A college student was delivering pizza to a regular customer"s house in New York.
The guy who answered the door asked him, "What is the usual tip?"
"Well," replied the youth,"this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I"ll be doing great."
"Is that so?" snorted the man. "Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here"s five dollars."
"Thanks!" replied the youth, "I"ll put this in my school fund."
"What are you studying?" asked the man.
The lad smiled and said: "Applied psychology."
v. (-ting) 1 move round an axis or centre, revolve.
- take or arrange (esp. Crops) in rotation.
- act or take place in rotation (chairmanship will rotate). rotatable adj. Rotatory adj. [latin: related to *rota]
ROTGUT
n. Slang cheap harmful alcohol.
ROTTEN
adj. (-er, -est) 1 rotting or rotted; fragile from age or use.
- morally or politically corrupt.
- slang a disagreeable, unpleasant, bad (had a rotten time). B worthless (rotten idea). C ill (feel rotten). rottenly adv. Rottenness n. [old norse: related to *rot]
- borough n. Hist. (before 1832) english borough electing an mp though having very few voters.
ROTTER
n. Slang nasty or contemptible person. [from *rot]
ROTUND
adj. - plump, podgy.
- (of speech etc.) Sonorous, grandiloquent. rotundity n. [latin rotundus: related to *rota]
ROUBLE
n. (also ruble) chief monetary unit of russia etc. [french from russian]
ROVING
eye n. Tendency to infidelity.
RUBATO
n. Mus. (pl. -s or -ti) temporary disregarding of strict tempo. [italian, = robbed]
RUBBER
band n. Loop of rubber for holding papers etc. Together.
- plant n. - evergreen tropical plant often cultivated as a house-plant.
- (also rubber tree) tropical tree yielding latex.
- stamp —n. - device for inking and imprinting on a surface.
- a person who mechanically copies or endorses others' actions. B indication of such endorsement. —v. (rubber-stamp) approve automatically.
- n. - tough elastic substance made from the latex of plants or synthetically.
- piece of this or a similar substance for erasing esp. Pencil marks.
- colloq. Condom.
- (in pl.) Us galoshes. rubbery adj. Rubberiness n. [from *rub]
- n. Match of esp. Three successive games between the same sides or persons at whist, bridge, cricket, etc. [origin unknown]
RUBBLE
n. Rough fragments of stone, brick, etc., esp. From a demolished building. [french robe spoils]
