in other news

(conjunctive, idiomatic, broadcasting) Used by newsreaders to introduce an unrelated piece of news.


PVOD

(television, film) Abbreviation of premium video on demand.


telepad

(science fiction) A platform on which a person or object is placed in order to be teleported elsewhere.


moon-man

(science fiction) A native alien of the Moon.


hyaa

(chiefly manga) Ah! Argh! A shriek or scream.


wallscreen

(science fiction) A wall-mounted screen display.


teletransporter

(science fiction) A teleportation device.


Bokononism

Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle in 1963. Named after the religion's alleged founder, Bokonon + -ism.

[>We show singles exactly how to find their True Soulmate! And we show Couples how to determine if they have found their True Soulmate!]
How tough can it be to know once you've found the right one? As long as you're not somewhere that has made Bokononism illegal, couldn't you just put your feet together?

1997 March 13, the tree by the river, “Re: Still looking for your Soulmate? We can help!”, in soc.singles (Usenet):

Because there isn't any, and I can't think of any possible reason that there need be any. Thus I have assumed that there is no god. The difference is that since there *can be* no evidence of it, I must admit that I can not really know the answer. In my case, that is grounds for agnosticism (or Bokononism really). In the case of many others, faith takes over.

2000 May 8, m. brazeau, “Re: help me refute a theist”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):

Whatever wackadoodle philosophy you might be embracing today – frutarianism or Bokononism – is cool as long as it doesn’t hurt those around you, right? ¶ Refusing to immunize puts the rest of us at risk. And unless there is sound science and the guidance of a good doctor, it’s a pretty bogus way to hedge a bet in that game of parenting roulette.

2015 January 26, Petula Dvorak, “Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are putting others at risk”, in The Washington Post:

(fiction, religion) In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, a religion secretly practiced by the people of San Lorenzo, the supreme religious act of which consists of any two worshippers rubbing the bare soles of their feet together to inspire spiritual connection.


chosen one

Many of these fantasy novels feature a main character portrayed as a chosen one who will save everyone else.

Qui-Gon: He... is the Chosen One. He... will bring balance... Train him.

1999, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace:

(informal, authorship) A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or accomplish some other grand and heroic deed; one who is predestined to become the one.


antimeme

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From anti- + meme. In the sense of "an image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations", first recorded in 2009 and now chiefly associated with the r/antimeme subreddit, created February 8, 2012.

I know it's every citizen's civic duty to keep his antimeme vaccinations up to date. But some perverse streak inside me (possibly, now that I think about it, an anti-antimeme meme) made me keep postponing my appointment until it was just too late.

1998, Christine Beckert, David Bischoff, Carroll Brown, et al., The Best of Pirate Writings: Tales of Fantasy, Mystery & Science Fiction, Padwolf Pub Incorporated, →ISBN:

As an antimeme to both Christianity and these secular dominant ideologies, humanism in the West was, by the middle of the century able to gain dominance in what had become, effectively, a vacant niche.

2003, David Hurst, On Westernism: An Ideology's Bid for World Dominion:

Notable as well are periodic claims that memetics will make the world a better place, by creating an antimeme meme which will teach us to defend ourselves against the ravages of the selfish memes, ...

2004, William F. Harms, Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 65:

We have to start spreading antimemes.” “Fight fire with fire?” she said.

2010, Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind, Macmillan, →ISBN:

(memetics, science fiction) A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.

SCP-055 is a "self-keeping secret" or "anti-meme". Information about SCP-055's physical appearance as well as its nature, behavior, and origins is self-classifying.

2008, Sam "qntm" Hughes, “SCP-055 - [unknown]”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division:

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

2018, Sam "qntm" Hughes, There Is No Antimemetics Division:

(memetics, science fiction) A unit of information that prevents itself from being spread, often by erasing itself from any mind that it enters.


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”).


leporello

en-noun

leporello (countable and uncountable, plural leporellos)

Don Giovanni
Leporello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Named after Leporello, the servant of the eponymous character in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, who unfolds a long list of Don Giovanni's love conquests.

Because of the accordion fold and leporello binding the book can be stretched out to its full length, showing a rich color field in transition.

2011, J. Susan Isaacs, “Artist Biographies and Works in Exhibition”, in J. Susan Isaacs, editor, The Book: A Contemporary View, Wilmington, DE: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, →ISBN, page 18:

(uncountable, printing) A style of parallel folding with the folds alternating between front and back; concertina fold.

These charming leporellos are once more available from Australian lBBY. The first batch sold out very quickly. ¶ The leporellos, consisting of ten frames each, with each frame having been designed by some of the world's most famous children's illustrators, may be used as […]

Paper artworks belong in an analagous category, not unrelated to the works of book art. Designer Michael Marschall presents colorfully printed, folded and punched cards and leporellos – prototypes from the field of graphic design.

Mostly these—anonymously manufactured—portfolios were conceived as leporellos with a panoramic view of 360° in twelve images on the front and twelve singular images showing individual edifices on the back. Today, these leporellos often mark the earliest records of the existence of these cities.

2013, Rolf Sachsse, “Architecture”, in John Hannavy, editor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, volumes 1: A–I, Routledge, →ISBN, page 62:

(countable, printing) Any printed material (book, leaflet etc.) having such folds; a concertina.


kabedon

From Japanese 壁ドン (kabedon), from 壁 (kabe, “wall”) + ドン (don, onomatopoeia for a pounding noise).

Pulling a kabedon will freak her out, so don't get pushy...

2016, Kina Kobayashi, translated by Jenny McKeon, Nameless Asterism, volume 3:

Kabedon only works if you're both into each other.

2017, Kei Sasuga, translated by Adam Hirsch, Domestic Girlfriend, volume 13, unnumbered page:

We were presently in an empty classroom during lunch break, and she had me trapped in a truly magnificent kabedon.

2021, Teren Mikami, translated by TNFWIBYLU Translation Team, There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless..., volume 5, unnumbered page:

Do girls really get excited over kabedons?

2021, Kana Nakatsuki, translated by Andria McKnight, Don't Tempt Me, VP!, volume 3, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) The act of placing one hand on a wall or other vertical surface while leaning close to another (usually shorter) person whose back is against the wall/surface.


popcrete

Blend of pop art + concrete, coined by Augusto de Campos; see concrete poem.

