Catchword: metric buttload

Filed under: English, Slang

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: “It was embarrassing for some customers to see a naked woman on the cover wrapped in a talis [prayer shawl], and you can see her nipple really clearly,” says Alle Hall, marketing manager of Seattle’s Tree of Life Judaica, who carried the book but felt it would be most appropriate not to display it face-out. Nevertheless, “We sold a metric buttload of those books.”

Article or Document Title:
“Friction in the Family”

Author:
David Klinghoffer

Article, document, publication, web site:
Publisher’s Weekly

Date of publication:
Mar. 24, 2003

Page number:
S11

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