stang
Americanverb
verb
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But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The shorter pipe-fish, stang, or sting, Sygnathus acus.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
But if I hear tell that she doth rebel, Or him to complain, with fife and drum Then we will come, And ride the stang again.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various
The stang was ridden at the ancient town of Hedon, 18th, 19th, and 20th February, 1889.
From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews
Make, to, chai; what are you making? stang n's chai?
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
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