(poetry) A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.


double-headed

(film) Synonym of sepmag (“having separately recorded picture and soundtrack”)


superhero landing

superhero landing (plural superhero landings)

Superhero landing. She's gonna do a superhero landing. Wait for it. [...] Whoo! Superhero landing! You know, that's really hard on your knees.

2016, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Deadpool, spoken by Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds):

Then — boom! — Spidey sticks the classic superhero landing.

2016 March 11, David Betancourt, “‘Captain America: Civil War’: How Marvel Studios just saved Spider-Man”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2023-01-01:

After the revelatory seventh episode aired, showcasing Monica’s newfound powers, fans flocked to Twitter to praise her first official superhero landing — a single mighty fist planted firmly on the ground, eyes forward and fierce.

2021 March 3, Leigh-Ann Jackson, “Teyonah Parris Didn’t Get ‘WandaVision’ at First, Either”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2023-01-01:

(comics) An action pose where someone is supported by three limbs — specifically: kneeling with one leg, while only the other foot and one hand are also touching the ground — typically seen when a superhero lands after flying or falling.


tech noir

tech noir (countable and uncountable, plural tech noirs)

Blend of tech (“technology”) + film noir. From the close association of high tech with sci-fi. Folk etymology suggests this was coined by director James Cameron, when he named the dance club in the 1984 film The Terminator "Tech-Noir", and the fandom and critics labelled similar IP properties as "tech noir".

blend

(uncountable, film) A genre of film, science-fiction film-noir cinema.

(uncountable, fiction, by extension) A genre of fiction, thematically like that of the film genre.


exozoology

(science fiction) Synonym of xenozoology (“study of extraterrestrial animals”)


em rule

(typography) Alternative form of em dash


nut dash

From nut + dash to avoid ambiguity when speaking between en dash and em dash.

(typography slang) Alternative form of en dash


mutton dash

From mutton + dash to avoid ambiguity when speaking between en dash and em dash.


en rule

(typography) Alternative form of en dash


poison at the box office

(film, theater) An unappealing play or film that sells very few tickets.


Hong Kong harness

en-noun

Hong Kong harness (plural Hong Kong harnesses)

(film, television) A stunt performance harness, typically used for wire fu, that resembles a rock climber's harness. It allows performers to be jerked up and suspended without much displacement of clothing, and to perform in the air.


pers. comm.

(journalism, bibliography) Abbreviation of personal communication; used by authors to reference personal correspondence in academic referencing.


Graun

That the Graun's effort is part of a coordinated new offensive in that department is pretty conclusively illustrated by […]

2017, Martin Gitlin, When Is Free Speech Hate Speech?, page 134:

(newspapers, humorous) Clipping of Grauniad (“The Guardian newspaper”).


time loop

(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.


PiP

(television) Initialism of picture-in-picture.


heat-ray

In the other cases the shells had missed, and the batteries had been at once annihilated by the Heat-Rays. Heavy losses of soldiers were mentioned[.]

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 125:

(science fiction) A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature.


CGTN

(television) Initialism of China Global Television Network.; a global TV network composed of a group of satellite TV channels, owned by the government of the People's Republic of China; formerly CCTV International.

China Global Television Network

An international English-language TV news channel run by the network, formerly CCTV-9 or CCTV News.


alibi copy

alibi copy (countable and uncountable, plural alibi copies)

(journalism) A copy of a published story and the reporter's notes, which is kept archived in case of legal challenges, etc.


ghost character

ghost character (plural ghost characters)

Beside this detailed information which Hall provides about Matthew Gough, Shakespeare's Gough is a ghost character. There is, indeed, no way in which an audience could pick up who he is when he appears only to be killed immediately.

2003, Catherine M. S. Alexander, The Cambridge Shakespeare Library, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 231:

A ‘ghost’ character is one who is marked as present on stage, but given no lines to speak: many editors consider the inclusion of these characters to be an oversight on the part of the writer or printer, and so remove them from modern stage directions; […]

2010, David Coleman, John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

Joseph A. Porter's discussion of the ‘ghost character’ of Valentine in Romeo and Juliet is also illuminating: Porter describes Valentine as a ‘symptom or by-product of Mercutio's transformation’ from rival lover (in Shakespeare's source) to friend […]

2014, Lena Cowen Orlin, Othello, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 277:

(drama, literature) A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but who does not do anything, and who seems to have no purpose.


dress off

en-verb

dress off (third-person singular simple present dresses off, present participle dressing off, simple past and past participle dressed off)

dresses off (present singular third-person)
dressing off (participle present)
dressed off (participle past)
dressed off (past)

(film) For an actor to position themselves relative to another person or object in a scene.


inky-dinky

You know you cannot get smaller lights than inky-dinkies but when you push one stop, you can use an inky-dinky for key lighting.

2013, Dennis Schaefer, Larry Salvato, Masters of Light, page 323:

A regular package here would give you six pieces of 1K tungsten lights, ten pieces of inky-dinkies, one HMI if you're lucky.

2015, Harriet Margolis, Alexis Krasilovsky, Julia Stein, Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World, page 151:


mimeticist

(art, literature) One who takes a mimetic approach; a proponent of mimesis.


drive-in theatre

en-noun

drive-in theatre (plural drive-in theatres)

(film) A drive-in cinema; Pedantic form of drive-in.


anti-Tom

(literature, historical) Belonging to a class of 19th-century pro-slavery novels and writings in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.


martini shot

In reference to the martini cocktail: after the final shot of the day, the crew can depart for a drink.

(cinematography) The final shot of the day.


block upconverter

block upconverter (plural block upconverters)

(radio communications) An electronic device that converts a band of frequencies from a lower frequency to a higher frequency, used in satellite uplinks.


weremonkey

For quotations using this term, see Citations:weremonkey.

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a monkey.


werelioness

A fact her mortal-purist father discouraged having disclosed was that the great monster-hunting Van Helsings had werelionesses for both a great- grandmother and a great-aunt. This ancestry Jane took great pride in.

2005, Minda Webber, The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing, →ISBN:

Rue was pretty certain Miss Sekhmet would rather keep her identity as a werelioness secret. It was all very well to reveal weremonkeys to the British government but werecats was taking things too far.

2015, Gail Carriger, Prudence, Orbit, →ISBN:

A lanky werelioness with black, spiky hair—and two semiautomatic pistols in holsters that formed an X on her chest— sprawled in a chair outside the door. Ari raised an eyebrow, but the sight wasn't entirely unexpected.

