where someone lives

If visitors from a different lifestyle or need level came in, would your building, your décor, your church culture, and the message connect with them where they live or would it only serve to reinforce the chasm that exists between them and church.

2006, Richard L. Reising, Church Marketing 101: Preparing Your Church for Greater Growth:

And there's a very important lesson in all this that hits us right where we live.

2010, Keith Ellerbrock, Broken Tools in God's Hands, page 99:

But it's something that hits that old man right where he lives. And where he lives is that ranch and those cows and horses he loves so much. We're giving him something that will make him realize the error of his ways and do business with us.

2019, Jim Nesbitt, The Best Lousy Choice:

(US, informal) In one’s most vulnerable or personal spot.


lost in the sauce

Our talks over shots of Patrón is what I will miss most. You can't sit and have intellectual, intelligent conversations with some woman in our generation. They are still lost in the sauce and looking for purpose.

2020, Sherika Moore, Black Love, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

As soon as Troy saw Jermel the next day, he went at him. “Dogg, what type of crash [is] dummy on?” “Ain't nobody crashing! You just been lost in the sauce, dogg. I handled what needed ta be handled.”

2021, Tee, Trailblazing, Fulton Books, Inc.

Yet still lost in the sauce. I had no clue who I was and how I wanted to be loved. That was the triggering moment when I felt that something had to change. I still did not know who I was and what I wanted.

2021, Cissy Jones, Finding My Way Back To Me, Bowker, →ISBN:

(US, slang) Out of it, lost, e.g. due to intoxication, aimlessness, or being bewildered or distracted.

And because of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the nation's attention was focused elsewhere and reparations just got lost in the sauce, so to speak.

2007, Michael T. Martin, Marilyn Yaquinto, Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 432:

He concluded on this note, expressing his concern that the students who escape the attention of their teachers get “lost in the sauce.” Reflecting out loud about the student I was working with, he confided to me, “I think Jared gets ...

2009, Judd Kruger Levingston, Sowing the Seeds of Character: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools, Praeger, →ISBN, page 110:

The propensity of students to get “lost in the sauce” is exacerbated in a course of nearly 3,000 students, since it's more difficult for Boyer and his teaching assistants to keep track of the progress of individual students.

2013, James M. Lang, Cheating Lessons, Harvard University Press, →ISBN:

slip through the cracks
slip through the cracks

(US, slang) Lost; lost in the shuffle; allowed to slip through the cracks.


quicker than scat

Pop! went his gun, and the fire ran down the hill quicker than scat!

1865, Charles Carleton Coffin, Winning His Way, page 7:

I guess he didn't think we'd seen him 'cause, quicker than scat, he jumped 'hind er big oak tree an' in er minute or two he came out and started trudgin' 'long towards whar we wus standin'; but he had left ther fish 'hind ther tree.

1912 July, M. R. Umberhind, “Henry Holman's Pilgrimage”, in National Magazine, page 422:

But that same bully was quicker than scat to rat her out when she retaliated and gave him a severe pounding when she was bigger.

2020, Christianne Van Keuren, Sylvan Elf Chronicles: Battle for Elvenfeld, page 24:

(simile, US) very quickly, in a great hurry.


with blackjack and hookers

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From the episode "The Series Has Landed" (1999) of the American animated sitcom Futurama, which includes a running gag involving the robot character Bender stating that he will build his own versions of tourist attractions after being excluded from them, but "with blackjack and hookers" added.

2021, L.C. Mawson, Ember Academy for Young Witches: Books 1-6: The Complete Series, L.C. Mawson
You're suggesting that I start my own Themiscyra, with blackjack and hookers?” Maria frowned. “Well, you could have whatever you wanted. It would be your own island. Though, of course, I would argue for legalised sex work.” “You would?

An exception was the Gallic Empire led by Postumus. This mini empire consisted of the Roman provinces of Gaul, Germania, Britannia and (briefly) Hispania. It had broken away and started its own thing (with blackjack and hookers) in 260 CE, rejecting the wider Roman Empire entirely.

2023 September 7, Emma Southon, A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(US, slang, humorous) Enhanced; improved. Said of a new competing product or service compared to an existing one.

Bender (Futurama)
Futurama
The Series Has Landed

I'm going to build my own X with blackjack and hookers! In fact


SSME

Space Shuttle Main Engine
w:Space Shuttle Main Engine

(US, space science, aviation) Initialism of Space Shuttle Main Engine.


spot card

(card games, US) A playing card which is not a picture card; a card of low value.


Albuquerque turkey

en-noun

Albuquerque turkey (plural Albuquerque turkeys)

(US) A type of grilled sandwich served at restaurants, topped with turkey, cheese, and green chili sauce.


black where it counts

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From the pseudoscientific notion that black men tend to have larger penises than those of other races.


tanning parlor

tanning parlors (plural)
tanning parlour (alternative)

1994 September, P.P. Lilquist & al., "A Population-Based Survey of Sun Lamp and Tanning Parlor Use in New York State, 1990", Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, pp. 510–2

Some women from Oxford had moved into town to start a coffee shop and tanning parlor, and there were two restaurants—a Greek and a Chinese restaurant—moving into spaces that had been vacant since Quinn had been a kid.

2014, Ace Atkins, The Forsaken, page 107:


stravenue

(US) In Tucson, Arizona, a street that runs diagonally between and intersects a street (running east–west) and an avenue (running north–south).


sepian

en-adjective

sepian (comparative more sepian, superlative most sepian)

more sepian (comparative)
most sepian (superlative)

Nineteenth century sepian musicals included Sam T. Jack's "Creoles" -1890...

1941, Who is who in Music, Berghan Publishing Company, page 37:

(US, dated) Belonging to or pertaining to black Americans or African Americans, who typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.


sepian

Chicago Defender columnists forewarned viewers that despite [The World, the Flesh and the Devil's] marketing as the "first interracial romance between male Sepian and non-Sepian female star," the only personal contact between Belafonte and Stevens occurs during the haircut scene and when she takes his hand.

2014 [1959], Judith E. Smith, Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 187:

(US, sometimes capitalized, dated) A black American or African American.


heartbeat bill

(US, law) A form of abortion restriction legislation which makes abortion illegal as soon as the fetal heartbeat can be detected.


above the rim

I believe in playing above the rim on the court, and in my career.

1995 June, Lloyd Ward, quoted in Lloyd Gite, "Playing Above the Rim" Black Enterprise p. 214

Who can tell the fabric of state government stories better? Who can tell those fabric stories first? And who can do what I call playing above the rim, which is you're in such close contact with legislators and state officials that you can stay ahead of the news.

2004 Eileen N. Gilligan, Competing for News: Reporter's Use of Competition and Cooperation in the Production of News (Thesis, University of Wisconsin–Madison) p. 122

2021 February 16, Shawn Jefferson, quoted in Darren Urban, "Shawn Jefferson's Padded Resumé For Coaching Receivers" azcardinals.com
Jefferson, who once coached new Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson in Detroit, said DeAndre Hopkins is "probably the only one in the league I can compare to Calvin right now, has the skillset Calvin had, playing above the rim and in those competitive situations coming down with the ball."

(figuratively, Canada, US) at a high level of excellence


leftugee

Blend of left (political left, left-wing) + refugee.

blend

Just as a refugee resettles to escape hardship, a leftugee does so to flee the punitive financial environment created in their state by big government.

2019 December 27, Jason Orestes, “'Leftugees': Red states must defend themselves from the blue-state exodus”, in Washington Examiner:

But the fact that leftugees move in pursuit of more-affordable housing or to escape chronic traffic jams does not mean they all prefer a pure “red” policy model of low taxes and fewer services. To the contrary, blue-state migrants may nudge the politics of their new homes — and the new congressional districts to be drawn around them — leftward, while avoiding the worst liberal excesses they left behind.

2020 January 6, Charles Lane, “Want more bang for your vote? Move.”, in Washington Post:

There's dispute over whether the newcomers will change state politics in the South, as they may have in North Carolina, which elected a Democratic governor in 2016, or are “leftugees” fleeing liberal policies who will embrace conservatism.

2020 January 6, Tim Henderson, “Some states face political changes as newcomers arrive”, in Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, page A6:

Forbes.com had a stark March 2021 headline for what's happening around the country: “America's Mass Migration Intensifies as ‘Leftugees’ Flee Blue States and Counties for Red.”

2022 January 23, “Color these (new) Tennessee former blue-staters red”, in The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, page H7:

(US, politics) One who leaves a liberal blue state to live in a conservative red state, (often) doing so in favour of fewer regulations and lower taxes.


later, tater

“Later, tater,” she said, trying to keep the tremble from her voice.

2015, Jamie McGuire, Among Monsters, page 9:

“Later, tater.” Austin waved and disappeared.

2019, Erin McCarthy, Ghosts Like It Hot:

“I gotta go,” she said. “Later, tater.”

2019, Emma Chastain, Notes from a Former Virgin: Junior Year, page 137:

(slang, Canada, US) Au revoir, see you soon.


federal yellow

(dated, US) A shade of yellow used in US government vehicles and school buses, intended to be noticed quickly.


color of title

(US law) The situation where a claim to title in real estate appears valid but may be legally defective.


color of authority

(Canada, US law) The claimed legitimization of a person's acts by his/her role as an agent of governmental power.


color of office

(US law) The appearance of authority under which a public official acts.


meatcake

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The meatcake layers looked firm.

(US) A cake made with meat, mashed potatoes, and vegetables.


War on Christmas

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(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) An alleged plot by atheists and liberals to remove Christianity from Christmas or ban the festival of Christmas itself.


Mainely

Either a blend of Maine + mainly, or from Maine + -ly (“suffix to form an adjective”).

suf

Mainely Lobsters, Mainely Mulch

(US, nonstandard, used in business names or titles) Authentic to the U.S. state of Maine.


tardeada

(US, informal) A party among Hispanics held in the early evening.


shall-issue

(US) Being or relating to those jurisdictions that require a license to carry a concealed handgun, but where the granting of such licenses is subject only to legal criteria and not to the discretion of the granting authority or to the applicant's ability to demonstrate good cause.


Collegiate Gothic

From being a style found on colleges and universities similar to gothic.

(US, architecture) A style of Gothic Revival architecture inspired by Gothic, which includes Camford/Oxbridge style quadrangle campuses, and American Gothic style buildings. Used on North American university and college campuses, and other schools of high prestige (prep schools, private schools, etc).


