salt rush


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Noun1.salt rush - rush of the Pacific coast of North America
Juncus leseurii
rush - grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
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The freshmen and sophomores began each college year with a salt rush', a pitched battle between the two classes.(1) These traditions could have derived from the University's location in the |Salt City', the centre of salt production in the United States (as the nickname of its football team, the |Saltine Warriors', did later).
Salting freshmen: an old academic tradition

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