2015, Ally Shields, Eternal Fires, Etopia Press, →ISBN:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between lioness and human form.


cinephobia

Straud/Hulliet's insistence upon the use of direct sound ... is a very radical example of ... "cinephobia, a revulsion against the commercial film industry and its standard product, the fictional narrative film" (Elsaesser 1996, 25)[.]

2001, C. M. White, Gender and the German Autumn:

(film) The fear or hatred of films and the cinema.


haikuish

en-adj

haikuish (comparative more haikuish, superlative most haikuish)

more haikuish (comparative)
most haikuish (superlative)

(poetry) Resembling or characteristic of haiku; haikulike.


haikuist

(poetry) A person who writes haiku; a haiku poet.


robodroid

The police authorities and the press portray them as modern-day robodroids, programmed to kill their own people—"black-on-black crime ...

Mona: They've sent to the robodroids to soften us up! Run!

1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a)

All the robodroids had followed his command and shut themselves down.

2018, Rhoda Belleza, Blood of a Thousand Stars, Penguin, →ISBN, page 141:

(science fiction, rare) A droid; a robot.


telecording

en-noun

telecording (countable and uncountable, plural telecordings)

The tendency is towards more and more pre-recorded material, employing either telecording or video recording, and whatever one's views may be towards this trend it is more often than not a necessity in the field of agrarian information.

1962, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 71, page 24:


ecocinema

The academic scholarship on both Wildboyz and Green Porno has been virtually nonexistent heretofore […]. When it comes to Wildboyz, one could attribute this treatment to the program’s youthful intended audience or its general lack of sophistication. But those same features have not stopped ecocritics, ecocinema scholars, or other academics from writing about children’s environmental programming, environmentally themed animation, […]

2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 77:

(film) A branch of filmmaking and film criticism dealing with the representation of the environment in film.


macroverse

Coordinate term: microverse

(science fiction) A macroscale universe.


microverse

Coordinate term: macroverse

(science fiction) A microscale universe.


Andersonian

(film) Of or pertaining to Lindsay Anderson (1923–1994), British film and theatre director and film critic.

At other points, the film suggests the motive is financial, depicting the Kobayashi clan as staging an industrial coup of sorts, like a quirky Andersonian take on the zaibatsu (a term for the family-controlled business monopolies that dominated Japan until the end of World War II).

2018 March 31, Nina Li Coomes, “Unpacking the Fictional Japan of ‘Isle of Dogs’”, in The Atlantic:

(film) Of or pertaining to Wes Anderson (born 1969), American film director, producer, and writer.


memetic hazard

Warning. Unidentified object. Warning. Unknown hazard. Possible radiation hazard. Possible biohazard. Possible memetic hazard.

2008 July 18, Sam Hughes, “halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones”, in Fine Structure, retrieved 2020-08-31:

(caution: TV Tropes is a recognized memetic hazard. Don't click the link unless you have a high resistance to interesting things and/or a day or two of spare time to kill)

2009 December 22, Bryan Derksen, “The old "Galactic Federation" meme”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet), message-ID <8HhYm.116799$gg6.81292@newsfe25.iad>:


infohazard

Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard.

A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.

[2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:

If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an "infohazard" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.

2019 August 28, Fletcher Wortmann, “Infohazard Warning: How Internal Memes Infect Your Brain”, in Triggered, Psychology Today, retrieved 2020-08-31:

(chiefly science fiction) A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.


Langford's basilisk

Langford's basilisk (plural Langford's basilisks)

After an object in David Langford's short story "BLIT".

Dead easy: the ones who watched it all died. (Invoke Langford's Basilisk if you need a real reason.)

2002 February 27, Charles Stross, “What to throw in?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <slrna7qjct.sdj.charlie@raq981.uk2net.com.antipope.org>:

The technical term is "Langford basilisk". I expect the real deal would induce nothing more permanent than an inconveniently-timed reboot, if it can even exist.

2013 December 29, RecArtsSfPolicyWonk, “What Did You Watch? 2013-12-29 (Saturday)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), message-ID <w3nrp8vuk7cz.m05n26piatio$.dlg@40tude.net>:

(science fiction) An image which causes insanity or death on viewing.


dormantory

(science fiction) A cryogenic warehouse for storing people in suspended animation.


split screen shot

split screen shot (plural split screen shots)

(film) A scene in which the frame is split into two or more frames each with their own subject, often taking place simultaneously.


asteronym

From Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + -onym.

In this work Mr. Quérard treats of all persons who have written in French, in all parts of Europe, and have disguised themselves under anagrams, asteronyms, cryptonyms, initials, literary names, pseudonyms, facetious or strange, etc.

1871 June, “Anonymous and Pseudonymous Authors and Works”, in The National Quarterly Review, volume 23, number 45, New York: Edward I. Sears, page 48:

(typography, rare) An asterism (⁂) or similar symbol which replaces the name of the author in a literary work.

astéronyme

asterism or similar symbol which replaces the name of the author in a literary work


simworld

(science fiction) A simulated world, as in virtual reality or cyberspace.


cough and a spit

Ray Wise managed his back-to-black-hair role before joining Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts and James Marshall squeezed in his cough and a spit between Gladiator and joining the big boys (Nicholson, Cruise) in A Few Good Men […]

Everybody gargling madly and mugging up their lines as though Shakespeare himself was out front. Don't know why I bothered, I only had a cough and a spit.

1998, Ken Whitmore, Alfred Bradley, The Final Twist: A Play, page 20:


dual-frequency

(radio communications) Able to receive and operate on two different radio frequencies.


helionaut

IIRC from the director's commentary the name was chosen to add a bit of humility to the mission, lest the helionauts get too cocky about their cutting edge technology.

2008 January 10, Jared, “Re: SUNSHINE (no spoilers)”, in rec.arts.movies.current-films (Usenet):

(science fiction, rare) Someone who travels to the Sun; an explorer of the Sun.


reverse out

en-verb

reverse out (third-person singular simple present reverses out, present participle reversing out, simple past and past participle reversed out)

reverses out (present singular third-person)
reversing out (participle present)
reversed out (participle past)
reversed out (past)

(printing, transitive) To print with reversed colours, i.e. black for white and vice versa.


on stun

Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:

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(science fiction) An intensity setting of the fictional phaser energy weapon, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69), which non-lethally stuns its target.


type color

(typography) A measure of how dense, bold or heavy the text appears on the page.


respeaker

(television) One who repeats the words of a televised person so that they can be electronically recognised and used to generate subtitles.


doha

(poetry) A form of self-contained rhyming couplet in Hindi poetry.


variable font

(typography) A digital font whose design features can be freely adjusted in a cline via the manipulation of various axes, such as the "weight axis" or "height axis".


astonisher

1874, The American Observer, New Series, Volume 1, “Rejoinder,” p. 525,
“ […] Nothing whatever” ! (the italics are “S. S. C.’s,” the “astonisher” is mine.)

