pre-AP

en-adj

pre-AP (comparative more pre-AP, superlative most pre-AP)

more pre-AP (comparative)
most pre-AP (superlative)

She signed up for pre-AP classes.

(US, education) Heightened difficulty in preparation for higher learning.


JBHS

James Bowie High School
w:James Bowie High School

(US, education) Initialism of James Bowie High School.


AISD

Austin Independent School District
w:Austin Independent School District

(US, education) Initialism of Austin Independent School District.


H&I

harassment and interdiction
harassment and interdiction#English

(US, military, historical) Initialism of harassment and interdiction.


harassment and interdiction

en-noun

harassment and interdiction (uncountable)

(US, military, historical) The periodic firing of unobserved rounds of ammunition at trails known to be used by the enemy, during the Vietnam War.


Mister Mom

Mister Moms (plural)
Mr. Mom (alternative)
Mr Mom (alternative)

He knew he would always get a laugh or two from her descriptions of her husband and home life now that she was “back in school” and he was, for all practical purposes, a mister mom.

2002, William R. Reid, The Serpent and the Church at Jerrico Springs, page 165:

A man should not let his wife work and certainly should not be a “mister mom.”

2008, Sheri A. Rosenthal, Banish Mind Spam!, page 61:

Ronnie had a son, not long before he died. The baby was about two years old. When anybody saw him, they saw the baby. So he was called a Mister Mom, and he didn't care; […]

2008, Suzanne Redfern, Susan K. Gilbert, The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child:

(informal, Canada, US) A househusband who looks after his children.


code yellow

code black • code blue • code brown • code grey • code orange • code pink • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow

(Canada, US, medicine) the condition on the occurrence of a bomb threat.


code orange

(Canada, US, medicine) The condition on the occurrence of a hazardous material spill or release.


displaced homemaker

displaced homemaker (plural displaced homemakers)

Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.

1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy, page 14:

(Canada, US) A woman who no longer has a reliable source of income from her husband, as a result of divorce, widowhood, disability, etc.


Greek-letter

Concerning the oldest Greek-letter society the author says: American Greek-letter college secret societies began with the formation of ΦΒΚ at the College of William and Mary...

1900, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, volume 24, page 29:

One of the most unique and impressive events in Greek-Letter life was the launching of the ΔΚΕ Club of New York City...

1917, The Deke Quarterly, volume 35, page 16:

As Linonia drew its members from all classes, and the Greek-letter society from only one, no single Greek-letter society could control a majority of the Linonians.

1925, Oscar W. Firkins, Cyrus Northrop: A Memoir, page 79:

The new home , the first Greek-letter house to be completed on the new fraternity-sorority row, certainly is one of the finest at the university.

1964, The Cross & Crescent, Vol. 51, Iss. 1, p. 12

The history of fraternal organizations is one of exclusion. In the first part of the 19th century, the early days of fraternities in the United States, Greek-letter organizations mirrored student bodies — white, male, Christian children of privilege.

2015 March 15, Matthew W[indust] Hughey, “The University of Oklahoma Video, and the Problem Fraternities Can’t Fix Themselves”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-16:

Organizers said they wanted the event to serve as an acknowledgment and, more importantly, a reminder of the origins of African American Greek-letter organizations, many of which were founded to resist racism in the early 20th century.

2020 July 19, Rebecca Tan, “Black fraternities and sororities gather under searing heat on BLM Plaza”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-23:

(US) Of or relating to a fraternity, sorority, or honor society.


brown bar

Making a rather astute deduction from the fact that the brown bar in white fatigues was loaded down with a huge bottle of clear liquid and an assortment of tubes and needles, […]

Afterward, Lindenmeyer made his way over to Lieutenant Turchan's radioman who, considering the brown-bar's greenness, almost appeared to be running the platoon.

1991, Keith William Nolan, Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ, page 118:

(US, military, slang) A second lieutenant.


open admission

open admission (countable and uncountable, plural open admissions)

(US, education) An unselective and noncompetitive college admissions process, where the only entrance criterion is a high-school diploma or a certificate of attendance or General Educational Development (GED) certificate.


the other body

House of Representatives
House of Representatives

(US, politics) Either the Senate or the House of Representatives, from the point of view of the other.


front porch campaign

front porch campaign (plural front porch campaigns)

(US, politics) A low-key electoral campaign in which the candidate, rather than traveling, remains near or at home to make speeches to supporters who come to visit.


Zion curtain

By analogy to the iron curtain, with Zion being a reference to the law arising from the prohibition doctrine of Mormonism, and the political influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

(US, Utah) A barrier required by Utah state law (until July 2017) to hide areas where alcohol was prepared from restaurant patrons.


the trash takes itself out

A muscle jerked along her jawline, and then she was moving, winding her way out the doublewide gym doors.
“Thankfully, the trash has taken itself out.”
Mike looked from Elizabeth's stunned expression to Kevin Hunt's smirk.

People commit suicide there just from being kept for a few days. The idea amuses me: trash taking itself out is a goddamn public service. Weak people are terrified of the place.

2020, Ivy Wonder, Endgame: A Dark Mafia Romance:

(informal, Canada, US) An undesirable person leaves.


sustaining program

sustaining program (plural sustaining programs)

(broadcasting, dated, chiefly US) A radio or television program that airs on a commercial station but does not have commercial sponsorship or advertising.


surf torture

(US, military) A training exercise for Navy SEALs that involves exercising in cold seawater on the beach.


desert lily

(US) A plant found in the deserts of southwestern North America, Hesperocallis undulata


take the bench

en-verb

take the bench (third-person singular simple present takes the bench, present participle taking the bench, simple past took the bench, past participle taken the bench)

takes the bench (present singular third-person)
taking the bench (participle present)
took the bench (past)
taken the bench (participle past)

(US) To start a session of a court of law.


girl trouble

(US, informal) Difficulty in romantic endeavors with a female.


MSSS

(space science, US) Abbreviation of Malin Space Science Systems (a private company that designs, develop and operate instruments and technical equipment for unmanned spacecraft.)


cheugy

en-adj

cheugy (comparative more cheugy or cheugier, superlative most cheugy or cheugiest)

more cheugy (comparative)
cheugier (comparative)
most cheugy (superlative)
cheugiest (superlative)

Reportedly coined by American high school student Gaby Rasson in 2013 to describe "people who were slightly off trend" and subsequently popularized by her peers.

Alex Lugger, 32, a boat marketer in Springfield, Mo., said that she self identifies as a bit cheugy. (She also learned about the word through TikTok.) “We were basic in our 20s and now we’re cheugy in our 30s,” she said.

2021 April 29, Taylor Lorenz, “What is ‘cheugy’? You know it when you see it”, in New York Times, Style:

Derived from the notoriously cheugy “live, laugh, love,” the mantra “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” found its funny by lumping together online phenomena the internet hates most.

2021 September 22, Carter Sawatzky, “An Autopsy Of #Girlboss Feminism”, in Mars' Hill, Trinity Western University, page 15:

"You might want to ditch the Crocs to pass the vibe check," Siobhan whispered. "They're a little cheugy."

2022, Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs: Lucky Enough, unnumbered page (published 4 March 2022)

(Internet slang, neologism, chiefly US) Uncool; tryhard.


swamp water

en-noun

swamp water (countable and uncountable, plural swamp waters)

(US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”)


fight the tiger

en-verb

fight the tiger (third-person singular simple present fights the tiger, present participle fighting the tiger, simple past and past participle fought the tiger)

fights the tiger (present singular third-person)
fighting the tiger (participle present)
fought the tiger (participle past)
fought the tiger (past)

(US, slang) To gamble against professional gamblers.


on the bum

I ask, how many of these hobos, who are on the bum, have the courage to ask for the drink?

1870, M.P. Murphy, Iron Molders' Journal, volume 32, Iron Molders' Union of North America, page 518:

Even now, though it was December, a few poor draggled old wrecks were settling down on the benches, tucking themselves up in sort of parcels of newspaper. Gordon looked at them callously. On the bum, they called it.

1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying:

(US, slang) Living as a vagrant; homeless.

My typewriter's on the bum—and I'm just lost. One gets so used to one that you're very dependent.

(chiefly US, slang) Not working; out of order.


SDC

(US, education) Initialism of State Dual Credit.


laboring oar

laboring oars (plural)
labouring oar (alternative)

And so too, when new issues demanding new policy calls come up within that scheme, Congress presumably wants the same agency, rather than any court, to take the laboring oar.

2019, Kisor v. Wilkie (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-15), Justice Kagan

(chiefly US, figurative, by extension) The part of a task that requires the greatest effort to achieve.


unbleached American

en-noun

unbleached American (plural unbleached Americans)

For nearly three years Raleigh has been to the great mobs of unbleached Americans in the western and contiguous counties of this state what Mecca is to the followers of Mohamet […]

quoted in 1994, Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays (page 211)


shortass

shortasses (plural)
short-ass (alternative)

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) A short person.


overnite

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Everyone wanted to go to Randy's when done eating & I knew J planned on staying there overnite & spending Sunday there so I asked to be taken back to Sam's, saying I just didn't feel like crashing yet.


overnite

The latest facilities include a new C. B. & Q. westbound express, called the Overnite Denverite, covering the distance in 17 hr. 20 min., and an acceleration of the C. & N. W.-U. P. westbound Columbine to the same figure.

1939 September, “Overseas Railways: More American Accelerations”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:


desk dictionary

desk dictionary (plural desk dictionaries)

(Canada, US) A large one-volume dictionary.


Indian turnip

From North American Indians having the reputation to cook their tubers.

Arisaema triphyllum
Arisaema triphyllum#Translingual


quirling

She thought there was something alive in her side, for (to use her own expression) she said she plainly perceived a tickling and quirling in it...The stomach had hitherto received, retained, and digested the food tolerably well, but was now affected with an incessant heaving and nausea, unless now and then relieved by strong opiates or large draughts of spirituous liquors; there was likewise the same sensation of tickling and quirling in it that had been before perceived in the side.

1754, Thomas Bond, “An account of a worm bred in the liver”, in Med. Observ. & Inq., volume 1:

She next complained of a quirling pain, that wou’d last three or four hours with the utmost violence.

1755, Sarah Browne, “A letter from Mrs. Holt's sister to Benjamin Franklin, Esq., describing the same case”, in Med. Observ. & Inq., volume 1:

(US, obsolete) A coiling or swirling sensation.


since Hector was a pup

(Canada, US, colloquial) Since a very long time ago.


mail cover

(US) An investigative technique in which the United States Postal Service, acting at the request of a law enforcement agency, records information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered and sends that information to the requesting agency.


