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smoot
noun
a notional unit of measure US
In 1958, MIT students measured the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge that connects Boston to Cambridge in terms of the height of MIT fraternity pledge Oliver Smoot, and marked the bridge in “smoots”.- Every six feet or so there is still the indication of one smoot, two smoots, painted on the pavement. — Robert Parker, Early Autumn, 1981
- “Didn’t they like him?” She looked down at the next yellow smoot marker, her face darkening. “Yeah, they liked him.” — Dennis Lehane, Darkness, Take My Hand, p. 79, 1997
- On Friday morning, brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha were shocked to find the Smoot markings on Harvard bridge had been vandalized. — The Tech, p. 1, 5 May 1998
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