1947, Stewart Holbrook, The Story of American Railroads, American Legacy Press, 1981, Chapter 39, p. 443,
More often than not these prophets […] belong to the oh-the-wonder-of-it-all school, who point to the sky as the new and sole artery of travel and transportation and marvel, in complete awe—which they indicate by running over with astonishers!—at the thought of monstrous planes hauling the freight and passengers of the nation, even of the world.

1984, Richard Hauer Costa, “The Grisly Graphics of Malcolm Lowry” in Gordon Bowker and Paul Tiessen (eds.), Proceedings of the London Conference on Malcolm Lowry, Goldsmith’s College, University of London and The Malcolm Lowry Review, Wilfrid Laurier University, p. 100,
An ad for a boxing match can symbolize the uncommunicable, with its curious shape-of-the-type configurations—¡BOX!, with the ‘astonisher’ written upside down before the word and right side up after.

(typography, printing, computing, chiefly US) An exclamation mark, the punctuation mark “!”.

(typography, journalism, chiefly US) A short line of smaller type above (or sometimes below) the main headline of an article, usually placed flush-left.

He reveled in socking the reader right in the eye with an “astonisher.”

1969, Shandy Hill, chapter 17, in Dear Sir: You Cur, Philadelphia: Whitmore Publishing, page 119:

(journalism) A headline or lead (introductory paragraph) designed to capture attention through a surprising statement.


black and burst

(television) An analogue composite video signal with a black picture, used as a reference signal to synchronise timings.


redemption arc

(literature) A story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings (or wherein readers perceive them as having done so).


WQHD

There has been speculation that the Galaxy S5 might include new technologies like an eye scanner that would allow the phone to identify its owner, or a so-called Quad HD, or WQHD, display, with ultra-high resolution.

[2014 February 5, Eric Pfanner, “Samsung Reins In the Theatrics for Galaxy S5”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(television) Initialism of wide quad high definition (“2560×1440 pixels”).


QHD

Abbreviation
* (quad HD): Four (quad) times as many pixels as HD (1280×720).

(television) Initialism of quad high definition (“2560×1440 pixels”).


abhuman

(science fiction) A partially human creature.


murder mystery

en-noun

murder mystery (plural murder mysteries)

(fiction) A subgenre of crime fiction in which characters must investigate and solve a murder.


cum swapping

Another relatively new twist is "cum swapping," where a woman passes the semen into the mouth of another woman.

2010, Gail Dines, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 18:

This might include giving a man a handjob and smearing his cum on his face, or it might involve forcing a man to lick his creampie out a woman's vagina or ass. Similar and related activities include snowballing and cum swapping, as well as women humiliating men through the use of other men's semen such as might take place in some cuckolding situations.

2017, Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray, Thomas Foth, Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines, Routledge, →ISBN, page 203:

But really, a threesome without cum swapping is... well, it’s like a tuna sandwich without the mayo. Sure it was fine, but something felt missing.

2020 June 14, Christine Stevens, “Girls Guide to Cum Swapping”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2020-10-15:

(vulgar, sexology, pornography) A practice (typically in pornography) in which a person passes semen from their mouth into another person's mouth.

Snowballing (sexual practice)#Cum swapping


plastiglass

(science fiction) A clear material combining the characteristics of plastic and glass.


postsync

en-verb

postsync (third-person singular simple present postsyncs, present participle postsyncing or postsynching, simple past and past participle postsynced or postsynched)

postsyncs (present singular third-person)
postsyncing (participle present)
postsynching (participle present)
postsynced (participle past)
postsynced (past)
postsynched (participle past)
postsynched (past)


slaughterbot

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(science fiction) Synonym of killbot (“robot designed for killing”)


hand-basher

(television, slang) A small hand-held light used to illuminate specific areas.


out of rack

(film) Misaligned so that partial frames are seen on screen instead of the proper projection.


overcrank

overcrank (third-person singular simple present overcranks, present participle overcranking, simple past and past participle overcranked)

overcranks (present singular third-person)
overcranking (participle present)
overcranked (participle past)
overcranked (past)

From over- + crank; dating from a time when film was advanced in a camera by the turning of a crank.

(film) To shoot a scene while advancing the film in the camera more quickly than it will advance on playback. This results in slowing down the action in the final film.


overmatter

Casting off is estimating the number of words in a manuscript. Copy fitting is assessing how much space text will take up in a printed document. Both are important in ensuring that you do not end up with pages of overmatter.

2005, Alan Pipe, Production for Graphic Designers, page 48:

(printing) Typeset material that proves to be surplus to requirements.


Obie

Named after the actress Merle Oberon, whose husband Lucien Ballard used this kind of lighting to hide small scars on her face after a car accident.

(television, film) A small lamp positioned over the camera, sometimes used to produce catchlights in the subject's eyes.


terrorsploitation

“London Has Fallen – into a pit of manure.” Hollywood’s latest take on the War on Terror has been condemned by critics as a racist “terrorsploitation” fantasy designed to spread fear after the Paris attacks.

2016 March 6, Adam Sherwin, “London Has Fallen movie condemned as racist 'terrorsploitation' for Donald Trump era”, in The Independent:

In fact, in structure, theme, and success, American Sniper isn’t so much a war film as a terrorsploitation shoot-em-up. Forget Billy Lynn; closer analogues are the television show 24 or London Has Fallen (2016).

2016 November 21, Noah Berlatsky, “Hollywood's war on terror: why audiences prefer gung-ho Iraq films”, in The Guardian:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focused on terrorism or terrorist attacks, often provoking fear.


biosuit

(science fiction) A protective suit that enhances or monitors the wearer's biological functions.


vidiscreen

(science fiction) Alternative form of vidscreen


holodisplay

(science fiction) A holographic display.


hephthemimeral

(poetry) Of or relating to a hephthemimer.


straight r

[…] completely informed about the decisions made and the reasons to make them, e.g. r rotunda does not figure in the transcription as the use of straight r and r rotunda is governed by the preceding character and thus completely predictable.