May long weekend

May long weekend (plural May long weekends)

(Canada, US) A 3-day weekend with a statutory holiday weekday and Saturday and Sunday, in May, used to mark the beginning of summer season in some industries.

(Canada) The Victoria Day 3-day weekend.

Journée des Patriotes
Journée des Patriotes

Dollard-des-Ormeaux Day
Dollard-des-Ormeaux Day#English

Fête nationale des Patriotes
Fête nationale des Patriotes

(Quebec) The Journée des Patriotes/Dollard-des-Ormeaux Day/Fête nationale des Patriotes 3-day weekend


Month of May

(US, motor racing) The activities surrounding and including the running of the Indianapolis 500, one of the oldest, longest running, lengthiest single day, and most prestigious, racecar races of the world, traditionally held on Memorial Day weekend Sunday, near the end of May, and having several weeks of activities preceding it.


driving license

driving license (plural driving licenses)

(US) American spelling of driving licence


peril point

(US, commerce) The level beyond which an import tariff would be low enough to threaten domestic production.


on the jump

Come on the jump. Bring the needful for first aid. It's a rifle shot through the lungs or heart or both.

1915, Jack London·, The Little Lady of the Big House:

Accordingly Sam Daniels was sent for and arrived on the jump.

2021, Peter B. Kyne, Cappy Ricks Retires:

Everybody was on the jump, and it was a furious crowd that went rushing down toward where the new shell had been laid, along the shore of the river, at a point where a little beach offered an ideal spot for launching.

2021, Allen Chapman, Fred Fenton on the Crew:

My cavalry is on the jump all the time and in every direction, as you know from having seen several detachments, and I will do my utmost to carry out orders and wishes of the authorities.

1892, E.V. Sumner, Annual Report of the Secretary of War, page 231:

Again she bemoans the inroad of interruptions, especially those of the "inexorable" telephone which keeps Polly on the jump.

1937, The New Outlook for the Blind - Volumes 31-32, page 198:

There were many other jobs to be done during the day, for the traditional smartness of a packet was maintained only by keeping the crews constantly on the jump at times when, on an ordinary freighter, they might be taking life more easily.

1938, Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule, page 142:

We have been kept on the jump to stabilize the situation and to maintain some mobile striking power as a general reserve both from defensive and local offensive affairs.

1999, Dwight David Eisenhower, Joseph P. Hobbs, George Catlett Marshall, Dear General: Eisenhower's Wartime Letters to Marshall, page 98:

(Canada, US, informal, dated) Very busy; fully engaged in energetic activity; on the go.


from the jump

The majority of Noah’s circle is hostile to Joanne from the jump, particularly his mother (Tovah Feldshuh), his sister-in-law, Esther (Jackie Tohn), and his ex-girlfriend Rebecca (Emily Arlook).

2024 October 5, Jessica Grose, “‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:


booger brain

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(US, slang, derogatory, childish) A very stupid person.


Polly Crockett hat

Polly Crockett hat (plural Polly Crockett hats)

(chiefly US) A variant of the Davy Crockett hat, intended for women and made from white rabbit fur.


Con Ed

Bond traders said it was buying in some of its own bonds, and the news had been so bad for so long that a non-bad-news story on Con Ed would be refreshing.

1976, New York Magazine, volume 9, number 37, page 112:

'Con Ed loves it when you leave the lights on, Howie,' she called back over her shoulder.

(US, informal) Consolidated Edison, a U.S. energy company.


ditsoon

(offensive, US, Italian American) A dark-skinned person, especially an African-American.


NSSL

Coordinate term: EELV

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of National Security Space Launch program.; a U.S. government program for assured access to space


NSSL

national security
national security#English

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of national security spacelaunch.; a high security spacelaunch of U.S. government payloads, such as spy satellites


EELV

Coordinate term: NSSL

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.; a U.S. government program for assured access to space


EELV

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of evolved expendable launch vehicle.; a rocket developed under the EELV government program


NROL

(US, government, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of National Reconnaissance Office launch.. An NRO spacelaunch for delivering a high security government payload into space.


GBU

→ Indonesian: GBU


horsepoop

(US, euphemistic) The manure of a horse.


do a land-office business

en-verb

do<does,,did,done> a land-office business

do a land-office business (third-person singular simple present does a land-office business, present participle doing a land-office business, simple past did a land-office business, past participle done a land-office business)

does a land-office business (present singular third-person)
doing a land-office business (participle present)
did a land-office business (past)
done a land-office business (participle past)

(US, dated) To be very successful; to do a roaring trade.


thoughts and prayers

Shortened from phrases like "the victims will be in our thoughts and prayers".

One, “Thoughts and Prayers,” was for the drummer Jo Jones; it included a sermonette for the high-hat cymbal. Mr. Hamilton dedicated another, “Just Play the Melody,” to Mr. Roach.

2007 August 28, Ben Ratliff, “Headliner Can’t Make It? Here’s a First-Class Fill-In”, in New York Times:

Another meme shows an empty van. “Excellent news,” it reads. “The first truckload of your thoughts and prayers has just arrived.”

2018 February 20, AJ Willimgham, “How ‘thoughts and prayers’ went from common condolence to cynical meme”, in CNN:

(US) Used by officials and celebrities in the US as a condolence after a tragic event.


out-of-stater

Coordinate term: out-of-towner

“They’re all out-of-staters, strangers to me,” Ollie said. “I didn’t ask any of them.”


Old Sparky

[…]and I think that, for most of those men, the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being clamped to the stout oak of “Old Sparky’s” legs.

1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile, page 3:

(US, slang) Nickname for an electric chair used for executions.


hard-ticket

a hard-ticket film

a hard-ticket movie

(US, film, historical) Being or relating to a long-running blockbuster film with the possibility of seat reservations.


wokery

Tempted by supermarket takeout? A vast array of ready-to-eat meals from wokeries, wood-burning ovens, and sushi bars, and ready-to-cook foods like marinated meats and vegetables are increasingly offered at supermarkets and specialty food markets across the country to provide timestarved families with delicious meals that save them valuable kitchen time.

2007, Elisa Zied, Ruth Winter, Feed Your Family Right: How to Make Smart Food and Fitness Choices for a Healthy Lifestyle, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 155:

(US) A restaurant serving (especially Cantonese) food cooked in a wok.


VADM

VADMs (plural)
vadm (alternative)
Vadm (alternative)
VAdm (alternative)
V.Adm. (alternative)
VADM. (alternative)
VAdm. (alternative)
Vadm. (alternative)


what's someone's damage

Popularized by the teen comedy Heathers (1989).

What's your damage?

(US, informal) What is wrong with X? What's X's problem? Is X crazy?


moving-picture theater

en-noun

moving-picture theater (countable and uncountable, plural moving-picture theaters)

The main street had the usual bank, hotel, moving-picture theater, and stores.


gillygaloo

(US folklore) A fictional bird said to nest on hillsides and to lay square eggs that will not roll downhill.


praying Indian

(US, archaic, historical) An American Indian who converted to Christianity.


barneymugging

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This may sound horribly old-fashioned, but I'd like permission to tak you out, you know, shake loose, do some barneymugging or whatever they call it today.

2003, Robert O. Barclay, The Ponder Legacy, page 69:

Having me on, are you? And I'm sure you do barneymugging brilliantly, but you never answered me question.

2015, Annalisa Russo, Angel Lost, Angel Found:

"Ready for some barneymugging, bird?" Thirt asked.

2018, Charlotte Laws, Devil in the Basement: White Supremacy, Satanic Ritual and My Family:

The process of flirting, foreplay and ultimately barneymugging can be used for or against you.

2018, Evelyn Chartres, The Van Helsing Paradox:

(archaic, US, circa 1920s) Sexual intercourse.


heavy date

(US, Australia, informal) A date the stakes of which are high; a date in which both people are very invested.


woketopian

en-adj

woketopian (comparative more woketopian, superlative most woketopian)

more woketopian (comparative)
most woketopian (superlative)
Woketopian (alternative)

Of Woketopia + -ian, from woke + -topia + -ian. Attributed to US Congressman Matt Gaetz.

'Where the risk to safety and security and normal life has caused a lot of folks to abandon ‘woketopian’ politics for order, for security for normalcy. In Philadelphia right now, we don't see that.'

2020 October 28, Matt Gaetz, quotee, “Matt Gaetz suggests Philadelphia riots could harm Democrats on Election Day”, in Newstex Blogs: Florida Politics:

Finally, there would be woketopian revenge for “the patriarchy” and biology, for slavery and Jim Crow, for heteronormativity, for war in the Middle East, for able normality, and for prosperity.

2020 November 2, Phillip Carl Salzman, “Goodbye America, Hello Woketopia”, in Minding the Campus:

What this woketopian prat has failed to realise is that our monarch has proven in actions throughout her life to be the ultimate anti-racist.

2021 June 9, Dan Wooton, “Over-privileged, over-woke and over here: Would the American student who cancelled the Queen have disrespected his own country like that?”, in Daily Mail:

The channel’s mission is to present “both sides of every argument”, even though alternative views are routinely depicted as “leftist propaganda”, the product of the “woke mob” or “woketopian snowflakes”.

2021 August 16, Tom Evans, “Farage attack on city typical of a peddlar in ‘anti-wokeness’”, in Liverpool Echo, page 26:

Getting back to foundational basics is refreshing, especially in today's Woketopian climate

2021 December 13, Jim baker, “Reversing Roe is not pragmatic”, in The Day, Comment:

(US, politics, derogatory) Excessively woke; demanding or reflecting values of social justice to an extreme extent.


woketopian

woketopians (plural)
Woketopian (alternative)

As a Democrat watching the Republican convention, I was surprised to learn that I’m a radical “woketopian” who wants to support “Communist China,” disarm Americans, defund the police, unlock prisons, disburse opioids, cancel our founding fathers, abolish the suburbs and raise taxes.

2020 August 26, Michael Stewart, “letter to the editor”, in New York Times:

At the Republican National Convention in August, right-wing Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) scolded “woketopians,” grouping them together with socialists and Biden supporters, as though the definition of a “woketopian” was self-evident.

2020 October 9, Aja Romano, “A history of “wokeness””, in Vox:

What makes it obvious that Weston is a woketopian is that, as she announced these changes, she also revealed the charity would start to focus on ‘addressing inequality and protecting the environment’.

