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where documents go to die and guitars go to scream
means To cut or tear something into long thin strips, or—in music and sport slang—to play, ride, or perform with blistering skill and speed.
from From Old English 'screade,' meaning a piece cut off or a scrap, sharing a family with Dutch 'schroot' and German 'Schrot' (small fragments). For centuries it simply meant a torn-off strip of cloth or food; the office paper-shredder lent it bureaucratic menace in the 20th century, while guitarists and snowboarders later borrowed it to mean playing or carving so fast you seem to tear the very air.
- cross-cut tech
- Modern shredders turn paper into confetti-sized chips
- Enron legacy
- Mass shredding helped birth Sarbanes-Oxley evidence laws
- ski slang
- To shred means carving terrain with reckless skill
- reassembly contest
- DARPA paid to unshred documents from puzzle fragments
- cheese verb
- Shredding boosts surface area so cheese melts faster
shred guitar competition — andy summers organized the first guitar shredders competition in 1985, featuring speed-metal guitarists
shaun white halfpipe — olympic snowboarder performs technical shred tricks, won gold medal at 2022 beijing winter olympics
gnar shred ski culture — extreme skiing culture popularized in teton range, wyoming and chamonix, france since 1990s