MDOT

(US, transport) Acronym of Maryland Department of Transportation.

(US, transport) Acronym of Michigan Department of Transportation.

(US, transport) Acronym of Mississippi Department of Transportation.

(US, transport) Misspelling of MaineDOT. (Maine) (department of transportation)

(US, transport) Misspelling of MnDOT. (Minnesota) (department of transportation)

MnDOT

(US, transport) Misspelling of MoDOT. (Missouri) (department of transportation)


head

that and a nickel will get you on the subway

She's got love in her heart for Dennis Monahan, and that and a nickel gets a ride on the subway.

"Well, damn it. I am the president. Doesn't that mean anything to him?"
"Arbo's smart-ass answer to that would be, 'That and fifty cents will get you on the subway.'"

2011, Nick Arbuiso, The Day the Money Stopped, page 60:

that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee#English

(US, informal, humorous) Synonym of that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee


that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee

A reputation is only useful to dime novelists, boy. That rep and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee.

2011, James Ankrom, The Reaper, page 83:

“My gut tells me that he is, but with that and two bucks, I can get a cup of coffee, but not much else,” growled Max.

2012, Walter A. Turner, The Back Bay File, page 307:

"[…] I guess you got a medal when you got your arm shot off, didn't you?"
"Yeah, I got the Purple Heart. That and a nickel will get you a cup of weak coffee at the Busy Bee Cafe."

2013, James Ward Lee, A Texas Jubilee: Thirteen Stories from the Lone Star State:

“That and four bucks will buy you a cup of coffee,” Sunny said.

2019, Renee George, Thank You For Not Shifting:

that and a token will get you on the subway

(US, informal, humorous) Dismisses the mentioned thing as worthless or futile.


that and a token will get you on the subway


helper grade

On February 5-6, 1960, this westbound train made its run in 25 hr. 40 min. despite falling temperatures, fog, rain, sleet and snow; a 1 in 54 helper grade to the summit of the Alleghenies; and a load of 55 cars carrying 100 trailers for a gross tonnage of 3,856 tons.

1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:

(rail transport, US) A railroad gradient where helper locomotives are required to assist the train locomotives.


carbuilder

carbuilders (plural)
car builder (alternative)
car-builder (alternative)

At least three companies (including two carbuilders) lease the latest piggyback cars to individual railroads, which enables the carriers to escape a capital investment or obligation for debt service.

1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 687:

(rail transport, US) A manufacturer of railroad cars.


taco-bender

taco-benders (plural)
taco bender (alternative)

One looked like a taco-bender: olive skin and long dark hair tied back in a ponytail. Dynamite body, looked about twenty-five.

1995, Stephen King, Rose Madder, page 263:

Suck my asshole, taco bender!


negro fatigue

There has been some speculation in the blogosphere that Negro Fatigue is setting in nationwide among Whites over the Trayvon Martin case. Here are the numbers:
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/04/05/usa-todaygallup-poll-negro-fatigue-confirmed/

2012 April 6, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Negro Fatigue Confirmed”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

By the end of undergrad in 1980, it was clear that the America that I had entered into college with in 1976 had undergone regressive transformation. With the defeat of President Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan, the modern reconstruction of black America was over. The nation had suffered a severe case of “Negro fatigue.” Moving forward, the national government would officially disengage the great Project of righting the wrongs and repairing the damage of America's original sin.

2012, Marshall Elijah Hatch, Project America: memoirs of faith and hope to win the future, Life To Legacy LLC, →ISBN:

Negro Fatigue: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Admits People are Fed Up with Black Whining Stuff Black People Don’t Like October 16, 2014 A black mayor is an inevitability in Ferguson; the 67 percent black city today, that was 76 percent white in 1990 (99 percent white in 1970).

2014 November 19, Peter J Ross, “Negro Fatigue: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Admits People are Fed Up with Black Whining”, in soc.med (Usenet):

I think the folks at the Oscars are suffering "negro fatigue". Instead of being grateful for all the Oscars they got -- which they didn't deserve -- Fat Al thinks there should be a minimum quota for blacks. Simply because they are there.

2015 January 22, Gary, “Good reply to Sharpton's: "Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets."”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

At least it shows fellow Africoonians causing them to be slaves in the first
place
It’s really no surprise that a string of anti-White slavery movies have
shown during the "fundamental transformation" era of Obama. The only good
news is that Americans are starting to have "negro fatigue", thanks to Al
Sharpton, the "Ferguson effect", and the rise of the "Black Lives Matter"
movement.

2016 February 14, Byker, “"Roots" remake”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Some observers even cited the factor of “negro fatigue.” Morgan notes that a fifty year old man in 1877 had spent most of his life “worrying over the South and the Negro” first during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the four years of Civil War, and later during twelve years of Reconstruction.

2017 March 31, Christopher Brian Booker, The Black Presidential Nightmare: African-Americans and Presidents, 1789–2016, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

As significant as each of these was, I believe many of these issues to a greater or lesser degree were conjoined with a gnawing sense of "negro fatigue," a profound desire to get on with life, and willful blindness to the resilient and corrosive nature of unattended racism.

2018, William D. Green, The Children of Lincoln, White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876:

(US, psychology, derogatory) Physical or psychological fatigue or trauma experienced by nonblacks who live or work among black people.


Babbittism

(US, dated) A complacently materialistic middle-class attitude.


Babbittian

en-adj

Babbittian (comparative more Babbittian, superlative most Babbittian)

more Babbittian (comparative)
most Babbittian (superlative)

(US, dated) Having, or relating to, a complacently materialistic middle-class attitude.


grab box

grab boxes (plural)
grab-box (alternative)

Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]

1870, Jeremiah N. Thomas, “Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway”, in Sabbath at Home:

The grab box was on the third floor of his store, and a sales slip was good for one grab.

1906 February 1, “John the Shoeman's Grab Box”, in The Shoe Retailer:

I shall have nothing more to do with this fair if we have a grab-box.

1909, Jessie A. Kelley, Our Church Fair: A Farcical Entertainment in Two Acts:

(historical, US) A box having a small opening in the top through which individuals can (usually for a small amount of money) reach to retrieve an unknown trinket; a common feature of some fairs.


ring-cake

Then there is the church fair with its grab-bag having a silver pencil, and its ring-cake from which some one will get a gold ring for five cents.

1887, “The Book World”, in The Sunday-school World:

(US) A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.


Circle City

The city of Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

The city of Corona, California, United States.

The city of Dothan, Alabama, United States.

The city of Pittsboro, North Carolina, United States.


spaghetti bender

en-noun

spaghetti bender (plural spaghetti benders)

(US, slang, ethnic slur) An Italian American.


chuke

What have you done to find those chukes who roughed up Bam Stegner? Nothin'.

(US, slang) Clipping of pachuco (“Mexican American, especially juvenile delinquent”).


country sausage

country sausage (countable and uncountable, plural country sausages)

breakfast sausage
breakfast sausage#English


breakfast sausage

breakfast sausage (countable and uncountable, plural breakfast sausages)

(US) A kind of seasoned pork sausage, sometimes formed into patties, usually served at breakfast in the United States.


blood quantum

blood quantum (plural blood quantums or blood quanta)

blood quantums (plural)
blood quanta (plural)

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(US, sometimes proscribed, sometimes offensive) The fraction of a person's ancestors, out of their total ancestors, who are documented as full-blooded Native Americans.


fish camp

fish camps (plural)
fishcamp (alternative)

The whole region is dotted with restaurants very much like Taylor Grocery (once called fish camps) that sell only fried fish, and when I was growing up, the announcement that we were eating out meant we were going to the fish camp.

2009, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 124:

(US, regional) A restaurant serving fried seafood.


hurry up the cakes

en-verb

hurry up the cakes (third-person singular simple present hurries up the cakes, present participle hurrying up the cakes, simple past and past participle hurried up the cakes)

hurries up the cakes (present singular third-person)
hurrying up the cakes (participle present)
hurried up the cakes (participle past)
hurried up the cakes (past)

From the street-boy, who apostrophizes Government with a profanely sandwiched recommendation to 'hurry up the cakes,' up to the grave divine, who in his prayer for the President and Congress, of these mentally adds, […]

1862, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 300:

(US, dated, colloquial, chiefly imperative) Hurry up; get a move on.


bellywash

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(uncountable, US, slang, dated) A weak or low-quality alcoholic drink.

(uncountable, US, slang, dated) A soft drink; pop, soda.

That sounds like total bellywash to me.

(uncountable, US, slang, dated) Nonsense, hogwash, eyewash.


loonytarianism

Hasn't it dawned on you that the same forces that made communism unworkable also make loonytarianism unworkable?

2000 May 19, rose...@idt.net, “Re: The academic Left claims that 'fascism' is "Right".”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

John Stossel even seems to be trying to indoctrinate school children in the ways of radical Loonytarianism.

2000 July 28, Robert Calvert, “John Stossel's rantings”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Absolute, utter nonsense. Loonytarianism is crap. Other than a few nut cases, there is NO support for those idiotic beliefs.

2001 September 4, righ...@sodangerous.com, “Re: Does zero tolerance contribute to school shootings?”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) Libertarianism, viewed as untenable or absurd.


loonytarian

As loonytarians are so fond of observing, no nation on the earth has embraced a libertarian system, and, indeed, even in the heyday of rugged individualism, 19th c. America, complete laissez faire was rejected.

1998 September 14, po...@hotmail.com, “Re: Atlas Shrugged is Trash”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

The only difference between Loonytarians and Communists is the class of people each party intends to oppress and which equal but opposite deep end each party want's to jump off of.

2000 July 28, Hercu...@webtv.net, “Re: John Stossel's rantings”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Only loonytarians and other insane people see tyranny everywhere they move.

2007 December 11, Bob LeChevalier, “Re: Paul's Legislative Record - Claimed and Fact”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):


loonytarian

en-adj

loonytarian (comparative more loonytarian, superlative most loonytarian)

more loonytarian (comparative)
most loonytarian (superlative)

Of course your Ideas are a little extreme even by repug and loonytarian standards.

1998 August 25, kim overstreet, “Re: Another Warmonger Liberal Tries to Seize Power with Violence”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Loonytarian beliefs are bogus. They always have been, and always will be.