2021 September 9, Dan Wooton, “How can the very people supposed to protect the legacy and memory of Winston Churchill have betrayed him so badly? We must never surrender to the woke mob”, in Mail Online:

(US, politics, derogatory) Someone who is excessively devoted to values of social justice.


U.S. survey foot

en-noun

U.S. survey foot (plural U.S. survey feet)

international foot
international foot#English

(US, measurement, geodesy) A measurement unit for distance; the standard foot for surveying in the United States from 1893 to 2022; having a value of 1200/3937 metres (0.3048006096m). The US Survey Foot was replaced by the ISO standard international foot from 2022.


car clouting

(US, slang) The theft of stealing valuables from parked motor vehicles.


pudding pop

From the brand name Pudding Pops, from pudding and ice pop.

On Friday, the winning class received a special treat, such as a pudding pop or ice cream bar.

1983, School Food Service Journal, volume 37, page 51:

She's really popular, and I'm—well I could go on and on but it's too painful, and you get the idea: Bonnie Bennington and I have just about as much in common as a chocolate soufflé and a pudding pop.

1988, Lisa Eisenberg, Mystery at Bluff Point Dunes, page 4:

(Canada, US) A snack consisting of frozen pudding on a stick.


dreckly

en-adv

dreckly (comparative more dreckly, superlative most dreckly)

more dreckly (comparative)
most dreckly (superlative)

Local/dialectal phonetic spelling of direct + -ly.

"You know, pretty quick, soon — dreckly!" She said in frustration

1999, Janice Tate, Ken Tate, Good Old Days Remembers the Little Country Schoolhouse, page 45:

I'll be over there dreckly ' '; which could mean in the next hour or two , or "I'll be down in a bit". It's a real Cornish thing.

2006, Simon Elmes, Talking for Britain: A Journey Through the Voices of a Nation, page 13:

(Cornwall, Devon, US) Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.


NAFOD

(US, military) Acronym of no apparent fear of death.; a disqualifying condition for hazardous or combat duty.


Great Migration

The pull factors in the Great Migration included encouraging reports of good living conditions and jobs with good wages in the North and West.

2015, Sabina G. Arora, The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, Encyclopaedia Britannica, →ISBN, page 10:

Southern United States
Southern United States

(US, historical) The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred in the 20th century.


hyperactive battlefield

en-noun

hyperactive battlefield (plural hyperactive battlefields)

The result is a ‘hyperactive’ battlefield where the “differences between strategic, operational, and tactical levels, as well as between offensive and defensive operations, are being erased,” and that can quickly overwhelm the capacity and will of any combatant.

2018 June 1, Stephen Marr, “Stability in Multi-Domain Battle”, in U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institue: Defense Technical Information Center, page 6:

[…] are shaping the future operational environment: increased competition across all five warfighting domains, an increasingly lethal and hyperactive battlefield, an operational environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, and challenges to deterrence […]

2019, Justin R. Wegner, “49th Staff Judge Advocate Course Wrap-Up”, in Army Lawyer, number 4:

“The reason we say we need a joint concept more than ever is because the tempo of warfare, and the complexity of all the domains. Because all of these domains are controlled at different echelons or by different services, military forces must integrate all domains quickly to take advantage of opportunities on a very lethal, hyperactive battlefield."...Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley, deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Futures Command and director of the Futures and Concepts Center

2019 November 19, “The new era of high-power electromagnetic weapons”, in Military & Aerospace Electronics (article), retrieved 2021-07-06:

The Pentagon is kicking off a new series of joint war games and exercises this fall designed to figure out how to confront peer adversaries like China and Russia, as military leaders rush to come up with new ideas for how to fight through what one Army general describes as a “hyperactive” battlefield.

2019 September 4, “Major War Game to Jolt 4 Services, Force Decisions”, in Breaking Defense (article), retrieved 2021-07-06:

Future wars will likely be decided in the realm of “high-speed information-networking,” software upgrades that include artificial intelligence, long-range sensing, stealth, precision weapons and, perhaps most of all, sensor-to-shooter decision cycles. Army Futures Command Commander Gen. John Murray has often said that the future of warfare is expected to be what he called a “hyperactive battlefield.”

2021 July 4, “The National Interest: Future Wars Will Be Fought on the ‘Hyperactive Battlefield’”, in The National Interest (blog), retrieved 2021-07-06:

information technology
information technology

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(US military jargon) Warfare involving advanced technologies that expand military engagement beyond the physical battlefield, such as high-speed information technology, artificial intelligence, long-range sensors, stealth, precision-guided munitions and sensor-to-shooter systems.


double-jabbed

Double-jabbed adults will no longer be forced to isolate at home after coming into contact with someone with Covid, Boris Johnson has declared.

2021 May 7, Paul Waugh, “Double-Jabbed Adults Will No Longer Have To Isolate At Home After Covid ‘Contact’”, in Huffington Post UK:

The requirement for double-jabbed people to isolate after contact with a positive case is due to end on 16 August, four weeks after the majority of England's Covid rules are set to end, to allow more people to be vaccinated.

2021 July 8, Hamish Mackay, Alex Kleiderman, “Covid-19: Amber list quarantine for fully vaccinated to end on 19 July”, in BBC News:

Self-isolation will also be removed for arrivals from Amber list countries from July 19, if they have been double jabbed within a UK vaccine programme.

2021 July 13, Elsa Maishman, “Covid Scotland: Self-isolation requirement to be scrapped for double jabbed from August 9”, in The Scotsman:

It comes just days before Freedom Day, with ministers urging everyone to get double jabbed.

2021 July 14, Ellie Cambridge, “Two-thirds of British adults now double jabbed as Boris beats Freedom Day target”, in The Sun:

Graham McLeod, from Bolton, who has been staying on on France's Atlantic coast, said he would also have to isolate despite being double-jabbed.

2021 July 16, Sophie Morris, “COVID-19: Travellers frustrated at 'chaotic' government U-turn over France quarantine rule”, in Sky News:

Starting yesterday, primary schools can arrange extracurricular activities for pupils double-jabbed for more than two weeks after classes or during the other half of a school day.

2022 October 26, Lilian Cheng, Fiona Sun, Danny Mok, “Full-day primary classes to resume if 70pc double-jabbed”, in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, page A1:

(US, UK, neologism) Of a person, having received both doses (jabs) of a COVID vaccine.


go off on a tangent

en-verb

go off on a tangent (third-person singular simple present goes off on a tangent, present participle going off on a tangent, simple past went off on a tangent, past participle gone off on a tangent)

goes off on a tangent (present singular third-person)
going off on a tangent (participle present)
went off on a tangent (past)
gone off on a tangent (participle past)
go off at a tangent (alternative)

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fly off at a tangent
fly off at a tangent#English


Mickey Mouse ring

en-noun

Mickey Mouse ring (plural Mickey Mouse rings)

2020 NBA Bubble
Championship ring
LeBron James

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Likely from Mickey Mouse (“of inferior quality”), or in reference to the 2020 NBA Bubble shortened basketball season held at Walt Disney World, or both of these; with ring as a metonym for “championship” after the Championship ring presented to members of winning teams.

After the Lakers won their little Mickey Mouse ring, LeBron went to the church of victimhood as he often does, and talked about what a ‘huge challenge’ it was to be in Orlando.

2020 December 3, Will Leitner, quoting Ben Maller, “The Ben Maller Show: 'Stop Acting Like LeBron's Championship at the NBA's Bubble Was Challenging'”, in Fox Sports Radio:

Occasional jabs about James and his supposed 'Mickey Mouse' ring haven’t really stuck.

2020 December 31, Marc Stein, “From Kobe to LeBron: Tragedy and Triumph in the N.B.A.”, in New York Times:

But this upsets many fans, leading to widespread comments all over social media such as a Mickey Mouse Ring/Win/Championship (in reference to how the NBA bubble was at Disney World) to underline how these competitions are not authentic enough because of coronavirus's impact on how well teams can play.

2021 March 17, “The Medic: NCAA's March Madness offers real threat for pandemic madness”, in Daily Trojan, University of Southern California, page 1:

Lakers/LeBron haters have lamely labeled last year’s title, which featured a mental and emotional toll unlike any other in NBA history, a Mickey Mouse ring.

2021 June 17, Adam Caparell, “'Stop putting an Asterisk on Every NBA Champion'”, in Complex Sports Magazine:

(informal, derogatory, basketball, US) The 2020 NBA championship won by the Los Angeles Lakers.

Basically, a Mickey Mouse ring is a championship that is not earned and seems to come “easily.”

2021 July 15, Ethan Moutes, “It’s time to retire the notion of a ‘Mickey Mouse ring’”, in The Daily Californian:

I do not want them to win a ring again. If the Dodgers win, at least it will remove the “Mickey Mouse ring” thing which would be a fair criticism if it was literally any other team than the Dodgers who actually have been the best team in baseball for a while!

2021 October 7, “Who to Root for in the Playoffs Now”, in SB Nation:

(informal, by extension, derogatory, sports, US) Any championship in a sporting competition that is perceived to be of lower quality than other championships due to weaker competition or circumstances.


drop lot

(US, transport) A site where equipment and vehicles transporting goods can be temporarily stored or parked, before resuming the delivery later on.


Baker Act

en-verb

Baker Act (third-person singular simple present Baker Acts, present participle Baker Acting, simple past and past participle Baker Acted)

Baker Acts (present singular third-person)
Baker Acting (participle present)
Baker Acted (participle past)
Baker Acted (past)

The legislation was nicknamed the “Baker Act” after Florida Democratic state representative from Miami, Maxine Baker, who served from 1963 to 1972. She had a strong interest in mental health issues, served as chair of the House Committee on Mental Health, and was the sponsor of the bill.

Court records show he was previously ruled not competent for prosecution, Baker Acted 33 times and released back onto the street. The Baker Acts include the child molestation and prior indecent exposure arrests.

2018 February 27, Kent Justice, “Jacksonville man charged with masturbating in front of kids”, in News4Jax:

(US, law, transitive, intransitive) To invoke the Baker Act, i.e., the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual in the state of Florida, or (by extension) elsewhere in the United States.


police special

(US, firearms, historical) A pistol manufactured for police use.


police positive

en-noun

police positive (plural police positives)

(US, firearms, historical) Synonym of police special (“pistol manufactured for police use”)


avcat

From aviation, aviation carrier (aircraft carrier), and aviation turbine fuel (avtur).

