Answer: The DASH diet -- DASH actually stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension -- is a diet that's based on the USDA food pyramid and it was designed to reduce blood pressure, to control blood pressure.
Graffiti and graffito are from the Italian word graffiato (scratched). Graffiti is applied in art history to works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface. A related term is graffito, which involves scratching through one layer of pigment to reveal another beneath it.
Best Answer: Most agree that it originated from 1920s Black American slang - used to define a very butch lesbian. The first printed references come from 1920s novels connected with the Harlem Renaissance and suggest that the term was originally bulldyker, with dyke being a shortened form. For example, in the 1928 novel, Home to Harlem, Claude McKay wrote:[Lesbians are] what we calls bulldyker in Harlem.