MICHIGAN

Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops

(noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Michigan, Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, MI, Mich.

(noun) a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Proper noun

Michigan

A state in United States.

Lake Michigan.

University of Michigan.

Noun

Michigan (plural Michigans)

(ice hockey) A deke consisting of lifting the puck with the stick and throwing it under the top corner of the goal, while skating behind the net.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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