(US, military, aviation, nautical) Synonym of JP-5, the U.S. Navy jet fuel.


flat tire rule

A vehicle developing a flat tire might be the cause of delay in reaching an airport.

(US) An airline's policy of putting a passenger on the next available flight without a penalty if they arrive too late for the scheduled flight.


an egg's age

Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."

1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists, page 201:

As entertaining a book as you will find in an egg's age.

1928, New York Herald Tribune Books, volume 4, numbers 1-11, page 21:


reporting mark

(rail transport, US, Canada) A code of up to four letters allocated to and used by railroads and other owners of rolling stock for identification purposes, shown on each rail vehicle in combination with an individual number for the vehicle.


suck on that

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I am so sorry Regina. Really, I don't know why I did this. I guess it's probably because I've got a big lesbian crush on you. Suck on that!

2004, Mean Girls, spoken by Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan):

Okay. But think of the people in your life who you respect. [...] Whoever it is, how do you feel if they respect you? Good, right? That's right. So suck on that!

2011, Joe Reilly, You Are Going to Get Poop On You, page 59:

'Suck on that, Donald!' Piers Morgan's wife Celia Walden mocks Trump and says he's going 'straight in the bin' amid Joe Biden's inauguration

(idiomatic, chiefly US, vulgar) Used to express contempt after a victory, a refuted argument or the sharing of undesirable information.


Garage Mahal

She remembered reading an article a few years ago in the New York Times that noted that several “Garage Mahals” had been built in Bronxville.

2003, Pamela Hackett Hobson, The Bronxville Book Club, page 126:

He recently created a garage mahal to house a Seal Beach client's large collection of "man-goodies," but at the same time, Porter says, it's no longer uncommon to find a plasma TV next to a workbench.

2008 August, Orange Coast Magazine, page 72:

[…] those red-brick or limestone-covered mini castles with Rapunzel-ready turrets in front and gabled porte-cochères leading to Garage Mahals.

2009, Hank Stuever, Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present, page 21:

But even if you have a garage mahal, it is not going to be practical for you to store bales of cotton and bushels of corn.

2011, Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth, The Little Book of Alternative Investments, page 78:

(US, informal) A very large and luxurious garage (storage area for cars etc.).


tract mansion

Its homes are tract mansions and starter castles of 4,000 square feet and upward, featuring two-story entrance halls, great rooms, three- or four-car garages, huge kitchens, spa-sized bathrooms, […]

2008, Paul L. Knox, Metroburbia, USA, page 163:

(US) A very large and luxurious tract house.


teenaper

GERMANTOWN - January 21, 2010 (WPVI) -- An 18-year-old has been
arrested for using a frying pan to kill a Germantown woman he knew all
his life.

2010 February 1, Chad Bryant, “Feral Teenaper Nigger Kills/Robs Elderly Woman He Knew All His Life”, in demon.local (Usenet):

PRICHARD, Alabama -- Prichard police today continued to search for at least two persons who were with a 17-year-old arrested after a stolen sport utility vehicle struck and critically injured an 82-year-old woman, Police Chief Jimmie Gardner said.

2011 October 11, Cheryl, “Teenaper mows down 82 year old woman”, in alt.sports.football.pro.sd-chargers (Usenet):

There nigger "teens" reportedly drowned when the stolen car they
were driving careened into a pond.[…]
Who in their right mind would dive into a pond and risk their lives for
shitskin teenaper criminals??? Not me.

2017 February 5, Rick Mathers, “Three nigger teenaper sows join rockfish parade”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Bonus vid: middle aged spook knocks out teenaper for walking naked through Macy's.

2023 October 25, K Wills, “Georgia Dindu complains about the wild african bootlip migrants the Biden Admin is dumping in his hood”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A teenage black person.


Locofocoism

(US, politics, historical) The political principles of the Locofocos.


HNIC

(derogatory, slang, US) Head nigga in charge.


crooked as a barrel of snakes

(US, simile, informal) Very untrustworthy.


shelter-in-place

(US, frequently attributive) A strategy for avoiding danger, such as gun violence, a hurricane, etc., in which individuals remain inside the building they happen to be in at the time of the danger rather than evacuating and seeking refuge elsewhere.


closing form

Mr. Knudson. Well, as I pointed out to Mr. Bakes when we were speaking, they are in consecutive order, Senator. I could have very easily gotten all of the numbers in consecutive order and initiated one of these forms, closing forms, to begin the process through to close the case.

1975, Oversight of Civil Aeronautics Board Practices and Procedures: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, volume 3, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2347:

(US) A form in an authority filled to formally document the closing a case.

Holonym: closing document

They boast over 1700 merge variables for use in word processing in order to fully customize all necessary closing forms including deeds, affidavits, payoff letters etc.

2003, K. F. Boackle, Real Estate Closing Deskbook. A Lawyer's Reference Guide & State-by-state Summary, 2nd edition, American Bar Association, →ISBN, page 323:

(US) A form used to document an important legal transaction.


clued in

en-adj

clued in (comparative more clued in, superlative most clued in)

more clued in (comparative)
most clued in (superlative)

(US, informal) Synonym of clued up (“knowledgeable about a topic or situation; possessing the facts”)


zero fucks given

(slang, vulgar, US) Used to emphasize that one does not care about something at all.


encasserole

Vegetable broth with tomatoes, cooked asparagus, shredded raw carrots and onions, encasserole.

1930, R. W. Bennett, Diet & Vision, page 50:

Spinach, broccoli, and cauliflower cease to be mere vegetables and become adventures in the land of goodies when they are cooked encasserole with this new cheese-food.

1933, Mothers' Activities, volume 14, page 25:

For moist cookery such as stews, encasserole or any fashion where water is used, select either top or bottom round.

1931, Claire Sugden, The Romantic and Practical Side of Cookery, page 173:

Steaming vegetables is excellent but the best method is baking encasserole.

1947, Horace Wendell Soper, Health: Mental, Moral and Physical, page 92:


hog tight

hog tights (plural)
hogtight (alternative)
hog-tight (alternative)


hog train

hog trains (plural)
hog-train (alternative)
hogtrain (alternative)

From hog + train. First use appears c. 1850 in the New-York Daily Tribune.

Any means of getting by cheap when travelling, budget transport.


hog plague

(chiefly US, now rare) Synonym of swine fever


hog potato

hog potatoes (plural)
hog potatoe (alternative)
hog-potato (alternative)
hog-potatoe (alternative)
hog's potato (alternative)

(US, archaic) Toxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus)


hog bed

en-noun

hog bed (countable and uncountable, plural hog beds)

hog beds (plural)
hogbed (alternative)
hog-bed (alternative)
hog's bed (alternative)

(obsolete, US, there regional) Lycopodium.

HOGBED OR HOGWEED, Ambrosia—Grows near farm yards, and on stony soils, like moss, about three inches high. The leaves are of a deep green colour, small and curly. The hogs delight to make their bed on it from whence it derives its name. A handful of this plant infused in a quart of water, and given in doses of a tea-cupful three or four times a-day, is a popular remedy among women to promote the menses or courses.

1827, James Ewell, The Medical Companion, Or Family Physician; Treating of the Diseases of the United States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, Cure and Means of Prevention: Common Cases in Surgery, as Fractures, Dislocations, &c. the Management and Diseases of Women and Children. A Dispensatory, for Preparing Family Medicine, and a Glossary Explaining Technical Terms. To which are Added, a Brief Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body, Shewing, on Rational Principles, the Cause and Cure of Diseases: an Essay on Hygiene, Or the Art of Preserving Health, Without the Aid of Medicine: an American Materia Medica, Pointing Out the Virtues and Doses of Our Medicinal Plants. Also, the Nurse's Guide, 7th edition, Washington, page 679:

(obsolete, US, there regional) Ambrosia.

Brother Luke: I write this particularly by itself and make a Conclusion in the former, because if you have occasion and see convenient you may let any one see it, and save yourself some labour of discoursing some matters, that are discours’d upon your manage. I have sent Hawkins up and down to every house to look about your Tobᵒ, who renders me a very vile account thereof, some gone, some hogbeds, and some damnify’d and that, that remains good there is such plenty of new Tobᵒ there's no disposing a pound thereof, for Mr Harrison neither look’d after it himself & discouraged Hawkins in the looking after it. I hope you remember the Hospital , that I desired you to bring in, as also to perswade a Minister in, if you can with a sober serious learned one. I suppose my sister will be large with you about your family affairs, that I Need add no further, I am With Sincerity S’r
Your Wff.

1691 May 20, “Letters of William Fitzhugh”, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, volume 3, Richmond, VA: Virginia Historical Society, published 1896, page 258:

(obsolete, US, dialectal) The meaning of this term is uncertain., possibly Polytrichum commune.


rocks for jocks

(informal, US) An introductory course in geology that is attended by student athletes who for legal reasons must attend classes in order to continue playing their sport competitively.


gate-to-wire

Authentic led the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Classic at every point of call en route to a gate-to-wire victory.

(US, horse racing) From start to finish. (Usually used to describe a horse that wins a race by leading throughout.)


criminigger

Obama set the thug spook Damarlon Thomas free on 11/22.
Dumb nigger barely made it 8 weeks before it assumed room temperature.

2017 January 30, Rick Mathers, “Obanga Pardoned criminigger gets ventilated”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

What's scary is that these niggers are just starting their careers, and
there are many felonies ahead- sooner rather than later if some lib
judge turns them loose.

2017 February 14, Rick Mathers, “Master criminiggers kill 92 year old black female- net $70”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Seriously, it's not the catch and release nigger's fault that he keeps
getting 2nd chances. It's the fault of his Lib Coddlers, and they are
as much at fault, if not more, than the POS CrimiNigger.

2017 April 5, Rick Mathers, “Will the 55th strike finally be enough to cage this beast for life?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

In Cleveland horsenostril nigger Manson Bryant, a career
catch-‘n-release criminigger, was facing up to 28 years for a home
apevasion and a laundry list of charges.

2019 March 20, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger’s courtroom chimpout = 28 yrs. in Nigger University from judge”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Making a hero out of a filthy stinking feral idiot piece of shit criminigger is repulsive!

2021 May 24, SynCity, “SH*T-FOR-BRAINS JOE TO HOST THE GEORGE FLOYD 'FAMBLY' AT THE WHITE HOUSE”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black criminal.


I know that's right

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“Momma,” Pastor Eric answered. “God was in me like that.” “I know that's right,” Mrs. Davis replied.