The "loonytarian" model of little government influence produced massive problems by the end of the 19th century, continued on until the horrific excesses of market capitalism began to erode America.

2009 November 24, s...@above.com (quoted by Jerry Okamura), “Re: Sarah Palin's Book Is Already on Clearance”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) Related to, characteristic of, or espousing libertarianism.


libertopianism

Conservative libertopianism is chock full of internal contradictions.

1997 December 15, BretCahill, “Re: All Men Are Angels”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Thus we get back to the argument that Libertopianism provides protection for the rich only, […]

2000 September 9, John Merrall, “Re: How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

In 1991, the extropians also founded an e-mail list, catching the wind of the Internet typhoon and its high-tech libertopianism.

2004, James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human Future, page 166:

(US, politics, derogatory) Libertarianism, viewed as untenable or hopelessly idealistic.


libertopian

I prefer to keep my feet on the ground and resist any attempt at change by either the libertopians or the utopian socialists.

1998 September 4, T.Asquith, “Re: Booming Corporate Economy Brings Layoffs”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

I see. So libertopians are in favour of government passing laws in favour of business. Figgers.

2000 August 23, John Merrall, “Re: How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

This tired old canard used ad nauseum^([sic]) that there is no such thing as"the people" or "the public" or "the public will" or "the public good" ie: the denial of any collective rights or collective powers or collective needs in a community, is merely ignorant denial of facts, usually done because any admission that a large group may have a good reason to impose it's collective will on an individual is anathema to libertopians.

2001 April 21, Scott Weiser, “Re: The GOP's Libertarian Problem”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) A libertarian.


libertopian

libertopian (comparative more libertopian, superlative most libertopian)

more libertopian (comparative)
most libertopian (superlative)

The present chaos and misery of societies without functioning governments show the absurdity of the libertopian fantasy of freedom from government: We can only be free, prosperous, equal and safe under effective, accountable government.

2004, James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human Future, page xviii:

In U.S. history, 'libertopian' socialist enclaves were founded repeatedly and failed every time. Equity requires abatement of nuisance, and greedy rotten capitalists (working class freemen) will get stuck with the bill for cleaning up ansoc disasters, food and shelter for survivors, environmental reclamation, etc. Pray that ansocs don't experiment with nuclear power. One Chernobyl was enough.

2007, Wolf Devoon, Laissez Faire Law, page 200:

The persistent nonexistence of a long-planned libertarian colony of seasteading rafts (Robinson 2014), to pick one example from the list of unexecuted libertopian schemes, […]

2017, Ian Stoner, "Humans Should Not Colonize Mars", Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2017, page 339

(US, politics, derogatory) Related to, characteristic of, or espousing (a utopian or critically flawed strain of) libertarianism.


libertopia

But as long as your libertopia is imaginary, I guess you can't be bothered to imagine that it is imperfect.

1995 February 15, Mike Huben, “Re: LP Challenge to GOP”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

I have yet to see one libertopist explain how indigents have real rights in libertopia.

1997 November 18, BretCahill, “Who Reads Canned Nazispam?”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

In "libertopia" it would be easy for large corporation to institute large-scale oppression.

2003 May 4, Siobhan Medeiros, “Sorry Commies. Americans Cannot Be Charged For War Crimes”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, chiefly derogatory) A hypothetical utopian libertarian society or nation-state.


libertopist

PS: I don't think we can blame the "libertopists" for the existance^([sic]) of "transnational ruling bodies" that override local laws!

1998 November 18, J. Kendrick McPeters, “Re: Serious Question Regarding the "Social Contract"”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

First, libertopists exist only in your head.

2000 March 10, Jackson Harvey, “Re: Don't vote for John McCain!!!”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) A libertarian and/or believer in the prospect of libertopia.


libertopic

libertopic (comparative more libertopic, superlative most libertopic)

more libertopic (comparative)
most libertopic (superlative)

Or more precisely, the rich are duping the ignorant with libertopic economics.

1999 October 29, BretCahill, “Re: Libertarians and Wealth”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

There is no such thing as a libertopic document, since libertopians are a figment of your imagination.

1999 October 30, Jackson Harvey, “Re: Critiques of Libertarianism 5th Anniversary”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Reagan gave lip service to ibertopianism. His economy was a war economy, not a libertopic economy. His foreign policy was imperialist and militarist, not libertopic.

2001 May 13, Daedra Morrighan, “Re: Jefferson: Libertopianism Is A Disease”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):


libertoon

Blend of libertarian + toon, likely influenced by loony tune (“a silly or crazy person”), after the Looney Tunes animated series.

Only if your point was that you're as typically unprepared to defend your silly philosophy as most evangelical libertoons.

2000 August 16, Clave, “Re: Do you wish your party would say this...”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

You libertoons come in with your deceptive soundbites and half-baked ideas that play right into the hands of big business.

2001 April 12, John, “Re: Socialized Medicine vs. Libertarian Medicine? (Re: What if?)”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

You libertoons never seem to be interested in talking about making government work better, just dismantling it.

2012 January 24, unknown (quoted by jigo), “Re: The government does more harm than good”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):


out sick

“We didn't think it was right that an executive should get paid when he's out sick while a production worker gets docked." Being fair has paid off for American Steel.

Picture the grilling you'll get ahead of time, to anticipate questions that don't arise in typical job interviews: “If you're out sick, will your partner cover for you? What if one of you quits?”

(idiomatic, US) Absent from work due to an illness.


boogerball

Slowly, but surely, the Killer Nose clumsily wobbled across the kitchen floor towards Jamison. Instinct told him to climb up on the kitchen sink, but the frantic detective soon realized he was still vulnerable. Jamison pointed his pistol at the Nose hoping to land a fatal bullet. In an instant, the creature reared back on its haunches and spurted out a gargantuan nugget! The immense boogerball shot out of the nasal cannon and enveloped Jamison's entire hand and firearm, rendering them both useless.

1998 October 30, CW, “A Halloween Story...”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet):

Hey Bwian, if I had wanted to talk to somebody with your IQ, I would be at the supermarket talking to the produce. Why don't you go back to doing what you do best; picking your nose and making boogerballs for your mucous collection.

2000 November 3, El Duderino, quoting Trent Worthington, “Gigabyte has confirmed there are problems with AMD's new 760 DDR chipset,”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (Usenet):

You ate hot lunch if you were the kid with the mustache or the boy who picked his nose, rolled a boogerball, then flung it across the room, adding machine-gun sound effects.

2008, Stephanie Klein, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, pages 18–19:

(Canada, US, informal) A spherical booger.


Deke

(US, slang) A member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, founded at Yale College in 1844.


tarbucket

(US, military, slang) The shako traditionally worn by cadets of West Point as part of full dress.


Rip Van Winkle

From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (1819).

That is, it makes a lot of sense to see Biden’s problems getting his plans across the finish line as being caused by the Rip Van Winkle caucus, Democrats who checked out intellectually a couple of decades ago and haven’t caught up with America as it now is.

2021 September 27, Paul Krugman, “Biden Versus the Rip Van Winkle Caucus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The characters do seem Rip Van Winkle-like, as they stumble upon and blink in amazement at very unsurprising things. “Wow! Instagram? Podcasts?” marvels Miranda at some of Carrie’s latest endeavors, as if these were edgy new enterprises.

2022 January 5, Rhonda Garelick, “Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A Tory Rip Van Winkle waking from decades of sleep to look round that cabinet table now would be aghast.

2022 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Finally the Tory papers have caught on that Johnson is a liar – what kept them?”, in The Guardian:

(fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.


radio car

Daniels: Can I get you out of a radio car? ... I'm short two men in ops and my follow-up squad couldn't make a case to save its life. You're too damned good to be humpin' calls.

2006 Sept. 10, David Simon & al., "Boys of Summer", The Wire, 00:23:10

(US law enforcement slang) Synonym of police car.


nitespot

Singer Mark Murphy is knocking them out in European nitespots, according to Trans World manager Bob Redcross

1964, Jet, volume 25, number 23, page 63:

(US, informal) Alternative form of nightspot


SCHIP

(US, historical) Initialism of State Children's Health Insurance Program.


niteclub

(US, informal) Alternative form of nightclub


kilometer zero

(US) Alternative spelling of kilometre zero


palo santo

en-noun

palo santo (plural palo santos or palos santos)

palo santos (plural)
palos santos (plural)

Palo santo oil is the product of Bulnesia sarmienti , which is known as palo santo ( holy wood ) to the Paraguayans.

1947, Industrial Reference Service - Volume 5, Part 2, page 2:

The cleansing power of palo santo wood comes with a sense of sweet blessings and nourishment; it clears the negative vibrations and brings forth a healing quality of energy to your home.

2017, Rodika Tchi, The Healing Power of Smudging:

Palo santo helps support the immune system by turning off inflammatory responses created by a poor diet, pollution, stress, and illness.

2017, Kac Young, The Healing Art of Essential Oils:

Palo santo (Bursera graveolens or Bulnesia sarmienti) is a critically overharvested plant native to South and Central America, closely related to frankincense.

2021, Sara L. Mastros, The Big Book of Magical Incense:

We fell in love with the Palo Santo so much that we commissioned John to return to Paraguay and harvest more of this sustainably harvested Palo Santo wood and ship it back to us on a container boat.

2021, Sam Calagione, Mariah Calagione, Andrew C. Greeley, The Dogfish Head Book: 26 Years of Off-Centered Adventures, page 153:

Palo santo, known for its cleansing energy, is lovely to have on hand for adding a sweet healing aroma to the air.

2022, Shellie Pomeroy, Natural Tables, page 107:

(US) A medium-sized deciduous tree indigenous to the tropical dry forests of Central and South America, Bursera graveolens or Gonopterodendron sarmientoi, known for its sweet scent.


summer vacation

summer vacation (countable and uncountable, plural summer vacations)

(US, Canada) a school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year


light someone's ass up

en-verb

light someone's ass up (third-person singular simple present lights someone's ass up, present participle lighting someone's ass up, simple past and past participle lit someone's ass up)

lights someone's ass up (present singular third-person)
lighting someone's ass up (participle present)
lit someone's ass up (participle past)
lit someone's ass up (past)
light up someone's ass (alternative)

(Canada, US, idiomatic, slang, vulgar) To scold or castigate someone severely.


