groove metal

A subgenre of thrash metal focussing on elaborate drumming and featuring mid-tempo guitar riffs played in syncopated rhythms.


compact cassette

en-noun

compact cassette (plural compact cassettes)

(sound engineering) The standard cassette tape format introduced in 1963 by Philips; an audio cassette.

cassette tape {now synonymous with the original name

although originally there were competing cassette tape standards}


NWOBHM

New Wave of British Heavy Metal
w:New Wave of British Heavy Metal

(music) Initialism of New Wave of British Heavy Metal.


radioactinide

(physics) Any radioactive isotope of an actinide


radiolocalization

localization, typically of a tumour, by means of a radioactive tracer


radiolanthanide

(physics) Any radioactive isotope of a lanthanide


Faraday pointer

Faraday pointer (plural Faraday pointers)

A pointer or torch/flashlight powered by a battery that may be recharged by shaking.


powerviolence

An extremely dissonant and fast subgenre of hardcore punk music, related to thrashcore and grindcore.


bari sax

baritone saxophone
baritone saxophone#English


light field

A function of all the light flowing through all points of space in a particular volume


soprillo

(music) The smallest member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments, one size smaller than the sopranino saxophone and with a range of A♭₄ to E♭₇ or similar.


subcontrabass saxophone

subcontrabass saxophone (plural subcontrabass saxophones)

contrabass saxophone
contrabass saxophone

The largest member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments, one size larger than the contrabass saxophone and with a range of A♭₀ to E♭₃ or similar.


bass saxophone

A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the contrabass saxophone but larger than the baritone saxophone, with a range of A♭₁ to E♭₄ or similar.


sopranino saxophone

sopranino saxophone (plural sopranino saxophones)

A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the soprano saxophone but larger than the soprillo, with a range of D♭₄ to A♭₆ or similar.


rose-pink

en-adj

rose-pink (comparative more rose-pink, superlative most rose-pink)

more rose-pink (comparative)
most rose-pink (superlative)


contrabass saxophone

en-noun

contrabass saxophone (plural contrabass saxophones)

subcontrabass saxophone
subcontrabass saxophone

A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the subcontrabass saxophone but larger than the bass saxophone, with a range of D♭₁ to A₃ or similar.


subcontrabass saxophonist

subcontrabass saxophonist (plural subcontrabass saxophonists)

A person who plays the subcontrabass saxophone.


bass saxophonist

bass saxophonist (plural bass saxophonists)


soprano saxophonist

soprano saxophonist (plural soprano saxophonists)

A person who plays the soprano saxophone.


sopranissimo saxophonist

sopranissimo saxophonist (plural sopranissimo saxophonists)

A person who plays the sopranissimo saxophone (soprillo).


tenor saxophonist

tenor saxophonist (plural tenor saxophonists)


sopranino saxophonist

sopranino saxophonist (plural sopranino saxophonists)

A person who plays the sopranino saxophone.


soprillo saxophonist

soprillo saxophonist (plural soprillo saxophonists)

A person who plays the soprillo saxophone (soprillo).


baritone saxophonist

baritone saxophonist (plural baritone saxophonists)

A person who plays the baritone saxophone.


alto saxophonist

alto saxophonist (plural alto saxophonists)


contrabass saxophonist

contrabass saxophonist (plural contrabass saxophonists)

A person who plays the contrabass saxophone.


astatinate

en-verb

astatinate (third-person singular simple present astatinates, present participle astatinating, simple past and past participle astatinated)

astatinates (present singular third-person)
astatinating (participle present)
astatinated (participle past)
astatinated (past)


pickup cover

(music) A metallic cover of various alloys, which covers a guitar pickup in order to change its tone; Almost always a humbucker cover.

(music) A plastic pickup cover for protection and sometimes for duller tone.


trap-pop

Her latterday output has stuttered somewhat, but for Madame X the stars have aligned with Madonna’s Pinterest mood board once again. There are hot climates and a piratical eye-patch; shape-shifting to the sounds of the Portuguese diaspora, trap-pop and reggeaton.

2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:


Novachord

(music, historical) An early electronic polyphonic synthesizer.


polytimbral

(music) Containing many timbres (typically produced by many different instruments)


(music) A meter of five quarter notes per measure.


deluge gun

(firefighting) An aimable high-capacity water jet used in firefighting and fire protection systems.


power trio

(music) A rock-and-roll band lineup consisting of electric guitar, bass guitar, and drum kit, omitting the rhythm guitar and keyboard instrument associated with larger lineups.


radioenhancement

The enhancement of radiotherapeutic efficacy


trans-lunar injection

en-noun

trans-lunar injection (plural trans-lunar injections)

A maneuver that moves a spacecraft from orbit around the Earth onto a trajectory towards the Moon.


radioembolism

A radiotherapy in which radioactive nanoparticles are injected into an artery and travel to an organ (typically the liver) where they settle


counterphrase

(music) A musical phrase that complements or responds to another phrase.


peachish

en-adj

peachish (comparative more peachish, superlative most peachish)

more peachish (comparative)
most peachish (superlative)


unacoustic

unacoustic (comparative more unacoustic, superlative most unacoustic)

more unacoustic (comparative)
most unacoustic (superlative)

Our next respondent agrees with the previous opinion but also points out interest in using the computer for synthesizing original 'unacoustic' sounds.

1997, Alex Igoudin, Impact of MIDI on electroacoustic art music - Issue 102, page 122:

Leave the backpackers behind and join Saigon's student population to see the seriously un-acoustic local rock bands performing predominantly American covers every night in this heaving live music hub at the end of a narrow alleyway.

2014, The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia On A Budget, →ISBN:

(music) Not acoustic; electronically generated or amplified.


echo time

The time between a sound or pulse of radio waves being produced and the receipt of the corresponding echo


hydrocyanine

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of dyes that can detect reactive oxygen species, reacting to form cyanine


easycore

[…] the successful easycore DJs James and Martin Karminsky.

1997, Dylan Jones, Ultra Lounge: The Lexicon of Easy Listening, page 18:

The uncanny ability of "easycore" artists to swoon us into special realms, especially ones deep in our hearts, is a major theme of "Ultra Lounge." But as the genre offers a vacation from despair, looming heartache often comes with the ticket.

1997, Billboard, volume 109, number 18, page 67:

(music, rare) Music that verges toward easy listening, or that is less hardcore than comparable styles.

We have a forty-five minute slot, and the other bands are more easycore than we usually play with so there's a different crowd.

2016, Jason Rossiter, March: A Good Man:

While a bevy of MySpace bands who used the word "easycore" as a self-descriptor to mark their poppy hardcore tastes, ADTR [A Day to Remember] make the rest of the pile seem like amateurs thanks to their laser-precise songwriting.

2017 August 31, John Hill, “A Day to Remember Albums Ranked”, in Loudwire:

(music) A pop punk subgenre that combines elements of metalcore, incorporating use of breakdowns, screams, major key progressions and riffs and synthesizers.


untexted

(music) without accompanying words or text.


unnotated

(music) Not recorded in musical notation


xylochrome

en-noun

xylochrome (countable and uncountable, plural xylochromes)

(archaic) A kind of dye derived from the tannin in wood.


radioinfusion

(medicine) infusion (perfusion) with a radioisotope


cross-tune

en-verb

cross-tune (third-person singular simple present cross-tunes, present participle cross-tuning, simple past and past participle cross-tuned)

cross-tunes (present singular third-person)
cross-tuning (participle present)
cross-tuned (participle past)
cross-tuned (past)

(music, transitive) To give an alternative tuning to (the open strings of a string instrument).


cross-tuning

en-noun

cross-tuning (countable and uncountable, plural cross-tunings)

(music) A system of tuning a musical instrument to pitches other than the accepted standard: for example, tuning one or more strings of a violin to pitches other than the commonly accepted GDAE.


flake white

From the way flakes of the pigment were created and fell off the base lead during the former Dutch or stack process.

Synonym of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


accorgan

(music) A musical instrument combining an electronic keyboard with an accordion.


string plate

(music) A metal plate bearing the spring-block of a pianoforte.


five-alarm

(firefighting) The highest priority category of a multialarm fire.


cowboy chord

(music) An open chord, i.e. one played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.


LEDE

live end dead end
live end dead end#English

(acoustics) Initialism of live end dead end.


live end dead end

(acoustics) Describing a control room of a recording studio in which one end is damped to absorb sound reflections


range light

One of the lights placed in line, usually at or near a lighthouse, to direct the course of a ship through a channel.

One of the lights on board ship placed to give a ready indication of changes of course to other vessels.


benzophenoxazine

(organic chemistry) Any of a certain class of dyes.


solidbody

(music) Of a guitar, constructed from a solid material as opposed to a hollow one.


radioparticle

a particle of a radioactive material, typically of a colloidal radiotherapy


unlightable

From un- (“not”) + lightable (“capable of being lighted”).

pre

Incapable of being illuminated or made light or bright; unable to affix with a light.


kernei

(music) A Kyrgyz wind musical instrument like a horn with no mouthpiece or playing apertures. (a kind of karnay)


intabulation

(music) an arrangement of a vocal or ensemble piece for keyboard, lute, or other plucked string instrument, written in tablature.


deactivation energy

en-noun

deactivation energy (plural deactivation energies)

If we disregard the deactivation energy, which can be done, except, perhaps, for the lowest vibrational levels, then, according to Bates' theoretical computations, the atom-exchange rate constant must be large, ~10⁻¹⁰ cm³sec⁻¹.

1971, Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Volume 11, page 427:

Activation energy is a measure of the minimum energy needed by the photosynthesis system to react and deactivation energy is the maximum energy the system can cope with before the reaction decreases (Brady 1990).

2004, Icelandic Agricultural Sciences - Volumes 16-20, page 46:

However, in the first case (deactivation energy << main reaction energy) there appears to be a uniform variation of activity throughout the bed.

2012, John Butt, Activation, Deactivation, and Poisoning of Catalysts, page 372:

The highest deactivation energy was obtained for hydrodenitrogenation of the nonbasic nitrogen (33.8 kcal/mol), while the deactivation energies for the other reactions were in the range of 20–27 kcal/mol.