2012, Ramos Lewis, That's Life, page 135:

"What's going on with you Miss Tina?" "Aw, you know. The usual fabulousness." "I know that's right. What we doing today?"

2013, Jessi Bee, Cold Hearted Diva, page 18:

I know that's right baby. No need in holding a grudge.

2013, Michelle Robinson, Right Before My Eyes, page 59:

“Girl, I know that's right,” Camille agreed.

2014, Martha T. Rivers, Who Flipped the Script:

France said, “I know that's right, because that exactly what she doing.”

2020, Towandra Ellison, Surviving Mother:

(US, African-American Vernacular) Indicates complete agreement.


Russian gage

(US) Alternative spelling of Russian gauge


crooked as a barrel of fish hooks

(US, simile, informal) Very unscrupulous and deceptive.


Massachusetts ballot

Massachusetts ballot (plural Massachusetts ballots)

Named from Massachusetts, the first US state that adopted it.

Australian ballot
Australian ballot#English

(US, dated) Synonym of Australian ballot (“form of secret ballot”)


beatingest

beatinest (alternative)
beatin'est (alternative)

If that ain't the beatingest thing I ever heard.

1996, Karen Cushman, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, page 67:

“Oh, Jed, it's the beatingest idea I've heard. Truly.”

(US, regional) That beats or surpasses all others; best, or most excessive or remarkable.


electronic benefit transfer

electronic benefit transfer (uncountable)

(US) An electronic system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits using a magnetically encoded payment card.


en-proper noun

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

(US) a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low-income individuals


Apefrica

An FDNY EMT has been arrested for allegedly choking and raping a 10-year-old girl in Queens, cops said. Frantz Petion was busted around 3:20 a.m. Sunday and accused of strangling and sexually assaulting the girl. This is just a remnant from its ancestors' days in Apefrica where muh dik was used to cure a range of maladies.

2017 March 16, Dindu Nuffin, “Rape Ape EMT Frantz Petion Muh Diks 10-year old”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) Africa.


teleman

The classification is for graduates of a class A teleman school with no significant experience and for other personnel who are not qualified for a specialized classification.

1949, Manual of Navy Enlisted Manpower and Personnel Classifications and Occupational Standards, United States Bureau of Naval Personnel:

(US, military) A petty officer in the US Navy who performs clerical, coding and communications duties.


CRV

(US) Initialism of California redemption value: a regulatory fee paid on recyclable beverage containers in the state of California.


black flight

Coordinate term: white flight

(US, urban studies) The migration of African Americans from predominantly black or mixed inner-city areas to suburbs and newly constructed homes on the outer edges of cities.


antihuff

From anti- + huff. Huffing was cheesemakers' jargon for an unwanted expansion or swelling that rendered cheese unsaleable.

[in title]

1881, T. D. Curtis, “Skim Milk Cheese and "Anti-Huff"”, in Sixteenth Annual Report of the American Dairymen's Association, page 7:

(US, obsolete) A substance of uncertain composition once used to adulterate cheese to prevent it from swelling.


if it had teeth, it'd bite one

ALICE. Where's the sugar, Mother?
JENNIE. Right under your nose. If it had teeth, it'd bite you.

1942, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Western Union, Please: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 5:

Maybe there was a gross flaw, so obvious that they were all missing it, just as Mario sometimes said, "Where's the dried oregano?" when the jar was in plain view on the countertop. Then Dora would say, "If it had teeth, it'd bite you."

1994, Lawrence Sanders, Three Complete Novels, page 354:

LETTY (Quite suddenly younger, timid.) Ma says to pass the salt, Pa.
CAP (Deep voiced, strong, harsh.) You can tell her it's over there.
LETTY She says where, Pa?
CAP If it had teeth, it'd bite her.

2008, Barbara Parisi, The Best American Short Plays, 2004-2005, page 270:

(US, colloquial, humorous) It is in plain sight; one should be able to see it for oneself.


momless

Deliberately plot out how we were going to get from complete-Mom-supervision to complete-Momless-independence.

2004, Allie Pleiter, Facing Every Mom's Fears, page 158:

You can have a momless date, and Walker'll get the coffee I owe him and that'll be all.

2014, Christine Johnson, The Gathering Dark, page 42:

(Canada, US, informal) Without a mother.


Greco-Roman wrestling

Graeco-Roman wrestling
Graeco-Roman wrestling#English

Canada, US standard spelling of Graeco-Roman wrestling.


logging railroad

en-noun

logging railroad (plural logging railroads)

(rail transport, forestry, US) A railroad built for the purpose of transporting logs out of a forest.


ho stroll

(derogatory, slang, US) An area of a town or city where prostitutes regularly solicit potential clients on the street.


Jew crew

(slang, US) A group of Jews who spend time together.


shadow docket

(US, law) The cases resolved by the US Supreme Court that do not involve briefing, oral argument, or full judicial opinions.


Navajo flu

(US, offensive) Sin Nombre orthohantavirus.


worshipingly

en-adv

worshipingly (comparative more worshipingly, superlative most worshipingly)

more worshipingly (comparative)
most worshipingly (superlative)


War Time

Daylight saving time
daylight saving time

(US, historical) Daylight saving time, as used in the United States during World War I and World War II to conserve energy that would otherwise be required for lighting.


EWT

Eastern War Time
Eastern War Time#English

(US, historical) Initialism of Eastern War Time.


MWT

Mountain War Time
Mountain War Time#English

(US, historical) Initialism of Mountain War Time.


PWT

Pacific War Time
Pacific War Time#English

(US, historical) Initialism of Pacific War Time.


get a clue

en-verb

get<,,got,got􂀿UK, Australia, NZ􂁀:gotten􂀿US, Canada􂁀> a clue

get a clue (third-person singular simple present gets a clue, present participle getting a clue, simple past got a clue, past participle (UK, Australia, NZ) got a clue or (US, Canada) gotten a clue)

gets a clue (present singular third-person)
getting a clue (participle present)
got a clue (past)
got a clue (Australia New-Zealand UK participle past)
gotten a clue (Canada US participle past)

"How many times do I have to tell you that this relationship is over? Get a clue!", she said after her ex-boyfriend asked her again to get back together.

How many more such incidents have to happen at Fox News — or elsewhere — before everyone gets a clue about basic workplace — and overall social — behavior?

2017 May 19, Chuck Barney, “Another Fox News firing; Will someone please get a clue?”, in The Mercury News:

(US, idiomatic, informal, often imperative and disparaging) To become aware of the obvious reality of a situation, often used as a command to indicate frustration


shelter in place

shelter in place (third-person singular simple present shelters in place, present participle sheltering in place, simple past and past participle sheltered in place)

shelters in place (present singular third-person)
sheltering in place (participle present)
sheltered in place (participle past)
sheltered in place (past)

(US) To follow a shelter-in-place strategy.


Toi

en:Toi (Polynesian name)
en:Toi (disambiguation)

From Maori Toi, Samoan Toi, and other Polynesian languages.

A male given name from the Polynesian languages.


Daubert motion

(US, law) A special motion in limine raised before or during trial, to exclude the presentation of unqualified evidence to the jury.


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain non-emergency governmental services

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic service for accessing some government services, depending on jurisdiction


(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 811


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain local governmental services

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic service for accessing some local government services, depending on jurisdiction


next store

I knew my brother John lived upstairs with my aunt, uncle, and cousin. […] I knew my three older sisters Maura, Miara, and Gina lived next store with my other aunt and family.


hop on down to

hop on down to (third-person singular simple present hops on down to, present participle hopping on down to, simple past and past participle hopped on down to)

hops on down to (present singular third-person)
hopping on down to (participle present)
hopped on down to (participle past)
hopped on down to (past)

(US, informal) Come/go visit (our/a business or event).


Carolina Squat

(US) A truck modification where the front of the vehicle is raised and the back is lowered.


rezzy

(US, slang) Clipping of reservation (“tract of land set apart for native people”).


currency exchange

en-noun

currency exchange (plural currency exchanges)

bureau de change
bureau de change#English


bitchcakes

en-adj

bitchcakes (comparative more bitchcakes, superlative most bitchcakes)

more bitchcakes (comparative)
most bitchcakes (superlative)

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Dad was totally flipping and pissed and bitchcakes, he didn't want no grandkid, especially no half spook […]

2009, Charles Bock, Beautiful Children, page 207:

"Artists are bitchcakes anyway."
"My brother's girlfriend? She used to cut herself."

2010, Melanie Sumner, The Ghost of Milagro Creek, page 71:

I almost screamed something nasty at them because inside I was totally bitchcakes that everyone was leaving and no one was going to help.

2014, Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, unnumbered page:

(US, slang, vulgar) Aggressive, unhinged, crazy.


taxi dance

Another of Broadway's most characteristic features is the dance hostess, who works in any one of the six or seven taxi-dance halls that occupy six or seven second floors in buildings on or near the Main Stem.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87:


combination pliers

(US, UK) A type of pliers used by linemen, electricians, and other tradesmen primarily for gripping, twisting, bending and cutting wire, cable and small metalwork components.


lineman's pliers

(US) A type of pliers used by linemen, electricians, and other tradesmen primarily for gripping, twisting, bending and cutting wire, cable and small metalwork components.


bix nood

en-noun

bix nood (countable and uncountable, plural bix noods)

From a comic by the white supremacist cartoonist A. Wyatt Mann, which depicts a black man speaking in gibberish. It was later reuploaded by users of the 4chan image board /b/. It has no known discernible etymological root.

around 4chan's /b/ (and i gather this use is slowly spreading) they're referred to as "Bix Nood". a google image search will display the racist cartoon image this term comes from.

[2005 November 26, nikolai kingsley, “...ok...i truely^([sic]) need your help...”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

i'm waiting for some Bix Nood apologist to claim it all started when the white man turned up.

2006 November 16, Ace Lightning, “ATers, start your fapping.”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated He said the evidence included high-heat internal injuries and the absence of external burn marks on the baby, Paris Talley. with names like that, i'm guessing, Bix Nood.

2006 November 29, nikolai kingsley, “The baby's ready, dear”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

Why do you all jungle bunnies insist on using the word, "cum", and think youare^([sic]) "Irish"; is Chevyn is bix nood? who would have thought. the person in the video he sent me looked pretty fly, for a white guy.

2007 January 23, nikolai kingsley, “neoimps”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet):

I don't care what bix nood TPLAC you come from or how many kidneys you have to spare.

