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Tennessee windage en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (US, slang, uncountable) Synonym of Kentucky windage.
   • Why not assume that a hundred and sixty-seven thousand light-years leaves room for Tennessee windage amounting to only a hair’s breadth of a fraction of one per cent? 1958, Robert Heinlein, chapter 12, in Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Del Rey, page 250:
   • 1976, Morris L. Bigge, “Describing the Learning Process” in Walter R. Nord (editor), Concepts and Controversy in Organizational Behavior, Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing, 2nd edition, p. 148, To hit a squirrel he had to take wind and distance into consideration and move the rifle away from a line on the target (windward and upward) to give “Tennessee windage” and “Kentucky elevation.”

Relateds

Tennessee rifle

Synonyms

Kentucky windage