Turkey Tetrazzini
Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano who had an enormous popularity in America from the 1900s-1920s. Several dishes were named after her, including: . Turkey…
Turkish Day Parade
The Turkish Day Parade (or, Turkish-American Day Parade) is one of the newer ethnic parades, beginning in the 1980s. It celebrates the modern Turkish state.…
Turnaround Tuesday
"Turnaround Tuesday" was the name of the March 9, 1965, Selma to Montgomery civil rights march. It followed the march of March 7, 1965, that was nicknamed "Bloody Sunday." Wall…
Turnkey Tyranny
Edward Snowden, an American technical contractor, revealed information about a classified National Security Agency (NSA) spy program to The Guardian newspaper in June 2013. Snowden believed that…
Tuttorosso Pasta Eating Competition
The annual Little Italy Tuttorosso Pasta Eating Competition began in 2003. It isn't as popular (yet) as Nathan's hot dog eating competition a few days later in July, but pasta is probably…
Tuxedo Park: Tuxedo (clothing)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: TuxedoA dinner jacket (British English) or tuxedo (American English, also colloquially known as “tux”), dinner suit, or DJ is a formal evening suit…
TWA Tea (dirty joke)
Trans World Airlines (TWA) existed from 1925 through 2001 and was once one of the world's largest airlines, with a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. A popular dirty joke has a…
Twatter (Twitter nickname)
Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service. Many people have used the nickname "Twatter" (twat + Twitter) for both Twitter and its users. "Is wondering if he…
Twatzi (Twitter + twat + Nazi)
"Twatzi" (Twitter + twat + Nazi) is used to describe an oppressive Twitter (a social networking service), or an oppressive person using Twitter. "Twitter Nazi=twatzi" was posted…
Twecipe (Twitter recipe)
"Twecipe" is a recipe on Twitter (a social micro-blogging service). Recipes are given in posts of up to 140 characters. A user of the "Twecipe" service can type in several…
Tweeding or Tweeded (after William M. Tweed)
The blog "Queens Crap" began in December 2006, with this stated purpose: "A website focused on the overdevelopment and 'tweeding' of the borough of Queens in the City of…
Tweezer Food
"Tweezer food" has been cited in print since at least 2000, when a book included, "I've also heard it called tweezer food because it's so artfully arranged on the plate, it…
Twenty-Minute Actor (vaudevillian)
Vaudeville was popular in America from the 1880s to the 1930s. Vaudeville acts were short, and a vaudeville actor in the theater was called a "twenty-minute actor." "Twenty-minute…
Twenty-Three Skidoo (23rd Street myth)
One of the popular New York City myths is that the slang term "twenty-three skidoo" comes from the Flatiron Building at Twenty-Third Street and Broadway/Fifth Avenue. Tourist buses pass…
Twerk (redneck for “to work”)
"Twerk" (the dance movement) sounds like how a Southerner would say "to work." A popular GIF is: REDNECK WORD OF THE DAY: TWERKIMA HAVE A FEW BEERS BEFORE I GET BACK TWERK…
Twice as Nice & Where Life Is So Large It Takes Two States (Texarkana slogans)
"Twice as nice" and "Where life is so large it takes two states" are slogans of Texarkana. The city is really two cities -- Texarkana, Texas (Bowie County) and Texarkana,…
Twidiocracy (Twitter + idiocracy)
"Twidiocracy" (Twitter + idiocracy) was coined by Matt Labash in The Weekly Standard on May 6, 2013, "The Twidiocracy: The decline of Western civilization, 140 characters at a…
Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul)
Two cities that are close neighbors are sometimes called "twin cities." ""Our line commences at the twin cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, the metropolis of Western…
Twindemic (twin + -demic)
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic< was feared to exist alongside a flu epidemic. The word "twindemic" (twin +epidemic/pandemic) was coined. "H1N1 & Covid-19=twindemic"…