2016, Jorge Ancheyta, Deactivation of Heavy Oil Hydroprocessing Catalysts, page 267:

(physical chemistry) The amount of energy needed to slow down or stop a reaction.


set afire

en-verb

set afire (third-person singular simple present sets afire, present participle setting afire, simple past and past participle set afire)

sets afire (present singular third-person)
setting afire (participle present)
set afire (participle past)
set afire (past)

The house was set afire.


chromagram

(music) A graphic representation of the notes of a scale


wavefolding

(music) An audio synthesis effect where waveforms that exceed a maximum volume are folded back on themselves rather simply than being clipped.


Eurorack

(music) A kind of customizable modular audio synthesizer.


deep cut

A "cut" (track of a vinyl record) which is seen as being buried "deep" in an album.

"Dig a Pony" is my favorite Beatles deep cut.

2015, "Weekend Rock Question: What’s the Best Rolling Stones Deep Cut?", Rolling Stone, 10 April

2016, Nate Chinen, "Norah Jones Returns to Her Jazz Roots", The New York Times, 15 September
"With luck, her tour will include the standout Neil Young cover she included on “Day Breaks” — a deep cut called “Don’t Be Denied,” from 1973."

2017, Eric Renner Brown et al, "New Music Friday: 14 releases to hear now", Entertainment Weekly, 26 May
"But there are surprises, too, like the spooky Live/Dead deep cut “Death Don’t Have No Mercy..."

(music) An obscure song by a well known musician.


requiem mass

(Christianity, music) A mass sung for the repose of the soul of a dead person


radioelectrochemical

(chemistry) radiochemical and electrochemical


cue-to-cue

(theater, music, film) Of a rehearsal: moving from one cue to the next, so that lighting etc. can be tested, without rehearsing scenes in their entirety.


heart murmur

en-noun

heart murmur (countable and uncountable, plural heart murmurs)

A sound produced when blood is pumped across a heart valve, loud enough to be heard with a stethoscope and often (but not necessarily) indicative of a physiological defect in the heart.


radioruthenium

The absorption of radioruthenium (Ru103) and radiostrontium (Sr*) by various plant parts has been studied.

1955, Charles Glenn Johns, The Absorption and Distribution of Radiostrontium (Sr89) and Radioruthenium (Ru103) in Certain Vegetable Crops, page 22:

An accurate, reproducible method was needed for routine analysis of radioruthenium in environmental samples.

1960, Frank E. Butler, Precipitation of Radioruthenium, page 4:

The animals were killed in gaseous CO2 at 1 d, 2 d, 4 d, 6 d, 10 d or 14 d after the last radioruthenium administration.

1998, Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy, page 168:


burn daylight

en-verb

burn daylight (third-person singular simple present burns daylight, present participle burning daylight, simple past and past participle burned daylight or burnt daylight)

burns daylight (present singular third-person)
burning daylight (participle present)
burned daylight (participle past)
burned daylight (past)
burnt daylight (participle past)
burnt daylight (past)

Originally a reference to burning candles during the day.

O, Madam, no candles yet, I beseech you ; don't let us burn daylight.

1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, page 364:

It beginning to grow a little duskish, Candlemas lustily bawled out for lights, which was opposed by all the Days, who protested against burning daylight.

The place was but scantily lighted, for the community at present could ill afford to burn daylight.

1879, George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie:

High on the list of iniquities was “burning daylight,” resorting to artificial light unnecessarily during the day.

2013, A. Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime:

To use artificial light during the daytime when one could simply use the sunlight.


burnination

And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination.

2003 February 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #62: interview”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

Check out what happened to this metal framed laser cutter when it was left unattended by maker Joe Schlessinger. Serious burnination.

2012 October 22, Joseph Flaherty, “DIY Laser Cutter Raises Capital, Concerns”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2014-08-10:

From what the Dragonfire description said, it was blatantly obvious that those flames had far more properties and uses than pure burnination.

2018, J.A. Cipriano, Star Conqueror: Recompense, unnumbered page:

(informal, humorous) An instance of intense burning; conflagration.


burnination

Burnination! O'Meara swore as I rolled up to my feet, pain pricking along my ribs where Feather's claws had found flesh.

A minced oath used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


antique rose

Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.

2006, Linda Goodnight, A Very Special Delivery, page 270:

The walls had been painted an antique-rose hue but he'd left the plates off the outlets.

2014, Christopher Golden, Snowblind, unnumbered page:

Just before eight o'clock, Sorcha finally settles on an outfit for the morning: we're talking a delaine twill blazer in antique rose by Theory, […]

2015, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Seedless in Seattle, unnumbered page:

antique rose:

A rosy pink color with a slight grayish tinge, like an old dried rose.


dusty rose

His heart leaped when he saw how fetching she looked in her afternoon dress, silk chiffon with pleated sleeves, in a becoming shade of dusty rose.

1999, John Jakes, American Dreams, page 80:

She'd locked the door of her Old Hollywood-inspired office, decorated in dusty rose and high-gloss white, […]

2009, Bridie Clark, The Overnight Socialite, page 138:

The sun was setting, and the Eiffel Tower was a dusty rose in the distance.

2014, Harper Lin, Croissant Murder, unnumbered page:

dusty rose:

A light, puce-like greyish pink color, like a rose covered in dust.


millennial pink

en-noun

millennial pink (countable and uncountable, plural millennial pinks)

Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.

2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23:

[…] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.

2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page:

Millennial pink started to crop up around 2012, and by 2015 it was ubiquitous.

2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76:

millennial pink:


millennial pink

But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]

2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:


suboscillator

(music) An oscillator, in an electronic synthesizer, that operates an octave below another oscillator


deluminate

en-verb

deluminate (third-person singular simple present deluminates, present participle deluminating, simple past and past participle deluminated)

deluminates (present singular third-person)
deluminating (participle present)
deluminated (participle past)
deluminated (past)

A modification of the above has a stopcock at the base for controlling the flow of gas into the burner, simultaneously admitting the proper proportion of air to deluminate the flame.

1902, Frank Julian, A Text-book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis:

The smoky deluminated lounge was a sunken scatter of driftwood booths and castaway tables.

1998, Writers Forum - Issues 24-26, page 52:

He watches the flickering black lights, as they deluminate, the world around him.

2008, Michael Stapp, Gravedust & Grace, page 52:

But I still would like to deluminate rooms and let only the light from the daffodil shine,


electric light

en-noun

electric light (countable and uncountable, plural electric lights)

As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:

Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.

The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].

1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:


sight sing

en-verb

sight sing (third-person singular simple present sight sings, present participle sight singing, simple past sight sang, past participle sight sung)

sight sings (present singular third-person)
sight singing (participle present)
sight sang (past)
sight sung (participle past)

(music) To sing a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.

laulaa nuoteista

to sing a musical piece while reading it for the first time


stagger breathe

stagger breathe (third-person singular simple present stagger breathes, present participle stagger breathing, simple past and past participle stagger breathed)

stagger breathes (present singular third-person)
stagger breathing (participle present)
stagger breathed (participle past)
stagger breathed (past)

(music, intransitive) within a choir or wind instrument ensemble, to breathe independently so that no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect


stagger breathing

(music) a technique for choir singers and wind instrument players as part of an ensemble, by which no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect


sunny uplands

The BTC carried out reviews of the Plan in 1956 and 1959, and continued to forecast that the sunny uplands of profitability would be reached by 1963.

2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:


sunlit uplands

From sunlit (“illuminated by sunlight”) + uplands (“areas in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation”) (evoking a pleasant, happy place), popularized by its use in the “This was their finest hour” speech delivered by Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to the House of Commons on 18 June 1940: see the quotation.

We find in the nation as a whole, the people chosen of God to preserve his name and worship throughout many generations, moving on the sunlit uplands, while the world sat in shadow beneath.

1857, Scottish Society for the Conversion of Israel, “To the Jew first”, in The Friend of Israel, volumes III: January 1856 — February 1867, Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, page 305:

A man, to see far, must climb to some height, and I was too much upon the plain in those days to catch even a glimpse of distant sunlit uplands of triumphant achievement that lie beyond the valley of self-sacrifice.

1898, Ralph Connor, Black Rock, a Tale of the Selkirks, Toronto: The Westminster Co., page 94:

[Adolf] Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

1940 June 18, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, “War Situation”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 362, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-23, column 61:

Whatever the misgivings might be, the future that these projects paint is bright. That just leaves the challenge of bridging the gap between today's rather gloomy situation and tomorrow's sunlit uplands.

2023 August 9, Philip Haigh, “Get the product and price right to tempt back commuters”, in RAIL, number 989, page 54:

(British, figuratively) A wished-for place or time of happiness and prosperity.

This was their finest hour
Winston Churchill


undecet

From decet on the model of Latin undecim (“eleven”).

(music) A group of eleven musicians; a piece of music written for such a group


cobalt green

en-noun

cobalt green (countable and uncountable, plural cobalt greens)

cobalt green:

Any of various green inorganic pigments obtained by doping cobalt(II) oxide into colorless host oxides.


hundred twenty-eighth note

hundred twenty-eighth note (plural hundred twenty-eighth notes)

(music) A note played for 1⁄128 of the duration of a whole note.

quintuple croche

a note played for 1⁄128 of the duration of a whole note


two hundred fifty-sixth note

two hundred fifty-sixth note (plural two hundred fifty-sixth notes)

When you cut four quarter notes in half, you get eight eighth notes, and so on, down the road, all the way to two-hundred-fifty-sixth notes.

2009, Phyllis Sdoia-Satz, Practicing sucks, but it doesn't have to!: surviving music lessons:

(music, very rare) A note played for 1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note.


256th note

two hundred fifty-sixth note
two hundred fifty-sixth note#English

(music, US) Alternative form of two hundred fifty-sixth note.


128th note

hundred twenty-eighth note
hundred twenty-eighth note#English

(music, US) Abbreviation of hundred twenty-eighth note.


atomic tangerine

From the name of a fluorescent Crayola crayon released in 1972.

atomic tangerine:

The jokes are dust, and Blair, it is rumoured, is living on a jet full time, flying away from himself or, as I think more probable, under a spray-tan machine, staining himself that peculiar shade of orange that interior decorators call Atomic Tangerine, a fine mirror for his madness.

2016 April 2, Tanya Gold, “Bellanger review: a posh Islington restaurant for semi-ordinary people”, in The Spectator:

Becoming Trump requires a full hour of hair and makeup. He tapes three large photographs of the president, one in profile and two straight-on, to any mirror he’s using, and then uses Ben Nye CoCo Tan foundation to turn his skin the requisite shade of atomic tangerine, dabs on wrinkles, lengthens his nose, and so on.