Philthadelphia

Blend of filth + Philadelphia, in reference to the litter in the city.

(derogatory, slang, US) The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


second-hand shop

en-noun

second-hand shop (plural second-hand shops)


UUW

(law, US) Initialism of unlawful use of weapon.


swanger

That was the whole point in me driving my car instead of Briana's, looking over my shoulder to him, he was standing next to a black Camaro with swanger's^([sic]) on the rims, […]

2019 June 9, Vee Bryant, Fallin' for a Texas Thug, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:

Hips that poked out like twelve-inch swangers on a Houston slab car and long, curly hair that flowed down the middle of her back made her a sight for sore eyes. Kaci truly was a beautiful girl and could've been a model.

2019 June 20, Sha Jones, Kody & Kaci: Never Felt a Hood Love Like This, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:

He handed her the keys and got into his black 2019 Lincoln MKZ with some swanger's^([sic]) on the tires. His windows were tinted so I couldn't see anything in his car while following him to his house.

2019 September 8, Liv Reshelle, A Haitian Thug Stole My Heart: Caught By a Boss, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:

(US, informal) A decorative protruding construction on an automobile's rim, especially on a Houston, Texas, slab car.


11 Bulletstopper

11 Bulletstopper (plural 11 Bulletstoppers)

Army recruits assigned to the 11-B MOS, or “11-Bravo”—sometimes called “11-Bang-Bang” or even “11-Bulletstopper”— became infantrymen, highly likely to go to Vietnam.

[2009, Carol Reardon, “Vietnam Military Personnel”, in Mitchell K. Hall, editor, Vietnam War Era, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 45:

(US, military slang, derogatory) Synonym of 11 Bang-Bang


hominy snow

hominy snow (countable and uncountable, plural hominy snows)

hominy snows (plural)
hominy-snow (alternative)

(US, Southern, uncountable) A type of icy, granular snow that looks like hominy.

(US, Southern, countable) A snowfall of icy, granular snow.


hittingest

the hittingest team in baseball


brown bag test

(US, historical) The alleged practice of comparing an African-American's skin color to that of a brown paper bag, allowing them certain privileges only if the skin was lighter.


paper bag party

paper bag party (plural paper bag parties)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-paper bag party.wav

(US, historical) A (possibly apocryphal) social event to which only those whose skin color passed the "brown bag test" were admitted.


No Such Agency

Humorous alternative expansion of the initialism NSA, suggesting secretiveness and denial.

The No Such Agency is considering some things and I'd like to have some influence and input about what happens over there.

2010, Dale Kiser, Top Secret: Eleven Years of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, page 221:

(US, humorous) The National Security Agency.


miss one's guess

en-verb

miss one's guess (third-person singular simple present misses one's guess, present participle missing one's guess, simple past and past participle missed one's guess)

misses one's guess (present singular third-person)
missing one's guess (participle present)
missed one's guess (participle past)
missed one's guess (past)

I guess somebody hasn't been any worse off for a chance to get married than they have; and if they don't feel spiteful when they see the bridegroom, then I miss my guess.

1859, Mrs. Mark Peabody, Miss Slimmen's Window, and other papers, page 139:

(Canada, US) To be incorrect in one's assumption.


buttplugging

en-noun

buttplugging (usually uncountable, plural buttpluggings)


small-townism

(US, derogatory) Small-townish attitudes.


play party

play parties (plural)
play-party (alternative)

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

(US, chiefly historical) A social gathering at which singing and dancing games are played, frequently held in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the American South and Midwest.


gonesome

en-adj

gonesome (comparative more gonesome, superlative most gonesome)

more gonesome (comparative)
most gonesome (superlative)

As they settled themselves at the table, he observed with gloom, "I hope you've got a gonesome feelin' round yore waistband, 'cause if you ain't, this here fodder won't seem tasty."

2011, Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind, page 102:

(US, regional, colloquial) Synonym of gone (“weak; faint; feeling goneness”)


long title

(law, Commonwealth, US, Philippines) The formal, official title of an act (or other piece of legislation); such titles are rarely (if ever) used in practice, and in some cases consist of hundreds of words.

Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021


CIPA

(US, law, Internet) Acronym of Children's Internet Protection Act.


GDL

graduated driver's license
w:graduated driver's licenses

(US) Initialism of graduated driver's license.


EAD

employment authorization document
w:employment authorization document

(US) Initialism of employment authorization document.


From 1, used to dial special numbers and 976, a reserved local exchange code.

976-5555 is a 1-976 number that you have to pay for.

(Canada, US, telephony) Of telephone numbers dialed in North America, having an additional charge assessed to the caller, part of which is returned to the owner of the number.


butts up

(Canada, US) A playground game based around throwing a ball against a wall and catching it on the rebound.


mommy wars

en-noun

mommy wars pl (normally plural, singular mommy war)

mommy war (singular)
mummy wars (alternative)

(chiefly Canada, US) Disputes between mothers over parenting methods, especially those between working mothers and stay-at-home mothers.


Hicksism

(US, historical) The religious principles of the Hicksites.


radioteria

Visit the radioteria, something new.

The lubratorium (a place for greasing motorcars) is marching eastward from the Pacific Coast, and with it comes the chowmeinery and the radioteria.

1935, The New Yorker (volume 11, part 2, page 33)

I finally went into one radioteria and had the salesman demonstrate several of the transistor all-wave sets that he had in stock.

1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 38:

(US, dated, rare) A store that sells radios.


chowmeinery

A flock of movie theaters, Chink chowmeineries, open-front orange juice joints, second-rate short order restaurants and cafeterias, […]

1931, William R. Lipman, The Night is Long, page 97:

Chowmeineries flop out of Grant Street's hip pocket

2008, Ralph O. Cunningham, Joe Ruggier, Schwanengesang: Poems, page 21:


lubratorium

lubratorium (plural lubratoriums or lubratoria)

lubratoriums (plural)
lubratoria (plural)

Lubratoriums and Greasing Palaces are both for the benefit of the motorist.

1939, Hector Bolitho, Haywire: An American Travel Diary, page 26:

(US, dated, rare) A place where cars can be serviced with lubrication.


whitecorn

The contract provided that it should all be good, sound, merchantable whitecorn.

1890, The Northeastern Reporter, volume 23, page 144:


wiskinkie

Coordinate term: sagamore

The other officers of the society are a Secretary, Treasurer, Sagamore, and Wiskinkie. The duty of the Sagamore is to take care of the property of the society; that of the Wiskinkie, to act as doorkeeper.

1867, Society of Tammany (New York), Proceedings of the Tammany Society, or Columbia Order... (page 139)

(US, historical) A doorkeeper in the Tammany Hall political organization.


wrastler

Is not Gorice a mighty wrastler, and hath he not in his palace in Carcë the skulls and bones of ninety and nine great champions whom he hath vanquished and slain in that exercise?

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 13:

(obsolete or UK, dialect or US, colloquial) A wrestler.


ring play

ring play (countable and uncountable, plural ring plays)

Shall we have a Ring-play before we work today?

1911, Scott Joplin, “The Corn-Huskers”, in Treemonisha:

“They'd push me 'way from de ring plays and make out they couldn't play wid nobody dat lived on premises.”

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper, published 2013, page 9:

(US, chiefly African-American, Caribbean) Any of various (mainly children's) games played in a circle, typically with dance movements and singing.


get medieval

en-verb

get medieval (third-person singular simple present gets medieval, present participle getting medieval, simple past got medieval, past participle gotten medieval or got medieval)

gets medieval (present singular third-person)
getting medieval (participle present)
got medieval (past)
gotten medieval (participle past)
got medieval (participle past)
go medieval (alternative)

From get (“to become”) + medieval (“relating to medieval dungeon torture methods”); originally merely collocational when attested in the dialogue of the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, but the collocation took on the function of a phrasal verb, entering the lexicon as a term for torturing severely, after it went viral as a consequence of the film's popularity.

What now? I'll tell you what now. I'm gonna call a couple of hard pipe hittin' n-ggas to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow-torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy?! I ain't through with you by a damn sight! I'ma get medieval on your ass!

1990-1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), Miramax, published 1994:

(intransitive, chiefly US, informal) To become sadistically torturous, especially due to vengeful spite.

go ham

sharing a semantic theme of going nuts violently; in one of its senses


RAL

refund anticipation loan
refund anticipation loan#English

(US, finance) Abbreviation of refund anticipation loan.


biscuit bread

“Folks up dat way don't eat biscuit bread but once uh week.”

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 56:

(US, dialectal) A type of savoury bread in the form of a small cake or scone, typically made from flour, fat and a raising agent.


questionize

questionize (third-person singular simple present questionizes, present participle questionizing, simple past and past participle questionized)

questionizes (present singular third-person)
questionizing (participle present)
questionized (participle past)
questionized (past)

“'Tain't no use in you askin' me nothin'. Ah'm questionizin' you.”

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 63:

(US regional, colloquial) To ask questions of; to question.


chessy cat

She felt like slapping some of them for sitting around grinning at her like a pack of chessy cats, trying to make out they looked like love.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 90:

I looked fearfully over my shoulder and there was TwoBit, grinning like a Chessy cat.


Negroness

[S]he was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 144:

(chiefly US) The state of quality of being of black African origin, or of having qualities, experiences etc. characteristic of black people.


hornety

en-adj

hornety (comparative more hornety, superlative most hornety)

more hornety (comparative)
most hornety (superlative)


hustlement

en-noun

hustlement (countable and uncountable, plural hustlements)

hustlements (plural)
huslement (alternative)

From Middle English ostelment, borrowed from Old French ostillement, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *usitilium, from neuter plural *usitilia, from Latin utensilia (“utensils”).

Theye haue allso abundaunce of bed coueryngs in their houses, and of all other wollen stuffe. They haue greate store of all hustlements and implements of houshold.

