dollar democracy

(politics, US, Canada) The influence of money on politics and on government

(economics, US, Canada) The ability of consumers to influence the economy and business decisions by their spending


consignment shop

en-noun

consignment shop (plural consignment shops)

(US, Canada) A shop that sells used goods for their owners (consigners) in exchange for a portion of the proceeds.


saltchucker

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(Canada, informal, fishing) Someone who fishes in saltwater.


police village

(Canada, historical) Part of a township in Ontario, Canada, not incorporated by the provincial government, and having its own elected governing body of trustees.


allosexual

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

Yet we later learn that Diana Baring already knew the secret — whether being “half—caste" references being lower-caste with “black blood” (more than a racial marker) or being transsexual, homosexual, or allosexual.

2005, Tom Cohen, Hitchcock's Cryptonymies, volume 2, →ISBN, page 58:

Diane Bourgeois (Terrebonne—Blainville, BQ): Mr. Speaker, last month in my riding, Gaétan Lord won the jury prize at the Allostars Gala for his contribution as founding president of Canada's first centre for “allosexual” or queer youth, which offers support to gays, lesbians and young people who are unsure about their sexual orientation.

2006, House of Commons Debates, numbers 27-40, page 1595:

Throughout this time, I have been struck by the absence of racialized, ethnicized, and colonized (REC) voices in historical accounts of the local gay and lesbian community at large, and likewise the lack of allosexual representation in the narratives of the city's various ethnocultural communities.

2013, Alan Wong, “Listen and Learn”, in Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice, →ISBN:

(LGBTQ, uncommon, chiefly Canada) LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.


SERT

Special Emergency Response Team
w:Special Emergency Response Team

(law enforcement, Canada) Acronym of Special Emergency Response Team.


locatee

(Canada) A First Nations individual who is given land on a reservation.


excuse you

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By analogy with excuse me, which is used to apologize. First appears in the late twentieth century.

He raised his brows, 'Excuse me, or should I say, excuse you?'

1996, Vickie Moore, This Time Forever, page 123:

Excuse you, you're in my way.

2000, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, Legally Blonde:

Finally, the girl managed to utter, “Well, excuse you,” and turned to leave. George fumbled for words. “Wait. Don't go,” he pleaded. “Please, allow me to apologize. Can I, uh... buy you a Coke, or something?”

2007, Gary Smiley, Seasons of Liberty, page 19:

(US, Canada, derogatory, often sarcastic) An indignant response to an individual who has behaved rudely or insolently and has failed to apologize.


asscunt

asscunts (plural)
arsecunt (alternative)

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(Canada, US, derogatory or offensive, slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.


pay rise

pay rises (plural)
payrise (alternative)

Whelan called the offer "risible", describing it as a "land grab for all the terms and conditions we have negotiating over the years". He demanded a no-strings pay offer that recognises the "significant cost of living increases" since the last pay rise in 2019.

2024 May 1, Mel Holley, “Network News: New action from ASLEF to hit Bank Holiday services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 14:

(UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) An increase in salary or wages.


J-cloth

From a brand name, short for Johnson & Johnson, the name of the manufacturer.

(UK), (Canada) A kind of absorbent cloth for washing dishes, mopping up spillages, etc.


shark week

shark week (countable and uncountable, plural shark weeks)

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A jocular reference to Shark Week, an annual week-long marathon of shark-related programming on Discovery Channel, which, like a menstrual period, is bloody.

There are several ways to green your Shark Week, ranging from bare-minimum "shucks, why not?" consciousness to Burning Man aggro hippie.

2008, Coco Tanaka, "Shark Week!", LA CityBeat, Volume 6, Number 36, 4 September 2008 - 10 September 2008, page 17

If you've booked a hotel room, STAIN, and it's shark week for the wife, or a certain former senator drops in (drops out?) when you have anal sex, there's always the option of bringing your own santorum- and/or menstrual-blood-coloured/stained towels from home.

2012, Dan Savage, "Hotel room clean-up", Now (Toronto), Volume 31, Number 29, 15 March 2012 - 21 March 2012, page 102

Imagine my shock at discovering what those little bins with the flaps in bathrooms were really for, or that when girls mentioned shark week they didn't mean there was a Jaws marathon on SBS.

2014, Michael Walsh, "Christening the backyard," Catalyst Magazine (RMIT University), Volume 70, Issue 2, April 2014, page 43

(informal, humorous, chiefly Canada, US) The week during which a woman menstruates.


honour guard

honour guards (plural)
honor guard (alternative)
guard of honour (alternative)

Princess Anne inspects the Honour Guard at Rideau Hall.

2014, “Princess Anne takes part in Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa.”, in Canada.com:

(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK) a ceremonial assembly of uniformed military personnel performing the duty of escort or exhibition, i.e. accompany a casket during a funeral procession.


peace officer

(US, Canada, law enforcement) A civil law enforcement officer with a duty to maintain law and order, i.e., a bylaw officer, a police officer, a sheriff, etc.


bylaw officer

(Canada) An agent of municipal law enforcement responsible for ensuring obedience to the bylaws.


sanctuary city

sanctuary city (plural sanctuary cities)

Regardless of any immediate connections Koch's directive might have had to sanctuary during the 1980s, by the time Congressional representatives were discussing the 1996 immigration reforms, New York City was coming up in policy debates as an example of a sanctuary city that should be targeted for sanctions.

2012, Randy K. Lippert, Sean Rehaag, Sanctuary Practices in International Perspective, page 227:

The president is upset with congressional leaders for slow-rolling his core campaign promise, and for failing to defund sanctuary cities in their spending bill.

2018 March 21, Elaina Plott, “Trump Vents His Anger Over Border-Wall Funding”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2018-03-21:

Since the late 19th century, when Jane Addams established Hull-House, a social settlement that drew migrants, Chicago has seen itself as an entry point for newcomers, a sanctuary city that welcomes people from the outside.

2023 May 10, Julie Bosman, “Open-Armed Chicago Feels the Strains of a Migrant Influx”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

(US, Canada) A city that allows undocumented immigrants to live and work without being arrested and deported by local authorities.


ugly stick

You may also find an authentic ugly stick. It's masterfully constructed with beer stoppers, duct tape, a tobacco can, and a few pieces of wood. It just is…

1988 June 17, Stephen Day, “Folk Music Revived at Bridgett’s”, in The Muse, volume 38, number 23, St. John’s, N.L.: Council of the Students Union, Memorial University of Newfoundland, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 4:

Nobody's invited; everybody just comes. And there's no real planning, because the folks that come bring food and music with them. There are fiddles and squeezeboxes and ugly sticks and sometimes even drums to make the music.

2010, Penny Draper, “Bella”, in Laura Peetoom, editor, A Terrible Roar of Water (Disaster Strikes; 5), Regina, Sask.: Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 57:

A lot of you know what it is. It's an ugly stick. And you can see why. [laughter] Anyway, basically what it is is an old mop, or a new one if you're playing at the Arts and Culture Centre [prolonged laughter and clapping.] And it's an old juice can with some black tape over it. A handful of three and a half inch nails. Some felt tins, beer stoppers, wherever they came from [laughter], and that's about it, and it's supposed to make some music.

2011 December, Annie Rosalind McEwen, quoting Doug Dunne, “The Concert”, in “There Was More Strength in Singing”: Community, Identity, and the Performance of Memory in the Folk of the Sea Choir, 1994–2000 (unpublished Master of Arts thesis), St. John’s, N.L.: Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-28, pages 64–65:

In the main room a traditional Newfoundland band was playing regional folk music. People were dancing and singing and having the best time. Everyone looked so happy as they passed around the "Ugly Stick," a traditional musical instrument made from household and tool shed items like a mop handle with bottle caps, tin cans, small bells and other items to make noise. […] I'm not sure I've ever felt happier than I did while I was banging the boot with the stick attached on the floor, the nailed on bottle caps clinking to the rhythm of the folk song the band was playing.

2017, Patti Leo Bath, “Keeping Up with the Newfies”, in Amy Newmark, Janet Matthews, compilers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spirit of Canada: 101 Stories of Love and Gratitude, Cos Cob, Conn.: Chicken Soup for the Soul, →ISBN, part 5 (We’re All in This Together), page 172:

(Canada, music) A traditional Newfoundland musical instrument fashioned from household and toolshed items, typically a mop handle attached with bottle caps, small bells, tin cans, etc., which are struck with a drumstick while one end of the handle is hit against the floor.


spring salmon

spring salmon (plural spring salmons or spring salmon)

spring salmons (plural)
spring salmon (plural)

(Canada) A chinook salmon; especially an average-sized one (less than 13.5 kg).


mountain man

In the frost-stunted birch forests on the Siberian border, sturdy, windburned mountain men trap beaver and pan for gold.

1963, Loren Fessler, The Editors of LIFE, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (LIFE World Library), New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:

(Canada, US, historical) A male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness.


silver alert

Introduced in 2005 by Oklahoma state representative Fred Perry, modelled on amber alert. Silver suggests the grey hair of elderly people; compare silver fox.

(US, Canada) A public notification of a missing person, especially a senior with dementia.


chartered accountant

chartered accountant (plural chartered accountants)

(Canada) A member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants


blue corn

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(Canada, US) A variety of corn with dark bluish grains.


riding association

riding association (plural riding associations)

(Canada) A local wing of a federal, provincial, or (in Yukon) territorial political party, consisting of the members of the party living in one riding, legally recognized by the relevant electoral authority, and conducting local partisan actions such as nominating the party's candidate for elections.


In states that have passed NIL-related laws – Alabama, Florida and Georgia, among others – athletes would be able to participate in NIL activities that are “consistent with the laws.”

2021 June 28, Homero De la Fuente, “NCAA takes big step toward allowing athletes to profit from name, image or likeness”, in CNN:

(law, US, Canada) Initialism of name, image, and likeness.


hate-boner

hate-boners (plural)
hate boner (alternative)
hateboner (alternative)

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Nothing makes liberals sport a hate-boner more than the word oil.

2011 September 30, Kevin Moser, “Don't fear the pipeline, trust expert's opinion”, in Daily Nebraskan, volume 111, number 30, Lincoln: University of Nebraska, page 6:

Roxy is a pretty liberal gal, and so while rape porn is kinda tacky and gross, she doesn't have a raging feminist hate-boner for it.

