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thank-you-m'am
noun
a bump or dip in a road which produces a moment of slight uneasiness in the stomach US, 1960- — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 111, 1965
- We recently heard bumps in a country road referred to as “thank-you-ma’ams.” Could you tell us how this term originated? It was from the rider’s motion resembling a genteel bow when he was jounced over one of them. — Old Farmer’s Almanac in San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. 41, 15 April 1979
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