A foldable bed for a baby who is too warm.
hot tot cot
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
CAR (Lewis Carroll)
Once a proud race of warrior women led by Queen Hippolyta, this is now a place where you can buy books and apparently some other stuff.
Amazon
Dear Diary, Wall Street's newspaper comes from the French for "day".
Journal
The sound a car engine or a hungry stomach makes.
rumble
The noise of pain you make when your skeleton is made of rock.
stone bone groan (moan)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
WIL (Oscar Wilde)
A jewelry company and a music streaming service both take their name from this woman whose story might make you think twice about opening a box from either company.
Pandora
Washington, D.C. pins notices on this, nicknamed "WaPo".
Post
A leftover piece of paper or fabric.
scrap
Man who makes tiki cocktails with rum, lime, and orange curaçao.
Mai Tai guy
Wuthering Heights
BRO (Emily Brontë)
Swoosh! Winged Victory of Samothrace is a statue of this goddess whose name would later grace Air Jordans.
Nike
San Francisco keeps this written account that you may have heard in the context of Narnia or Amber.
Chronicle
A long furrow of something in a line (if you're British, the fighting term rhymes with "cow", not "low").
row
scary hairy berry
Beloved
MOR (Toni Morrison)
General Motors started this company to compete with Japanese cars. They named it for the Roman equivalent of Kronos, god of the harvest and time. (Too bad there's no god of cars: they ceased production in 2009.)
Saturn
Hear ye, hear ye: Miami announces news under this name that also means "harbinger" or "advocate".
Herald
A pole that supports a ship's sail or an airplane's wing.
spar
A mistake made below a lightning storm.
under thunder blunder/ blunder under thunder
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde
The name of this lip balm company actually means "evolution of smooth", but in Greek myth, she was the titan goddess of the dawn.
Eos
News of the world: this Boston paper must really get around...and around, and around...
Globe
Past-tense of expectorate, or a splash guard you wear over your shoes.
spat