2012 April 23, “Roxy Heart”, in Salient, volume 75, number 6, Victoria University of Wellington, page 23:

I voted for Obama in 2008, for much the same reason I would vote for a candidate that didn't sell his soul to a core group of slobbering maniacs with hate-boners for welfare.

2012 November 8, Josh Ruffin, “The Wasteland”, in Metro Spirit, volume 23, number 44, page 6:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) An intense and enthralling feeling of hatred for someone or something.


momzilla

momzillas (plural)
Momzilla (alternative)

From mom + -zilla (suffix forming nouns suggesting a monster or a thing of extremely large size or great destructiveness, from the fictional monster Godzilla).

suffix

suffix forming nouns suggesting a monster or a thing of extremely large size or great destructiveness, from the fictional monster <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Godzilla</i>

"I've definitely got more boy energy going on right now," she [Sally Norvell] admits. "For one thing, I've got a four-year-old boy who I have to run around and play Godzilla with all day long." She chuckles. "I'm Momzilla."

[1996 November, Kurt B. Reighley, “Congo Norvell: Music to Disremember Him by”, in Scott Frampton, editor, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 39, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

I tried to breathe, but it was too late. Momzilla had emerged. I could feel her low rumbling growl as she straightened up that last nerve. [...] Momzilla heard the children in the background promising never to be clowns again if Mommy would just come back. Momzilla took a slow deep breath, and then another. As Momzilla returned to the cage that I keep her in, I noticed how cute my little clowns were.

2002, Elisa Morgan, Carol Kuykendall, “Monster Mom: Real Moms Get Angry”, in Real Moms: Exploding the Myths of Motherhood, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, part 1 (Myths about Me), page 55:

It's never too early to become a Momzilla. Momzillas are mothers whose lives are defined by their children, and more specifically, by their children's accomplishments.

2005, Judith Newman, You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New Mother, New York, N.Y.: Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 70:

It was embarrassing and stupid and yet, once bridezilla became momzilla, no power in the Universe could derail me from my mission of toddler birthday terror.

2006, Sheri Lynch, “The Surly Llama”, in Be Happy or I’ll Scream!: My Deranged Quest for the Perfect Husband, Family, and Life, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, published February 2007, →ISBN, page 62:

Serena's transformation from sexy executive to momzilla had been swift and ugly. The more involved she became with the children, the more she squeezed him out of their lives.

2009, Karen Quinn, “Elliott”, in The Sister Diaries, London: Pocket Books, →ISBN:

In the past, Ali had found the term "bridezilla" mildly amusing, but when it came to dealing with an Edie who had suddenly morphed into what could only be called the bride's "momzilla"? That wasn't amusing in the least.

2014, J[udith] A[nn] Jance, “A Last Goodbye: An Ali Reynolds Novella”, in Moving Target: […], 1st Touchstone hardcover edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

But difficult clients did suck some of the joy out of her job. Everyone talked about Bridezillas, but in Anne's opinion Momzillas were ten times worse. And she was sure Seattle had ten times more Momzillas per capita than any other city in the country.

2015, Sheila Roberts, chapter 1, in A Wedding on Primrose Street, Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, →ISBN, page 9:

(Canada, US, humorous, informal) A controlling or overinvolved mother.


assholehood

These douchebags have reached a whole new level of assholehood.

2013, Eugene Patrick Ruisi, Polyxenburgh - Page 383:

(Canada, US, derogatory, slang, rare) The state or condition of being an asshole.


Dixie cup

Dixie cups (plural)
Dixie Cup (alternative)
dixie cup (alternative)

Originally a brand name, first used in 1919, after a line of dolls made by Alfred Schindler's Dixie Doll Company in New York.

One day I was looking at a little girl eating a Dixie cup of strawberry ice cream.

2010, Carol D. Levine, Panic Child: A Harrowing True Story of Sexual Abuse, →ISBN, page 55:

(Canada, US) A disposable paper cup, sometimes waxed, especially used for individual servings of iced desserts.


beefsteak tomato

en-noun

beefsteak tomato (plural beefsteak tomatoes)


pizza parlour

pizza parlours (plural)
pizza parlor (alternative)

(Australia, Canada, UK) a pizzeria (a pizza restaurant)


jacklight

* jack + light. Probably from jack (“a male servant of any rank”), later associated with a boy servant or any boy, and later still with a knave: a rogue, thief, or deceitful man.
* Possibly also related to Spanish jaque (“a bully”).

It was a long, low roadster, with a jacklight.

1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 19:

(Canada, US) A spotlight or lamp mounted on a car, boat or pole, etc. to aid in hunting.


jacklight

en-verb

jacklight (third-person singular simple present jacklights, present participle jacklighting, simple past and past participle jacklighted or jacklit)

jacklights (present singular third-person)
jacklighting (participle present)
jacklighted (participle past)
jacklighted (past)
jacklit (participle past)
jacklit (past)

(hunting, US, Canada) To shine a jacklight or spotlight on an animal, usually a deer, to aid in hunting at night.


ass-pull

ass-pulls (plural)
ass pull (alternative)
asspull (alternative)

From ass + pull, from the phrase pull out of one's ass.

Ah, you "believe". You do not know. So you admit that it's just wishful thinking, an ass pull not based on any facts.

2009 July 9, charlesgriffman, “Re: e360 vs Spamhaus decision ?”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet):

And there's no reason I see to believe either of these numbers is anything but an ass-pull.

2011 January 2, Matthew Russotto, “Re: OT: going green”, in comp.sys.mac.system (Usenet):

Even if we ignore the total ass-pull of super powers for Madoka, we still get a resolution that is no better than "it was all a dream".

2011 April 22, Dave Baranyi, “Re: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - 11 & 12 - final comments - no real spoilers”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) A hastily fabricated explanation or contrived plot twist.


nosebleed section

en-noun

nosebleed section (plural nosebleed sections)

A jocularly hyperbolic allusion to the tendency of high altitude to cause or aggravate nosebleeds.

Meronym: nosebleed seat

'Nor do I have a family box: it's the upper gallery for me, what we call the nosebleed section.

2001, Sara Paretsky, Total Recall, →OCLC:

(Canada, US) The seats high in the back of bleachers, stands, or the balcony at a theater or stadium, usually cheaper and with a poorer view than other seats.


mombie

A mombie is a woman who "changes" after having a baby. She's been brainwashed by motherhood, […]. She loves nothing more than joining an army of other mombies, so don't be surprised if your old friend-turned-mombie begins to spend her time primarily with other mombies who are all covered in some kind of murky baby secretion.

2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents, →ISBN:

The woman who used to start the day with a Spin class with Suzanne turned into a mombie—a mom zombie who was a shadow of her former self. Showering was no longer important. Why bother?

2016, Suzanne Riss, Jill Sockwell, The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or simply obsessed, and hence zombie-like.


recreation room

recreation room (plural recreation rooms)

Holonyms: house, home, residence, dwelling

Near-synonyms: den, family room

The recreation room. One of the broadcast receivers which are provided at all L.M.S.R. trainmen's hostels is seen in the background.

1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Hostels for Trainmen”, in Railway Magazine, page 92, photo caption:

(US, Australia, Canada) A room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use.


time bank

time banks (plural)
timebank (alternative)

In British Columbia, where an employee requests it in writing, and employer may establish a time bank for the employee and credit overtime wages to the time bank instead of paying them to the employee.

2005, Theo Anne Opie, HR for Controllers:

(Canada) A system in which an employer keeps track of overtime hours that can later be redeemed as either money or as time off with pay.


toe biter

toe biters (plural)
toe-biter (alternative)

Referring to the powerful bite containing proteolytic enzymes.

(Canada, US) A large aquatic true bug with pincer-like front legs, Lethocerus americanus


Dominion Day

(Canada, historical) Canada Day (before being renamed in 1982)


panel truck

(US, Canada) A small delivery truck with a fully enclosed body.


wemistikoshiw

From Cree, literally "he has a wooden boat", from ᒥᐢᑎᑯᓯ (mistikosi)/mistikosi (“wooden boat”).

We are crying, looking at one another. A small group of wemistikoshiw gathers and stares at us.

2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 6:

Sister Wesley said we needed the building to protect us from other wemistikoshiw men who live a long way away, who are called the Soviets.

2014, Edmund Metatawabin, Up Ghost River:

(Canada) Among the Cree, a non-Native American person; a white man.


best-by date

best before date
best before date#English

(Canada, US) Synonym of best before date.


butt lover

butt lovers (plural)
buttlover (alternative)

(Canada, US, slang) A person who is physically attracted to people's buttocks.


Suckerville

(Canada, US, figurative) A location full of gullible people.


vinarterta

(Canada) A dessert of cake with layers of prune filling.


back lane

Near-synonym: bylane

(British, Canada) An alleyway that runs behind a row of houses, or between rows of houses.


fall supper

(Canada) An autumn fundraising dinner held by a community or church; fowl supper.


liquor commission

liquor commission (plural liquor commissions)

(Canada) A provincial agency that regulates the distribution and sales of alcoholic beverages.


beer bash

(Canada) An afternoon social organized by college students, typically with dancing and beer sold to raise funds.


home-and-home

The USA won the home-and-home series with the Italians, entering the World Cup through a side door

2012 January 17, Vicki Michaels, “After 'humbling' loss, U.S. women's soccer team is cautious”, in USA Today:

(Canada, US, sports) (British, obsolete) Of a series of two games: having one game played at each competitor's home ground.


home-and-home

BYU will host Mississippi State on October 15, 2016. Mississippi State will host the second half of the home-and-home on October 14, 2017.

2015 March 20, Kevin McGuire, “Dates set for BYU-Mississippi State home-and-home series”, in NBC Sports:

(Canada, US, sports) A home-and-home series.


beave

She was too wrapped up in regaling them with an amusing story from her freshman year when one of the senior girls got tired of Mr. Stephenson's constant quest to see her beave and came to school wearing a strap on penis...a really big one.

(chiefly Canada, US, slang) Alternative form of beav.


Duo-Tang

Duo-Tangs (plural)
duotang (alternative)
duo-tang (alternative)

From the trademark Duo-Tang, registered in 1962 by the Duo-Tang company.

genericized trademark
genericized trademark

(Canada, genericized trademark) A folder with flexible metal fasteners.


gas and dash

gas and dashes (plural)
gas-and-dash (alternative)

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Everyone in Ontario who owns a 2002 to 2006 Nissan Altima will be contacted under an intense police investigation now under way to find the driver responsible for a deadly gas-and-dash theft.

