The manner with which one weakens a prop so it is more easily destroyed in a subsequent theatrical performance or stunt. May be characterized by insufficient weakening of said prop.
They weakened the seams of the jacket Ken Keene style so that visciously hard "2T" arm rips would obliterate it easily.
a town with a collegeproblem. stuck in the middle of the white mountains, not much to do except drink and walk in the snow. town has a thing for pumpkins.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)