2017 June 23, Jordan Kisner, “Being Donald Trump: the life of an impersonator”, in The Guardian:

Partida Creus’ “Cart Ver” is atomic tangerine in color and so delicious it’s trouble. Well integrated with lots of acidity, it smells like an Orange Crush and a strawberry michelada and tastes like strawberry ocean water

2018 March 20, Marissa A. Ross, ““Orange Wine” Needs to Go Away—Hear Me Out”, in Bon Appétit:

The first thing you should know about 79 Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge is that it’s not orange. Officially dubbed as “Atomic Tangerine” the home’s distinctive facade is one part quirky to nine parts endearing.

2019 July 10, Miriam Schwartz, “Cambridge home a tangerine dream”, in The Boston Herald:


cadet grey

From the colour of military uniform; first used as a colour term around 1912.

cadet grey:

Moreover, according to uniform historian Fred Adolphus, Confederate cadet grey may never have been as blue or as irregular as the shade reenactors have tried to recapture, based on a comparison of reproduction cloth with museum-conserved uniforms.

2016 April 13, Romie Stott, “The Historical Reenactor Accuracy Wars”, in Atlas Obscura:

The company marched ahead of the Valley Forge Military Academy and College Regimental Band. Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists. Not even the breeze could make the red tassles sway atop their black and gold hats as they marched up Fifth Avenue.

2017 March 17, “Thousands Flood Fifth Avenue for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade”, in NBC New York:

And Lottie Moss looked every inch the party girl as she headed for a night out with her actor pal Daniel Mickelson in West Hollywood on Sunday. The 21-year-old showed off her incredible figure in a cadet grey bodycon dress as she strutted to Delilah restaurant.

2019 April 22, Connie Rusk, “Lottie Moss displays her incredible figure in a skintight grey bodycon dress as she heads on night out with pal Daniel Mickelson in LA”, in The Daily Mail:

A bluish shade of grey, similar to cadet blue.


Baker-Miller pink

Named after the directors at the prison at which the hostility-suppressing qualities were first tested.

Baker-Miller pink:

After years of (somewhat questionable) research, Schauss suggested that this very specific shade of pink could slow a test subject's heart rate and even reduce a propensity for aggressive, violent behavior. He believed the color, called Baker-Miller pink, had a calming effect akin to what you might experience during yoga or meditation.

2015 November 22, Liz Stinson, “Vollebak's Pink Hoodie Supposedly Calms You by Zipping Over Your Face”, in WIRED:

The least likely of this January’s diets came, obliquely, from Kendall Jenner’s official app and was a colour rather than a book. In a post titled “The story behind my pink wall!” she explained the thinking behind the pink living room wall of her expensive Los Angeles home: “Baker-Miller Pink is the only color [sic] scientifically proven to calm you AND suppress your appetite.

2017 January 10, Morwenna Ferrier, “This colour might change your life: Kendall Jenner and Baker-Miller Pink”, in The Guardian:

Schauss named the colour “Baker-Miller pink” after two of his co-experimenters, naval officers Gene Baker and Ron Miller. Baker and Miller were so impressed with Schauss’s findings that they went ahead and painted the holding cells at their naval base this shade of pink.

2018 October 13, Julie Irish, “Can pink really pacify, or is hype around its calming abilities based on a dangerous stereotype?”, in The Independent:

Such is the reputation of Baker-Miller Pink that it’s been painted on walls in a prison, a youth clinic and a psychiatric ward as a technique for reducing aggression. Norwich City F.C. even used it to cover the walls in the changing rooms for away teams in the hope that it’d dampen their fighting spirit.

2019 June 13, Megan Williams, “Juno Calypso explores the calming power of pink”, in The Creative Review:

Santa Clara County Jail is painted Baker-Miller Pink, so is a San Bernardino youth clinic, and it wasn't long before sports psychologists embraced the idea as a way of gaining an advantage over opposing teams.

2019 June 24, Bridget Galton, “Women's World Cup art in Archway”, in The Hampstead Highgate Express, archived from the original on 2019-07-09:

A shade of pink thought to reduce hostile, violent and aggressive behavior.


bird chorus

He went back to bed and dozed till the dawn came – the mass-produced invariable tropical dawn, greeted by no bird-chorus, a dawn assignable to all months in this land of no seasons.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 301:

The collective singing and vocalising of birds.


hot zone

A hot zone was established quickly. Unfortunately, these efforts were compromised by a few MPD officers on the scene who did not understand the serious nature of the potential chemical/biological threat and treated the incident more as a bomb scare. These officers initially crossed in and out of the hot zone, and could have contaminated themselves and other personnel had this been a real incident.

1997, U S Fire Administration, FEMA, Fire Department Response to Biological Threat at B'nai B'rith Headquarters, page 6:

Medical monitoring is an essential aspect to conducting operations in the hot zone.

2004, Stanley E. Toy, Hot Zone Log: Personal HazMat Record, page 22:

Subsequently, it became evident that Iitate was a hot zone with very high levels of radiation contamination and all of its residents and evacuees had to be evacuated.

2012, Jeff Kingston, Contemporary Japan, page 210:

(firefighting) An area to which access is restricted because it is contaminated with radiation or a chemical or biological biohazard.


raisin black

raisin black:

This new scooter is available in six different colors such as raisin black, silver, white dove, couture brown, rogue matt blue and moonlight silver.

2019 November 21, “Global e-scooter/moped and e-motorcycle market omprehensive Analysis 2019-2026”, in Hitz Dairies, archived from the original on 2019-12-07:

The designs showcased were two structured, sci-fi silhouettes in the Watson-generated colour palette of raisin black and Yankees blue. The third, the showstopper, modelled by actor Pooja Hegde, was a textured grey gown paired with silver pumps.

2017 June 2, Komal Sharma, “Where AI and fashion cross paths”, in liveMint:

A faintly purplish or brownish shade of black, like that of raisins.


robin egg blue

robin egg blue:

In other festive news, Covent Garden will be opening an ice rink later this month in partnership with the luxury jewellery shop, Tiffany & Co. The installation has been themed after the robin egg blue colour that the brand is known for, with giant Tiffany boxes used as decorations

2019 November 10, Almara Abgarian, “There’s a giant gingerbread house popping up in Covent Garden tomorrow”, in Metro:

robin's-egg blue
robin's-egg blue#English


smoky black

smoky black (countable and uncountable, plural smoky blacks)

smoky black:

During the summer months they sport smoky-black plumage, their wings speckled with white spots, but at this time of year they have mottled grey backs with paler underparts, making them difficult to distinguish from the more prolific common redshank (T totanus).

2019 December 6, Claire Stares, “Country diary: this elegant wader has become a local celebrity”, in The Guardian:

Past president Arthur Watson also uses words, wonderful Scots words for snowfall and nightfall, 25 of them rendered in smoky black, each in its own frame.

2019 November 20, Duncan Macmillan, “Art reviews: RSA Annual Exhibition 2019 - Mary Cameron: Life in Paint”, in The Scotsman:

A coat colour of horses that is either black or slightly lighter than black.


Tiffany blue

Tiffany blue:

You’ll enter through a Tiffany & Co. bridge inspired by the renowned Central Park and immersed in a world filled with oversized signature Tiffany blue boxes.

2019 November 28, Faima Bakar, “Tiffany & Co has a pretty bougie new ice rink at Covent Garden for free”, in Metro:

After months of rumors, it was confirmed today that luxury giant LVMH will acquire Tiffany and Co, the storied American jewelry company, for $16.2 billion dollars. The deal is the largest ever in the luxury sector, according to The New York Times. To celebrate the deal, LVMH turned its homepage Tiffany blue today.

2019 November 25, Elizabeth Angell, “Luxury Giant LVMH Just Bought Tiffany and Co. for $16.2 Billion”, in Town and Country:

The aptly named Blue Box Cafe is kitted out in marble Tiffany blue, and offers a Holly Golightly-inspired experience from $29 a head.

2019 November 19, Chloe Foussianes, “Tiffany & Co's Famous Blue Box Cafe Will Close for Two Years”, in Town and Country:

The new café also got attention for its striking blue decor. To be more specific, it’s Tiffany Blue, a color so synonymous with the jeweler that it’s trademarked.

2017 November 10, Elise Taylor, “A Peek Inside Tiffany & Co.’s New Café, Where You Can Yes, Eat Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, in Vogue:

A shade of robin egg blue used by and associated with Tiffany & Co., an American jeweller.


Schweinfurt green

Named after the city in which it was first made, Schweinfurt, Germany.

Paris or Schweinfurt green:

For example, Schweinfurt green, also known as emerald or Paris green, was used in wallpaper and upholstery in the 19th century and contained high levels of arsenic. Wallpaper is even said to have killed Napoleon Bonaparte.

2015 June 26, Rachel Dixon, “Why green just can’t be trusted”, in The Guardian:


Vienna green

Paris or Vienna green:

Emerald green was also called Schweinfurt green, Paris green, and Vienna green. The toxicity of dye made with emerald green was not initially recognized, until the recipe was published in 1822

2010 March 5, “Emerald Green or Paris Green, the Deadly Regency Pigment”, in Jane Austen World:


hear oneself think

en-verb

hear oneself think (third-person singular simple present hears oneself think, present participle hearing oneself think, simple past and past participle heard oneself think)

hears oneself think (present singular third-person)
hearing oneself think (participle present)
heard oneself think (participle past)
heard oneself think (past)

Please turn down that music. I can hardly hear myself think.

To engage in mental activity without being distracted by noise.


crunkcore

(music) A fusion genre combining cultural and musical elements of crunk, post-hardcore, pop, electronic music, and dance music. It often features screamed vocals, hip-hop beats, and sexually provocative lyrics.


prechorus

(music) Part of a song occurring after the verse and serving as a buildup to the chorus.


Z-pinch

Z refers to the direction of the current in the devices, the z-axis on a normal three-dimensional graph.

A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.


fairy opera

en-noun

fairy opera (countable and uncountable, plural fairy operas)

(countable) An individual opera in this genre.


chamber opera

chamber opera (countable and uncountable, plural chamber operas)

(uncountable) A genre of opera written to be performed with a chamber ensemble.


big light

Who put the big light on? It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!

(UK, informal) The main, usually central, light of a room in a house.


DJ copy

On the Brass' next single, the company is considering sending out DJ copies with one song on both sides.

On DJ copies of singles, the "plug" side or A side is usually recorded in stereo on one side and in mono on the other side.