2011 June 8, Bob Mitchell, “‘We will find you,’ police warn driver in gas-and-dash death”, in Toronto Star, Canada:

[A] private member’s bill . . . would compel drivers to prepay for all gas purchases. . . . [S]ince British Columbia put a similar law in place, gas-and-dashes have ceased.

2012 October 16, Timothy Appleby, “Crime Stoppers launches ‘gas and dash’ awareness campaign”, in Globe and Mail, Canada:

In the late evening of March 27, 2014 RCMP Innisfail received a complaint of theft of fuel (gas and dash) from the Penhold Fas Gas.

2014 March 28, “Innisfail RCMP Investigate Gas and Dash”, in www.albertapolicereport.ca, Canada, archived from the original on 2016-03-07:

(informal, Canada, US) The criminal act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.


gas and dash

en-verb

gas and dash (third-person singular simple present gasses and dashes or gases and dashes, present participle gassing and dashing, simple past and past participle gassed and dashed)

gasses and dashes (present singular third-person)
gases and dashes (present singular third-person)
gassing and dashing (participle present)
gassed and dashed (participle past)
gassed and dashed (past)
gas-and-dash (alternative)

Starting July 1, Kansas motorists who repeatedly gas and dash could lose their driver's licenses.

2000 June 23, “Gas-and-dash thefts rise with high fuel prices”, in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, US: Associated Press:

With the price of gas up 26% over the past year . . . too many Americans are filling up without paying up.

2005 August 16, Logan Orlando, “Don't Try to Gas and Dash”, in Time, US:

(informal, Canada, US) To commit such an act.


matrimonial cake

en-noun

matrimonial cake (plural matrimonial cakes)

(Canada) A cake made with cooked dates and an oatmeal crumb topping.


go underground

en-verb

go underground (third-person singular simple present goes underground, present participle going underground, simple past went underground, past participle gone underground)

goes underground (present singular third-person)
going underground (participle present)
went underground (past)
gone underground (participle past)

(intransitive, especially of an animal, chiefly Canada, US) To escape into a burrow, hole, etc. when being hunted.

(figurative, by extension, chiefly Canada, US) To hide from public view or sequester oneself, especially when authorities, members of the news media, or others are looking for one.


butt-huggers

She left a note on Ray's butt-huggers saying, 'Buy new underwear.'

2002, Bryan Richards, Triopia and the Burden of Excess, →ISBN, page 112:

If you're wondering who to thank for the sight of Will Ferrell struggling through a psychotic episode on a speedway wearing only his butt huggers, wonder no more.

2010, Todd Aaron Jensen, On Gratitude, →ISBN, page 139:

(slang, vulgar) Men's briefs; underwear.


ass in a sling

en-noun

ass in a sling (usually uncountable, plural asses in slings or asses in a sling)

asses in slings (plural)
asses in a sling (plural)
arse in a sling (alternative)
butt in a sling (alternative)

I see our asses in a sling if we get caught, that's what I see.

1977, Smokey and the Bandit (film), screenplay, 10:21 (retrieved 24 July 2015)

Dempsey briefed senior HUD officials on federal ethics rules in early 1981, he said, "and most of those who later got their ass in a sling sat there and ignored it."

1986 April 27, Howard Kurtz, “Reagan's People: Issues of Propriety”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-07-24:

I think that kind of breathless egotism deserves little more than to limp home with its arse in a sling.

1995 December 19, Alex Sharkey, “Dear Roger Mear”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-07-24:

[T]he bullpen's continued ineffectiveness has to fall on John Mozeliak. . . . If it ends up with Johnny Mo's ass in a sling, so be it.

2011 June 15, Aaron Schafer, “Cardinals Still Struggling to Spell Relief”, in Riverfront Times, retrieved 2015-07-24:

[Frank Sinatra] asked me what I was doing. I said, "The usual. Making pictures. You?" He said, "The usual. Getting my ass in a sling."

2013 July, Ava Gardner, Peter Evans, “Three Men and a Goddess”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 2015-07-24:

(Canada, US, informal, vulgar) An uncomfortable personal state of affairs involving injury, defeat, or other trouble, especially a state of affairs resulting from one's own ill-considered actions.


North Van

(Canada, informal) Synonym of North Vancouver (a city in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada, north of Vancouver, east of West Vancouver, on the north shore of the Fraser River delta)


grey power

The outstanding example of grey power in action is the AARP—once known as the American Association of Retired Persons. This is probably the most influential lobbying set-up in the world.

2002 September 15, Luke Johnson, “The silver revolution is here”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-07-28:

Grey power is increasing its influence over the world's tourism industry—and with a new nickname. If you're over 60 and have the time, the inclination and the funds to travel, you're now a "bloomer", according to a British holiday company.

2004 March 20, “Late 'bloomers' catch travel bug”, in Illawarra Mercury, Australia, retrieved 2015-07-28:

If you needed any proof that grey power rules Maritime politics, check out the party platforms in the Nova Scotia provincial election. . . . Sure, dead people don’t vote, the party reasons. But pensioners do.

2009 May 21, “It’s 1 a.m. Do you know where your kids are?”, in Macleans magazine, Canada, retrieved 2015-07-28:

(chiefly UK, Canada, Australia, idiomatic) The collective political, economic, and social influence of senior citizens, especially when they are mobilized by a common interest.


go to the washroom

en-verb

go to the washroom (third-person singular simple present goes to the washroom, present participle going to the washroom, simple past went to the washroom, past participle gone to the washroom)

goes to the washroom (present singular third-person)
going to the washroom (participle present)
went to the washroom (past)
gone to the washroom (participle past)

(Canada, euphemistic) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a washroom.


use the washroom

use the washroom (third-person singular simple present uses the washroom, present participle using the washroom, simple past and past participle used the washroom)

uses the washroom (present singular third-person)
using the washroom (participle present)
used the washroom (participle past)
used the washroom (past)


stick up one's ass

have a stick up one's ass

My parents […] had been decently off at some time in the past, but all that remained by the time I came along was a certain New Englandy Puritan sense of respectability. […] I've inherited it. As much as I've tried to fight it, when you're born with a stick up your ass, you die with a stick up your ass.

2009, Don Nigro, Gorgons and Other Plays, →ISBN, page 47:

President Adrian Kantor, whom […] Sandy often referred to as a "prissy do-gooder with a stick up his ass," credited Sanderson & Dunn with his swift ascent from the House to the Senate to the White House.

2014, Jay Giles, chapter 1, in Moneymoon's End, →ISBN:

He was too straight-laced to appreciate piercings and tattoos. If he could manage to keep future comments to himself, she wouldn't have any reason to mention the stick up his ass.

2015, Tara Mills, chapter 2, in Going Solo, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, vulgar, derogatory, figuratively) A stiff, stern, uptight, or humorless manner.


pickle up one's ass

stick up one's ass
stick up one's ass#English

(Canada, US, vulgar, figuratively) Synonym of stick up one's ass.


penny tray

(Canada, US) A tray or dish found in small stores for convenience in cash transactions, allowing customers to discard unwanted pennies received in their change, or to take a penny for a transaction.


on the road

(US, Canada, sports) At the venue of an opposing team or competitor.


talk out of one's ass

talk out of one's ass (third-person singular simple present talks out of one's ass, present participle talking out of one's ass, simple past and past participle talked out of one's ass)

talks out of one's ass (present singular third-person)
talking out of one's ass (participle present)
talked out of one's ass (participle past)
talked out of one's ass (past)
talk out of one's arse (alternative UK)

"We looked it up," Colbert said. "And the Department of Environmental does not exist, meaning Trump is either talking out of his ass or he's already eliminated it."

2016 April 7, Brendan Gauthier, “‘Talking out of his ass’: Stephen Colbert loses patience with Donald Trump’s ignorance”, in salon.com, retrieved 2017-12-06:

(Canada, US, idiomatic, vulgar) To exaggerate, lie, or speak nonsense.


derouine

derouines (plural)
derouin (alternative)
drouine (alternative)

St Germain &co returned from a Derouine L.L.P. [Rainy Lake] & R.L. [Red Lake] The Indians [arrived] with Two hundred Skins all good Furs, and the best Derouine ever made at the Panbian River.

a. 1824, The Publications of the Champlain Society:

From this view of the case it will appear that the surest plan by which to draw from the Chilcotins all the benefit of which their country is susceptible will be by attending to them by the means of Derouins and by endeavouring to make them resume the intercourse which they formerly held with Alexandria […]

1830, William Connolly, Letter to George Simpson:

Arrived at Sunsett at Alexandria, where find Mr. Fisher and all his people safe and well […] three derouines were made to the Chilcotins, and produced about 3 Packs […]

At present the bulk of the returns ostensibly yielded by the Chilcotins are procured at Tluz-cuz by drouine parties sent thither […]

1843, A. C. Anderson, Letter to George Simpson:

Two of my men returned from derouine well loaded with furs. I had the curiosity to count the Assiniboine dog travailles, and found no fewer than 230.

1897, Alexander Henry, New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry ..., page 579:

(fur trade, Canada, historical) An expedition made to First Nations camps or villages for trade rather than waiting for the natives to come to the forts, often involving wintering in the camps.


garbage day

(Canada, US) The day of the week when people place their rubbish outside to be collected by garbagemen.


fish cop

(US, Canada, slang) An officer of a fish and wildlife conservation commission.


gravel road cop

en-noun

gravel road cop (plural gravel road cops)

A humorous reinterpretation of French GRC (Gendarmerie Royale du Canada), in reference to the remote rural areas where such people often work.

(Canada, slang) An officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.


Armistice Day

From being the day on which the armistice of World War I was signed.

Ημέρα Ανακωχής

11th November, the anniversary of the signing of the armistice agreement to end World War I, commemorating the fallen of that war.

(Canada) Former name of Remembrance Day.


two cents' worth

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two pennies' worth
two pennies' worth#English

(chiefly US and Canada) Synonym of two pennies' worth.


asshair

asshair (countable and uncountable, plural asshairs)

Can you be a cat's asshair more specific?