1567, John Fortescue, chapter 36, in Robert Mulcaster, transl., A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande, London: Richard Tottel:

the minute Bodies and smallest sort of Creatures about us, which have been by them [the ancients] but sleightly and perfunctorily described, as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation

1664, Henry Power, Experimental Philosophy, London: John Martin and James Allestry, Preface:

(UK, Yorkshire, US, Virginia, law, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.


house trailer

(US) A prefabricated home built in a factory, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where it will be occupied.


chief judge

(US) The principal, presiding, or most senior judge of especially a lower level court or of a circuit

(US) One of the judges who preside over the sessions and deliberations of a court, while also overseeing the administration of the court

審判長 /审判长

member of a court who presides over that court


KSOP

(US) A retirement benefit in which a company combines an ESOP and a 401(k).


gage pressure

(physics, meteorology, US) Alternative form of gauge pressure


exodust

en-verb

exodust (third-person singular simple present exodusts, present participle exodusting, simple past and past participle exodusted)

exodusts (present singular third-person)
exodusting (participle present)
exodusted (participle past)
exodusted (past)

(US, historical) Of an African-American: To leave a Southern state as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.


grape jelly

(Canada, US) A preserve made from sugar and grapes.


EUCOM

(US, military) Acronym of European Command.


USEUCOM

United States European Command
w:United States European Command

(US, military) Acronym of United States European Command.


NORTHCOM

(US, military) Acronym of Northern Command.


USNORTHCOM

United States Northern Command
w:United States Northern Command

(US, military) Acronym of United States Northern Command.


LANTFLT

(US, military) Acronym of Atlantic Fleet.


USLANTFLT

(US, military) Acronym of United States Atlantic Fleet.


USAFE

(US, military) Acronym of United States Armed Forces Entertainment.


woolly-head

(historical US slang) Synonym of abolitionist: an activist or politician opposed to slavery.


HMFIC

(US slang) Initialism of head motherfucker in charge.


NEPA

National Environmental Policy Act
w:National Environmental Policy Act

(US) Initialism of National Environmental Policy Act.


liberty steak

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

Coined during wartime because of antipathy toward the Germans and their language; see liberty cabbage.


MFR

According to the MFR, DEA [Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration] reported at the November 19 meeting that Jorge Morales was awaiting trial in Miami, along with 13 other defendants, on federal charges of engaging in a Continuous Criminal Enterprise.

1998 October 8, Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General, Report of Investigation: Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States, Volume II: The Contra Story, 96-0143-IG, Southern Front Contras:

Hell, I don't even know, because no one is telling me anything. Without those MFRs my case is a bust.

2021, M. B. Traven, Rory Jaines, Sohrab Noshirvani, 1:28:35 from the start, in Kevin Macdonald, director, The Mauritanian (motion picture), spoken by Stuart Couch (Benedict Cumberbatch), STXfilms:

memorandum for the record
memorandum for the record#English

memorandum for record
memorandum for record#English

memo for the record
memo for the record#English

(US military) Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, and memo for record.


memorandum for the record

en-noun

memorandum for the record (plural memorandums for the record or memoranda for the record)

memorandums for the record (plural)
memoranda for the record (plural)

Colonel [Rufus S.] Bratton. […] He asked me to go over it with him and make such corrections as were necessary, so that it would be a memorandum for the record, of our recollection of what took place in General [George C.] Marshall's office that morning.

1946, “Testimony of Rufus S. Bratton”, in Proceedings of Army Pearl Harbor Board (Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack), volume 29, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, page 2347:

A US military document meant to act as an internal, formal record of a verbally or informally delivered communication.


back up the truck

en-verb

back up the truck (third-person singular simple present backs up the truck, present participle backing up the truck, simple past and past participle backed up the truck)

backs up the truck (present singular third-person)
backing up the truck (participle present)
backed up the truck (participle past)
backed up the truck (past)

From the idea of bringing a truck to a location to be loaded with goods.

When spreads are very low and contracting, back up the truck and buy equities. When they are high and rising, it's time to hide.

2011, David M. Smith, Hany A. Shawky, Institutional Money Management, page 82:

(informal, idiomatic, chiefly finance, chiefly US) To take advantage of favourable pricing by purchasing a large amount.


E(S/A)

Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act

(US) Endangered due to similarity of appearance to a species deemed threatened under the Endangered Species Act.


T(S/A)

(US) Threatened due to similarity of appearance to a species deemed threatened under the Endangered Species Act.


seafoam candy

Honeycomb toffee
honeycomb toffee#English


IAMAW

w:International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

(Canada, US) Initialism of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.


UFCW

United Food and Commercial Workers
w:United Food and Commercial Workers

(Canada, US) Initialism of United Food and Commercial Workers.


S.E.C.

(US) Initialism of Securities and Exchange Commission.


shitskinned

(slang, vulgar, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive, chiefly US) Having dark-colored skin.


corn squeezing

en-noun

corn squeezing (countable and uncountable, plural corn squeezings)

(US, regional, chiefly in the plural) Corn whiskey.


kreistle

en-verb

kreistle (third-person singular simple present kreistles, present participle kreistling, simple past and past participle kreistled)

kreistles (present singular third-person)
kreistling (participle present)
kreistled (participle past)
kreistled (past)

(transitive, US, dialect) To cause (a person) to shudder; to disgust.


country-fried

Coordinate term: chicken-fried

Serve the country fried steaks with mashed potatoes, gravy, and your favorite vegetable on the side.

2023, Katy Lyons, Nashville Tennessee Recipes, page 55:

He was the kind of radically right wing inbred country-fried rube who spent his weekends tipping cows and fucking his cousins.

2009, Sid Aomer, Radiogramme: The Confessions of a Libertine in Montreal:

I straighten my spine like the cloak of a country fried orator

2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 89:


fedgov

More of the same from INGSOC/FedGov.

1998 March 19, Awesome1, “More Conspiracy from the masters at FedGov....”, in misc.activism.militia (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Guy in the mailroom sends out 39 wrong letters and fedgov backs him up by shelling out "up to" 975 large.

2000 March 8, Tom Beckner, “OT: Fedgov Buries Their Mistakes”, in comp.software.year-2000 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

The fedgov passes law after law, and forces the businesses to adapt to whatever ridiculous fashionable, politically correct mandates that the congress critters want.

2009 June 4, Bama Brian, “Cheney: Bush passed buck on GM to Obama”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(US, informal) The federal government of the United States.


chalkware

en-noun

chalkware (usually uncountable, plural chalkwares)

(US) Sculpted figurines usually made of painted plaster of Paris.


bet one's ass

en-verb

bet one's ass (third-person singular simple present bets one's ass, present participle betting one's ass, simple past and past participle bet one's ass)

bets one's ass (present singular third-person)
betting one's ass (participle present)
bet one's ass (participle past)
bet one's ass (past)

You can bet your ass that favor won't be returned.

2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Supreme Understanding, Locked Up but Not Locked Down:

It was punishable by death because it put the entire species at risk. There was a standing reward for turning in any werewolf who broke the rule. He bet his ass that he'd get turned in for the money.

2020, Jodi Vaughn, Her Werewolf Champion:

(US, slang, sometimes considered, vulgar) To bet everything; to have total reliance or confidence in something.


Seattle Freeze

(US, sociology) The supposed difficulty of forming new friendships in the city of Seattle.


cakesicle

(Canada, US) A snack consisting of cake and frosting prepared in a popsicle mold and served on a stick.


buttlike

en-adj

buttlike (comparative more buttlike, superlative most buttlike)

more buttlike (comparative)
most buttlike (superlative)

It was all girls in tight shirts with enormous buttlike cleavage and boys falling over their own tongues hanging out their mouths, the kind of thing that makes you wonder if there's any truth to evolution after all.

(Canada, US, slang) Resembling or characteristic of the buttocks.


CRBA

(US) Initialism of consular report of birth abroad.


passport card

(US) An optional national identity card and travel document, the size of a credit card, issued by the United States federal government.


plow in

en-verb

plow in (third-person singular simple present plows in, present participle plowing in, simple past and past participle plowed in)

plows in (present singular third-person)
plowing in (participle present)
plowed in (participle past)
plowed in (past)
plough in (alternative)

(transitive, agriculture) To mix (something) with soil using a plough or similar item.


plow under

plow under (third-person singular simple present plows under, present participle plowing under, simple past and past participle plowed under)

plows under (present singular third-person)
plowing under (participle present)
plowed under (participle past)
plowed under (past)
plough under (alternative)

A sharp drop in demand forced the farmer to plow under half his turnips.

(agriculture) To destory (crops) by turning them into the ground with a plow


unallot

unallot (third-person singular simple present unallots, present participle unallotting, simple past and past participle unallotted)

unallots (present singular third-person)
unallotting (participle present)
unallotted (participle past)
unallotted (past)

The Director of Finance is authorized to unallot and revert savings attributable to this section to the appropriate fund sources.

2002, Statutes of California and Digests of Measures, volume 2, page 2174:

(transitive, US, finance) To carry out the unallotment of.


unallotment

en-noun

unallotment (countable and uncountable, plural unallotments)

(US, finance) A unilateral spending cut made by a state governor in order to bridge a budget deficit gap.


nigger lottery

nigger lottery (plural nigger lotteries)

So is "black" another word to chalk up on the PC banned list? These niggers are obviously taking lessons from their kin in America, look at their faces, they are thinking of nothing but hitting the "nigger lottery", as we call it here.

2009 November 5, Jesse, “Negroes in UK mad abot^([sic]) being called black”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

Atkinson's mother is seeking more than $75,000 in the wrongful death suit. Here come dat Nigger Lottery cash..........the lawyer will get over half!

2012 August 20, John Doe, “Re: Nigger Mammy Suing Kroger For Death of it's^([sic]) Feral Bastard Nigger Spawn”, in free.spirit (Usenet):

Just an example on how ludicrous negroes are. The[y] walk around in their daily lives looking to hit what we call the "nigger lottery". They are always a hair trigger away from suing something or somebody, and the easiest path for that is to cry "racism".

2013 February 7, Jesse, “Negroes sue racist rabbit”, in alt.france (Usenet):

The boy’s parents, who are also only identified by their first names, announced plans to sue the Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday.[…]Nigger hoping for Nigger Lottery as usual....

2013 June 29, Reaper G, “Re: Feral Nigger Raped During Gym Class At Barack Obama Prep”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Durham, NC niggersow Diana Mems has 45 different mugshots because among all its niggercrimes it has caused 31 automobile accidents because it cuts in front and slams on the brakes in order to get nigger lotteries. The niggersow was well known by citizens on social media and law enforcement because niggersow Mems had the license plate “STAYUMBL,” that it has since changed. We all know horsenostril niggers do this nationwide to get nigger lotteries and this is why filthy niggers SHOULD NOT be allowed to drive.