1974, Robert E. Runstein, Modern Recording Techniques, page 309:

The second side will be blank, not a duplicate of the hit side as many DJ copies have.

1982, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections:

A copy of a single sent out to disc jockeys, having the B-side either blank or duplicating the A-side.


containment line

containment line (plural containment lines)

(firefighting) A linear area which has been cleared of inflammable material in order to prevent a fire from spreading across it.


New Thing

I'm not sure if I understand Greg properly, but he seems to be arguing that the avant-garde is the "property" of black musicians, a "Black Thang," while somehow conflating "the New Thing" with all areas of free jazz.

2002, Yuval Taylor, The Future of Jazz, page 178:

But where could the relocation of the free jazz movement take place, and how has this transfer action of the new thing been articulated by its protagonists?

2008, Guerino Mazzola, Paul B. Cherlin, Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz:

The emergence of free jazz has only emphasized the issue of (white) commercial domination over jazz. Everything about the New Thing clashed with the habits of jazz lovers; […]

2015, Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli, Free Jazz/Black Power:

Free jazz music, as associated with the black civil rights movement.


matched grip

(music) A method of holding drum sticks in which the stick is held the same way in both hands.


traditional grip

(music) A method of holding drum sticks in which the right hand uses an overhand grip and the left hand uses an underhand grip.


saringda

The stringed musical instruments like Pena, Ollobii Kada, Tingtila, Saringda, solid instruments like Gong, Cymbal, small Cymbals (locally known as Mandela) and Upum (Hollow wood) are used.

2011, Khomdan Singh Lisam, Encyclopaedia of Manipur (3 Vol.), p. 539


quadreble

He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.

1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:

The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.

1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:

The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.

2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:

(music) A voice in a musical composition (usually for male voices) above the treble; descant.


bugle scale

(music) The set of five distinct overtones that can be played on a simple bugle, without the use of valves or other pitch-altering devices.


whirly tube

(music) An experimental musical instrument consisting of a corrugated plastic tube or hose, open at both ends and possibly wider at one end, played by swinging it in a circle.


BRAAAM

From Zimmer’s Batman scores, via the many knockoffs for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to Marco Beltrami’s score for World War Z, the main ingredients — churning strings hectically repeating the same four- or five-note motif, with a BRAAAM dropping every so often — are both pulse-quickening and exhausting.

2016, Adrian Daub, “'BRAAAM!': The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood”, in Longreads:


braaam

Most agree that Hollywood's obsession with braaams began with a series of trailers for Christopher Nolan's 2010 film, Inception. But just who invented them is "a very, very, very touchy subject," according to Bobby Gumm, head of music for Trailer Park, the company behind such braaam-filled trailers as Mad Max: Fury Road and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.

2015, Seth Abramovitch, “'Braaams' for Beginners: How a Horn Sound Ate Hollywood”, in Hollywood Reporter:

The ominous braaam, the sinister boardroom, the horrific imagery, the cloaked cult members, embryonic deformity, Jason Isaac’s German accent, mad scientists’ labs: it’s all very intriguing stuff… then I saw the running time.

2017, Benedict Seal, “Why I’m Worried About the Running Time of 'A Cure for Wellness'”, in Bloody Disgusting:

Falling firmly into the aforementioned ‘braams’ category and far beyond, each patch is sample driven, being completely derived from the original recorded content, while allowing for real-time control of high- and low-pass filtering and EQ.

2019, Dave Gale, “Review: Audio Imperia Talos Volume Two: Low Brass”, in Music Tech:

A low, loud sound, originally produced by brass instruments and a prepared piano but sometimes made synthetically, included in film and trailer scores to increase audience stress.


sploop

(slang) The sound of something wet and gooey; splat.


stagger-through

Deverbal from stagger through, on the model of readthrough and walkthrough; so called because there may be mistakes, pauses for discussion, etc.

And so I went there with the rehearsal pianists and we just did stagger-throughs, so that we could time it, so that we could know what was going on.

1998, Opera, volume 49, numbers 7-10, page 1036:

There may be a “stagger-through” in between, a run-through with occasional stops for critical discussions and changes.

2016, Don Harmon, Producing in Theater, page 45:

(music, television) The rehearsal of an entire show.


self-ignite

en-verb

self-ignite (third-person singular simple present self-ignites, present participle self-igniting, simple past and past participle self-ignited)

self-ignites (present singular third-person)
self-igniting (participle present)
self-ignited (participle past)
self-ignited (past)

However, when the concentration of carbon is 1.4%, the mixture self-ignites at 295°.

(intransitive) To catch fire due to sufficient temperature.


triple harp

(music) A type of multi-course harp employing three parallel rows of strings instead of the more common single row, a common version being the Welsh triple harp used in Welsh folk music.


Spotify

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

According to co-founder Daniel Ek, "Spotify" is a mishearing from a name shouted by Martin Lorentzon; they retroactively coined its etymology as a combination of spot + identify.

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.


pick slide

(music) An electric guitar playing technique in which the edge of the pick (plectrum) is scraped across two strings down the neck towards the nut, creating a descending scratching sound.


disco polo

A genre of popular dance music, created in Poland in the late 1980s.


found music

Undaunted, Quinn has just finished a movie on stone carving in collaboration with the composer Roger Doyle, who specialises in found music. "I wanted to define prosaic images with strange and unusual sounds."

1995, Ciaran Carty, Confessions of a Sewer Rat: A Personal History of Censorship & the Irish Cinema, →ISBN:

French leadership in found literature has shifted to found music, musique concrete, in which natural sounds are introduced into musical compositions, often to the exclusion of traditional instrumentation.

2005, John Robert Colombo, All the poems of John Robert Colombo:

It was nearly two decades since the composer had attended Peggy's New York parties and been awed by the stature of her guests. Now he was becoming eminent in his own right, his Duchamp-inspired experiments in found music and his signature silent score 4' 33" gaining recognition as milestone achievements of the international avant-garde.

2017, Judith Mackrell, The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice: The Stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN:

Music created by taking natural or non-musical (non-instrumental/non-singing) sounds and combining them into, or as, a musical composition.


backing track

A prerecorded piece of music used to accompany a musician who sings live.


halldorophone

Named according to the inventor, Halldór Úlfarsson from Iceland, who developed the instrument in late 2000s while studying at University of Art and Design Helsinki.

Continua is a duet for cellist and live coder, each playing a hybrid instrument based on the Halldorophone, an electroacoustic instrument in which electromagnetically-controlled feedback can be induced independently on each string.

2016, Alice Eldridge, Chris Kiefer, “Continua: a resonator-feedback-cello duet for live coder and cellist”, in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, page 399:

Following the design of the halldorophone, the self-resonating behaviour of the Feedback Cello is induced by acoustic and vibrational actuation: the signals from pickups under each string are sent to a speaker built into the back of the instrument, and a vibrational transducer fixed on the front.

2017, Alice Eldridge, Chris Kiefer, “The self-resonating feedback cello: interfacing gestural and generative processes in improvised performance”, in Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression:

One recent example is the 'Halldorophone', a range of adapted string instruments built by Halldór Úlfarsson that combine acoustic, electronic and digital functions within a single instrument (Figure 8.3).

2018, Andrew Hugill, The Digital Musician, Routledge, →ISBN:

After ten years of use, the halldorophone has a growing repertoire of works by prominent composers and performers.

2018, Halldór Úlfarsson, “The halldorophone: The ongoing innovation of a cello-like drone instrument”, in Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression:

Influential works were the Overtone Fiddle [3], the Self-Resonating Feedback Cello [4, 5], the feral cello [6], the Magnetic Resonating Piano [7], the Feedback Resonance Guitar [2], Half-Closed loop [8] as well as the ongoing work of Halldór Úlfarsson, halldorophone[9] a cello-like feedback instrument.

2018, Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris, “Low Frequency Feedback Drones: A non-invasive augmentation of the double bass”, in Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression:

(music) An electroacoustic string instrument, the sound of which makes use of electro acoustic feedback to produce drones and otherwise resembles a cello.


Beyhive

(slang, music) The singer Beyoncé's online fanbase.


top note

(music) The highest note that can be produced by a certain instrument or singer.


door opener

(sales): Compare get one's foot in the door.

The two most common types of door openers used are the "Hale" and the "Detroit".

1947, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education., Regional Firemen Training Schools - Volume 2, page 8:

Within this one tool, you have the same basic feature of the door opener, crowbar, and hatchet.

1985, John A. Carley, Mavis V. Whigham, Fire protection specialist (AFSC 57150), page 24:

Although an old tool, the Detroit door opener still functions well when used correctly and will have devastating effects on today's standard locks and door closures.

1997, Richard A. Fritz, Tools of the Trade: Firefighting Hand Tools and Their Use, page 27:

Any of various devices designed to make opening a door easier.

(firefighting) A crowbar-like tool used by firefighters to quickly force locked doors to open.


whole-time

Whole-time employees with more than two years of service will be entitled to compensation, [...].

1941 November, “Notes and News: Abandoning the Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:

(especially firefighting or business) full-time


brink pink

brink pink:

Her blonde locks were styled down, as her face was touched up with some smokey eye shadow and brink pink lipstick.

2013 April 16, Rachel Levy, “Baby's almost here! Pregnant Jessica Simpson busts out of clinging black gown to attend a friend's wedding”, in Daily Mail:

Varieties like “Shindeshojo,” “Orange Dream,” “Akane” and “Coral Magic,” have stunning brink pink, orange or coral foliage in spring. Some like “Tsuma Gaki” or “Murasaki Kiyohime” come out lime green with red edging.

2017 April 27, Steve Smith, “Notes from a gardener with a Japanese maple addiction”, in Washington Herald:

If red is too bright for you, opt for this brink pink tone. Lots of gorgeous details embellish this cotton kurta from frayed layered collar, fabric loops and buttons to a pleated hemline with laces.

2019 November 20, “Ammara Khan brings effortless elegance in RTW collection 'Queen Bee'”, in Something Haute:

Rafael Nadal will be wearing a brink pink colour jacket and the same colour shoes at the tournament. His shorts will be white in colour. The tee will be sleeveless like the previous two seasons.

2020 January 14, Aryan Sharma, “Outfit Revealed For Rafael Nadal For Australian Open 2020”, in Essentially Sports:


Mexican pink

Mexican pink:

Casillas's design, which was implemented in Australia by Evolva Architects, also contrasts the exposed concrete interior walls with inbuilt wooden furniture, white plasterboard and soaped douglas fir solid-wood floors that add warmth to the space. Colourful paintings by Chucho Reyes offset the fields of grey concrete and white walls, as does Casillas' signature yet judicious use of Mexican pink in surprising places.