(countable) A tiny amount; a whit; a jot.


code blue

(Canada, US, medicine) The condition of the occurrence of a medical emergency.

code

to experience a code blue situation in a patient

code blue • code brown • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow


code red

code red (countable and uncountable, plural code reds)

(Canada, US, medicine) The condition on the occurrence of a fire at the medical facility.

(Canada, US) An extrajudicial punishment.


code brown

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(Canada, US, medicine) The condition of the occurrence of a hazmat situation at a medical facility.


buy when it snows, sell when it goes

buy when it snows and sell when it goes (alternative)

There is a phenomenon in stock market investment known as "seasonality." In Canada we sometimes summarize it with the epithet "Buy when it snows, sell when it goes."

2007 May 10, Peter McKenzie-Brown, “Sell in May and Stay Away!”, in Language Matters, retrieved 2015-10-13:

Most years, he says, investors can make money by simply holding broad indices, such as the S&P 500 and Canada's S&P/TSX Composite, from Oct. 28 to May 5, when they tend to make most of their gains, and then selling. If that's too hard to remember, Vialoux has a handy catch phrase: “Buy when it snows! Sell when it goes!”

2010 October 21, Paul Marshman, “Buy when it snows, sell when it goes!”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-13:

According to Carlo R. Besenius, CEO of Creative Global Investments in Luxembourg, the trade, known as "buy when it snows, sell when it goes," was profitable in 53 of the past 61 periods. In a recent note, he pointed out that Munich, Geneva, Luxembourg, and Calgary had their first snowfall on Sunday, Oct. 28. He credits annual recurring events such as transactions for tax purposes and the holidays, among others.

2012 November 3, Robin Goodwin Blumenthal, “Season for Stocks: Let It Snow, Let It Snow?”, in Barron's, retrieved 2015-10-13:

(business, stock market, chiefly northern US and Canada) Stock market securities can be expected to increase in value to a greater degree in the cold winter months from November through April than in the warm months from May through October, and profit-minded investors should manage their portfolios accordingly.


CCAA

(Canada, law, finance) Initialism of Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (“the act controlling bankruptcy in Canada”).

Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act

LACC (loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies)


cawk

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(slang, Canada, US) Pronunciation spelling of cock (“penis”).


break ass

en-verb

break ass (third-person singular simple present breaks ass, present participle breaking ass, simple past broke ass, past participle broken ass)

breaks ass (present singular third-person)
breaking ass (participle present)
broke ass (past)
broken ass (participle past)

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) To flatulate; to fart.


new normal

The new normal for this country is simply to survive economically.

However, the abnormal condition may last for a few years, and the tendency to return to the former balance may never be more than partially realized. That is to say, the abnormal situation may persist until it becomes a new normal.

1922 August, B. H. Hibbard, “Effect of Change of Price of Produce on Intensity of Cultivation”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume XXXVI, number 4, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 659:

Well, it is a fact that in most of the food businesses your sales have increased very greatly in the past few years. Whether this is a permanent new level, and whether we are some day going back to what we call a normal level or did call a normal level, I do not know. Maybe this is a new normal and, of course, there is a lag between the time farm products go down, and the time that a processed food product goes down, and the length of that time lag is dependent upon the complexity of the processes through which the basic commodity goes, until it reaches the form in which it gets to the consumer.

1949 December 14, George H. Coppers (witness), “Statement of George H. Coppers, President, National Biscuit Co.; Accompanied by George A. Mitchell, Vice President, and E. W. Barto, General Counsel”, in Utilization of Farm Crops: Price Spreads: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1950, →OCLC, page 1107:

Clothing styles lead us quickest into new normals and out of old ones, as we can see quite readily by looking over the pictures in old magazines and books.

1954 February 26, Thomas G. Walters (witness), “Statement of Thomas G. Walters, Operations Director, Government Employees’ Council”, in Fringe Benefits for Federal Employees: Hearings before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session on S. 2665 […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 105:

I hope you will comply willingly; it will speed the day when I can bow out and life can get back to normal—a new normal, free of the Authority, free of guards, free of troops stationed on us, free of passports and searches and arbitrary arrests.

1966 June 2, Robert A[nson] Heinlein, chapter 14, in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2 (A Rabble in Arms), page 152:

After nine months of pregnancy, I'm sure you're ready to call your body your own and return to normal. The truth is, you probably won't feel "normal" for a while, especially if you're nursing. Even then, your new normal may turn out to be somewhat different from your old normal. […] Your body deserves time and attention during the weeks and months after your baby's birth so it can create the new normal as quickly and comfortably as possible.

2000, Sheryl Gurrentz, “Section 3: Dealing with Physical Changes”, in The Guilt-free Guide to Your New Life As a Mom: Practical Ways to Take Care of Yourself, Your Life & Your Baby—All at the Same Time, Glendale, Calif.: Perspective Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:

But scientists involved in the effort warned that squabbling among teams and government representatives from more than 100 countries – over how to portray the probable amount of sea-level rise during the 21st century – could distract from the basic finding that a warming world will be one in which shrinking coastlines are the new normal for centuries to come.

2007 January 30, James Kanter, Andrew C. Revkin, “World scientists near consensus on warming”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-22:

The exhibit concluded with the statement about what the modern world owes to the Age of Revolution. It claims that the Age of Revolution “created several ‘new normals’,” among them that “slavery was fundamentally inhuman and had to be abolished”; […] But of course, these were not “normals” for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and are still not “normals” in much of the world today.

2018, Alan J. Singer, “Politics of Historical Memory”, in New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 165:

How should we respond to the new normal? China's economic development is now in the new normal. This conclusion is drawn from analyzing the world economic cycle, China's development stage, and the interaction between the two. This conclusion has been widely recognized by the rest of the world. According to the IMF [International Monetary Fund], China's economic development is in the new normal, so is global economic development.

2018, Xi Jinping, “The New Normal: How to Respond and Adapt”, in [anonymous], transl., The Governance of China, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, section I, page 261:

For a while, therefore, it looked like the great heat wave would be like mass shootings in the United States—mourned by all, deplored by all, and then immediately forgotten or superseded by the next one, until they came in a daily drumbeat and became the new normal.

2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 6, in The Ministry for the Future, London: Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

Representative Joe Neguse of Colorado said mass shootings could not be the "new normal."

2021 March 23, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Jenny Gross, “Suspect charged with 10 counts of murder in Boulder, Colo., shooting”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-23:

Extreme heat in the world's oceans passed the "point of no return" in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research.

2022 February 1, Damian Carrington, “Extreme heat in oceans ‘passed point of no return’ in 2014”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-30:

It's becoming the new normal on a network with far too many trains being cancelled, and too many cancelled at short notice causing chaos for commuters and local communities.

2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Network news: TPE under fire over ‘unacceptable’ cancellations”, in Rail, number 970, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

(originally chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic) A current prevailing situation which has emerged recently, that differs dramatically from the previous one and is expected to remain.


equalization payment

en-noun

equalization payment (plural equalization payments)

Ontario may soon be classed as a "have-not" province and receive equalization payments for the first time in its history.

2008 February 26, “Opinion: Ontario to join "have-nots"?”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

Six “have-not” provinces are splitting $15.4 billion in equalization payments in 2012-13.

2012 October 10, Jason Fekete, “‘Controversial’ overhaul of transfer payments under study by federal government”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

People whose provinces receive equalization payments are largely in denial about living in have-not regions, a poll suggests.

2015 April 22, Brian Daly, “Most have-not provinces in denial about getting equalization: Poll”, in Toronto Sun, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

(Canada, government) Extra money transferred from the federal government to a province, drawn from general tax revenue and intended to redistribute some wealth from relatively prosperous provinces to relatively poor provinces.

transfer payment

(Canada) money transferred from the federal government to a province

The court set aside a trial judge's decision from 2007 that required Harold Serra to make an "equalization payment" of $3.3 million to his former wife.

2009 February 5, Tracey Tyler, “Hard times alter rules on divorce, court says”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

In places like Manitoba and Ontario, where the distribution of family assets upon marriage breakdown is done through an equalization payment based on the value of what both spouses’ own, the claim can be extinguished through a discharge from bankruptcy.

2011 July 14, Christine Dobby, “Divorce payment unenforceable after bankruptcy: SCC”, in Financial Post, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

[T]he impact of income taxes shapes the size and type of assets that are transferred between spouses. So, carefully consider them when splitting assets as part of an equalization payment.

2013 January 23, Frank Di Pietro, “Minimize tax on marriage breakdown”, in advisor.ca, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

(Canada, law) In a divorce agreement, a payment made by one spouse to the other in order to create an equal division of assets.


for $500, Alex

From the US game show Jeopardy!, formerly hosted by Alex Trebek.

I'll take things that never happened for $500, Alex. (Meaning you are guessing the event the speaker is referencing never actually happened.)

(humorous, Canada, US) This is my guess.


captain save a hoe

Either coined in, or popularized by, the 1993 song of the same name by American rapper E-40 (Earl Stevens).

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A man who spends an excessive amount of effort and money trying to please a woman, usually a promiscuous one, who doesn't really appreciate this, or doesn't particularly care about him.


rubbing alcohol

rubbing alcohol (usually uncountable, plural rubbing alcohols)

(Canada, US) Synonym of surgical spirit.


welfare bum

The program also can shatter once and for all that "welfare bum" myth that has served as an excuse to avoid obligation and sacrifice to aid unfortunate people.

1971 June 22, “New Welfare Plan”, in Palm Beach Post, US, retrieved 2015-11-09, page A14:

Welfare has long been scorned by those who see only the "welfare bum," able to work but preferring to sit home and collect a government check.

1982 May 25, “Making Welfare Work”, in Schenectady Gazette, US, retrieved 2015-11-09, page 26:

Marin, who receives $576 a month in family benefits, says she has to get groceries from a food bank every month to survive. . . . "The other kids tell my kid: ‘Your mother's a welfare bum.’"

1986 November 14, Jacquie Miller, “Single mothers use song, skit to plead for higher family benefits”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09, page 26:

He also told Sewap to “get a job and stop being a welfare bum.”

2014 December 1, Larissa Burnouf, “Saskatoon landlord tells First Nations woman to kill herself when applying for apartment”, in APTN News, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09:

(informal, Canada and US, derogatory) A person whose source of income is government public assistance payments, especially one who is lazy and unwilling to work.


corporate welfare bum

corporate welfare bum (plural corporate welfare bums)

Coined in 1972 by Canadian labor leader and politician David Lewis (1909-1981).

