Tennessee windage

English

Noun

Tennessee windage (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Synonym of Kentucky windage.
    • 1958, Robert Heinlein, chapter 12, in Have Space Suit—Will Travel‎[1], New York: Del Rey, page 250:
      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?
    • 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,[2]
      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.”
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