2015 May 22, Ray Edgar, “Victorian Architecture Awards 2015: Camberwell's concrete monolith in the mix”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

"In Mexico," Mr Kalanick writes, "we were inspired by Mexican pink and the patterns in the local tiles; in Ireland, from the Georgian architecture and the lush greens; and in Nigeria, from the ankara, which came up again and again because of its bright colours and beautiful geometric patterns."

2016 February 2, Dave Lee, “Uber drops its U. Why?”, in BBC News:

She wears a very full, ruffled poplin skirt in a bright color, such as red, Mexican pink, yellow or blue, striped with colorful ribbons. The top has elbow-length sleeves and a bibbed front. Her hair is braided and adorned with wide ribbons, and she wears black ankle boots.

2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles:

Derived from insects found on the prickly pear cactus, cochineal became one of the principal exports of colonial Mexico. Following the country's revolution (1910–20), cochineal's associations with indigenous cultures led to a widespread embrace of the intense Mexican pink derived from it.

2018 September 5, Hettie Judah, “A New Exhibition Examines The Power Of Pink”, in Vogue:

Speaking of cultural identity, Mexican pink is now the color used to identify Mexico City. We have assimilated this in such a natural way that we didn’t realize it was completely planned.

2019 December 2, Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, “Frida Escobedo and Pedro Reyes look to the future to save Mexico’s lost past”, in Document Journal:

A shade of pink, similar to fuchsia or magenta, and common in Mexican culture.


champagne pink

From the colour of 'pink' rosé champagne.

champagne pink:

Both machines are built with slender frames, milled completely from metal and Dell has even introduced a Champagne Pink color – which tragically isn’t coming to the US – to compete with Huawei’s Pink Ultrabook.

2017 August 28, Kevin Lee, “Hands on: Dell Inspiron 13 7000 (2017) review”, in TechRadar:

Emma stunned in the champagne pink off-the-shoulder gown, which featured an elaborately embroidered bodice.

2018 July 2, Connie Rusk, “Emma Roberts looks ethereal in champagne pink gown as she attends star-studded Dior show in Paris”, in Daily Mail:

Customers wanting to get their hands on the calender^([sic]) will have to race to their local store - otherwise eager shoppers may have to wait up to two weeks for the calendar to come back in stock. This year's offering contains a collection of 24 products which come in a sleek black and champagne pink box.

2018 October 19, Lottie Gibbons, “Boots' No7 2018 advent calendar has makeup bundle worth £177 for only £42 - here is the contents”, in Liverpool Echo:

The champagne-pink youngster, believed to be about two or three weeks old in this footage and the smallest in the herd, was being carefully guarded by protective adults. It's unclear from the clip if the calf is a true albino or if its unusual colouring is caused by a genetic condition called leucism.

2019 March 14, Earth Touch News, “Baby 'pink' elephant filmed frolicking on South African game reserve”, in Earth Touch News Network:

This champagne-pink nail polish lives up to its name (I mean, have you ever seen a nail polish that felt more Gatsby than this?), but you definitely don’t need a fancy-schmancy party to wear it to.

2019 July 30, Ruby Buddemeyer, “12 Pink Nail Polishes and Colors You’ll Want to Wear All Summer Long”, in Cosmopolitan:

The article in question was colored a champagne pink and adorned with so many thousands of sequins, beads and jewels, it seemed as though if Larson stood in strong sunlight the beams would refract into a thousand rainbows.

2020 February 10, Andrew Marshall, “The Internet’s Losing It Over Brie Larson’s Oscar Dress”, in We Got This Covered:

Curl up in this curvaceous, champagne pink velvet armchair with a brass-clad base for an added pop of glitz. An instant room updater.

2020 February 10, Lara Sargent, “The roaring 2020s: What’s not to love about this glamorous take on the new decade?”, in Metro:


Princeton orange

From Princeton University, which uses the colour.

Princeton orange:

He even looks exactly the way a Princeton coach should look: perfectly tailored suit, white shirt, Princeton orange-and-black tie.

2017 March 12, John Feinstein, “Ivy League plays a basketball tournament, and it's almost worth the 60-year wait”, in The Washington Post:

Having gone from 170 pounds back then up to 235 pounds less than a month after graduating, Bobo will be suiting up in Princeton orange and black as a tight end for the Tigers during the 2018 football season.

2018 July 12, Alec Etheredge, “Sports mind: Carson Bobo combines brains and sports”, in The Shelby County Reporter:

The standard Princeton Orange, Pantone 158, was created in 1959. The original cloth inspiring the shade is kept in archives for historical reference.

2019 June 7, Maha Al Fahim, “The power of orange”, in The Daily Princetonian:

I’m very proud to be a Quaker, but I’d be even more proud if I could sport that classic Princeton orange. Red and blue really don’t do me any favors.

2019 November 22, James Morrison, “Penn-Princeton Game to See Massive Turnout, Might Fill One Row of Student Section”, in Under The Button:

With a future in Princeton orange and black soon to come to fruition, Burns still has one more season in DHS Demons’ red. She is training hard for her final season of track and field, and will compete in indoor events before she prepares to defend her 3,200 crown in the spring.

2019 December 26, Brenden Ploen, “Durango High’s Madeleine Burns to run at Princeton”, in The Durango Herald, archived from the original on 2019-12-27:


Rolling Stone

Any of the members of the Rolling Stones.


Yale blue

From Yale University, which uses the colour.

Yale blue:

You could call the shade Yale blue, presidential blue, or even a dark steel blue. Regardless, it conveyed the right amount of cheeriness for the occasion and reverence for a historic moment in the British royal family's history.

2017 November 27, Megan Gustashaw, “Prince Harry’s Engagement Suit Is Just What You Should Wear on Your Big Day”, in GQ:

Neither Harvard crimson nor Yale blue courses through my veins — I am an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — but I was at Harvard for the academic year 1968-69 on a Nieman Fellowship, awarded each year to a dozen American journalists in the hope that using the university’s vast resources might help them improve their professional skills.

2018 November 21, “A spectacular Harvard-Yale football game that lifted spirits in the tragic year of 1968”, in The Washington Post:

For a talented senior class, the weekend marks the final hurrah in Yale blue. Trumbull’s Simon Whiteman, first baseman Griffin Dey and pitcher Scott Politz should all be selected in next month’s Major League Baseball draft.

2019 May 8, Chip Malafronte, “Yale enters weekend playing for pride”, in New Haven Register:

The 49-year-old put on an elegant display in a two-toned blue, one-shoulder gown. With a maya blue bodice and yale blue skirt, the pleated dress featured a bow like wrap on her left shoulder.

2019 September 7, Kellie Chudzinski, “Heather Graham cuts an elegant style in a one shoulder blue gown at the TIFF premiere of her film The Rest of Us”, in Daily Mail:

But Yale had certain advantages. Its nonprofit status sheltered it from taxes on income. It could access top outside fund managers. It had alumni in high places in business and finance who, like Swensen, bled Yale blue.

2019 September 11, Drake Bennett, Janet Lorin, Michael McDonald, “How David Swensen Made Yale Fabulously Rich”, in Bloomberg News:

While today the courts on the fifth floor sport a fresh Yale Blue coat of paint and glass backboards, in the 1970s they were drafty, completely wooden and nearly uninhabitable in the hotter months.

2020 March 4, Eamonn Smith, “Yale faculty keep fit, form bonds on the hardwood”, in The Yale News:


radioantagonist

(biochemistry) An antagonist labelled with a radioisotope


death whistle

(music, historical) An Aztec instrument, sometimes shaped like a skull, that when blown produces a human-like shriek.


nucleomitophobia

Coined by psychiatrist Milton Arnold Dushkin in the early 1960s, from nucleo- (“atomic nucleus”) + mito- (“mitosis”) + -phobia (“fear of”), in reference to a supposed resemblance of atomic fission to cellular division.

Nikita Krushchev's war of nerves was plainly having an effect on the U.S. citizenry... There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis. (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"—fear of the atom).

1961 September 29, “The People: Ready to Act”, in Time:

A physician says the Nuclear Age has spawned a new phobia—nucleomitophobia, or fear of the atom. An article in Today's Health, a magazine published by the American Medical Assn., said public officials have received a rash of calls from persons who believe they are radioactive.

1961 November 19, Cedar Rapids Gazette, page 122:

When they are frantically expanding armament and making preparations for war, and they need to create war hysteria, they encourage man-made nucleomitophobia to spread rampantly, letting people know how radioactivity is already "threatening normal life in the United States." But when they want to sell their milk, they have to try "to find ways and means to set people's minds at ease regarding the question of radioactivity." Under the capitalist system, which is characterized by irresoluble contradictions, such jokes cannot be avoided.

1963 January, Michael Freeberne, translating an article in the 1 March 1962 Hongqi (《红旗》) in "Chinese Vignettes", Problems of Communism, Vol. XII, No. 1, p. 15

Bertie Rupp, who wanted to become a farmer in his youth, is entrapped by city life and achieves brief celebrity as the man who aestheticized continuous computer stationery. Disenchantment and nucleomitophobia (an exaggerated fear of atomic Armageddon) cause him to drop out.

1988, Brian Stableford, "American Book of the Dead", Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual

I SUFFER, I HASTEN TO SAY, FROM NUCLEOMITOPHOBIA, THE FEAR of atomic attack, and my quest for a cure has led me to grapple with the great debate on war and peace as it is being carried on in the United States.

1999, Arthur Herzog III, The War–Peace Establishment, page vii:

Fear of nuclear weapons is known as nucleomitophobia. The same term applies to fear of atomic energy... The fear is based on a feeling by individuals that they have no control over the fate of the world and that nuclear weapons can kill off all of human life and civilization. This fear is also related to a fear of death and a fear of apocalypse, or the end of the world.

2008, Ronald M. Doctor & al., The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, 3rd ed., s.v. "nuclear war and nuclear weapons"

Fear of nuclear radiation, now especially atomic bombs.


low fidelity

en-adj

low fidelity (comparative more low fidelity, superlative most low fidelity)

more low fidelity (comparative)
most low fidelity (superlative)

(sound) Having a low bitrate, or being an electronic reproduction of a sound with low accuracy.