[A]nother $8 million went to keep alive Quebecair, a corporate welfare bum if ever there was one.

1983 April 29, "End welfare dithering," Montreal Gazette (Canada), p. B-2 (retrieved 9 Nov 2015)

Meanwhile: every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for.

2011, Cory Doctorow, Context, →ISBN, page 113:

Elon Musk . . . is also — and this you read less about — a serial, almost kleptomaniacal, corporate welfare bum whose greatest talent seems to be sucking at the U.S. government’s teat for personal gain and glory.

2015 May 11, David Booth, “The Tesla secret Elon Musk doesn’t want you to know”, in Driving, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09:

Corporate welfare bum Bombardier is already demanding a billion more dollars in corporate bailouts from Trudeau’s Liberals.

2015 Nov. 4, Ezra Levant, "Liberal conundrum: Side with their anti-airport Toronto MPs? Or “corporate welfare bum” Bombardier?," ezralevant.com (Canada), (retrieved 9 Nov 2015)

(chiefly Canada, idiomatic, derogatory) A business corporation or business executive receiving significant financial assistance from government sources.

David Lewis (politician)
Peter Desbarats


person of interest

person of interest (plural persons of interest or people of interest)

persons of interest (plural)
people of interest (plural)

Tice denies involvement in any conspiracy. . . . Still, Morgan says Tice and "three or four other people" remain "persons of interest" in the investigation.

2009 August 22, Tim Padgett, “The Pensacola Adoptive Couple's Murder: A Hit?”, in Time, retrieved 2015-11-19:

Abdellatif has been interviewed five times by Australian security services since the dropping of the charges and remains a "person of interest" to the federal police.

2013 September 26, “Sayed Abdellatif inquiry will report to Tony Abbott, who called him a 'jihadist'”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-11-19:

The 19-year-old man from a Phoenix suburb who was detained on Friday at a convenience store near Interstate 10 is a person of interest, but Bart Graves, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, declined to say what had led the police to question the man.

2015 September 12, “Police Rule Out Detained Man, 19, as Prime Suspect in Phoenix Freeway Shootings”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-11-19:

(law enforcement, chiefly Canada, US) Someone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but who has not been accused or charged by authorities nor been officially deemed to be a suspect.

persoa de interese

someone believed to have a connection to a crime or to possess important information relating to that crime

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PMQs

(Canada) Initialism of permanent married quarters.


Vansterdam

Blend of Vancouver + Amsterdam from the cannabis drug culture found in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, being comparable to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

(US, Canada, slang) Synonym of Vancouver (“city in British Columbia”).


Vamsterdam

(Canada, US, slang) Alternative form of Vansterdam.


West Van

(Canada, informal) West Vancouver (a city in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, north of Vancouver, west of North Vancouver, on the north shore of the Fraser River delta)


South Van

(Canada, informal) Synonym of South Vancouver (the districts of the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, which lie in the south of the city, next to the city of Richmond)


comajor

Instead, in addition to my molecular biology major, I was enrolled in a scientific philosophy comajor along with all other members of the honours program, leaving me with time to also do a psychology minor.

2015, Bryan Grieg Fry, Doctor Venom, →ISBN:

Dr. Gönen also received an MS in industrial engineering (1973) and a PhD comajor in industrial engineering (1978) from Iowa State University, as well as an MBA from the University of Oklahoma (1980).

2014, Turan Gonen, Electrical Power Transmission System Engineering, →ISBN:

(US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) One of multiple main areas of study of a student working toward a degree at an institute of tertiary education.


comajor

en-verb

comajor (third-person singular simple present comajors, present participle comajoring, simple past and past participle comajored)

comajors (present singular third-person)
comajoring (participle present)
comajored (participle past)
comajored (past)

(US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, intransitive) To concentrate on one of multiple areas of study as a student in a college or university.


mommyish

en-adj

mommyish (comparative more mommyish, superlative most mommyish)

more mommyish (comparative)
most mommyish (superlative)

(Canada, US, informal) motherly; maternal


arse is gone right out of 'er

We are about to leave the relative security of 2008. And about to enter what will be a desolate end to this decade. The arse has indeed gone clean out of 'er.

2008 Dec. 27, Ed Smith, "The arse is gone right out of 'er," The Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) (retrieved 20 Dec 2015)

Tracker: I got the lens working from 17 to 85mm, but aperture control and AF gave up the ghost. Just bought a replacement 17-85mm at Futureshop in St John's.
Oldguywithacamera: Yikes! Like the Newfs say, "The arse is gone right out of 'er" warranty?

2009 July 14, "So, gear failure (discussion in 'Photography')," at www.reality-check.ca (retrieved 20 Dec 2015)

Wayne: “The financial situation is so depressing I think we’re headed for total economic collapse.”
Kevin: “Da arse is gone right out of ‘er.”

2011 May 14, Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers, "Newfunese" (song lyrics) (retrieved 20 Dec 2015)

A vessel flying before the wind. That can be kind of a warm fuzzy metaphor, until the wind blows a gale and suddenly, "Now luh, da arse is gone right out of er."

2011 July 1, David Webber, "Who's in the back of the boat?," at thefreelibrary.com (retrieved 20 Dec 2015)

(Canada, Newfoundland English) Matters, especially economic matters, have gone very wrong; things are out of control.


Brazilian butt

(Canada, US, slang) Curvaceous, attractive female buttocks.


three sisters

A calque from an Iroquoian language, compare Mohawk áhsen nikontatenò:sen, Oneida áshʌnaɂtekutahnú·tele, and Onondaga ahsę́ naˀdegųdęhnų́·dæ·ˀ.
First attested in 1850 in the context of Iroquoian mythology (see quote below). Use in reference to the plants themselves first attested in the 1890s (see also below).

One beautiful idea relates to the corn, beans and squashes, all indigenous plants which are called three sisters as well as their life or supporters. The thought is a happy one, for they grow together, and were always important in Indian life.

[1892, William M. Beauchamp, “Iroquois Stories”, in The Iroquois Trail, or Footprints of the Six Nations, […] , Fayetteville: H. C. Beauchamp, →LCCN, page 128:

The three sisters work together as companion plants in many ways. Growing wide-spreading pumpkin vine among vertically oriented corn and beans saves space.

2012, Gail Damerow, The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

She gave me specifics on what to plant and the layout of the garden. Traditional Native American plants, heirloom varieties only, no GMOs allowed. Use the three sisters approach for planting corn, squash and beans, ilito onions would ring the interior of the fence and sunflowers would stand tall.

2012, Kathleen O’Dwyer, Breathing Blue: Giving my life to Spirit and Spirit to my life, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 151:

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

(US, Canada, agriculture, horticulture) The combination of maize (corn), pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris or climbing beans, string beans, etc.), and squash (i.e. pumpkin), especially when planted together in intertwined plantings.


trash fire

(slang, derogatory, chiefly Canada, US) Something which is very poorly done; a mess or fiasco.


social conservatism

(US, Canada) A conservative political philosophy, generally rooted in traditional Christian values and manifesting itself in opposition to drug use, birth control, abortion rights, same-sex marriage, and sexual permissiveness.


Scotch-Irish

(US, Canada) The descendants of Scottish settlers in the Irish province of Ulster.


butt stuff

(Canada, US, slang) Synonym of anal sex.


butt burp

(Canada, US, slang) Synonym of bottom burp.


truck nuts

(automobiles, US, Canada) plastic or metal accessories for pickup trucks and other vehicles which resemble a pair of dangling testicles


up to one's ass in alligators

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) Beset by multiple difficulties or adversaries that must be dealt with quickly.


smartassy

smartassy (comparative more smartassy, superlative most smartassy)

more smartassy (comparative)
most smartassy (superlative)

(Canada, US, informal) Synonym of smartassed.


butt virginity

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(Canada, US, informal) The state of never having received anal sex.


candy-assed

candy-assed (comparative more candy-assed, superlative most candy-assed)

more candy-assed (comparative)
most candy-assed (superlative)

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(slang, somewhat endearing, often humorous, sometimes vulgar, Canada, US) cowardly; timid; wimpy


gaylord

A genericized trademark from the Gaylord Container Corporation, a manufacturer of packaging materials.

They come sorted according to type, in large cardboard gaylord boxes (you'll see pumpkins in these containers at supermarkets) or shrink-wrapped on a pallet.

2009 May 30, Ellen Moorhouse, “Where old computers go to die”, in Toronto Star:

(Canada, US) A large carton that fits on a pallet, used for transporting goods.


pure quill

“Have you sampled the pure quill, Tull?”

“Damn,” she said, “he was the pure quill, wasn't he? Him and you and Pardee and McKinnick come here drunk as lords and sing hymns till you passed out.”

(chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The real thing, the genuine article.


relievio

(Canada) Alternative form of ringolevio.


cubic decimetre

en-noun

cubic decimetre (plural cubic decimetres)

cubic decimetres (plural)
cubic decimeter (alternative)

A unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one decimetre in length, equal to 10⁻³ cubic metres and 1 litre. Commonly used in fluid measure and for engine sizes.


stepmum

(UK, Australia, Canada, New England, informal) Stepmother.


is all

All you have to do is ask it the right question is all.

2011, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods, And Other Stories 2013, p. 128

“Rat poison. Mmm. A nice lingering death!” added Burt with a breathy laugh. “They just taste a bit funny afterwards, is all.”

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, colloquial) That is all; only, just and nothing more.


Triscuit

Marketing coinage, said to be from electricity and biscuit, though historical evidence is lacking; sources from around the time of its introduction interpreted the name to mean "thrice-cooked" (from tris-), like biscuit is ultimately from bis (“twice”) cuit (“cooked, baked”).

(US, Canada) A kind of wholewheat cracker.


robocaller

robocallers (plural)
robo caller (alternative)
robo-caller (alternative)

At first I thought it was some kind of robocaller, but last night I heard a TV in the background before whoever it was hung up.

(Canada, US, derogatory) The party that initiates a robocall.


red chamber

He hopes his life story – of the illiterate ex-hockey coach turned Conservative senator – can inspire others. Jacques Demers . . . is slated for a seat in the red chamber, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today.

