Welcome to another exciting episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Keep your brain in great shape with mental exercises like sudoku, cryptoquotes, crossword puzzles and (my personal favorite) learning new words. Now, let's get those neurons firing on all cylinders with the Word of the Week:Eating drag dust:
1. To ride behind a herd (an inferior and uncomfortable position)
2. To be humiliated (Weseen 1934; Ramon Adams 1944)
-- "A Dictionary of the Old West", Peter Watts, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1977.
Example: Bob's lightning-fast serves and vicious backhand left Larry eating drag dust on the tennis court.
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