"yard sale" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: yard sale

Filed under: English, Sports & Recreation

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: The “yard sale” resulted completely from the fact that I was going to fast, given the fact that I was coming down from an easy slope where all the folks around me were going waaaay slower, and doing occasional panic stops.

Article or document title:
“Re: T’ai-Chi Skiing: the Dance of the Cosmos” (URL)

Author:
“pkharvey@aol.com (PKHarvey)”

(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)

Article, document, publication, web site:
Usenet: alt.magick

Date of publication:
Oct. 21, 1997

This cite belongs to a full entry for yard sale.

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