2009 August 27, “Former NHL coach Demers headed to Senate”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 2016-04-20:

Harper announced Friday he will not appoint senators to a red chamber that already has 22 vacancies as long as the government can continue passing legislation.

2015 July 24, Jason Fekete, “Stephen Harper says he will not appoint any more senators to ‘unaccountable’ upper house”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 2016-04-20:

Seven new senators will soon take their seats in the Red Chamber, appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

2016 March 18, “How might an independent Senate work?”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 2016-04-20:

(Canada, politics, informal, sometimes capitalized) The assembly hall in which the Senate of Canada convenes; (metonymic) the Senate of Canada itself.


buttass

At least he isn't butt-ass ugly. He was probably the shit during his time. Look at him in his multi-colored, polyester suit. He's sharper than a tack.

2015, Teresa D. Patterson, Wolf in the Pulpit, page 194:

(Canada, US, slang, mildly vulgar) Synonym of very.


buttass

buttasses (plural)
butt-ass (alternative)

(Canada, US, humorous, slang, mildly vulgar) A term of abuse.


like a bitch

My shoulder itches like a bitch!

(slang, vulgar, chiefly Canada, US) A lot; a a great deal.


PCAT

Pharmacy College Admission Test
w:Pharmacy College Admission Test

(Canada, US, countable) Acronym of Pharmacy College Admission Test.


coproprietorship

coproprietorship (countable and uncountable, plural coproprietorships)

(Canada, Quebec, countable) A condominium.


resiliate

en-verb

resiliate (third-person singular simple present resiliates, present participle resiliating, simple past and past participle resiliated)

resiliates (present singular third-person)
resiliating (participle present)
resiliated (participle past)
resiliated (past)

From French résilier (“cancel, annul, invalidate”).

der

A lessee may resiliate the current lease if he is allocated a dwelling [...]. An employer may, where an employee ceases to be in his employ, resiliate a lease that is accessory to the contract of employment [...].

1989, Esten Kenneth Williams, F. W. Rhodes, Christopher Bentley, John McNair, Mavis Butkus, Marc Casavant, Canadian law of landlord and tenant:

One of the parties may, for a serious reason, unilaterally resiliate the contract ...

2003, Michał Seweryński, Collective Agreements and Individual Contracts of Employment, Kluwer Law International, →ISBN:

[...] Tremblay decided to give Normand notice on April 19, 2001, that it intended to resiliate the contract.

2012, John O. Haley, Fundamentals of Transnational Litigation: The United States, Canada, Japan, and The European Union, LexisNexis, →ISBN:

(Canada, law) To exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract.


annual ryegrass

en-noun

annual ryegrass (countable and uncountable, plural annual ryegrasses)

Any of various species of ryegrass, including:

(US, UK, Canada) Lolium multiflorum, grown as a cover crop


bathroom bill

His goal, he emphatically clarified, was to enact “an anti-discrimination bill,” “not a bathroom bill.”

2020, Alexander K. Davis, Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms.

(Canada, US, neologism) In particular, legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms by transgender individuals.


get one's ass handed to one

en-verb

get<,,got,gotten> one's ass handed to one

get one's ass handed to one (third-person singular simple present gets one's ass handed to one, present participle getting one's ass handed to one, simple past got one's ass handed to one, past participle gotten one's ass handed to one)

gets one's ass handed to one (present singular third-person)
getting one's ass handed to one (participle present)
got one's ass handed to one (past)
gotten one's ass handed to one (participle past)
get one's arse handed to one (alternative)

(vulgar, slang, Canada, US) To suffer an extraordinarily devastating defeat.


gotchies

It's well after midnight when the party breaks up and I return to my hotel. As I drift off to sleep there's a gentle tapping at my door. I stagger over in my gotchies and open up.

2019, Michael Mitchell, Final Fire: A Memoir:


PECA

Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island#English

(Canada) Initialism of Prince Edward Island Supreme Court, Appeal Division.


TCC

(Canada, law) Initialism of Tax Court of Canada.


Italian sausage

en-noun

Italian sausage (plural Italian sausages)

From being a common type of sausage in Italian cuisine.

(Canada, US, food, informal) A slightly spicy pork sausage flavoured with fennel and anise.


tater tot

Appellativisation of the trademark Tater Tot.

For sandwiches, you might sink your teeth into a Cape Cod reuben with crispy cod, Swiss and coleslaw with tater tots or sweet potato fries, fried chicken and waffle sandwich with maple aioli, or bacon jam burger — maple bourbon bacon jam, gorgonzola, fried egg, arugula, tomato.

2022 June 12, Lauren Daley, “How to eat through Blackstone Valley in a weekend”, in Boston Globe:

(Canada, US) A small cylindrical piece of grated potato, generally deep-fried.


continuing education

further education
further education#English

(US, Canada) Synonym of further education.


alpine saxifrage

alpine saxifrage (usually uncountable, plural alpine saxifrages)

(Canada, US) Micranthes nidifica (peak saxifrage)

Any of several plant of alpine habit
Micranthes nidifica (peak saxifrage)


dine and dash

dine and dashes (plural)
dine-and-dash (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dine and dash.wav

He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.

2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Canada, US, informal) The crime of eating a meal in a restaurant and leaving without paying.

eetpiraterij

leaving a restaurant without paying after eating


dine and dash

en-verb

dine and dash (third-person singular simple present dines and dashes, present participle dining and dashing, simple past and past participle dined and dashed)

dines and dashes (present singular third-person)
dining and dashing (participle present)
dined and dashed (participle past)
dined and dashed (past)
dine-and-dash (alternative)

(Canada, US, informal) To commit such an act.

吃霸王餐

to leave a restaurant without paying after eating

(étteremből) fizetés nélkül távozik/meglép/meglóg


Henson trust

After Leonard Henson of Guelph, Ontario, who set up an absolute discretionary trust that became the subject of a legal case.

(Canada, law, finance) A trust that protects the assets of a disabled person (typically an inheritance) and gives the trustee absolute discretion in how to use those assets to assist the beneficiary.


flat iron steak

en-noun

flat iron steak (plural flat iron steaks)

flat iron steaks (plural)
flat-iron steak (alternative)
flatiron steak (alternative)

(Canada, US) A tender, flavorful cut of beef from the shoulder of the steer.


Patriote

(Canada) Patriot (one of the devolution-of-power supporters in Lower Canada during the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838 (Patriots' War))


Loyalist

Patriot

antonym(s) of “person during the American Revolution”

republican

antonym(s) of “supporter of Irish unification”

(US, Canada, historical) A person from the 13 Colonies (of British North America from the eastern seaboard of mainland North America) who was in favor of remaining in the British Empire during the American Revolution.

United Empire Loyalist
w:United Empire Loyalist

(US, Canada, historical) Abbreviation of United Empire Loyalist.


assgasm

Many people are able to reach orgasm through anal penetration, called an “assgasm.” A female assgasm is a vaginal orgasm caused by stimulation or penetration of the anus, sometimes in combination with vaginal or clitoral stimulation.

2003 October 29, Christina Huff, “A Backdoor to Sexual Delight? Butt of Course!”, in The Daily Nexus:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar, rare) An orgasm derived from the penetration of the anus.


CANSOFCOM

Special Operations Force
special operations force#English

(Canada, military) Abbreviation of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command.


COMMARPAC

Unlike NORAD where a formally constituted bi-national command staff existed to handle emergencies, the bilateral naval organization, which was every bit as complex as that of NORAD but did not have the same history of political sensitivity, relied on liaison between the key headquarters: COMASWFORLANT in the United States and COMARLANT in Canada to deal with the Atlantic with a parallel structure on the Pacific through COMTHIRDFLT and COMMARPAC respectively.

2007, Peter T. Haydon, “Canadian Involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis Re-Reconsidered”, in The Northern Mariner, volume 17, number 2, CNRS & NASOH, →ISSN, page 62:

When I was assigned to COMMARPAC headquarters in 1973, it was for two reasons. The first was to get headquarters staff officer experience which helps your career down the road, and the second was I had some health issues and the flight surgeons wanted me out of the cockpit for a while.

2021, Lewis Allen Lambert, chapter 28, in On the 8th Day, God Created a Marine, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, maritime forces, Pacific.


CANMARPAC

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces, Pacific.


CANMARCOM

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces command.


Victor airway

From Victor (“the letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet”), short for VOR (“VHF omnidirectional range”).

(US, Canada, aviation) Any of a set of low-altitude airways defined as line segments, each based on a straight line between either two VOR (VHF omnidirectional range) stations, or a VOR and a VOR intersection.


leisure centre

leisure centres (plural)
leisure center (alternative)

(UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada) A building or site open to the public for fitness and sporting activities.


rain barrel

rain barrels (plural)
rainbarrel (alternative)
rain-barrel (alternative)

(Canada, US) A barrel used to collect and store rainwater runoff, typically from rooftops via gutters.


Twizzler

Brand name, established in the 1920s, from twizzle + -er.

Drive-in Party. Lug the TV into the backyard, pop a couple of videos into the VCR, and serve popcorn, sodas, and Twizzlers.

1997, Kim Goad, Magic Moments: A Busy Woman's Guide to Forgotten Pleasures:

Fill cars with candy; link together with Twizzlers.

2002, Parents, volume 77, numbers 5-8, page 230:

(US, Canada) A kind of chewy candy in the form of long twists.


mangia-cake

mangia-cakes (plural)
mangia cake (alternative)

Macaronic compound of Italian mangia (“eat”, imperative of mangiare) + cake, literally “cake eater”. Compare Italian mangiapatate, mangiapolenta, mangiarane and similar.

af

imperative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">mangiare</i>

(Canada, Italian-Canadian slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person who does not have Italian ancestry.


COC

(Canada, sports) Abbreviation of Canadian Olympic Committee.


donnybrookian

en-adj

donnybrookian (comparative more donnybrookian, superlative most donnybrookian)

more donnybrookian (comparative)
most donnybrookian (superlative)

Hereupon Ted drew forth his cudgel, hit the Turk a donnybrookian whack over the skull that laid him flat on the ground, and took to his heels.

2012, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City: A Tale of the Pirates of the City of Algiers, and Their Defeat by the British Navy, The Floating Press, page 256

The favourite device of one of the Indian desert foxes here is of a donnybrookian flavour.