(music) Having a rough quality, recorded at home with makeshift tools


buggish

buggish (comparative more buggish, superlative most buggish)

more buggish (comparative)
most buggish (superlative)

Now asked sweet mama to let me be her kid She says I might get buggish I couldn't keep it hid.

1930, Sleepy John Estes, Milk Cow Blues:

(see title)

1938, Willie Bee (James), Washboard Sam, My baby's getting buggish:

Ohh, little girl got buggish, she throwed all of my clothes outdoors.

2003, Paul Garon, The Devil's Son-in-law, page 19:


fruit and flowers

Such illicit purchases might be explained away in a budget as spending on fruit and flowers.

Most journalists I know are actually rather scrupulous with their expenses – although I do know of one who tried to pass off one of their children's birthday parties as a networking opportunity (hats off!). However, I've been thinking of some of the things I might have been able to claim myself: getting my driving gloves dry-cleaned, for instance, medicinal single malts, ‘back rubs’ in foreign hotels, or that great music-industry euphemism, ‘fruit and flowers’.

2009 May 23, Dylan Jones, “Who's pinched all the paper clips?”, in Daily Mail:

Mr Hands was criticised for his robust managerial style, forcing through redundancies and highlighting excessive costs such as the £200,000 spent annually on "fruit and flowers" and £20,000 a month on candles.

2010 September 28, Cahal Milmo, “A bad buy – with a little help from his friends?”, in The Independent:

Don’t be thinking the record companies are getting all complacent and haemorrhaging all of that new cash on exorbitant executive bonuses, plush new offices and an endless supply of fruit and flowers though. Oh no. They are investing.

2019 April 3, Chris Cooke, “Streaming boom and emerging markets drive fourth year of growth for global recorded music industry”, in Complete Music Update, archived from the original on 2020-08-14:

(euphemistic, jargon, especially in the music business) Illicit purchased items such as recreational drugs or prostitutes.


Pullman brown

Named after Pullman, a rail company which used the colour on many of its cars.

Pullman brown:

UPS has used the color for its trucks since 1916, when it was called Pullman brown. The reason the company chose brown is "that it was the epitome of luxury at the time," a former UPS executive told The New York Times in 1998.

2012 September 29, Aleksi Tzatzev, “10 Colors That Might Get You Sued”, in Business Insider:

Home insulation company Owens Corning launched the "Think Pink" campaign to protect its unique pink hue, setting a precedent for Cadbury's deep purple chocolate wrappers, UPS's Pullman brown logos, Tiffany & Co.'s robin egg blue jewelry packaging and Christian Louboutin's red shoe soles.

2017 November 6, Marissa Miller, “How colors change the way we think, feel and consume”, in CNN:

A shade of brown originally used on Pullman cars and later by UPS.


rush candle

A candle of tallow or wax that uses a piece of rush as a wick.


silver white

white lead

Synonym of white lead, particularly (historical) in the form used in 19th-century Parisian paints.


China white

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure white lead paint”)


Dylanology

From Dylan + -ology, from the surname of Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter.

(music) The study or admiration of the music or lyrics of Bob Dylan.


Dylanologist

From Dylan + -ologist, from the surname of Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter.

(music) One who studies or admires the music or lyrics of Bob Dylan; one with an interest in Dylanology.


dead cat

Named for its resemblance to an actual dead cat.

"A camera operator needs batteries, lenses, cards, filters. A wardrobe supervisor has racks of costumes. A sound recorder carries a dead cat on a stick. But a director only needs his folder."

2012 August 16, Neil Oseman, Inside the Director's Folder:

2019, July 2. "Film 101: What Is a Boom Operator? Understanding the Job of a Boom Operator", Masterclass.com.
"The mic blimp is a wind-resistant cover that goes over the boom mic to reduce environmental background noise. It's commonly referred to as a "dead cat", because it's covered in fuzzy gray hair."

(cinematography, sound engineering) A furry coverlet placed over a microphone to muffle the sound of wind.


petrocapitalism

For the purpose of better understanding the ensuing discussion in this chapter, petrocapitalism is said to operate successfully through an intertwined oil complex “that is territorially constituted through oil concessions”.

2013, Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres, Sophal Ear -, The Hungry Dragon, page 27:

While geography of extractive petrocapitalism is focused on specific points in space – what Gavin Bridge (2010, 1) calls the geographies of “the hole” – consumptive petrocapitalism is dispersed and virtually includes the entirety of capitalism itself.

2017, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, International Encyclopedia of Geography:

Music is not simply a passive observer of the plastic age. It is an active contributor to petrocapitalism, an agent of petroculture.

2019, Kyle Devine, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, page 100:

Those aspects of capitalism that involve the petrochemical industry.


petrofiction

en-noun

petrofiction (countable and uncountable, plural petrofictions)

Abdel Rahman Munif
Amitav Ghosh
Imre Szeman

Originally coined as petro- + fiction by Amitav Ghosh in his review of Abdel Rahman Munif's quintet of novels Cities of Salt (published by New Republic in March 1992). The term was subsequently broadened by Imre Szeman in a 2012 article in American Book Review.

Further, for Middle Eastern petrofiction, such as Abdelraman Munif's novel Cities of Salt, the novel can seem an unfortunate appropriation of the Western form rather than an indigenous form.

2013 May, Elisa Warford, “Texas petrofiction: regionalism and the oil stories of Winifred Sanford”, in Southwestern American Literature, volume 62, number 5:

This article presents a comparative study of two significant novels of oil-encounter modernization, George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe (1972) and Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt (1984), in order to argue that such petrofiction both demands and enables consideration of the world-ecological regimes and environmental ramifications of dynamic oil frontiers.

2017, Graeme Macdonald, ““Monstrous transformer”: Petrofiction and world literature”, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, volume 53, number 3:

In Fred Stenson's 2014 work of petrofiction, Who by Fire, pyric imagery assumes striking visual form in the gas flare stacks that populate rural Alberta, conjuring promises of light and wealth drawn from the earth and separated into useful and waste substances.

2019, Jenny Kerber, “Corrosive Aesthetics: On the Receiving End of Oil and Gas in Who by Fire”, in Canadian Literature, number 239:

In the canon of Arabic literature, Munif ’s Cities of Salt and Kanafani’s Men in the Sun are a duo, exemplary of ground-breaking petrofiction.

2019, Saima Bashir, Sohail Ahmad Saeed, “Contemporary Arab Petrofiction: Opening up Biopolitical Spaces for the Dispossessed”, in Postcolonial Interventions, volume 4, number 3, page 249:

fiction that focuses on the oil industry as a major element.

This neglect of water exists in spite of a growing trend towards reading literature for its representations of resources, most prominently in the subject of 'petrofiction'.

2015, Hannah Boast, Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature. (PhD thesis University of York):

As writers come to terms with the fossil fuel era and "our entanglement" with petroleum extraction in modern life and in our relationships among different groups of people and in our responsibility to our environments, the relevance and urgency of reading petrofiction has increased.

2016, Jonathan Steinwand, “Global Petrofiction Book Club Guides”, in Oil Boom Inquiry Seminar:

Against today's backdrop of eco-catastrophe and sustainability issues, recent concerns in the field of environmental humanities include the thematic and aesthetic examinations of pollution and waste, toxic/nuclear landscapes, eco-phobia, the imperilled human/non-human cohabitation, climate change fiction, and petrofiction.[…] Petrofiction deals more specifically with the multi-faceted relationship between oil and human affairs.

2018 April-July, Jessica Maufort, “Book Review: Energy Humanities: An Anthology”, in Ariel, volume 49, numbers 2-3:

A pertinent example of the energy unconscious in petrofiction is Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island, in which an oil spill is one of the dominant motifs.

2019, Christa Grewe-Volpp, “Oil as matter, oil as discourse: Tom McCarthy's Satin Island”, in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, volume 23, number 2:

(by extension) Fiction that deals with modern culture's dependency on petrochemicals.


quork

en-verb

quork (third-person singular simple present quorks, present participle quorking, simple past and past participle quorked)

quorks (present singular third-person)
quorking (participle present)
quorked (participle past)
quorked (past)

They quork a few times during their apparent morning inspecting for intruders and return down the valley to the pond.

1989, Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter, page 259:

He could hear the ravens quork'''ing and complaining in the rookery above.

2000, George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, page 549:

A raven quorks from high above the Hills Pond as we stroll Alder Brook Road.

2011, John M. Marzluff, Colleen Marzluff, Dog Days, Raven Nights, page 241:


basset clarinet

en-noun

basset clarinet (plural basset clarinets)

(music) A clarinet similar to the usual soprano clarinet but longer and with additional keys to enable playing several additional lower notes.


Latin freestyle

With its angular rhythm tics and woodblock percussion, Latin Freestyle sounded like a cross between Gary Numan and Tito Puente.

2002, Rob Young, editor, Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 138:

Instead of symphonic disco, this sound was rooted in electro, old skool hip hop and the brash, crashing electro-funk style known as Latin Freestyle.

2012, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, page 31:

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

A form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area in the 1980s.


Zamrock

(music) The rock and roll scene and associated style that originated in Zambia during the 70s.


phonk

By smashing together components of hip-hop, EDM, metal and dubstep, phonk is placed as one of the most prominent new genres of music.

2024 April 15, Andy Ward, Briony Luttrell, Lachlan Goold, “How a global crisis, drift racing and Memphis hip-hop gave us phonk – the music of the TikTok generation”, in The Conversation:

A style of music derived from hip-hop and trap music and directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap.


Caribbean dance music

(music) A hybrid music genre that fuses electronic dance music with Caribbean music such as dancehall, reggae and soca.


-wave

Likely derived from new wave, and popularized by the terms chillwave and vaporwave.

chill + -wave → chillwave

dark + -wave → darkwave

vapor + -wave → vaporwave

Applied to various (often very specialised) music genres, subcultures and aesthetics.


microlabel

(music) A very small-scale record label.


synthcore

I've seen an adorable unsigned punk band perform here, taken in some wickedawesome (all one word, of course) spoken word, and danced my patootie off to electro and synthcore djs. Yay.

2002, Pleasant Gehman, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, Manic D Press, →ISBN:

A more hard or intense style of synthesizer music, influenced by other genres such as metal.


kackle

en-verb

kackle (third-person singular simple present kackles, present participle kackling, simple past and past participle kackled)

kackles (present singular third-person)
kackling (participle present)
kackled (participle past)
kackled (past)

The following table also shows the size and length of the hitching for the eye, the size and length of the seizing, the length of rounding for kackling, and the length to kackle each cable.

