Youth jargon is in constant flux. What may be all the go today, may disappear tomorrow. Herein some of the slang may be recognisable to Y-ers but not Zeds and vice versa.
This strict sense of telegraph developed from French usage for Napoleon's overland semaphore network but rather arbitrarily excludes similar Chinese and other signalling networks.
We find it tranſparent, of various Figures; but compoſed all of united Rhombs: and when its concretion has been interrupted, we ſee it in the forms of granulated, fibrous, or ſcaly maſſes, and call them Gypſa, or Plaiſter Stones.
These were the two that Tommy had chosen to collect a debt owed to his family by a dude named Heath who ran numbers out of a grocery store on 131st and Lenox.