2019 April 4, Rick Wolfe, “Nigger caused 31 wrecks in Nig Carolina”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

(US, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, uncommon) The act, practice or result of a black person seeking damages in response to a crime committed against them.


they hate us 'cause they ain't us

(US, African-American Vernacular, slang) The reason that certain people are disliked is that others are jealous of them.


pain in one's ass

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pain in one's ass.wav

(US, slang, vulgar) Synonym of pain in the ass


state electrician

state electrician (plural state electricians)

(US) A person hired by a state government to execute condemned criminals in the electric chair.


unthoughted

en-adj

unthoughted (comparative more unthoughted, superlative most unthoughted)

more unthoughted (comparative)
most unthoughted (superlative)

(US, dialect) Not thought out in advance; spontaneous.


antipooling

(US, historical, railways) Opposing or banning associations of rival railroads.


Rogers test

In reference to the legal case of Rogers v. Grimaldi.

(US, law) A legal test that is used to determine whether the use of a celebrity's name in the title of a creative work infringes on that celebrity's trademark rights.


summerteeth

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

An ellipsis of various expressions involving ...some of her teeth, under the influence of summer. Compare butterface.

She's a lovely girl but she's got summerteeth—some are still there, but some ain't.

Always be careful handling your oars or you'll end up with a case of summerteeth.

I glance over and see Mia smiling. "At least it's not some creepy old dude with a bald head and missing teeth."
Shaking my head, I chuckle. "I can't say if he's a toothless wonder or if he has summer teeth. I'm just saying it's a male."

(US, colloquial, humorous) A partially incomplete set of teeth.


go cup

(Canada, US) A cup of drink purchased in an establishment to be taken away and drunk elsewhere.


boba liberal

A reference to boba tea, a drink popular in Asian American communities.

I am admittedly vocal about my obsession with bubble tea; in fact, the editors of the Grub Street piece had cut several other mentions of it, on the ground that it was boba overkill. I also write for a mainstream, left-leaning American publication, and it’s true that I once wrote a Profile of the “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu. It hadn’t occurred to me that such proclivities made me a quintessential boba liberal (much less an idiot queen)[…]

2021 January 29, Jiayang Fan, “Chronicles of a Bubble-Tea Addict”, in The New Yorker:

But just as we’ve seen with the co-opting of the word “woke” as a sarcastic conservative slur against progressive ideals, the term “boba liberal” has been subverted, too. Instead of merely critiquing shallow identity politics, the term is now weaponized against progressive Asian Americans deemed insufficiently committed to the Asian cause — and nothing has accelerated that quicker than the panic over attacks on Asian Americans on the street.

2022 February 17, Eddie Kim, “Is the ‘Boba Liberal’ Really a Race Traitor?”, in MEL Magazine:

And Uncle Roger gets to both educate and complain about cultural appropriation without coming off as what Lau referred to as a boba liberal.

2022 April 18, 3:35 from the start, in Keep screwing up egg fried rice. It makes Uncle Roger happy, via NPR:

(US, derogatory, US politics) a liberal-leaning Asian American with politics or attitudes considered too tepid or whitewashed by other Asian Americans, stereotyped as focusing on superficial gestures over more meaningful actions especially in regards to Asian American activism.


WASL

w:Washington Assessment of Student Learning

(US, education) Initialism of Washington Assessment of Student Learning.


cusinero

(US, historical) The cook who prepares meals from a chuck wagon.


offer versus serve

(US) The option given to children to refuse up to two items offered as part of a federally subsidized school lunch or breakfast without the meal-service operation losing the federal reimbursement for the meal.


dumbassity

Every now and then, I apparently suffer from the consequences of my own dumbassity.

(slang, vulgar, Canada, US) The state or condition of being a dumbass.


Black Dutch

Black Dutch (plural)
black Dutch (alternative)

In reference to Germans, a mangled calque of German schwarze Deutsche (“black Germans”) under influence from Dutch.

The same usage still prevails among the vulgar as in the phrases, ‘black Irish’, ‘black Dutch’, describing certain well known types of Celts and Teutons (Hollanders, probably), differing widely from the prevailing type of either race in respect of their black eyes and hair, and gypsy-like, tawny complexions.

1875 December, American Bibliopolist, p. 260

There are strong indications that the original "Black Dutch" were swarthy-complexioned Germans. Anglo-Americans loosely applied the term to any dark-complexioned American of European descent... By the mid-19th century, the term had become an American colloquialism; a derogative term for anything denoting one's small stature, dark coloring, working-class status, political sentiments or anyone of foreign extract.

1997 March, James Pylant, "In Search of the Black Dutch", American Genealogy Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1

(US, obsolete or historical) A European with dark hair, eyes, and skin, especially one from or claiming to be from Germany or the Netherlands, sometimes (derogatory, ethnic slur) with disparaging racial overtones.

There are strong indications that the original "Black Dutch" were swarthy-complexioned Germans... The term was adopted [by some] as an attempt to disguise Indian or infrequently, tri-racial descent.

(US, obsolete or historical) A person passing for such a European, especially Native Americans or people from multiracial families.


blackassed

but ince by ince we takin' hold
like when the white bread starts to mold...
i'll overrun
yo home and soon...
DEY BE ONLY FIT FO DE BLACKASSED COON"

1996 October 16, Aryan, “Racist horseshit”, in uk.legal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

That Blackassed Crack Whore is just stinking up the house with her monkey stank and greasy brillo pad hairdo.

2001 August 17, xganon, “Monica is Queen Nigger”, in alt.tv.big-brother (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

But inch by inch we takin' hold, like when de white bread starts to mold...
We'll overrun yo homes and soon...
Dey only be fit fo de blackassed coon."

2013 February 7, Bobby J. White, “The Obama Creed”, in sac.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

The real question is niggas human?
Blackassed nigga mofo!

2016 May 31, Colonel Edmund J. Burke, “Re: GATOR "MACKIN' DOWN" ON HUMAN CORPSE”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

(derogatory, vulgar, US, offensive) African-American; black.


soft snap

(US, informal) Something that can be successfully accomplished with very little effort.


IAC

Interstate Aviation Committee
w:Interstate Aviation Committee

(US) Initialism of Interstate Aviation Committee.


sody

en-noun

sody (countable and uncountable, plural sodies)

Of course, Zury's sody-crackers went in with the rest, an' me an' Zury always ate some anyhow for appearance sake.

1889, “How The Meanest Man Got So Mean, and How Mean He Got”, in Joseph Kirkland, Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, page 81:

There's a gossoon in me company that did be workin' in a dispinshary that's after tellin' me that bakin' sody in hot wather wid put the comether on yer pains, me poor frind.

1940, Sir James Elliott, The Hundred Years, Robert Hale Limited, page 125:

'I'm wantin' half a pound of bakin' sody,' whispered Ally Beag with a terrified glance in my direction.

2012 April 5, Lillian Beckwith, The Hills is Lonely: Tales from the Hebrides, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 112:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(dated, especially US) Pronunciation spelling of soda.


paper son

(US, historical) A Chinese male who was falsely registered as the son of another Chinese who had already migrated to America, in order to take advantage of immigration laws.


China bug

The ABCs called us FOBs—Fresh Off the Boat—or China Bugs. Even the American-born Chinese referred to us as ‘Chinese’—as though they were not.

1977, Joe Fong, quotee, Unemployment and Crime: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions on Unemployment and Crime, page 820:

(US, ethnic slur, historical) A fresh off the boat Chinese-American immigrant.


tong war

From tong (“Chinese secret society”) + war.

(US, historical) A conflict between rival Chinese-American gangs.


yellow box

yellow boxes (plural)
yellowbox (alternative)

gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

See also: severe thunderstorm watch

(informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification category.


cupalo

Mebbe ye'd like to a ben me in them days, when I seed things at night aout to sea from the cupalo top o' my haouse.

1936 April 25, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, chapter III, in The Shadow over Innsmouth, Visionary Publishing Company:


man camp

(chiefly Canada, US) a temporary settlement created to house workers in resource extraction projects


hard r

hard r's (plural)
hard R (alternative)
hard-r (alternative)

First and foremost / You are under no circumstances / Ever permitted / To say the n-word / I don't care if it's soft a or hard r

2016 May 5, MItchell Joseph Sewell, Standpoint: Black Queer Southern Revelations, University of South Carolina - Columbia, Senior Theses. 87, page 45; Tips for a Successful Interracial Relationship:

While telling the story, Student B said the "N-word". Student A told Student B that using that language was not okay. Student B's response was "It's okay, I don't say it with the hard R."

2021, Dean of Students Office, “Fall 2021”, in Bias Advisory and Response Team Updates, Xavier University, archived from the original on 2023-03-14:

Opinions will continue to differ about the N-word — does pronunciation that ends in a soft “a” versus a hard “r” make a difference?

2022 January 7, John McWhorter, “Opinion: I Can’t Brook the Idea of Banning ‘Negro’”, in The New York Times:

African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English

(chiefly US) The hard r at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a General American accent and considered more offensive than the African-American Vernacular English pronunciation conventionally spelled nigga, whose final sound is sometimes called soft a.


soft a

(US, informal), the schwa sound at the end of the African-American Vernacular English word nigga, as contrasted with the hard r sound at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a General American accent and considered maximally racist


snooz

Simplified spelling of snooze chiefly used in General Electric alarm clocks manufactured from the 1950s to the 1980s.

(US, informal, trademark) The snooze button on an alarm clock.


sonker

(US) A kind of deep-dish cobbler (type of fruit pie) from North Carolina.


Mora River

San Miguel County
San Miguel County#English

(US) A river in Mora County and San Miguel County, New Mexico.


junior jump

2021 November 19, Jared Dubin, “Tyler Herro Went Through A Sophomore Slump. Now He's Making A Junior Jump.”, in FiveThirtyEight:

(Canada, US) A return to success after a sophomore slump.


neutral area

(US, road transport) Triangular area of road surface adjacent to the gore at a fork or merge, set off by painted lines and optionally covered in chevron markings.


erryday

“I used to catch da bus erryday to Chinatown.[…]”

1989, Darrell H. Y. Lum, “No Mistaking”, in Eric Edward Chock, Darrell H. Y. Lum, editors, Paké: Writings by Chinese in Hawaii, →ISBN, page 171:

This may be Brooklyn, but it's still New York. Plus, it offers pizzas called Parsnip Enterprise and Erryday I'm Brusselin', a sprouty affair.

