A threadipede is the long white thread that hangs down from your cut-off blue jeans shorts and brushes against the back of your leg in such a way that it causes you to think that an insect has just landed on you.
Daniel thought that he was about to be stung by a horsefly, but he immediately relaxed once he realized that it was only a threadipede.
by Bullseye Warrior July 27, 2009