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Word: garterbelt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...expected to pay half of day-before- yesterday's interest on the National Debt." In this dark mood, Hartke admires a science fiction story in which the revered Kilgore Trout (we assume, though the finest of pulp writers for some reason is not identified), in a journal called Black Garterbelt, explains the meaning of life. Germs, it seems, are being toughened by higher beings for the rigors of space travel; and human society -- Mozart, mutant turtles and all -- has amounted to nothing more than a convenient Petri plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And So It Went | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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