2013 February 1, Rebecca Nicholson, “A tour of Brooklyn in the footsteps of Lena Dunham's Girls”, in The Guardian:

You’re all about the creature comforts. Lush furs? Definitely. Massages erryday? Um, yes.

2016 April 13, Natalie Schack, “Salt Liko’s Newest Collection Is a Lounging Lover’s Dream”, in Honolulu:

Because we’re glued to our screens and smartphones all day erryday, a ton of experts have spent a shed load of time, money and resources researching how it's affecting our body and mind.

2019 January 18, Jo Taylor, “Your mobile phone could be causing some serious damage to your skin”, in Cosmopolitan:

(US, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of every day.


flapcake

[…] it looks a lot like a poffertje, but what do I know, flapcakes, griddlecakes, English muffins, waffles, Swiss steak, “Dribble with syrup if desired,” […]

2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, Norwich, Norfolk: Galley Beggar Press, →ISBN:


cannon cocker

A 'Cannon Cocker' is the lowest form of existence that there is in the Army. It is hot, dirty, dangerous, loud and continuous.

2009, Billy Hall, Bulletproof: In Vietnam, page 103:

“I guess we need to take these guys in,” a cannon cocker said. I met Smith's eyes, and he shook his head. Neither of us was much interested in taking the prisoners back to base.

2011, Kris Alexander, Servants of the Light:

I subsequently taught enough artillerymen at Quantico, and the Naval War College to make that statement, and today, even in the war on terror, I would ensure that my chief of staff was a cannon cocker!

2012, Dr. George A. Baker III, The Making of a Marine-Scholar, page 561:

(US, military, slang, sometimes derogatory) A member of the military who fires guns; a soldier involved in gunnery.


highbelia

(US, regional) Lobelia spicata, the pale spiked lobelia.


back-to-school night

back-to-school night (plural back-to-school nights)

(US, education) An informational event in the evening where students' guardians meet their students' teachers and are introduced to the routine, curriculum, policy, etc.


Jayceette

(US, historical) A member of the former women's division of the United States Junior Chamber.


scalping knife

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

(dated, chiefly US) Any of a loosely defined class of ample-bellied knives that largely overlaps with other classes such as hunting knife, butcher knife, and bushcraft knife.


have it on lock

en-verb

have it on lock (third-person singular simple present has it on lock, present participle having it on lock, simple past and past participle had it on lock)

has it on lock (present singular third-person)
having it on lock (participle present)
had it on lock (participle past)
had it on lock (past)
(have) got it on lock (alternative)

got her on lock

Fine, fresh, fierce, we got it on lock

2010, “California Gurls”, in Teenage Dream, performed by Katy Perry:

(US, slang) To have matters under control.


Shitty Kitty

(US, naval slang, historical, vulgar) USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)


ass floss

(US, slang, vulgar) Synonym of butt floss


From the section of the U.S. federal tax code.

(US, taxation, organizations) An organization that complies with section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. federal tax code. A non-profit organization exempt from some federal income taxes, due to being dedicated to charitable, religious, educational, scientific, public safety, promotion of amateur sport at the national or international level, prevention of cruelty to women or children or animals, or literary purposes.


(US, taxation, organizations) An organization that complies with section 501(c)(4) of the U.S. federal tax code. A non-profit organization exempt from some federal income taxes, due to being dedicated social welfare purposes.

(US, politics) A nominally civic oriented service non-profit organization, that spends just over 50% of its revenues on such apparent aims, while spending the remainder on political purposes; due to the effect of the Citizens United judgment.


Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King (canonical)
Jr. Day (canonical)

(US) A public holiday in the USA celebrated on the third Monday of January, during which the Civil Rights Movement, especially leader Martin Luther King Jr., is celebrated or remembered.


on the low

(US, slang) Alternative form of on the down-low


driver's seat

Coordinate term: passenger seat

(chiefly US) The seat in a vehicle where the driver sits.

in the driver's seat

The veteran-laden Rams (12-4) are in the driver’s seat to win the N.F.C. West. Los Angeles will take the prize with a win against the 49ers at home or a loss by the Cardinals (11-5) to the Seahawks.

2022 January 4, Victor Mather, “N.F.L.’s Week 18 Will Sort Playoff Berths”, in The New York Times:

(figuratively, chiefly US) A position of control or dominance.


snoburbs

(US, slang, derogatory, humorous) The suburbs, particularly those which are affluent.


walking encyclopedia

en-noun

walking encyclopedia (plural walking encyclopedias)

walking encyclopedias (plural)
walking encyclopaedia (alternative)

walking dictionary
walking dictionary#English


ring knocker

An allusion to the graduation rings they may wear.

(US, military, slang) An officer who graduated from a military academy.


jockey briefs

Stripped to his jockey briefs, he felt a coolness he had so wanted earlier.

1988, Leoncio P. Deriada, Night Mares: And Other Stories of Fantasy and Horror, page 117:

"One afternoon I'd been shopping for underwear," he wrote, "and had bought at least three dozen pairs of jockey briefs.

2001, Ben Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio, page 139:

(US, dated, informal) Men's or boys' briefs.


food-to-go

Vietnamese: food-to-go

Many of the Latin markets in Napa Valley also have a food-to-go counter, and I’m so grateful they do. Vallarta Market is known for its reasonably priced, large selection of freshly prepared take-away Mexican food, with burritos for about six bucks and tacos for under two bucks.

2012 January 24, Jean Doppenberg, Food Lovers' Guide to Napa Valley: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, page 204:

(US, attributive) takeaway (restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere)


MUTCD

w:Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

(US) Initialism of Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.


bourbon and branch

At the Saratoga racetrack, the secret agent blends in with the thoroughbred set by drinking Old-Fashioneds and “Bourbon and Branch” (i.e., whiskey and water).

2009, Eric Felten, How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well, Agate Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:

(US) Ellipsis of bourbon and branch water.; bourbon whiskey mixed with plain water.


ADX

administrative maximum
w:supermax prison

(US) Abbreviation of administrative maximum; supermax.


dago bomb

Each had been given two dollars. Enough money to fill a good sized paper sack with a mix of sparklers, crackers, “dago bombs,” and “nigger chasers.”

2007, George C. Zidbeck, Kid Scorpion: The War Years, page 49:

(US, slang, ethnic slur) A kind of firecracker.


nigger chaser

There's sure to be fireworks there. […] Rockets and Roman candles and torpedoes and whirligigs and nigger chasers and pinwheels.

A “nigger chaser,” another name for a Texas Twister firework, would travel in all kinds of directions on the ground making a whistling noise and then finally popping with a loud bang.

2019, Dr. Rickey L. Harman, Happy Days in Happy, Texas:

(US, slang, ethnic slur) A kind of bottle rocket firework without the stick.


nigger shooter

Any person who shall shoot an airgun, “nigger shooter,” catapult or such like device, […]

1943, The Code of the City of Houston, Texas, page 605:

A slingshot was commonly referred to as a nigger-shooter, for instance, during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries. “Gee mister, will you show us how to use a nigger-shooter,” implored one Texas youth of a local expert marksman.

2022, Terry Anne Scott, Lynching and Leisure, page 161:

(US, slang, ethnic slur) A catapult or slingshot.


tax abatement

(US, finance) An incentive issued by a government which will reduce or eliminate taxes on real estate in a specific area.


Ben Franklin

After Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of United States of America.

(US, slang) The one-hundred-dollar bill of the United States of America, which features a portrait of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

en:Founding Fathers of the United States


ATACMS

During Operation Desert Storm, government records show that the U.S. Army fired more than 17,200 unguided MLRS rockets and 32 of the larger ATACMS guided missiles at Iraqi forces.

2022 June 2, John Ismay, “What Are ‘Artillery Rockets,’ and Why Is the U.S. Sending Them to Ukraine?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The Biden administration, which has sent billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, has been deliberating about whether to provide some of their limited inventory of Army Tactical Missile Systems — known as ATACMS. Mr. Zelensky said Ukraine needs more missile capability.

[2023 September 22, Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, “Zelensky’s Visit Reveals Strategy Divide Between Ukraine and U.S.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Army Tactical Missile System
w:Army Tactical Missile System

surface-to-surface missile
surface-to-surface missile

(US military) Acronym of Army Tactical Missile System, a type of surface-to-surface missile.


GMLRS

But the range of the GMLRS is more than twice that of the 155-mm shells fired by howitzers.

Multiple Launch Rocket System
MLRS#English

(US military) Acronym of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System.


grip grain

en-verb

grip grain (third-person singular simple present grips grain, present participle gripping grain, simple past and past participle gripped grain)

grips grain (present singular third-person)
gripping grain (participle present)
gripped grain (participle past)
gripped grain (past)

(US, African-American Vernacular) To grip the wood grain on the steering wheel in a vehicle.


DGA

Directors Guild of America
w:Directors Guild of America

(US, film, television) Initialism of Directors Guild of America, the labor union representing directors of film and television.


three-strikes law

en-noun

three-strikes law (plural three-strikes laws)

See three strikes and you're out § Etymology.

(US, New Zealand, criminal law) A criminal-sentencing structure under which the third conviction results in a mandatory life sentence.


homegate

en-verb

homegate (third-person singular simple present homegates, present participle homegating, simple past and past participle homegated)

homegates (present singular third-person)
homegating (participle present)
homegated (participle past)
homegated (past)

(US) To tailgate (have a tailgate party) at home.


hands-in

Chris rallied the team with a "1, 2, 3, Go Tigers!" hands-in and they went on to win the match and the cup.

Have a seat. Great scene. I think this is going to work out. Hey, one last group thing. Everybody back on your feet. Stand up. Hands in. Come on. Hands in. (She sticks her hand out and tries to the best of her ability to do a “hands in” with the audience.)

2010, Joe Janes, 365 Sketches: One Comedy Sketch a Day for a Year, →ISBN, page 671:

I did a hands-in.

2011 July 17, “The Safe House”, in Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 8, episode 2, spoken by Marty Funkhouser (Bob Einstein):

At two routines til go time, Mandy Lockley assembles us into a circle and we do a hands-in. “Go, Puffins,” we whisper, without exclamation point, without joy

2019, Mariah MacCarthy, Squad, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, →ISBN, page 108:

Dad gives a little pep talk, then says, “On three … G-Beatz!” We all give a hands-in and the rest of the boys shout.