1989, Arend Quak, Florus (Floor) Rhee, Palaeogermanica et onomastica., Rodopi, page 3

And certain geminated consonants are represented by capitals : ɢ, ɴ, ʀ, ꜱ. Does a form like haʀ mean a long r, or is it a scribal habit on the level of the usage of r rotunda, not straight r, after round letters? The occurrence of forms with -rr […]

2000, Anna A. Grotans, Heinrich Beck, Anton Schwob, De consolatione philogiae: studies in honor of Evelyn S. Firchow, volume 2, page 624:

The distinction between r rotunda and straight r has not been kept in the transcription, as the usage of r rotunda is predictable from the preceding character: r rotunda is used after round letters.

2017, Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, A Grammar of Möðruvallabók, BRILL, →ISBN, page 11:

(typography) The usual form of the letter r (which is r), as contrasted with r rotunda (ꝛ).


lap dissolve

(film) A dissolve from one image or scene to another.


new adult

Coordinate term: young adult

(literature, often attributive) A genre of fiction intended to be marketed to people ages 18 to 30, focusing on issues such as leaving home, developing sexuality, and negotiating education and career choices.


avant-texte

(literature) The study of a written work by analyzing the process of composition, including prior manuscripts, rough drafts, etc.


plastoid

(science fiction) A plastic-like material.


(Canada, US, journalism) Indicates the end of a story, article, or press release that is submitted for editing and typesetting.


Latin lover

I began to consider the contradictions in these descriptions: that although Mastroianni, as commodity, was often marketed as the quintessential Italian man, his characters betrayed instead a much more conflicting image of Italian masculinity than the category of Latin lover allowed.

2008, Krin Gabbard, William Luhr, Screening Genders, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 49:

(film) A stereotype of a passionate and attractive male of Latin or Romance European origin.


timegate

(science fiction) A portal enabling time travel.


skip printing

Coordinate term: stretch printing

(film) The process of removing certain frames of a film so that it can be played back at a lower frames-per-second rate without the action seeming too slow.


station time

(broadcasting) The period during which a television or radio station can air its own local content, rather than material provided by the network.


stretch printing

Coordinate term: skip printing

(film) The process of duplicating certain frames of a film so that it can be played back at a higher frames-per-second rate without the action seeming too fast.


Antiqua

en-noun

Antiqua (countable and uncountable, plural Antiquas)

From Latin antīqua, feminine of antīquus.

The Tiemann antiqua of 1909 was a real success, however, and has found favour in England. The companion italic, the Tiemann kursiv is an even more handsome letter. Klingspor’s recent antiquas also include a highly successful character designed by Peter Behrens in 1914. The latest creation is an antiqua cut by Rudolph Koch.

1923, Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson, A Brief Survey of Printing: History and Practice, page 36:

The early letters of this kind have been classified as Transitional, implying that in their development they lay between the Antiquas and the Moderns; but when one looks at the free individualism of the street names of Bath, 25 and 26, it is obviously inappropriate nomenclature and only English will do.

1980, Jock Kinneir, Words and Buildings: The Art and Practice of Public Lettering, →ISBN, page 36:

Class VI Sanserifs is just as disorganized. Here, pure Antiquas are grouped with sanserif and classical typefaces. Moreover, there are Humanist styles and other partly-constructed sanserif styles that are meant chiefly for display purposes. / Class VII Display Antiquas can easily be regarded as a catch-all class simply from its name.

1994, Karl H. Warkentin, “16. Classifying Typefaces according to DIN”, in Peter Karow, editor, Font Technology: Methods and Tools, →ISBN, “Summary”, page 356:

A style of typeface used to mimic styles of handwriting or calligraphy common during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Any typeface with serifs and modulation (often as opposed to Gothic).


hard R

Sugar Cookies would probably rate a 'hard-R' today, but six years ago it got an X, made a brief appearance on the 42nd Street porno circuit, and disappeared without a trace.

1979 January 11, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, “Sugar Cookies”, in Program archive:

For a "soft R" like "Four Weddings and a Funeral," which features a smattering of profanity, a theater might check identifications only lightly. But it will turn tough for a "hard R" like Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers," one of the most violent movies of recent years.

1996 February 18, Trip Gabriel, “The Ratings Game At the Cineplex”, in The New York Times, page Section 2, Page 1:

I believe we'll hear later from the movie industry's lobbyist, Mr. Valenti, that not all "R"s are really "R"s. More specifically, and I quote from Mr. Valenti's written testimony: "Some R-rated are hard "R"s and some are soft "R"s."

2003, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Marketing Violence to Children: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, September 13, 2000, page 51:

A HARD R rating would seem to be between “R” — which has meant restricted to adults, because of various elements — and “NC-17.”

2018 July 28, Caitlin Lovinger, “Three in One; Will Nediger’s puzzle breaks it down for us, in a funny way.”, in DAILY CROSSWORD COLUMN, The New York Times:

(US, film) a movie that is intentionally written to be R-rated ("Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.") by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), typically due to having multiple scenes of violence or nudity.


fake Shemp

Coined by film director Sam Raimi in reference to Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed.

(film) A person who appears disguised in a film as a replacement for another actor or person.


techno-orientalism

The origins of the cyberpunk genre involve Western anxieties about the East. Techno-orientalism is the use of Asian aesthetics in cyberpunk, futuristic, and dystopian settings.

2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(science fiction) Use of Asian aesthetics and cultural elements in Western works of science fiction.


antitragic

en-adj

antitragic (comparative more antitragic, superlative most antitragic)

more antitragic (comparative)
most antitragic (superlative)

(literature) Challenging the conventions of tragedy.


socioengineer

There will be massive campsite development for X number of campers that some socioengineer has computed will be screaming for tent pads with hot water and electricity in 1980.

At this point, enter the socioengineer — the new breed of technologist with social concerns and a liberal education to match his technical competence, the specially equipped engineer who tackles the massive problems of society […]

1970, Professional Engineer, volume 40, page 37:

'You were a socioengineer, before you dropped dead,' he said bluntly. 'You'll confirm what I say. It seems to me that the Xeelee war or wars were no more than still another ghastly, epochal error of mankind. […]

(rare, sometimes science fiction) A social engineer, one who uses scientific data to influence social attitudes and behaviors.


