When a person or pet exhibits nervous energy, they are said to be “tightly wound”.
Before electricity, mechanical clocks were wound by turning a key or crank to tighten a mainspring. As the spring would lose tension, the hands would turn for about 8 days before needing to be rewound.
Damn! Did you see how much cocaine Liz snorted? She is going to be wound tighter than an eight dayclock this week!
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."