2021, Mae Respicio, How to Win a Slime War, Random House, →ISBN, page 94:

(chiefly US, Canada, college, school, amateur sports) A show of unity and usually optimism at the end of an informal huddle of players whereby the players simultaneously extend a hand horizontally towards the center of the circle and then raise their hands in the air with a short team chant.

college; school; amateur sports; college; school; amateur sports


ITC

But given the size of the three countries’ economies, and the fact that NAFTA already eliminated most tariffs and trade barriers between them, “the impact of the agreement on the US economy is likely to be moderate,” the ITC report said.

2019 April 18, Katie Lobosco and Haley Byrd, “Trump’s NAFTA replacement would have modest but positive impact, report finds”, in CNN:

w:United States International Trade Commission

(US) Initialism of International Trade Commission.


black shoe

Coordinate term: brown shoe

Hayward served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36) as a “black shoe” engineer until he entered flight training at Pensacola, Florida, […]

2016, James E. Wise, Jr., Scott Baron, At the Helm of USS America, page 57:

Towers attributed the whole catastrophe to the decision to put the carriers under the command of a black shoe like Kinkaid. As a result of that, he said, the United States was now without a single fully operational aircraft carrier in the whole of the Pacific Ocean.

2022, Craig L. Symonds, Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, page 189:

(US, naval) A person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.


brown shoe

Coordinate term: black shoe

Halsey was also a “brown shoe,” a naval aviator, who was outgoing, bold, and sometimes maybe even a little too daring.

2004, W. Brad Johnson, Gregory P. Harper, Becoming a Leader the Annapolis Way, page 21:


hand in one's checks

hand in one's checks (third-person singular simple present hands in one's checks, present participle handing in one's checks, simple past and past participle handed in one's checks)

hands in one's checks (present singular third-person)
handing in one's checks (participle present)
handed in one's checks (participle past)
handed in one's checks (past)

When my ole woman was sick last winter and mighty near handing in her checks, I had no money to pay anybody to take care of her.

1905, Will Wilfrid Whalen, Bridget, Or, What's in a Name?, Mayhew Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 2:

'I give up,' he cried; 'I hand in my checks. I never thought I should come to such things; but what happens when the things come to you? […]'

1926, G. K. Chesterton, The Incredulity of Father Brown:

(US, colloquial) To give up; to concede defeat.


come in hot

come in hot (third-person singular simple present comes in hot, present participle coming in hot, simple past came in hot, past participle come in hot)

comes in hot (present singular third-person)
coming in hot (participle present)
came in hot (past)
come in hot (participle past)

The chopper came in hot, with guns blazing.

(military, idiomatic) To enter the scene of conflict quickly and aggressively.


ride the rods

ride the rods (third-person singular simple present rides the rods, present participle riding the rods, simple past rode the rods, past participle ridden the rods)

rides the rods (present singular third-person)
riding the rods (participle present)
rode the rods (past)
ridden the rods (participle past)

And a dangerous extracurricular activity had helped turn his muscles to iron: he “rode the rods” with other boys, clinging to the underframework of Union Pacific freight cars rumbling through Abilene.

1970, Colonel Red Reeder, Dinosaurs A to Z, published 2008:

I nearly ran right into one jabbing his shotgun underneath the car, checking to see if somebody was under there riding the rods.

(US, slang) To travel illicitly by clinging to the supporting rods under a freight train.


straight A's

He always gets straight A's; he must study a lot.

(education, chiefly US) Grades or marks that are consistently A's.


bull roast

(US) An event where beef (typically not an entire bull) is roasted over an open pit barbecue, sliced, and served, sometimes with oysters.


clubbie

"When he died, his baseball cap was given to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He is the only clubbie to be honored with a display there."

1977, Maj. Ed Logan, quotee, Airman, page 38:

(US, baseball, informal) A clubhouse manager.

"[…] But there are some stadiums where the clubhouse guys don't do a very good job, but there are clubbies that do a really outstanding job. […]"

2019 July 10, John Cangelosi, K.P. Wee, John Cangelosi: The Improbable Baseball Journey of the Undersized Kid from Nowhere to World Series Champion, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, →ISBN:

(US, baseball, informal) A clubhouse attendant.


asshood

All that's just your interpretation of things, bub. SHOUT it as fact and you just make an ass of yourself.
Unless, of course, you were just trolling, in which case you've already achieved asshood anyway.

1998 December 22, William December Starr, “What ever happend to Ben & Claire?”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-11:

Could you do me a favor and send me a list of which other movie preferences are irrefutable hallmarks of asshood? (Assness? Assidity?)

2000 January 23, Ethan Straffin, “So... What about "The Shining" Miniseries?”, in alt.video.dvd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-11:

If you're an ass, may we all aspire to such asshood!

2001 May 14, Tay-vee, “Beauty Tips of The Gods-W/Dave”, in alt.tv.kids-in-hall (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-11:

Someday, I may achieve your state of asshood, oh master of the hindquarters.

2002 March 11, NEtRENCHERPRIME, “You guys are all fools”, in alt.flame.jesus.christ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-11:

No, but the meltdown is entertaining. And we get to see a new level of asshood performed by Whelan.

2002 May 14, Jade Lemonade, “Reviews? Who needs em.”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-11:

(US) The state or quality of being an ass.


dinner salad

(US) A salad served as a main course, often including pieces of meat.


Trump country

[Title:] This Is Trump Country

2016 March 5, Thomas Kaplan, “This Is trump Country”, in The New York Times, page A14:

Still, of the state’s 95 counties, Biden won 91, with Sanders only taking the lead in four counties. From this breakdown, it appears that Democratic voters deep in Trump country think that the center-left approach of Biden is the best bet for the 2020 general election contest.

2020 March 4, Katie A. Cahill, Andrea Kent, Rey Junco, “Super Tuesday results show how Latino voters, moderate Democrats and Trump supporters are shaping the election”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-01-04:

Now, Iowa is solidly red Trump country. We'll wave as she [Kamala Harris] flies over us.

2024 July 23, Todd Dorman, “Biden ends a career marked by Iowa punches”, in The Gazette, volume 142, number 196, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, page 5A:

(slang, politics, US) Rural areas in the United States where the majority of voters lean conservative and support the Republican politician Donald Trump.


statline

(US, sports) The statistics of a given player, as recorded in a line in a table


Texas stop sign

en-noun

Texas stop sign (plural Texas stop signs)

(US, slang) The sign of a Dairy Queen fast food restaurant.


apefirmative action

apefirmative action, got him into far left-wing harvard; "i'z beez prezents"
was all that was required of him to graduate. Your point?

2008 September 27, me, “Re: Co-workers: Obama inflated his resume considerably, was condescending”, in alt.politics.economics (Usenet):

by "guy," do you mean apefirmative action NIGGER usurper?

2009 July 5, I. M. White, “Re: Colin Powell on Michael Jackson: Ignore his child molesting and celebrate his art”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

And it's^([sic]) wife is an apefirmative action nigger on children's protective
services board.

2017 April 11, Rick Mathers, “Spook minister sex trafficing underage girls”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Would you want a "Crenshanda" taking your 911 call ?
Really a sad state of affairs when Apefirmative Action extends to
services that people depend on with their lives.

2018 April 19, JeSSe, “Whats in a name ?”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

Ouch, dumb negroid was hit where it hurts, with billionaire [jew] donors calling for her to resign, and even the Bolsheviks turning on her:

2023 December 6, JeSSe, “Negroid apefirmative action Harvard pres who championed leftist hate speech says "Dindu Nuffins! I'se wus misunderstood!"”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

Affirmative action
affirmative action#English

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Affirmative action that benefits black people.


negro-house

negro-houses (plural)
negrohouse (alternative)

(US, dated, now offensive) A house where black slaves are kept.


Coontown

Calmness and
moderation can be typical of White people - in White societies. They
have never, nowhere been characteristic of Coontown, which has always
chased witches and gang-raped babies.

2005 December 7, Bret Ludwig, “Are You Fucking Kidding Me?”, in alt.atheism.holysmoke (Usenet):

“Pretty sure. Black folk don't usually come this far through the woods and white folks almost never go through the woods toward Coontown.”

2011 November 2, Gary Phillips, Andrea Gibbons, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!: Stories of Crime, Love and Rebellion (Switchblade), PM Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

This story could be nothing but 100% pure niggertry, even without the
name. Also, what is a halfway-house full of niggers doing in a town
named "Happy Valley"? If they insist on running these nigger nests,
they belond^([sic]) STRICTLY in Coontown.

2017 April 24, Bob Wolfe, “It doesn't take long to realize after you start reading, this is 100% nigger!”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by black people.


niggertry

From nigger + -ry, with the t being inserted under influence from words like bigotry.

America's a janitor w/Rolls Royce, radio full blast of nerve end^([sic]) jangles at 90 miles per thru the main drag they don't know ev'rybody's laughing at 'em what d'ya expect of a country w/o peasant tradition to lend dignity to its niggertry

1994, Stephen Jonas, Selected Poems, Talisman House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224:

As if... there could ever be a best nigger, what a contradiction, we were branded and awarded the nigger, the donkey nigger, the house nigger, the good nigger, only if we did not holler when probed was our niggertry more pleasant,[…]

2019 March 9, Marc Stallion, American Nigger, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45:

(US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Niggerdom.


sit one's ass down

en-verb

sit one's ass down (third-person singular simple present sits one's ass down, present participle sitting one's ass down, simple past and past participle sat one's ass down)

sits one's ass down (present singular third-person)
sitting one's ass down (participle present)
sat one's ass down (participle past)
sat one's ass down (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sit one's ass down.wav

Take those silly glasses off and sit your ass down.

(idiomatic, vulgar, Canada, US, imperative) A rude and vulgar directive requesting someone to take a seat.


Jewish champagne

(US, slang) Cel-Ray, a celery-flavored soft drink.


trashmover

From trash + mover, implying that such a storm will move or shift refuse on the street.

(slang, climatology) A fairly heavy winter storm.


Clockgate

(US, American football, informal) The controversy around the Michigan vs. Michigan State football game of November 3, 2001, in which the ball was spiked with one second remaining visible on the clock.