2016, Arthur Morrison, The Complete Works of Arthur Morrison, Delphi Classics - Series 6, (unpaginated)

All at once we find the irrepressible Count of Poitou in the thick of the fray, for no reason whatever that I can discover, except, may be, a general donnybrookian tendency to take part in any fight that is going!

1878, George Murray Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine - Volume 37, Periodical Publication, page 87

(chiefly US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Of or pertaining to a donnybrook; bellicose; disconcerted; raucous; clashing.


Mx.

“He takes a lot of inspiration directly from Elon Musk for better or for worse,” Mx. Morey said.

2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

[TITLE] Mx. [PLURAL] Mxes. / Pronounced “mixes” [WHO USES IT] Nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people [IN WRITING] Mx. Riley Smith / Mx. Smith / The Mxes. Smith (relatives, or a married couple) / The Mxes. Smith, Laughlin, and Freedman (relatives or a group of individuals) / Mx. Riley Smith and Mx. Kai Laughlin (individuals or a couple) [IN CONVERSATION] “This is Mx. Riley Smith, they handle our design work.” / “The Mxes. Smith and Jones from the architecture firm Redefine Design are attending the wedding.” [NOTES] Mx. can also be used when you don’t want your gender known.

2022, Lizzie Post, Daniel Post Senning, “Greetings & Introductions”, in Emily Post’s Etiquette, centennial/20th edition, New York, N.Y.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 45:

“They’re like, we want to make it like a place where people want to meet up. But why wouldn’t people want to meet up in a gigantic ice-cream parlor?” questioned Mx. Herzog, who prefers to use a gender-neutral honorific.

2022 July 29, Dodai Stewart, “The Fight to Save New York’s Extravagantly ’80s Subway Entrance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Mx. Silverman is a playwright and the author, most recently, of the novel “There’s Going to Be Trouble.”

2024 April 28, Jen Silverman, “Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

US and Canada standard form of Mx (“gender neutral title”).


Esperantize

en-verb

Esperantize (third-person singular simple present Esperantizes, present participle Esperantizing, simple past and past participle Esperantized)

Esperantizes (present singular third-person)
Esperantizing (participle present)
Esperantized (participle past)
Esperantized (past)
Esperantise (alternative)

Calque of Esperanto esperantigi, equivalent to Esperanto + -ize.

(US, Canada) To adapt (typically a proper noun) to the phonology, alphabet and grammar of Esperanto.

(US, Canada) To translate into Esperanto.

Yours for the Esperantizing of New England!

1911 January 10, C. H. Fessenden, Amerika Esperantisto, volume 8, number 6:

(US, Canada) To propagandize Esperanto language and values among a certain group.


gas boat

Round noon the gas boat’s impudent sputter ticked out across the wide face of the Naas River.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck:

(Canada, US) A boat powered by a petrol engine.


snake fence

Snake fences were extravagant in land and in wood, but wood and land were cheaper in Canada in early days than were nails and hinges.

1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

A breaker of green uniforms plunges down the slope of Lime Ridge, curls around sugar bushes and thickets, cascades over stone walls and snake fences, as the Fenians come howling down on them, rifles snapping.

2011, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 22, in A Good Man, McClelland & Stewart:

(US, Canada) A zigzag fence built from interlocking split logs or young trees, not secured with nails.


Cres

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

(UK, Canada, in street addresses) Abbreviation of crescent.


TV timeout

TV timeouts (plural)
TV time-out (alternative)
TV time out (alternative)
television time-out (alternative)
television time out (alternative)
television timeout (alternative)

(Canada, US, sports television) A time-out taking place during a televised sports match where the game clock is stopped for a period of time to allow for TV commercials to air before the resumption of play. The delay is usually after a whistle or other stoppage of play occurs, and not an interference with gameplay in and of itself.


monocolour

Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and UK standard spelling of monocolor.


Alcan

Nowadays the Alcan presents a true challenge to the traveler as the road surface is "variable" to say the least.

2004, Andrew Montgomery, On the Road, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

The trip had been my idea. Like a lot of travel obsessions, it began with a map and a hazy idea of what we might see and encounter. I wanted to explore parts of the 1,387-mile-long Alaska Highway, a.k.a. the Alcan, constructed in a hurry during World War II to connect the contiguous United States to Alaska.

2015 July 4, Rosemary McClure, “Wonder-filled trip of a lifetime along the Alaska Highway”, in Los Angeles Times:

(slang, US, Canada) The Alaska Highway, which connects British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska.


S.I.

Civil Procedure Rules 1998, S.I. 1998/3132 (L. 17)

statutory instrument
statutory instrument#English

(UK, Canada, Australia, law, in citation) Initialism of statutory instrument.


grandparented

Also raised were the potential challenges long-standing practitioners might face in collecting documentation of their training for the grandparented registration process: Asking for transcripts or study reports may [create] great difficulties for those old practitioners, for these schools, or professors may not exist anymore [sic]. [CM] A small number of respondents opposed the grandparented registration process outright, arguing that all registrants should be required to [W]rite an exam in order to have a legal license!…no Grandfather law. [CM] However, Chinese medicine practitioners’ most pronounced concern around grandparented registration pertained to the issue of language.

2015 September 7, Nadine Ijaz et al., “Supportive but “worried”: perceptions of naturopaths, homeopaths and Chinese medicine practitioners through a regulatory transition in Ontario, Canada”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:

(Canada, New Zealand) That satisfies older, but not current, rules or regulations


never-sweat

“If you're planning on drilling your own oil, Ms. McCullough, let me assure you there is no faster way to go bankrupt, and you'll end up living in one of those houses with the niggers and the never-sweats.”

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 281:

(slang, chiefly Canada, US, Australia) An idle or lazy person.


LIB

(politics) Abbreviation of Liberal Party.

(Canada, politics) Abbreviation of Liberal Party.

Abbreviation of Liberal Party.
Abbreviation of Liberal Party.


tylenol

en-noun

tylenol (countable and uncountable, plural tylenols)

(Canada, US, uncountable) The pharmaceutical drug acetaminophen (“paracetamol”)

(Canada, US, countable) A tablet containing this drug


GPO

(Canada, politics) Initialism of Green Party of Ontario.


major junior

(sports, Canada, US) pertaining to the top-level competition leagues of the junior age group, above junior AAA


chocolate digestive

chocolate digestive (plural chocolate digestives)

(UK, Ireland, Canada) A digestive biscuit with a chocolate coating on one side.


Bingogate

(Canada, informal) A 1990s scandal in British Columbia around the skimming of charity bingo funds to benefit the ruling New Democratic Party.


save the furniture

en-verb

save the furniture (third-person singular simple present saves the furniture, present participle saving the furniture, simple past and past participle saved the furniture)

saves the furniture (present singular third-person)
saving the furniture (participle present)
saved the furniture (participle past)
saved the furniture (past)

An allusion to rapidly removing as much furniture as possible from a building threatened by fire, flood, or a similar disaster. Compare French sauver les meubles.

[S]winging progressives were keen to consolidate the diving Labor vote and save the furniture so that a reasonably-sized progressive opposition party could live to fight another day.

2013 October 4, Christopher Drew, “Why the Greens were the real election losers”, in ABC News, Australia, retrieved 2016-12-04:

A week after a headline in a Montreal newspaper suggested the NDP Leader’s numbers are so low it is time to “save the furniture,” he is still battling aggressively.

2015 October 4, Gloria Galloway, “Mulcair touts NDP as only way for western Canadians to oust Tories”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 2016-12-04:

In other words, the PLP could unite behind an experienced figure who would take them to a dignified defeat but would save the furniture.

2016 March 9, John McTernan, “Jeremy Corbyn's days are numbered if MPs stand firm”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2016-12-04:

(idiomatic, UK, Canada, Australia) To salvage something positive from a calamitous situation, especially one involving the reputation or fate of a political party.


winnebago

en-noun

winnebago (plural winnebagoes or winnebagos)

winnebagoes (plural)
winnebagos (plural)

Genericization of the trademark Winnebago, named after Winnebago County, Iowa, where the company used to be headquartered.

The wildly entertaining trip that follows, involving a used Winnebago and an old pickup truck with ropes for seatbelts, has a profound effect on Pedro.

2023 September 13, Matt de la Peña, “‘Mexikid’ and ‘Salsa Magic’ Drive Latino Kids to Their Roots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle

(Canada, US, automotive, slang) A motorhome; a recreational vehicle (RV).


where the puck is heading

An allusion to the sport of ice hockey, attributed to famed player Wayne Gretzky who reported he was taught: “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.”

But he also has the uncanny ability to sense where the puck is heading. His opponents merely follow it. If team work and foresight are national characteristics of Canadians, they will be invaluable in our pursuit of victory at the global arena.

1991, David W. Conklin, Lucie Deschênes, Canada's Information Revolution, page 45:

New people are often hired because they bring ideas and skills needed to take a company where the puck is heading, not where it is today.

2014, Malachi O'Connor, Barry Dornfeld, The Moment You Can't Ignore: When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future:

(Canada) Where things are headed; to a predicted future state of things.


land patent

(US, Canada) An exclusive grant of land made by a sovereign entity with respect to a particular tract of land.


in the worst way

I need a drink of water in the worst way.

Man, I need a life in the worst way.

2008 March 17, Kady O'Malley, “Wake me up when it’s — what’s the opposite of ‘over’?”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 2016-12-27:

I wanted this to work in the worst way because my reputation was on the line here. . . .

2010 February 11, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “Excerpt: Wild Child”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-12-27:

Stern as well as assorted television executives needed a game seven in the worst way, and "the worst way" might be how they're getting one.

2012 May 25, Hunter Felt, “NBA playoffs preview”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2016-12-27:

(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic) Urgently; desperately; to an extreme degree.


sketch-ass

en-adj

sketch-ass (comparative more sketch-ass, superlative most sketch-ass)

more sketch-ass (comparative)
most sketch-ass (superlative)

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) Sketchy; dubious.


Lavallée

Lavallées (plural)
Lavallee (alternative)

(Canada) A surname from French. Alternative form of Lavallee.


pump someone's tires

en-verb

pump someone's tires (third-person singular simple present pumps someone's tires, present participle pumping someone's tires, simple past and past participle pumped someone's tires)

pumps someone's tires (present singular third-person)
pumping someone's tires (participle present)
pumped someone's tires (participle past)
pumped someone's tires (past)
pump up someone's tires (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pump someone's tires.wav

"I'm sure (Toronto coach) Greg Gilbert is going to pump their tires with the fact they've beat us six times."

