Yarborough \YAHR-bur-oh, -buhr-oh or, esp. British, -ber-uh\, noun:
- Whist, Bridge. a hand in which no card is higher than a nine.
Yarborough came to English in the late 1800s after the 2nd Earl of Yarborough, who was said to have bet 1000 to 1 against the occurrence of a card hand in which no card is higher than a nine.
polar vortex
- A weather system that results in record-breaking cold temperatures. Can also be used as euphemism for "really fucking cold" or "fucking freezing."
Schools are closed because the polar vortex dropped temperatures below zero F.
sideboob
- A view of the female breast seen from a side; generally under loosely-fitting clothes. Very titillating (pun intended) and sexual without showing any overt nudity.
There is so much sideboob at Los Angeles awards shows!
My brother's g/f's sideboob totally distracted me from my own g/f.
History
- Ivan the Terrible: grand prince of Moscow was crowned the first czar of Russia (1547)
- Amendment 18: the law beginning Prohibition was ratified (1920); it was repealed in 1933
- Mickey Mantle: signed a $75,000-a-year contract, becoming the highest-paid baseball player at the time (1961)
- Operation Desert Storm: the White House announced the start of the campaign to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait (1991)
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: was sworn in as president of Liberia, becoming Africa's first elected female head of state (2006)
Birthdays
- Evelyn Levine 1902
- Ethel Merman 1909
- Dizzy Dean 1911
- Elliott Reid 1920
- Katy Jurado 1927
- Pilar Lorengar 1928
- William Kennedy 1928
- G.T. (Granville) Hogan 1929
- Norman Podhoretz 1930
- Susan Sontag 1933
- Marilyn Horne 1934
- A.J. Foyt 1935
- Bob Bogle (The Ventures) 1937
- Barbara Lynn 1942
- Bill Francis (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) 1942
- Jim Stafford 1944
- Ronnie Milsap 1943Dr. Laura Schlessinger1947 quack
- John Carpenter 1948 horror dude
- Caroline Munro 1949
Debbie Allen 1950 - Sade Adu (singer) 1959
- Paul Webb (Talk Talk) 1962
- Maxine Jones (En Vogue) 1966
- David Chokachi 1968
John Davison 1971 Current singer of YES - Kate Moss 1974
- Aaliyah 1979
- Yvonne Zima 1989
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