2008 April 3, Don Stockbauer, “Anybody need a spare kidney?”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

'Bix Nood' - Blacks - From a racist cartoon spread on the internet where a black man is breaking into a house saying "mup da doo dittapo mo BIX NOOD".

2013, Shehu Sani, Hatred for Black People, page 342:

(US, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An African-American person.

I could barely understand any of that bix nood. I wonder if the fish hooks in its bootlips had anything to do with that. I want to see the chimpout when they correct the error next week after the coon has already niggered the money away. I can't wait for part II when somebody finds the glitch and yanks it back out and/or adjusts her future handouts until she "pays back" everything she spent...

2017 November 1, Byker, “Excreeshia gets an extra $600 on her EBT card by mistake and chimps out”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) African-American speech or vernacular.


postal village

postal villages (plural)
post village (alternative)

2016, The Independent, Lost Lambton: The Postal Village of Aughrim:

(historical, Canada, US, Australia) a village having a post office


locked and loaded

(US, slang) Of a weapon, ready and prepared.

(US, slang) Of a person, ready or prepared for an imminent event.


tootsoon

tootsoons (plural)
tootsune (alternative)
tutsoon (alternative)

"A business acquaintance. I use his company as a source of capital for some of my deals. I used them last year to refinance a nuts-and-bolts company for a coupla blacks doin' work for the Navy. […] They were so grateful they made me their controller. Who can figure tootsoons?"

1993, Nick Vasile, A Member of the Family:

(Gesturing offstage) You are gonna tap one of these tootsoons and get me a disposable.

1993, Alan Bowne, A Snake in the Vein, page 24:


cut the pigeon wing

en-verb

cut the pigeon wing (third-person singular simple present cuts the pigeon wing, present participle cutting the pigeon wing, simple past and past participle cut the pigeon wing)

cuts the pigeon wing (present singular third-person)
cutting the pigeon wing (participle present)
cut the pigeon wing (participle past)
cut the pigeon wing (past)
cut the pigeon's wing (alternative)
cut pigeon wings (alternative)

[…]that was because no manager could imagine that audiences would pay to see Negro performers in any other role than that of Mississippi River roustabouts; but there was lots of talent and ambition. I often heard the younger and brighter men discussing the time when they would compel the public to recognize that they could do something more than grin and cut pigeon-wings.

1912, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man:

They all tried to be polite, and Russ grew quite friendly with one of the bellboys who brought them ice water. He asked that boy if he knew how to cut the pigeon wing, and the boy grinned very broadly.

1922, Laura Lee Hope [pseudonym], Six little Bunkers at Mammy June's:

(idiomatic, US, dated) To dance with graceful or fancy movements.


fatbeard

fatbeards (plural)
fat beard (alternative)

(US, slang, derogatory) A stereotypical overweight white male with a beard.


hoogie

But anyway, she was one of them red-face hoogies, and m-e-a-n!

1964 February, Nanina Alba, “The Demise of Miss Lucy So Quaint”, in Negro Digest, page 77:

Thought I was some hoogie jus' run around with the niggers instead of be one of them.

1975, Gayl Jones, Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writings, White Rat, page 290:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.


hell to the no

"Are you... happy being a girl?" "Um, yeah? I'm awesome?" "You wouldn't rather be a boy?" "Hell''' to the no." "Not at all?" "No. I've never felt dysphoria as a girl, not even when I was you, and I identify as a girl now. I dunno if that's just how I am, or because magic, or inter-universe nonsense, or my soul or whatever, but I am not, nor do I want to be, a dude."

2017 May 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, May 10, 2017:

(US, chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) Expressing firm disagreement or refusal.


NRCC

N.R.C.C. (alternative)
N. R. C. C. (alternative)

(US) Initialism of National Republican Congressional Committee.


bucket steak

en-noun

bucket steak (countable and uncountable, plural bucket steaks)


raggedy-ass

en-adj

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

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

(slang, derogatory) Shabby, miserably inadequate.


Murderapolis

Blend of murder + Minneapolis, with reference to its crimewave of the 1990s, during which many homicides were recorded.

(US, slang, derogatory) The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.


hoojah

hoojahs (plural)
hoojer (alternative)
hooja (alternative)
houja (alternative)

I been around Paree with one a them once, a dandy hoojah.

1929, Claude McKay, Banjo, published 1957, →ISBN, page 222:

'You are really a hoojah, really you are, Pug,' Livia murmed affectionately.

2006, Charlotte Bingham, In Distant Fields, page 103:


sub-internship

(US, medicine) an acting internship; a clinical rotation of a fourth-year medical student in the United States medical education system


Irish clubhouse

en-noun

Irish clubhouse (plural Irish clubhouses)


durnfool

(US, euphemistic) Alternative form of damnfool


douche chills

“You're so gross,” she said, douche chills running up her arms and legs.

2012, Tonya Hurley, The Blessed, page 48:

It gave me douche chills just reading it. I was not particularly looking forward to meeting (or networking) with the people who worked there.

It makes me cringe, gives me douche chills, and I know I'm not alone.

2018, Mark D. Trollinger, Champ and a Bit of Sunshine, page 75:

(Canada, US, slang, often humorous) A physical feeling, akin to chills, in reaction to something contemptibly obnoxious.


throw a wrench in the gears

en-verb

throw<,,threw,thrown> a wrench in the gears

throw a wrench in the gears (third-person singular simple present throws a wrench in the gears, present participle throwing a wrench in the gears, simple past threw a wrench in the gears, past participle thrown a wrench in the gears)

throws a wrench in the gears (present singular third-person)
throwing a wrench in the gears (participle present)
threw a wrench in the gears (past)
thrown a wrench in the gears (participle past)
throw a wrench into the works (alternative)

throw a spanner in the works
throw a spanner in the works#English

(idiomatic, US) Synonym of throw a spanner in the works.


throw a monkey wrench in the works

throw<,,threw,thrown> a monkey wrench in the works

throw a monkey wrench in the works (third-person singular simple present throws a monkey wrench in the works, present participle throwing a monkey wrench in the works, simple past threw a monkey wrench in the works, past participle thrown a monkey wrench in the works)

throws a monkey wrench in the works (present singular third-person)
throwing a monkey wrench in the works (participle present)
threw a monkey wrench in the works (past)
thrown a monkey wrench in the works (participle past)
throw a wrench into the works (alternative)


trackage rights

en-noun

trackage rights pl (normally plural, singular trackage right)

In addition, the combined system has trackage rights into Memphis, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama.

1941 January, “Notes and News: An Important American Amalgamation”, in Railway Magazine, page 34:

(rail transport, US) Synonym of running powers.


Duke City

Named after the 10th Duke of Alburquerque.

(US, colloquial) Synonym of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.


Mound City

(US, colloquial) Synonym of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.


bluetop

(US, construction) A stake or other marker set into the subgrade to indicate the desired grade elevation.


everything is everything

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(US, African-American Vernacular, informal) Everything is going well or according to plan.


buttful

If the bugger tries to get back into the Corners he may end up with a buttful of Durfee birdshot.

The doctor examined Silent's wounds, bound them, and gave him a buttful of penicillin […]

2016, Vin T. Sparano, Hunting Dangerous Game: True Tales from Around the World:

(Canada, US, slang) Enough to fill a person's buttocks.


niglette

nig(ger) + -ette, made to sound like piglet, or niglet + -ette.

Coordinate term: niglet

A nigger is being sought by police for enticing a 6 year old niglette
female into his car and forcing her to give him a blow job.

1999 July 12, B9 Predator, “Ya' missed this one, B10 -- TNB Ghana”, in alt.politics.nationalism.black (Usenet):

The brutha executes his baby momma, then puts the baby in momma's dead
arms, pour gas on the pair of them and FLAMBE!

2007 November 9, Way Back Jack, “Motown Cuisine -- Barbecued Niglette With A Side Order Of Her Momma”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

Niglette gets a special toy in her Wendy's Kid's Meal - Mammy Sow goes
into rage!

2017 March 8, Rick Mathers, “Wow, like WOW!”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

(slang, US, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black female child.


ditto machine

ditto machines (plural)
Ditto machine (alternative)

From the name of the manufacturer, Ditto Corporation.

As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two. It was genuinely purple at first, as it was run off on a ditto machine.

2011 May 7, Margalit Fox, “Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

spirit duplicator
spirit duplicator#English

(US, historical, printing) Synonym of spirit duplicator


prairie meet

(US, hobo slang) Synonym of cornfield meet


grow some balls

en-verb

grow some balls (third-person singular simple present grows some balls, present participle growing some balls, simple past grew some balls, past participle grown some balls)

grows some balls (present singular third-person)
growing some balls (participle present)
grew some balls (past)
grown some balls (participle past)

(chiefly US, idiomatic, vulgar) To be brave; to show some courage, especially in a situation where one has so far failed to do so.


ruck up

ruck up (third-person singular simple present rucks up, present participle rucking up, simple past and past participle rucked up)

rucks up (present singular third-person)
rucking up (participle present)
rucked up (participle past)
rucked up (past)

(chiefly US, colloquial, idiomatic, somewhat vulgar) To be brave, to show some courage, to keep moving forward in a difficult situation.


Keystoner

From keystone + -er, after the "Keystone State" (Pennsylvania) from whose National Guard it originated.

(US, military) A member of the 28th Infantry Division (United States).


momfluencer

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Blend of mom + influencer, equivalent to mom + -fluencer.

Feeling overwhelmed and maybe a bit underappreciated, we moms gravitate toward the insistence of well-meaning momfluencers who tell us what we "deserve” — we "deserve" a break. Praise. Recognition.

2020 August, Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (And That's Okay), page 43:

The everchanging expectations voiced by an endless stream of “experts” (and the momfluencer with 12K followers and the gingham filter for that perfect orange-y skin glow) makes it impossible to feel like you're succeeding at motherhood.

2020 September, Maggie Combs, Motherhood Without All the Rules:

And now, some of the first Insta Stories I watch as I nurse my baby at 6:23 a.m. are by Hannah of @ballerinafarm, a new face to the momfluencer stratosphere, but one of many conventionally beautiful, straight, white women who perform a version of motherhood that feels like pioneer cosplay hit with a dash of Brooklyn hipster aesthetics.

2021 January 28, Sara Petersen, “Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?”, in Harper's Bazaar:

The soul of this community is local queen bee Sherry Conrad (Search Party alum Shalita Grant, the season’s MVP), an officious, controlling momfluencer with a knack for stealing the spotlight.

2021 October 17, Judy Berman, “You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia”, in Time Magazine:

(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumfluencer.