New French Extremity

(film) A transgressive group of films by French directors at the turn of the 21st century, having themes of sex, violence, and mental derangement.


beatscript

(cinematography) A visual adjunct to a screenplay


dead spot

(cinematography) A part of a scene that has insufficient lighting.


ticking clock

(writing) A literary device in which the protagonist has a strict time limit, used to heighten tension.


busted pilot

Another would-be series dealing with stock car racing—this a live-action one—was a busted pilot in 1962 for ABC called Tack Reynolds. It starred Michael Parks as a hot-dogging driver.

2008, Alvin H. Marill, Sports on Television, page 40:

His television luck ran out with two unsuccessful comedy series and no less than three busted pilots.

2017, Everett Aaker, Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary, page 1995:

(television) A pilot that fails to be developed into a series.


on a bell

[…] and putting the set "on a bell," the First Assistant Director will call "Roll 'em!"

1970, Michael Pate, The Film Actor: Acting for Motion Pictures and Television, page 30:

When the beauty team departs the set, the AD will say, “Let's go on a bell.” A bell sounds throughout the stage, and […]

2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story, page 184:

(film) Warned by the ringing of a bell to remain silent during a period of shooting.


jail bars

(television) A display fault in which the picture is disrupted by evenly-spaced vertical bands.


retro-noir

en-noun

retro-noir (countable and uncountable, plural retro-noirs)

(film, uncountable) A subgenre that closely imitates or recreates the aesthetics and tropes of the classical noirs.

(countable, film) A work that closely imitates the classical noirs.


crab dolly

In reference to the sideways motion of a crab.

(film) A camera dolly whose front wheels steer in the same direction as the rear wheels.


back anno

Back annos may take a very simple form such as a name check of the last voice heard on the package and stations have been known to ban their use on the basis that anything in the radio text that looks back at what has been said is redundant communication.

2002, Pete Wilby, The Radio Handbook, page 136:

The 'landing' is the back anno, which is the follow-up to the item, and which leads the listeners smoothly from the item and back into the rest of the programme ready for some more signposting, an ident or some music, perhaps, […]

2013, Guy Starkey, Radio in Context, page 131:

(radio, informal) An announcement at the end of a broadcast item and relating back to that item.


Brat Pack

(informal, film, historical) A group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s.

Introduced as the bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz and other chroniclers of young Reagan-era angst, Mr. Ellis has achieved over the last 20 years a level of notoriety and acclaim that has eluded most of his peers.

2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal, literature, historical) A group of young authors who emerged on the East Coast in the 1980s.


Production Code

From 1930 to 1956 the Production Code's sixth regulation on matters of “sex” boldly declared: “Miscegenation (sex relationship between the white and black races) is forbidden.”

2005, Susan Courtney, Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 103:

Motion Picture Production Code
w:Motion Picture Production Code

(film, historical, 1930–1968) Ellipsis of Motion Picture Production Code.


shooting ratio

(film, television) The ratio between the total duration of footage created for possible use in a project and the duration used in the final cut.


showprint

(film) A release print made directly from the original camera negative rather than an internegative.


shoot around

en-verb

shoot around (third-person singular simple present shoots around, present participle shooting around, simple past and past participle shot around)

shoots around (present singular third-person)
shooting around (participle present)
shot around (participle past)
shot around (past)

Pressured to deliver his film on time and within budget, Asher finally refused to give in to another of Cummings' demands. The irked actor stormed off the set. Bill shot around him for the rest of the day but then had to approach his unhappy star.

2015, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969:

(film, television) To record footage in the absence of (one of the actors), with the intention of editing in their sequences at a later stage.


phone-out

Coordinate term: phone-in

(broadcasting) An event in which a person is telephoned from the studio for an interview.


FHD

(television) Initialism of full high definition (“1920×1080 pixels”).


CNTV

(television) Initialism of China Network Television.: a global internet-based television network, owned by the government of the People's Republic of China, using content from CCTV.


cpp

(typography) Initialism of character(s) per pica.


rough cut

From the early days of filmmaking when film stock was physically cut and reassembled.

Coordinate term: fine cut

(film) The second of three stages of offline editing of a film, recognizable as a conventional film but having notable defects such as incomplete narrative flow and missing visual or sound effects.


fairness doctrine

(US, broadcasting, historical) A policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949 and abolished in 1987, requiring the holders of broadcast licenses (i) to present controversial issues of public importance and (ii) to do so in an honest, equitable and balanced manner.


rolling spider

(film) A kind of spider (support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding) with lockable wheels allowing it to be moved around easily when needed.


Common

Both princesses spoke Common well enough. Soon we realized that they knew each other.

2011, Elizabeth Moon, Kings of the North, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 395:

universal language
universal language#Noun

(science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.


Puckian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Puck.


autodyne

(radio, historical) A circuit that improved radio signal amplification by means of an audion.


manga mark

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

Compound of manga + mark. Compare Japanese 漫符(まんぷ) (manpu, “manga icon”).

Cultural learning experiences are required to understanding manga''' marks. For example, adults of Botswana interpreted a sweat mark used in Western comics as blood, rain, and tears (Byram and Garforth, 1980).

2006, David Shwalb, Jun Nakazawa, Barbara J. Shwalb, Applied Developmental Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan, page 29:

In a previous preliminary experiment, we determined facial expressions for the robot KOBIAN-R with manga marks. Those expressions included four manga marks as “Cross popping veins” for “Anger”, “Tear mark” for “Sadness”, “Vertical lines” for “Fear” and “Wrinkle” for “Disgust”.

2014, Tatsuhiro Kishi, Hajime Futaki, Gabriele Trovato, Nobutsuna Endo, A Robotic Head that Displays Japanese “Manga” Marks:

Nakazawa (2005b) asked the meaning of the twelve manga''' marks to a sample of kindergartners, first-, fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-graders. Understanding of manga''' marks progressed along with grade level (Figure 7.2)

2016, Jun Nakazawa, “Manga literacy and manga comprehension in Japanese children”, in Neil Cohn, editor, The Visual Narrative Reader, page 248:

The comprehensive techniques that composes manga is immature. But there is a very high expressiveness in some aspects, such as the creation of a face viewed from the front and the expression of expressions using manga marks.

2020, Kurobokuya, Kurobokuya manga lesson 4:

(cartooning, manga, anime) A cartoon icon; a symbol used to indicate emotion, movement, etc. in a drawing; especially one used in or associated with Japanese-style manga.


HDRI

en-noun

HDRI (countable and uncountable, plural HDRIs)

(photography, videography, uncountable) Initialism of high dynamic range imaging.