1858, Charles Bushell, The rigger's guide, page 253:

The tip of the shaft has a whipping of sinew-braid 1¾ inches deep, “kackled” down on both edges, one end of the twine on each edge, so that the hitch made by one end crosses the round turn of the other, making in all twenty-six turns.

1892, J.W. Powell, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution:


kackle

As soon as she got outside I heard her kackle, kackle, on to the pantry, where she said to the charwoman, “I never saw or read about or heard tell of such a man.”

1923, Thomas Martin Lindsay, Janet Ross, Letters of Principal T. M. Lindsay to Janet Ross, page 23:

While we were all kneeling in prayer these hens set up a kackle, kackle, kackle and made such a noise that it drowned the Voice of the brother in prayer.

2015, James R. Columbia, Dispatches From Ruggles, page 88:


kackle

They don't kackle like the hen, nor kro like the rooster, nor holler like the peakok, nor scream like the goose, nor turk like the turkey; but they quack like a root dokter, and their bill resembles a vetenary surgeon's.

1876, Josh Billings (Henry W. Shaw), The Complete Works of Josh Billings, page 179:

But when the dirt gets in the needle valve, and the Doldrum .60 crackles and kackles, and that sneaky warp comes back again — well, let it happen on enough week-ends — and you'll even consider putting up the storm windows.

Moralizing statements are now only half serious—'We men are somewhat akin to laying Hens: for if we mind to doe any good, we presently proclaime and kackle it abroad . . .” (The Pursuit, p. 62)—as the world itself has become more chaotic.

1986, Paul Salzman, English Prose Fiction 1558-1700: A Critical History, page 210:

When we kackle like your uncle Sal at "Yey Whazzup Make Up" by Pssing Stones, the sublime recontextualized Rolling Stones' video (by StS, the same genius that brought us the "Shreds" Youtube^([sic]) clips) that in its endgame brings us the hyper-reality of a bunch of absurd middle-aged rock dinosaurs chump-changing us with a cardboard-cut-out-cartoon-rebellion with even less fiber and nutrition than that Cinnamon Toast Crunch enema I mentioned earlier, we inch closer to a resolve of the problems brought by your sides aching of convulsive laughter upon repeated viewing of the Hitler lip where he finds out about Oasis canceling their tour.

2012, Johan Kugelberg, Brad Pitt's Dog: Essays on Fame, Death, Punk:


mukbanger

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While for some mukbangers, the ASMR effect is part of the overall mukbang experience, ASMR videos are a whole world unto themselves with a wide range of variants […]

2020, Tania Lewis, Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform:

Indonesian mukbanger Kim Thai has partnered rather appropriately with digestion aid Pepto-Bismol, while the American star Nikocado Avocado advertises the computer game Cooking Diary.

2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century, Hachette, →ISBN:

Some cross-cultural studies on mukbang also report that its global spread can be understood through its sexual aspect, as it facilitates “a sexualized gaze to attractive mukbangers while they are in a somewhat private and vulnerable state […]

2020, Hyesu Park, Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(social media) A person who creates and publishes mukbang videos.


golden-yellow

golden-yellow:


moon-man

(science fiction) A native alien of the Moon.


moonlight tower

en-noun

moonlight tower (plural moonlight towers)

From moonlight + tower. From being a tower providing illumination akin to moonlight.

(historical) A high tower fitted with arclights, formerly common in 19th-century cities with electricity, as a means of illuminating public spaces.


meloplast

(music) An empty staff with movable notes used as a teaching aid


Abbaesque

en-adj

Abbaesque (comparative more Abbaesque, superlative most Abbaesque)

more Abbaesque (comparative)
most Abbaesque (superlative)

They could use all the rooms for their own purposes, without decorating them the Abbaesque taste of their son or pseudo-Gothic fixations of their daughter.

2008, Tara Brabazon, “Wiring God’s waiting rooms: the greying of the World Wide Web”, in Tara Brabazon, editor, The Revolution Will Not Be Downloaded: Dissent in the digital age, Oxford: Chandos Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:

Here, they accompanied disco funk rocker Reflektor with some spectacular mirrorball action while giant inflatable stickmen sprang up around the apron of the stage during Unconditional I (Lookout Kid) and the irresistible ABBAesque Everything Now.

2022 September 6, Fiona Shepherd, “Music review: Arcade Fire, Hydro, Glasgow”, in The Scotsman:

(music) Similar in style to the Swedish pop supergroup ABBA.


Lunan

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.

2012, A. Lee Martinez, Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain:

Despite the war games, the Jovans considered themselves invincible, and the Lunans were their only worthy opponent in the solar system. Having their own ships blown up in orbit by unknown forces, the Lunans were no longer transgressors.

2014, William Tedford, Battlefields of Silence:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


ARMY

en-noun

ARMY (countable and uncountable, plural ARMYs)

From an acronym/backronym based on army ("Adorable Representative for MC Youth"), suggesting a large, devoted fanbase.

ARMY are clever, too: they urged fans not to buy J-Hope's mixtape Hope World on its release date, having worked out that delaying by a day would result in a higher ranking in the Billboard charts.

2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, page 170:

In this manner, ARMY gives charity in the name of BTS, and BTS responds by returning charity back to society in the name of ARMY.

2019, Jeeheng Lee, BTS and ARMY Culture, page 163:

The BTS boys love telling ARMY how important they are to them—without ARMY's unwavering love and support, BTS wouldn't be where they are today.

2020, Becca Wright, The Unofficial BTS Fan Book: For the Bangtan ARMY, page 25:

(fandom slang, uncountable) The fandom of the K-pop boy band BTS.

Entering the theater, I expected the room to be filled with ARMYs decked out in their BTS merchandise.

2018 December, Ashley Chen, “BTS film rallies a large army”, in The Union, page 13:

It began when an ARMY tweeted something along the lines of: “If there are so many of us everywhere in the world, shouldn't we make a change and help people?”

2019, Jeeheng Lee, BTS and ARMY Culture, page 160:

As of this writing, the Philippines is not included in the tour but Filipino ARMYs are hoping the group will eventually perform in Manila for a fourth time.

2020 February 2, Rachel Anne Macarandang, “BTS To The World”, in BusinessMirror, page 4:

(fandom slang, countable) An individual fan of the K-pop boy band BTS.


hyung line

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Calque of Korean 형 라인 (hyeong rain), composed of 형(兄) (hyeong, “hyung; elder brother of a man”) and 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”), ultimately from English line. By surface analysis, hyung + line.
Refer to 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”) for more information.

Born on 22nd May 1999, belongs to the Hyung line of EXO being the second oldest after Xiumin.

2017 May, “Get 'Suho-fied'”, in Chogitimes, volume 1, page 12:

RM, Suga, Jin, and J-Hope comprise BTS's hyung line.

2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page:

A break comes with some ment from the Maknae line and the Hyung line who decide to show some sexiness.

2019, Spike Koarau, "NCT 127 in Paris", HALLYU Magazine, Summer 2019, page 5

(South Korean idol fandom) The elder members of a male K-pop group as a collective.


maknae line

From Korean 막내 라인 (mangnae rain), composed of 막내 (mangnae, “maknae; youngest person in a group”) and 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”), ultimately from English line. By surface analysis, maknae + line.
Refer to 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”) for more information.

The younger members can form the maknae line.

2017, Fefe Ho, KPOP 101: Korean Pop Explained Step By Step To Kpop Fans Worldwide, page 21:

Tessa and Sung Soo watched the maknae line bundled up together on the couch, grins across their faces.

2019, Erin Kinsella, Heart and Seoul, unnumbered page:

And how was she making the maknae''' line so comfortable so quickly?

2019, Trish Millburn, Sing Me a Love Song, unnumbered page:

(South Korean idol fandom) The younger members of a K-pop group as a collective.


kulning

A Scandinavian vocal musical form with high-pitched echoes, traditionally used to call livestock down from the mountain pastures.


triuranium octaoxide

(inorganic chemistry) The oxide of uranium U₃O₈ that is the main component of yellowcake


skull drum

These sorcerers summoned the spirits with whom they worked, by blowing on horns made from human thigh bones and beating on skull drums and gongs.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 31:

A drum (musical instrument) made from a thin covering stretched over a hemispherical section of a human skull; also, a damaru made from two skulls.


COF

circle of fifths
circle of fifths#English

circle of fourths
circle of fourths#English

(music) Initialism of circle of fourths.


morache

(music) A Native American musical instrument consisting of a notched stick usually played by rubbing another stick or bone over it.


coal rank

coal rank (countable and uncountable, plural coal ranks)

(geology) The measure or degree of the progressive coalification (organic metamorphism) of a coal, often expressed in terms of vitrinite reflectance.


VLAT

(firefighting, aviation) Acronym of very large airtanker. (a class of waterbomber)


vib.

Abbreviation of Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”)

(music) The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.


M/L ratio

L ratio (countable and uncountable, plural L ratios)

mass-to-light ratio
mass-to-light ratio#English

(astrophysics) Short for mass-to-light ratio.

media-to-lumen ratio
media-to-lumen ratio#English

(medicine) Short for media-to-lumen ratio.


pop song

A type of song from the genre of music derived from rock and roll music of the 1950s characterised by a short catchy tune and the frequent repetition of a chorus.


German flute

From German + flute, likely because it originated in Germany.

He had made great progress in the gymnastic sciences of dancing, fencing and riding, played perfectly well on the German flute, and above all things valued himself upon a scrupulous observance of all the points of honour.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

One of the gentlemen played on the violin, and the other on the german-flute.

1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:

(music, now chiefly historical) A transverse flute.


unicorn vomit

I envy how obviously homemade it is, and how the 12 pounds of sprinkles dumped on top of it make it look like a tray of unicorn vomit.

2011, Haley Massara, "The etiquette of cake", Granite Bay Gazette (Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, California), 8 April 2011, page A10

"Well, it's awesome," I say, thinking "awesome" is a generous word for a scarf that resembles unicorn vomit.

2014, Tawni Waters, Beauty and the Broken, unnumbered page:

"Because you don't let me go deeper than that. You don't let me write anything but pretty stories that make people feel like they're tromping through unicorn vomit while holding baskets of cupcakes in their arms."

2015, Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers, page 69:

(slang, idiomatic, humorous) Something extremely colorful, sweet, or cloying.