Manzanite

(US, historical) An internee at Manzanar (WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans).


Tulean

(US, historical) An internee at Tule Lake (WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans).


sidebar comment

en-noun

sidebar comment (plural sidebar comments)

(chiefly US, law) An unnecessary, often argumentative remark made by an attorney or witness during a trial or deposition.

(chiefly US, law) Conversation in the courtroom between lawyers and the judge that jury members are not able to hear.


take the ride

en-verb

take the ride (third-person singular simple present takes the ride, present participle taking the ride, simple past took the ride, past participle taken the ride)

takes the ride (present singular third-person)
taking the ride (participle present)
took the ride (past)
taken the ride (participle past)

(idiomatic, slang, US, law enforcement) To concede to be arrested for a crime and be transported to jail.


have a blessed one

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(US, African-American Vernacular) A phrase used when parting.


one-way ticket to Palookaville

en-noun

one-way ticket to Palookaville (plural one-way tickets to Palookaville)

one-way tickets to Palookaville (plural)

From a line in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.

1954, Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront, spoken by Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando):

Proper German gentlemen harbored a particular distaste for boxing and its two-fisted muscularity, considering it lower class and bestial, a one way ticket to Palookaville.

2007, Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History, page 128:

[…] History is also not symmetrical; you don't necessarily go down in the same sequence backward. What we might get instead could be just a one-way ticket to Palookaville instead of getting to relive the sixteenth century.

2012, James Howard Kunstler, Too Much Magic:

Well, my one-way ticket to palookaville turned out to be the chairmanship of the select Committee on public Administration. it had never been a particularly prestigious select Committee, but I was going to chair it and I could make of it what I wanted.

2017, Rhodri Morgan, Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster, page 114:

(idiomatic, originally US) Something that results in failure or obscurity, with no chance at redemption; a dead end.


mental inquest warrant

mental inquest warrant (plural mental inquest warrants)

mental inquest warrants (plural)
MIW (alternative)

(chiefly US, law) A court order requested by a citizen to summon an individual for a psychiatric evaluation because of concerns regarding that individual's mental instability.


juberous

en-adj

juberous (comparative more juberous, superlative most juberous)

more juberous (comparative)
most juberous (superlative)

Before you could count three, every soldier was surrounded by at least a dozen of the worst cut-throats that ever drew breath, and for a little time things looked mighty juberous for us Yankees.

1964, Dan L. Thrapp, Al Sieber: Chief of Scouts:

“I tell you,” Aunt Mary says, “I got a little juberous before we got to Chicago. I didn't know whether I'd get the right Parmalee taxi or not. I did feel pretty juberous.”

2016, Ernie Pyle, edited by Owen V. Johnson, At Home with Ernie Pyle:


Me Decade

Coined by American author and journalist Tom Wolfe in 1976.

coin

In contrast to some of the pop gurus of the "Me Decade," Starhawk and Margot Adler are both political activists, very much aware off the need to push for political change.

1986 April 12, R. W. Murray, “One Solution: Neo-Paganism”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

The prevailing concept of the Seventies remains the idea of the “Me Decade”—an era of narcissism, selfishness, personal rather than political awareness. […] Pundits and historians portrayed the Me Decade as the antidote to or repudiation of the activist, altruistic 1960s.

2001, Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 145:

(US) The 1970s characterized by a rise of self-indulgence and narcissism in American society.

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties


cutie patootie

Compound of cutie (“cute person”) + patootie (“attractive woman; girlfriend”), probably chosen because the words rhyme.

com+

Early mornings are best approached as late nights in the toddler-training arena, especially if it's still dark outside. Explain, in ten words or less, that it's still sleep time and that Cutie Patootie needs to go back to bed for more rest.

1999 February, Vicki Iovine, “Sleepy Time”, in The Girlfriends’ Guide to Toddlers […] (A Perigee Book), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 181:

The British import Get Real (directed by Simon Shore) is the love story of two classmates—outcast Steven (total cutie patootie Ben Silverstone, above left with Charlotte Brittain) and Big Man on Campus John (Brad Gorton).

1999 May, Marc S. Malkin, “Preview (Film): To Live and Love in the ‘So-called’ Years”, in James Collard, editor, Out, New York, N.Y.: Out Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 86:

Like, yeah! We love Usher. We decided to focus on his cutie-patootie face instead of his bodacious body.

2004 December – 2005 January, “The 50 Hottest Rockers! More Cute Boys than You Can Shake a Stick at. Bigger, Better and … Pinker than Ever.”, in Brandon Holley, editor, Elle Girl, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73:

He's an excellent teacher, a dedicated police officer, and a bit of a cutie patootie, too (but don't tell my husband I said that).

2018, Marnie Blue, “Acknowledgements”, in Mistletoe Kisses, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

(chiefly US, slang) An adorable and attractive person.


international football

Canadian football
Canadian football#English

American football
American football#English

(Canada, US) The combination of Canadian football and American football.


in one's feelings

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“Nigga please, yes you were. You love me. Been following me around, cashing out for months. Don't get in your feelings and start lying now.”
“I ain't in my feelings, and that money I spent wasn't shit. Best believe it ain't have nothing to do with loving your ass.”

2018, A'zayler, She Took My Heart and Went Crazy, volume 1:

I know now you're thinking Joseph was entirely too old to be marrying her anyway. Do you see how you just got into your feelings finding out that Joseph was potentially in his 90's?

2021, Dr. Lawrence V. Bolar, I’m Not Mad I’m Just in My Feelings: Study Guide:

(US, African-American Vernacular) Overreacting or having a strong emotional reaction; worked up.


wine mom

wine moms (plural)
wine mum (alternative)

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But the photos very quickly did the rounds, and a man on Twitter decided to use the opportunity to body shame her. “In 10 months Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30s wine mom body,” he wrote.

2020 November 13, Alex Light, Annabelle Spranklen, “Is Billie Eilish's new music video a big FU to the body shamers, stalkers and paparazzi after being targeted for ‘putting on weight’?”, in Glamour:

(Canada, US, informal) A mother who drinks alcohol to relieve the stress associated with parenting.


let's go, Brandon

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From a 2021 interview with racing driver Brandon Brown when a reporter incorrectly described NASCAR fans chanting "fuck Joe Biden" as chanting "let's go, Brandon".

When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening.

[2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press:

“A sieve of a southern border, the supply chain massacred, food prices rising by the day, crime rampant in big cities and being browbeaten continuously by Beijing. Yes, he is a real success.” Flanagan then adds sarcastically, “One more thing, ‘Let's Go Brandon.’”

2021 November 11, Mark Bonokoski, quoting Steve Flanagan, “BONOKOSKI: ‘Let's go Brandon! Let's go Brandon!’”, in Toronto Sun:

State Rep. Dave Williams, who is challenging eight-term GOP congressman Doug Lamborn in an intraparty contest, sued Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold last week after her office rejected allowing his name to appear on the ballot as Dave “Let's Go Brandon” Williams.

2022 April 30, John Dorman, “Colorado Supreme Court says GOP lawmaker can't use ‘Let's Go Brandon’ nickname on congressional ballot”, in Business Insider:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited a D.C. jail to check on conditions for the Jan. 6 defendants, with Republican lawmakers handshaking and high-fiving the prisoners, who chanted “Let's Go Brandon!” – a coded vulgarity against President Joe Biden – as the group left.

2023 March 27, “X, y, z: News from around our 50 states”, in USA Today, page B3:

(US, slang, US politics) A euphemism for “fuck Joe Biden”.

Bill Posey
Brandon Brown (racing driver)
United States House of Representatives


last roundup

last roundups (plural)
final roundup (alternative)

An allusion to herding of cattle into a group.

It's last roundup time, my fellow grocery patrons. On Saturday, the receipt redemption programs operated by Giant Food and Safeway ended after a 5 1/2-month run.

1998 March 2, Bob Levey, “Last Week to Send Your Grocery Receipts”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2021-11-01:

[B]y the 1964-65 season, the number of adult westerns had dwindled to seven. That was the genre's last roundup.

2003 March 26, Eric Gwinn, “Television: Sun shines on cops, doctors, but has long set on cowboys”, in Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2021-11-01:

This might have been the last roundup for Papelbon, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Big Papi, J.D. Drew, Miss Heidi, and several of the others you’ve loved all these years.

2011 September 29, Dan Shaughnessy, “Baseball: Red Sox make unwanted history”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2021-11-01:

(chiefly US, idiomatic) A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization.

So Duke is 66. But don't kid yourself that he's headed for the last roundup—even though it may have looked that way a while back when he surrendered a lung to cancer.

1973 December 30, Guy Flatley, “Cowboy or Cop, Wayne Never Wanes”, in New York Times, retrieved 2021-11-01:

[H]e swears that Jelf is going to beat him to the last roundup in the sky.

1977, Bill Reed, Dogod, Thomas Nelson (Australia) (reprinted 2015 by Reed Independent)

[N]ot everyone who runs with the bulls is young, male, drunk and stupid. […] It also is a way for people of a certain age to do something extraordinary before their last roundup.

2006 July 8, “Bullish on life”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2021-11-01:

(chiefly US, idiomatic, euphemistic) Death.


Red Power

Once again—faced not with the religious fervor of the Ghost Dancers but with the political rage of the Red Power activists—the white establishment reacted with uncertainty, and a show of force.

1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US, historical) A social movement led by Native American youth to demand self-determination for Native Americans in the United States.


civil rights movement

en-noun

civil rights movement (plural civil rights movements)

civil rights movements (plural)
civil-rights movement (alternative)

Civil rights movement
Civil rights movement (disambiguation)
Civil rights movements

Any of a number of movements against systemic oppression in various different countries, but especially:

(historical, US) A social and political movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968 that aimed to end racial segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement.


green tree frog

green tree frog (plural green tree frogs)

(US) A species of hyline hylid frog, Dryophytes cinereus, of southern and eastern USA.


big mad

My boi, are you BIG mad, frfr? I was clowning with you, but I see where you at wit’ it. FOH. See me tonight then.

2023, Aries Skye, Love on the Ninth Floor, Dallas, Tex.: Black Odyssey Media, →ISBN:


Yankee tunesmith

Yankee tunesmith (plural Yankee tunesmiths)

(music, historical, US) One of a group of self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810.


First New England School

(music, historical, US) A group of self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810; the Yankee tunesmiths collectively.


Second New England School

(music, historical, US) A group of classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in New England, based in and around Boston, Massachusetts.