(photography, videography, countable) Initialism of high dynamic range image.


Chaucerianism

/tʃɔːˈsɪəɹɪ.ənɪzəm/

/t͡ʃɔˈsɪɹi.ənɪzəm/


uruisg

(European folklore, mythology) A brownie in Scottish folklore.


Caslon

Caslon or Garamond or Baskerville is shouted as the compositors search for as many cases of these types as can be found.

2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 381:

(typography) Any of the serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work.


focus puller

(cinematography) A member of a film crew whose primary responsibility is to maintain the camera lens' optical focus on whatever subject or action is being filmed.


Struldbrug

From "Struldbrug", the name given to a fictional race of senile immortals inhabiting the island of Luggnagg who are legally declared dead at the age of 80 and continue to age, coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

It might be thought a precedent, and he would not like it; he who is to inherit the place when that old Struldbrug, Gotham, is withered and cast away, when that old log is so barnacle-bored as to be worthless.

1887 April 9, Sabine Baring-Gould, “Richard Cable, the Lightshipman”, in Chambers's Journal, volume 4, number 171, page 229:

Antique memorial, exiled to Egypt's shame, Forlorn Struldbrug! why should we covet thee?

1892, Donizetti Muller, Links from Broken Chains, page 64:

To me he is, like the greater number of classics in all ages and countries, a literary Struldbrug, rather than a true ambrosia-fed immortal.

1908, Samuel Butler, Essays on Life, Art, and Science, page 32:

(literature) Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead.


Houyhnhnm

Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as a humorous, onomatopoeic play on the sound made by horses.

I retain in my Mind the Lectures and Example of my noble Maſter and the other illuſtrious Houyhnhnms of whom I had ſo long the Honour to be an humble Hearer.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Veracity. His Design in Publishing this Work. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), pages 340–341:

"The Squire says you know a good deal about horses, so I suppose you understand the Houyhnhnm language? I'm learning it, and it is very nice," laughed Miss Celia, as Chevalita gave a little whinny and snuffled her nose into Ben's pocket.

1878, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 7, in Under the Lilacs:

”The moment he called me his ‘gentle and reasonable Houyhnhnm,’” an archivist notes, “I should have known that the man was deranged.”

1995 February 19, Marilyn Stasio, “What to Read: Crime”, in New York Times, retrieved 2021-03-03:

Certainly the philosopher was not a pessimistic luncheon companion. He […] loped off in the direction of the London Library, leaving me with an impression of twinkling eyes, laughter lines (he whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm), and a sensibility genuinely focused on what will happen in the next five minutes - or five years - albeit one steeped in knowledge of the past.

2014 January 28, Will Self, “John Gray: Forget everything you know”, in Independent, retrieved 2021-03-03:

(fiction) One of a fictional race of exceptionally civilized creatures, who look exactly like horses, inhabiting the same land as the brutish Yahoos.


incubatorium

The place is an incubatorium where hybrid fetuses are nourished. In the climactic episode, an extractor is inserted in her vagina to withdraw an unusually well-developed fetus that has gestated three or four months.

2012, Allan Mazur, Implausible Beliefs: In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs, page 136:

(science fiction) A place where fetuses are stored in a state of incubation.


diiambic

(poetry) In or relating to the diiambus meter.


reverse contrast

(typography) Having stroke thickness that is on an axis contrary to convention.

ファンテール体 (fantēru-tai, literally “fantail script”)


shoot and protect

(film) The technique of shooting material in such a way that the areas of interest lie within a rectangular "protected area" within the frame, ensuring that nothing significant is lost when converting to different aspect ratios.


Pencourt

(UK, journalism) Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtiour collectively.


wishing cap

(fiction) A hat or cap that magically lets the wearer's wishes come true


microgenic

(broadcasting, of a voice) Suitable for use with a microphone (and thus for broadcasting)


rhyming couplet

rhyming couplet (plural rhyming couplets)

On one level, the joy of the film is its rhyming couplet commentary, written by the late Paul le Saux and read alternately by Howard Marion Crawford and Alan Wheatley, which adds rhythmic pace to the already fast-paced editing.

2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 43:

(literature) Two successive rhyming lines of verse, usually of the same length.


VET

VET (countable and uncountable, plural VETs)

(broadcasting, countable) Initialism of video editing terminal.


soft-dotted

(computing, typography) Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.


copytaking

(journalism, historical) The work of a copytaker, typing up news stories telephoned in by reporters.


Vazimba

(folklore) The first inhabitants of Madagascar, generally described as small in stature.


ESU

ESU (countable and uncountable, plural ESUs)

(broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of electronic setup.

(broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of engineering setup.


SIP

(publishing) Acronym of single-issue publication.


master copy

(publishing, printing) The copy that serves as the controlling (master) version among a set of copies (as, for example, the master proof to which edits from the authors' proofs are transferred, or an analogous master manuscript with transferred edits).


mastercopy

en-verb

mastercopy (third-person singular simple present mastercopies, present participle mastercopying, simple past and past participle mastercopied)

mastercopies (present singular third-person)
mastercopying (participle present)
mastercopied (participle past)
mastercopied (past)

(transitive, intransitive, publishing, printing) To transfer edits to a master copy from various stakeholders' copies (as for example with multiple authors and editors).


Intertype

(printing, historical) A typecasting machine closely resembling the linotype, and using the same matrices.


fulldive

From a fictional technology in the Japanese light novel and anime Sword Art Online.

Experts say it will take at least another ten years before we create real fulldive technology.

(science fiction) Virtual reality technology that inputs sensory data directly into a user's brain (especially when the brain may also act upon the technology)


Trimalchio

(fiction) A wealthy freedman in the 1st century CE Roman work of fiction Satyricon.


Jupiterian

(chiefly science fiction, rare) An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.


carisack

Pulling a little carrisack from his pack, he began to fill it with small but essential pieces of his Wyvern's survival kit.

2014, Scott Ashby, Assignment to Earth, page 82:

Beside her the men left a soft tube of nutrient gel and a carisack of water.

2016, Elizabeth Moon, Rules of Engagement:

She fished in her carisack for drops, then tilted her head back to administer them.

2017, Maggie Lynch, Eternity: Virus Wars:

(science fiction) A bag for carrying things.


typeform

Once these important ingredients were ready, ink was spread over the raised letters of the typeform. The flat surface, called a platen, was then slowly lowered, pressing well-moistened paper against the relief surface.