2009 April 14, Canadian Press, "AHL leaders in regular season, Manitoba prepares for series with Toronto," The Hockey News (Canada) (retrieved 1 Feb 2017)

Now, with Suisham enjoying a career season, those in his hometown are pumping his tires.

2012 December 8, Mike Zeisberger, “Football: Canadian kid Suisham has been money for Steelers”, in Toronto Sun, Canada, retrieved 2017-02-01:

Jonathan Toews . . . has allowed himself to come unglued emotionally during Game 4 of the Detroit series, and to fall back on the sweet sounds of teammates and coaches pumping his tires for his many wonderful qualities.

2013 June 20, Cam Cole, “Seabrook guides captain through troubled waters”, in Vancouver Sun, Canada, retrieved 2017-02-01:

His coach is pumping his tires for conference MVP and Matt Fuller is doing his best to oblige.

2013 December 4, Steve Green, “Hockey: London Nationals win 4-2 over Lambton Shores Predators”, in London Free Press, Canada, retrieved 2017-02-01:

(chiefly Canada, idiomatic) To praise, encourage, or vigorously support someone.


tire chain

tire chains (plural)
tyre chain (alternative)


meat bee

From meat + bee, so called because it resembles a bee and is known for feeding on meat and other human food left exposed outdoors.

(Canada, US, informal) The yellowjacket.


poundmaker

From pound (“animal pound”) + maker. From translation of the Plains Amerind terms.

A number of poundmakers have entered tribal history; their names are known and their deeds recounted. Such poundmakers include Loud Voice of the Plains Cree (Skinner 1914:525), and White Raven of the Assiniboin (Weekes 1948:16).

1973, Thomas F. Kehoe, The Gull Lake Site: A Prehistoric Bison Drive Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan:

Specialists known as poundmakers supervised the construction of a pound and possessed spiritual powers that enabled them to "call a herd" in for the kill.

1994, Katherine Pettipas, Severing the Ties That Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies:

The best poundmakers in the band have done their work.

2016, Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn, The Story of Canada:

(Canada, US, Amerind culture) One who makes buffalo pounds.


mathwise

[…] odd little Mr. Jacobs […] taught math from the perspective of a character of his own invention called “Dilcue”—the inversion of “Euclid”—who did everything wrong, mathwise […]

2007, Stacey Grenrock Woods, I, California, page 65:

Using charts to identify trends is probably the slickest of the expert liar's tricks, and this stuff can get ambitious, mathwise.

2011, Gerald Everett Jones, How to Lie with Charts, page 16:


badge of honour

en-noun

badge of honour (plural badges of honour)

Opposition to climate science has become not just the badge of honour for far-right politicians like Ukip’s Paul Nuttall. It has become the central tenet of their appeal to unreason.

2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian:

(UK, Canada) Alternative form of badge of honor.


trauma centre

trauma centres (plural)
trauma center (alternative)

(Canada) A type of hospital with a highly capable trauma department.


JCC

(Canada) Initialism of Jewish community centre.


cutbank

That particular day, walking along the streambed by the church, they came to a fresh cutbank where the earth had caved.

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 154:

(Canada, US) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.


Spocking

(Canada, slang) The practice of defacing certain editions of the Canadian five-dollar banknote, using ink to alter Sir Wilfrid Laurier's features to resemble the character Spock from Star Trek.


back-butt

back-butts (plural)
back butt (alternative)
backbutt (alternative)

From back + butt. A retronym-like formation made as a counterpart to the euphemism front butt (“vagina”).

The amended criminal complaint specifically alleged that Hirsch touched A.L.H.'s "front butt" or vaginal area (Count I), then her "back butt" or anal area (Count II), and then her "front butt" a second time (Count III).

1987, North western reporter. Second series:

Well I was leaning over to get something, I think it was a blanket and then I felt his hand like on my back butt.

1988, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Montana, Volume 232:

K.R. further testified that E.H. also made her suck her “back butt.” When asked to show the court where her “back butt” was, K.R. stood up and pointed to her tailbone.

But this time Mr Butt turned his gruesome, bared back-butt to me and let fly with a hideous windripper that must have broken records.

2016, Steve Cole, Invisible Inc., →ISBN:

(Canada, US, slang, euphemistic) Buttocks.


front butt

front butts (plural)
front-butt (alternative)

(Canada, US, slang) Synonym of front bottom.


sports center

sports centers (plural)
sports centre (alternative)

(US, Canada) A building or building complex housing in which a variety of sports can be played.


all-way stop

(Canada, US, South Africa) A road intersection that traffic approaching from all directions is required to stop before proceeding through.


profit centre

British and Canada standard spelling of profit center.


entertainment centre

entertainment centre (plural entertainment centres)

entertainment center
entertainment center#English

British and Canada standard spelling of entertainment center.


power centre

British and Canada standard spelling of power center.


tonal centre

British and Canada standard spelling of tonal center.


fitness centre

British and Canada standard spelling of fitness center.


Northern

(Canada) A genre of fiction focusing on the untamed northern territory of Canada and sometimes Alaska, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


Leaf

(slang, Canada) A member of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, its organization, or its supporters.


CBJ

CBJ sign D Nutivaara to four-year extension.

2018, TSN staff, CBJ sign D Nutivaara to four-year extension, TSN

WPG 1 @ CBJ 2 (OT)

2017, Micah Blake McCurdy, WPG 1 at 2 CBJ (OT), HockeyViz:

Plenty of blame to go around after CBJ playoff collapse.

2018, Associated Press, Tortorella: Plenty of blame to go around after CBJ playoff collapse, canoe.com

Columbus Blue Jackets
w:Columbus Blue Jackets

(Canada, US, ice hockey) Abbreviation of Columbus Blue Jackets.


Bloggins

(Canada, military) A generic name placeholder


AHS

(Canada, health, medicine, government) Initialism of Alberta Health Services.


momness

I can still remember the sensation of being carried by her, what it felt like to put my face into the soft crook between her shoulder and her neck, the smell of her perfume and shampoo. I remember her momness.

2015, Gemma Burgess, The Wild One, page 106:

(informal, Canada, US) The state, quality, or condition of being a mother.


Stoney

From their supposed use of stone in making fires for cooking.

(Canada) A member of the Nakoda, a First Nation related to the Sioux living in western Canada, especially in southern Alberta.


slicktop

(US, Canada, law enforcement, informal) a police car with painted markings and decals but no external rooftop lights.


rock wren

(Canada, US) A wren native to South America and western North America (Salpinctes obsoletus),


low-residency

(Canada, US, education) Involving some amount of distance education and brief on-campus or on-site residencies.


show one's ass

en-verb

show one's ass (third-person singular simple present shows one's ass, present participle showing one's ass, simple past showed one's ass, past participle shown one's ass)

shows one's ass (present singular third-person)
showing one's ass (participle present)
showed one's ass (past)
shown one's ass (participle past)

Joe's out there again arguing with the neighbors, showing his ass like he always does.

(Canada, US, vulgar) To act or behave in a rude or obnoxious manner; to misbehave.


Hockeytown

From hockey + town, in reference to the sport.

(informal, US, Canada) A nickname for any of a number of cities, towns, or communities in the United States or Canada that have a history and reputation of participating in the sport of ice hockey.


chantoosie

chantoosies (plural)
chantoozie (alternative)

From French chanteuse (“female singer”).

The estimable drag queen Varla Jean Merman, meanwhile, treads more familiar but no less fruitful ground as the conniving chantoozie Miss Jeannie Jeannine.

2011 May 20, Eric Grode, “Varla Jean Merman and Leslie Jordan in ’Lucky Guy’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-17:

Net confirmed today that Lovato will return to judge season three of the singing competish, which launches this fall. The pop chantoosie joined the show during its second season, helping to draw younger auds to the program.

2013 March 28, AJ Marechal, “Demi Lovato Set to Return to 'X Factor'”, in Variety, Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-26:

Academics play pivotal roles in everything from The Blue Angel (schoolteacher destroyed by ambitious, scantily clad chantoozie) to Goodbye, Mr Chips (lovable schoolteacher behaves lovably to lovable public school boys) to A Beautiful Mind (mentally unstable academic wins Nobel prize and the right to date Jennifer Connelly).

2015 July 9, Joe Queenan, “From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-08:

(Canada) A woman employed to sing in a nightclub.


triple triple

triple triples (plural)
triple-triple (alternative)

(Canada, informal) A coffee with the equivalent of three creamers and three packets of sugar.


NBP

New Blue Party
w:New Blue Party of Ontario

(Canada, politics) Abbreviation of New Blue Party.


CPP

Canada Pension Plan
w:Canada Pension Plan

(Canada) Initialism of Canada Pension Plan.


momsplain

momsplain (third-person singular simple present momsplains, present participle momsplaining, simple past and past participle momsplained)

momsplains (present singular third-person)
momsplaining (participle present)
momsplained (participle past)
momsplained (past)

(Canada, US, informal) To explain something in a condescending manner to a childless person, presuming that childless people have a lower social status or judgement skills.


(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 411.


city desk

There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.

1940, Helen Hughes, News and the Human Interest Story, page 21:

(Canada, US, newspapers) The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.


hoco

hocos (plural)
HOCO (alternative)
HoCo (alternative)

(Canada, US) Clipping of homecoming (“tradition in colleges and high schools”).


en:2006 transatlantic aircraft plot security reaction

(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 311.


LAC

Los Angeles Clippers
w:Los Angeles Clippers

(Canada, US, basketball) Initialism of Los Angeles Clippers.


ten-cent tour

(Canada, US, informal) A basic or makeshift tour; a quick trip around.


Indian bread

(Canada, US) Unleavened bread made and consumed by indigenous peoples of the Americas; bannock.


pony engine

en:small auxiliary engine to warm and start a larger engine

(Canada, US, dated) A small gasoline engine serving as an auxiliary to a diesel engine (mainly in older designs from the 1930s to 1950s), providing heat to warm it up and, when engaged with a clutch, providing cranking to start it up.


nature's candy

(Canada, US, informal) Any sweet-tasting fruit.