Boston Six

Second New England School
Second New England School

(music, historical, US) Six specific influential classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in Boston, considered part of the Second New England School: John Knowles Paine (1839–1906), Arthur Foote (1853–1937), George Chadwick (1854–1931), Amy Beach (1867–1944), Edward MacDowell (1861–1908), and Horatio Parker (1863–1919).


New England Classicists

Second New England School
Second New England School#English

(music, historical, US) Synonym of Second New England School


student hour

student hours (plural)
Student Hour (alternative)

(education, US) A time-based unit of measurement used in American colleges and universities to track student educational attainment. Each unit represents approximately 12 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a semester.


seggie

Didn't matter if he outraged many seggies or a few. […] Schoolroom segregation would come to an end.

2008, Paul Evans, Song of My Soul: Poems by an American Man of Color to Commemorate the 2019 Harlem Renaissance Centennial, page 24:


CODIS

Combined DNA Index System
w:Combined DNA Index System

(US) Acronym of Combined DNA Index System.


TEE

(Canada, US, medicine) Initialism of transesophageal echocardiogram.


nonpromotion

nonpromotion (countable and uncountable, plural nonpromotions)

The first group consisted of the Black teachers who expressed ambivalence and concern that students would be emotionally hurt by nonpromotions. The second group consisted of gregarious, highly spirited teachers.

1990, Kofi Lomotey, Going to School: The African-American Experience, page 62:

(US, education) The holding back of a pupil instead of advancing them to the next year of studies.


gooberish

en-adj

gooberish (comparative more gooberish, superlative most gooberish)

more gooberish (comparative)
most gooberish (superlative)

your gooberish ways


flower bond

In several cases, the Internal Revenue Service argued that the decedent on whose behalf an agent bought a flower bond was past the point of capacity at the time of the purchase, although no adjudication so established.

2003, Sarah Worthington, Commercial Law and Commercial Practice, page 77:

(US, finance, historical) A Treasury bond that could be purchased at less than face value, but upon the holder's death could be redeemed for full face value for the purpose of paying federal estate taxes.


burn pit

burn pit exposure in Iraq

(US, military) An open-air pit where waste is burned. Long-term exposure to its smoke is associated with health problems.


little mad

(US, slang) Slightly irritated or annoyed.


Saturday-morning cartoon

en-noun

Saturday-morning cartoon (plural Saturday-morning cartoons)

(historical, US) One of the animated television series that was typically scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the United States on the "Big Three" television networks, especially between the mid-1960s and the mid-1990s as a dedicated programming block for the predominantly children's viewing demographic.


scrubman

Coordinate term: scrubwoman

(US) A man employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office.


West Augusta

In 1774, the Virginia assembly separated the western portion of Augusta County's territory to form the district.

(historical, US) A short-lived region (in place 1774–1776) of the Colony of Virginia that encompassed much of what is now northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.


Golden Circle

[A] secretive group called the Knights of the Golden Circle, which sought to create an even larger slave empire than Walker had. The “Golden Circle” was centered on Cuba, and its curve took in the Deep South, Mexico, Central America, part of South America, and the entire West Indies.

2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 18, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

(US) A proposed slave state encircling the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.


have got someone's six

en-verb

have got someone's six (third-person singular simple present has got someone's six, present participle having got someone's six, simple past and past participle had got someone's six)

has got someone's six (present singular third-person)
having got someone's six (participle present)
had got someone's six (participle past)
had got someone's six (past)
have someone's six (alternative)

Six is slang for "rear; behind", which is itself an ellipsis of six o'clock; see more at the entry for six.

I've got your six!

have someone's back
have someone's back#English

(US, chiefly military and law enforcement slang) Synonym of have someone's back


petting party

On the Triangle trip Amory had come into constant contact with that great current American phenomenon, the “petting party.” None of the Victorian mothers—and most of the mothers were Victorian—had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.

1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book I (The Romantic Egotist), page 64:

This last is a little private mission of Mrs. Du Puy and she is making a nationwide appeal for justice for the young thing who wears not much of anything in the way of clothes, paints her cheeks, powders her nose and plays her share in petting parties.

1921 October 15, “Let Girls Smoke, Mrs. Dupuy's Plea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical, US) A type of sex party in 1920s flapper culture.


bee gum

(US, regional) A beehive, especially an improvised beehive made from part of a hollowed-out black gum trunk.


roachicide

en-noun

roachicide (countable and uncountable, plural roachicides)

Cockroaches cannot be completely eliminated, and only with constant spraying appropriate roachicides will they be kept under control.

1944 November, William S. Gevurtz, Albert J. Michel, “Medical Experiences on an APD”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 43, number 5, page 931:

In addition to the common insecticides generally used, various special preparations are known which may be found useful against different kinds of insects, such as roachicides, anticides, culicides, larvicides, etc.

1963, Handbook of Economic Entomology for South India, page 98:

Inadequate availability of termiticides, rodenticides and roachicides in the ghetto may turn our post bicentennial years into a nightmare.

1975, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Extension: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture; House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Serial No. 94-O, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 528:

High school locker rooms smell from sweat, mildew, roachicide, and pimple cream.

1996, Charley Rosen, The House of Moses All-Stars, Seven Stories Press, page 244:

(US) A substance that kills cockroaches.


Black liberation

black liberation
black liberation#English

(chiefly US politics) Alternative letter-case form of black liberation


lavender lad

Coined by U.S. federal senator Everett Dirksen in the 1950s. From the association with femininity of the color lavender. An alliterative construct, pairing lad (“boy”) and lavender.

(historical, US, politics, sexuality, LGBTQ, slang) A homosexual male.


Ask a Stupid Question Day

From the phrase there's no such thing as a stupid question.

(education, chiefly US) A holiday that is sometimes celebrated, usually by school students and teachers, observed on either September 28th or the last school day of September. The purpose of the holiday is to encourage students to ask more questions in the classroom.


HCUA

(US, historical) Initialism of House Committee on Un-American Activities; (more commonly) HUAC


walk-in closet

(US, Canada) A small room adjoining a domestic bedroom where people may dress or undress in privacy.


authoritah

authoritah (countable and uncountable, plural authoritahs)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-authoritah.wav

Alteration of authority. Originated from a catchphrase—"Respect my authoritah!"—of Eric Cartman in the American animated sitcom South Park. First used in the episode "Chickenlover" (S2E4), which aired on May 27, 1998.

Cartman: Ey! I am a cop, and you will respect my authoritah!

1998, South Park, "Chickenlover" (season 2, episode 4)

They may "defend" themselves individually, like trying to sabotage an acquaintance who is doing better financially, socially, etc. Or they may appeal to gubmint authoriTAH.

2010 February 10, “Re: Do economics and morals have anything in common?”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-29:

And thanks to Backbeat Books and the Hal Leonard Group for allowing me to indulge professionally in the type of thinking and topics that earned me disapproval from guidance counselors and other figures of "authoritah."

2013, Tony Sclafani, “Acknowledgments”, in The Grateful Dead FAQ, unnumbered page:

My normal reaction to authoritah is to bristle, but arguments can wait.

2018, Russ Linton, Ashes (Crimson Son), volume 3, →ISBN, page unnummbered:

(humorous, slang, US) Authority (the power to enforce rules or give orders).


Ohio River

From Seneca ohiːyoʼ, a proper name derived from ohiːyoːh (“good river”), itself already containing the term "river" in Seneca. See more at Ohio.

(US) A major river in the United States, flowing 981 miles from the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela at Pittsburgh into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.


butt-kicking

(slang, Canada, US) A beating; a decisive or humiliating defeat; a severe reprimand.


butt-kicking

en-adj

butt-kicking (comparative more butt-kicking, superlative most butt-kicking)

more butt-kicking (comparative)
most butt-kicking (superlative)

(slang, Canada, US) Aggressive, violent, tough; strong, powerful.


basketball shoes

en-noun

basketball shoes pl (normally plural, singular basketball shoe)

desc

バスケットボールシューズ

→ Japanese: バスケットボールシューズ (basukettobōru shūzu)

→ Korean: 바스켓볼 슈즈 (baseuketbol syujeu)

Originally designed for basketball players, then later became used by the general public.

(Canada, US) A pair of bulky athletic shoes, manufactured to be shock absorbent and stable for the footing.


kick someone's ass

en-verb

kick someone's ass (third-person singular simple present kicks someone's ass, present participle kicking someone's ass, simple past and past participle kicked someone's ass)

kicks someone's ass (present singular third-person)
kicking someone's ass (participle present)
kicked someone's ass (participle past)
kicked someone's ass (past)

With their star quarterback back on the field, the Doves are going to kick the Pigeons' asses tonight.

(idiomatic, sometimes considered, vulgar, chiefly US, Canada) To clobber someone; to beat someone severely.

Then the horse kicked Pat's ass. Needless to say, she was not happy!

(literally, sometimes considered, vulgar, chiefly US, Canada) To actually kick someone in the buttocks.

potkaista persuksille

literally: to kick someone in the buttocks


en-proverb

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Originally used by Walter E. Headley, the police chief of Miami, Florida, in response to an outbreak of violent crime during the 1967 Christmas holiday season. He accused "young hoodlums, from 15 to 21", of "taking advantage of the civil rights campaign" that was then sweeping the United States.

(US) Lethal force is justified against rioters and looters.


live rent-free in someone's head

en-verb

live rent-free in someone's head (third-person singular simple present lives rent-free in someone's head, present participle living rent-free in someone's head, simple past and past participle lived rent-free in someone's head)

lives rent-free in someone's head (present singular third-person)
living rent-free in someone's head (participle present)
lived rent-free in someone's head (participle past)
lived rent-free in someone's head (past)
live rent free in someone's head (alternative)

Often attributed to American advice columnist Eppie Lederer (1918–2002), who used it in her syndicated advice column in 1990.

Gem of the Day: Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head.

1990 March 8, Ann Landers [Eppie Lederer], “Breast cancer is in her family”, in Daily American, volume 62, number 210, Somerset, Pa., page 12:

The difficult bosses then get under their skin and live “rent-free” in their heads long after they've left work and gone home to sleep.

2010, Jennifer C. Hunt, Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath, page 32:

It may not seem that way, but this is a testament to Hillary's ability to successfully make such a mark on her opposition that she lives rent-free in their heads for decades.

2015, Joanne Bamberger, Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox:

(chiefly US, informal, idiomatic) To be the perpetual focus of someone's thoughts, with that person having no control over this situation.