Catchword: Jim Wilson
Part of speech:
n. The part of speech reflects that used in the
full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: A “Jim Wilson,” for example, is airline industry argot for a cadaver being shipped in cargo; undertakers routinely ask for “Jim Wilson” fares. So when a computer executive’s wife inquired about her husband at the airport recently—“Is there a Jim Wilson on this flight?”—the attendant promised to phone the baggage department and locate the casket. “Needless to say, my wife was taken aback,” my friend Mr. Wilson reports.
Article or Document Title:
“Whose name is it, anyway?”
Author:
Alex Beam
Article, document, publication, web site:
Boston Globe
Publishing location:
Massachusetts
Date of publication:
Jan. 24, 1996
Page number:
69