many a true word is spoken in jest; words spoken in jest may come true (often by accident)

reap what one sows, getting one's just deserts

Synonym of アメリカンフットボール (Amerikan futtobōru, “American football”)

(obsolete) Alternative spelling of メリケン

American Samoa (an overseas territory of the United States in Oceania)

Obsolete spelling of ミシガン (Mishigan, “Michigan (a state of the United States)”)

Compounds

Cold War

ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

(linguistics) diachronic