Stone Mountain

Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
en:Stone Mountain (disambiguation)

Descartes Highlands
Descartes Highlands#English


tropical rock

(music) A genre of popular music with elements of rock, reggae, country, folk, calypso, zydeco, and pop music, with themes and musical compositions inspired by a tropical island style.


drum fill

(music) An extended riff played on the drums


Born-Haber cycle

Born-Haber cycle (plural Born-Haber cycles)

Named after the German scientists Max Born and Fritz Haber, who developed it in 1919.

(analytical chemistry, physical chemistry) A cycle concerned with the formation of an ionic compound from the reaction of a metal (often a Group I or Group II element) with a halogen or other non-metallic element such as oxygen; used to analyze reaction energies.


NCTzen

NCTzens have made it their mission to get these boys to the top no matter what the cost.

2017 November, Andrea Cervantes, “Kpop 4 Dummies”, in Slick Magazine, page 37:

Then, K-pop fans, majority^([sic]) of whom are NCTzens who wielded their neon green light sticks, went extra wild when NCT Dream was called upon and conquered a Manila stage for the first time.

2019 March 24, Carla Mortel Baricau, “K-Pop Acts, Local Band Conquer Free-Concert Stage”, in BusinessMirror, page 4:

Says member Haechan: “We'll keep on working hard to meet the expectations” of the group's devoted fan army, NCTzens.

(fandom slang) A fan of the K-pop boy band NCT.


muselar

(music) A kind of virginal from northern Europe, having the keyboard placed right of centre and the strings plucked about one-third of the way along their sounding length.


sus chord

(music, informal) Short for suspended chord.


Shango

An orisha in Yoruba religion, the god of thunder, fire, justice, dance and virility.


Hiddleswift

With those earnings, it's nothing but the best for “Hiddleswift” as they canoodle around the world in a private plane.

2016 July 12, Maria Puente, “For Taylor Swift, it's a cash advance”, in Lawrence Journal-World, page 7B:

Due to work commitments the honeymoon period finally came to an end and Hiddleswift were forced to spend time apart.

2017, Naimi Corsani, Tom Hiddleston - The Biography:

Could this be referring to Hiddleswift's short-lived romance?

2017 November 29, Falin Hakeem, “Taylor Swift cements her bad girl status in 'Reputation'”, in The Oakland Post, Oakland University, page 15:

(slang) The romantic relationship between English actor Tom Hiddleston and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (together briefly in 2016).


paraphone

(music) A sound midway between a concord and a discord.


paraphony

paraphony (countable and uncountable, plural paraphonies)

(music) The quality of sound midway between a concord and a discord


quenacho

(music) A larger, lower-toned version of the quena (traditional flute of the Andes).


bothy ballad

A traditional song sung by farm labourers in northeast Scotland.


songo-salsa

A style of music that blends songo and salsa with rapping and hip-hop beats.


Blink

From a contraction of the group's name, itself a compound of black + pink, seemingly chosen as a homophone of blink.

The long-awaited solo from BLACKPINK's Jennie came along and was very well received by BLINKs everywhere.

2018, Holly Smith, "Season's Sounds", UKP Magazine, Winter 2018, page 22

BLACKPINK's first concert in Manila was definitely one for the books and BLINKs can only hope the four girls can come back sooner with brand new hit songs!

2019 February 20, “7 reasons why we'll never forget BLACKPINK in Manila”, in Edge Davao, page A2:

Many Blinks frantically refreshed multiple tabs of the ticket sales site on several devices just to secure a ticket to BlackPink's world tour in a cutthroat battle against thousands of other Blinks.

2019, Kevin Song, "BlackPinks comeback confirms they're here to 'Stay'", Falconer (Torrey Pines High School, San Diego, California), 26 April 2019, page A8

(fandom slang) A fan of the South Korean girl group Blackpink.


neck joint

On the classical guitar, the heel supports the neck joint on the back side.

(music, stringed instruments) Τhe junction where the neck (fretted or unfretted) meets the body of a stringed instrument.


pocket light

A flashlight small enough to fit in someone's pocket.


cak

(music) A type of string instrument from Indonesia.


trumpophone

(music) A musical instrument combining a trumpet and a saxophone, especially a trumpet played with a saxophone mouthpiece.


theta pinch

(physics) A pinch (magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament) where the magnetic field runs down the axis of the cylinder, while the electric field is in the azimuthal direction.


ear-piercingly

en-adv

ear-piercingly (comparative more ear-piercingly, superlative most ear-piercingly)

more ear-piercingly (comparative)
most ear-piercingly (superlative)

The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:

In an ear-piercing manner; at an ear-piercing volume.


jazzerati

Burns and Ward see their work as an attempt to reach beyond the factional discord of the “jazzerati” to introduce nonaficionados, and particularly younger Americans, to the story of one of the nation's most distinctive musical traditions.

2000, U.S. News & World Report, volume 129, page 178:

(informal) People who are considered the elite in the world of jazz music.


LFO

low-frequency oscillation
low-frequency oscillation#English

Initialism of low-frequency oscillation.


zeuhl

Coined by French musician Christian Vander, who claimed it meant "celestial" in his constructed language Kobaïan.

coin

(music) A subgenre of progressive rock, typically incorporating asemic lyrics, massed unison vocals (often with both male and female vocalists), and jazz-influenced rhythmic accompaniment.


(music) A meter of nine quavers per measure.


octocontrabass

Among the many benchmarks of his career, he developed the first complete choir of in-tune clarinets, ranging from sopranino to octocontrabass.

(music) An instrument that is pitched one octave below the contrabass.


bedroom pop

Among the inscrutable terms invented to parse the stylistic subtleties of rock music, “bedroom pop” stands out as an elegantly descriptive coinage. The bedroom in question refers not to the content of the songs but to where they’re produced. These are solo projects, sort of like writing in a diary or sketching on a pad, and in New York, there is practically an epidemic of the stuff.

[2006 January 26, Hugo Lindgren, “Garbagehead Revisited”, in New York:

The Oakland, Calif., singer and songwriter Melina Duterte, who calls her D.I.Y. bedroom pop project Jay Som, does it all.

2017 March 22, Joe Coscarelli, “Jay Som Brings Her D.I.Y. Bedroom Pop to Brooklyn”, in The New York Times:

“We’re straying from the idea of bedroom pop sonically but ‘Fake It Flowers’ was still me writing songs here,” Kristi said, motioning toward walls filled with photos of friends, a tricolor tapestry and iconic posters of Tom Hanks from the film “Big” and the Beatles at Abbey Road.

2020 October 8, David Peisner, “beabadoobee Made Bedroom Pop. Now She’s Turning Up the Volume.”, in New York Times:

(music) A musical genre or aesthetic in which bands record at home, rather than at traditional recording spaces.


mumble rap

From mumble + rap. First coined by hip hop artist Wiz Khalifa in 2016 during an interview.

coinage

Derided by some, artists such as Future and Migos have been wildly successful mumble rap artists.

2018, Nick J. Sciullo, Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture, page 40:

"Mumble rap" is the most active and vigorous scapegoat rap has had in years, in part because the internet — particularly social media — has created a landscape for it to thrive and be a hotly debated topic, engaging in the ideas of language and whether or not rappers should have to adhere to them, or whether or not this so-called mumble rap is actually pushing the genre forward, past some of its bowing to establishments.

2019, Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, page 201:

The logical culmination of this tendency is today's mumble rap, featuring rhythmically monotonous phrasal and verbal repetition, strongly auto-tuned and, in some cases, literally mumbled.

2020, Macklin Smith, Aurko Joshi, Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat, page 256:

There was an exciting proliferation of punk rap, mumble rap, emo rap and trap-influenced SoundCloud artists.

2020, Adrian Besley, Billie Eilish: From e-girl to Icon, Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:

(music) A microgenre of hip hop with mumbling or unclear vocal delivery by artists, and may generally refer to rappers who do not share the genre's typical emphasis on lyricism.


Welsh harp

[A]ll the fiddles within six miles […] with the addition of a drum, bag-pipe, and Welch-harp, regaled the guests with a most melodious concert.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(music) A type of harp associated with traditional music of Wales, originally a simple single-string instrument and now more usually referring to a type of triple harp.


brilliant green

(organic chemistry) A triarylmethane dye, closely related to malachite green, also used in solution for its antiseptic properties.


monzo

(music) In microtonal music, a vector that represents the prime factorization of a particular just intonation interval.


triccaballacca

(music) A Neapolitan percussion instrument


rocktastic

en-adj

rocktastic (comparative more rocktastic, superlative most rocktastic)

more rocktastic (comparative)
most rocktastic (superlative)

Music-wise, the biggest event in the Thames Valley area is definitely the rocktastic 3-dayer known as Reading Festival, but if huge isn't your thing try the Truck Nine Festival in Abingdon or catch part of the upper-class English summer season—watching the rowing, champers in hand, at the Henley Regatta.

2007, Olivia Edward, Genevieve Cortinovis, James Eggleton, Youyoung Lee, Ashley Hermitage, MTV England, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 171:

(informal) Fantastic or excellent in the context of rock music.


radiotoxin

Airborne plutonium is a radiotoxin.


jazzistic

Hubbard next offered a slow rendering of "Embraceable You," a warmly romantic yet still exciting and jazzistic interpretation, something he is uniquely capable of achieving.

1991, International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, IAJRC Journal, volumes 24-25:

While some films merely "include" jazz on their soundtracks, others, such as Shirley Clarke's Harlem Story, or Cassavetes' Shadows, or Rivette's L'Amour Fou, or Kiarostami's Ten, are formally jazzistic.

2015, Robert Stam, Richard Porton, Leo Goldsmith, Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics:

Among the properties of musics in the jazzistic field, isn't there precisely this dialogic treatment of so-called oppositions and contradictions rendered complementary?

2016, George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut, The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, volume 1:


V-pop

From V- (“Vietnamese”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.


banjeaurine

(music) A variant of the banjo with a shorter neck, and tuned a fourth higher.


tooraloo

So long! See you soon! Too-ra-loo!

—Toraloo, Lenehan said. See you later.

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

So poor Admiral Nelson, toora loo

1966, Joseph Dolan, “Nelson’s Farewell”, as covered by The Dubliners, Transatlantic Records

Tooraloo, must get at the new White Mule. […] I didn’t set out to write a letter as long as this. What the hell’s the matter with me?

1984, William Carlos Williams, The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, New Directions,, →ISBN, page 184: