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Chumming the water for great white sharks at Guadalupe Island. Chumming (American English from Powhatan) [1] is the blue water fishing practice of throwing meat-based groundbait called "chum" into the water in order to lure various marine animals (usually large game fish) to a designated fishing ground, so the target animals are more easily caught by hooking or spearing.
Most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer. Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis.New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.
Chum, a mako shark character in Finding Nemo "Chum" (song), by American rapper Earl Sweatshirt; Chum (tent), used by Uralic nomads; Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Chumming, a fishing practice; Chums, a defunct British boys newspaper; Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, a university hospital network in Montreal, Canada
After a heated row, Sally goes on stage singing “Cabaret” (“life is a cabaret, old chum”), thus confirming her decision to live in carefree ignorance of the impending problems in Germany. The version of the song used in the musical includes a verse beginning: "I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie With whom I shared
The English name "chum salmon" comes from the Chinook Jargon term tsəm, meaning "spotted" or "marked"; while keta in the scientific name comes from Russian, which in turn comes from the Evenki language of Eastern Siberia. [2] The term 'Dog Salmon' is most commonly used in Alaska and refers to the Salmon whose flesh Alaskans use to feed their ...
Word Chums offers the standard multiplayer gameplay you've come to expect from any take on Scrabble, as you'll be challenged to make words using randomly assigned letter tiles. The longer the word ...
While earlier uses exist, the term chumbox—from chum, or fish bait—was popularized by a 2015 article in The Awl written by John Mahoney. [3] In the early 2010s, the web advertising companies Outbrain and Taboola emerged as the leading providers and chumbox advertisements became ubiquitous on news websites, including on outlets such as CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
The word "stationnement" is the French word, but in France they replace many words by the English equivalent when it is shorter. frasil fragile ice glace fragile huard (huart) loon Plongeon Huard: A type of bird typically found in lakes and ponds. In Canada, this bird is found on one dollar coins and is alternatively used to designate one ...