1987, Robert Woods, Printing and Production for Promotional Materials, page 36:

(printing, historical) The part of a printing press which holds the type, and against which the platen is pressed.


troll cat

(folklore) In Scandinavian folklore, a witch's familiar made from hair, wood shavings, etc. that would suck milk from cows and steal cream from people's homes.


Helvetica

Borrowed from Latin helvētica (“Swiss”).

The famous double arrow emerged at this time, as did the new Rail Alphabet typeface (basically slightly altered Helvetica) that it still used today for station names and signposts, [...].

2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 46:

(typography) A popular and influential sans-serif typeface.


hair in the gate

en-noun

hair in the gate (countable and uncountable, plural hairs in the gate)

(film) Dirt, debris, or slivers of emulsion in the aperture of a camera or projector.


second team

(film) The stand-ins used for setting up a shot, as opposed to the first team of actors who will actually appear in the filmed scene.


film horse

In addition there is a reel holder known as a 'film horse' which consists of a pair of upright arms spaced so that a roll of film can be located on a simple spindle between them, with or without spool. The base is generally made of heavy metal […]

1959, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, AGARDograph (issue 33, page 77)

Position a film horse on the left hand side and free unbent split spools on a rewind arm on the right.

1976, John Burder, 16mm Film Cutting, page 86:

(film) A device for holding rolls of film during editing.


CGJ

combining grapheme joiner
w:combining grapheme joiner

(computing, typography) Initialism of combining grapheme joiner.


paintpot

[…] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.

2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 390:

(dated, television) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image.


space work

(acting) The skill of handling imaginary objects and locations as part of a performance, especially in improv acting.


sustaining program

sustaining program (plural sustaining programs)

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


fluff one's lines

en-verb

fluff one's lines (third-person singular simple present fluffs one's lines, present participle fluffing one's lines, simple past and past participle fluffed one's lines)

fluffs one's lines (present singular third-person)
fluffing one's lines (participle present)
fluffed one's lines (participle past)
fluffed one's lines (past)

(drama) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: To stumble over or otherwise misspeak one's lines.


diagonalizer

(radio) A device that diagonalizes the branches of radio antenna in order to reduce fading


punctus flexus

From Medieval Latin pūnctus flexus (literally “bent mark”).

bor

In the sacerdotal prayers in col. a the punctuation is by punctus flexus, punctus elevatus and punctus.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Plates and Commentaries, page 197:

Very few cases show the use of the punctus flexus for minor medium pauses.

2007, Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research, volume 51, St. Louis University Library, page 230:

After all, it was the revision of the Cistercian liturgy that helped facilitate the widespread use of positurae, particularly the punctus flexus and punctus elevatus.

2015, Benjamin Pohl, Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation and Memory, York Medieval Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 19:

punctus circumflexus
punctus circumflexus#English

(palaeography) Synonym of punctus circumflexus


punctus versus

From Medieval Latin pūnctus versus (literally “facing mark”).

[…]moreover by turning the punctus after fiant into a punctus versus, he has repointed the two verses as a single sententia.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Influences on The Application of Punctuation, page 74:

Thus the basic punctuation marks used in English manuscripts of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries are: the simple point, the punctus elevatus, the punctus versus, and the punctus interrogativus.

2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, edited by Akio Oizumi and Jacek Fisiak, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:

[…]the punctus versus is used at the close of the sentence and after words introducing direct speech[…]

2015 December 23, Mary P. Richards, editor, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 387:

(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark marking the end of a sentence (approximately ;)


punctus elevatus

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɛləˈvɑːtəs/

From Medieval Latin pūnctus ēlevātus (literally “raised mark”).

The punctus elevatus after consecuto ('followed') not only distinguishes more sharply between the present state of revelation and the historical process by which it was achieved but emphasizes the relationship between them as one of cause and-effect.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Influences on The Application of Punctuation, page 71:

[…]manuscript punctuation has a punctus elevatus after the interjections and a punctus interrogativus at the end of the sentence.

2000, Jane Roberts, Janet Laughland Nelson, editors, Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy, King's College (University of London), →ISBN, page 537:

The point and punctus elevatus are used within the sentence.

(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark indicating a medium-length pause (approximately ⸵).


punctus interrogativus

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɒɡəˈtiːvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɒɡəˈtaɪvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəˈɹɒɡətɪvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɑɡəˈtivəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɑɡəˈtaɪvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəˈɹɑɡətɪvəs/

From Medieval Latin pūnctus interrogātīvus (“question mark”).

punctus percontativus A reversed, but not inverted punctus interrogativus […] used in the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate the end of a percontatio.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Glossary, pages 306–307:

[…]although none of these happend to have occasion to use the punctus interrogativus.

(palaeography) A medieval question mark, ⟨⹔⟩, possibly the ancestor of the modern mark ⟨?⟩.


punctus circumflexus

From Medieval Latin pūnctus circumflexus (literally “bent-around mark”).

[…]MS. Bodley 340, going back to an early form of the text, has confused indications that such was intended: after 'þa' it has a punctus circumflexus[…]

1953, Occasional Papers, volume 3, University of Cambridge, page 10:

There was an entirely separate set of marks to coach the raising and lowering of the voice in oral delivery -- including the punctus elevatus, the punctus interrogotivus^([sic]), and the punctus circumflexus.

2004, George D. Gopen, The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader's Perspective, Pearson Longman, →ISBN, page 170:

The punctus circumflexus does not seem to have been used commonly in manuscripts of other than liturgical texts.

(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark indicating a short pause (approximately '̣).


multinegative

(photography, printing) An array of several negatives to be printed together by photolithography


multipositive

(photography, printing) An array of several positive images to be printed together by photolithography


master shot

(film) A film recording of an entire dramatized scene, from start to finish, from a camera angle that keeps all the players in view.


glass shot

Glass shots are possibly the simplest of special effects. The technique involved placing a glass several feet in front of the camera and in effect painting over the area of the scene that must be changed.

2009, James Monaco, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond, page 149:

(film) The shooting of a scene with part of the background painted on glass rather than constructed as an actual set.


ESG

en-noun

ESG (countable and uncountable, plural ESGs)

sports gathering
sports gathering#English

(broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of electronic sports gathering.


corner bracket

(typography) Either of a pair of symbols, 「 」, used as quotation marks in some languages.


cutter and paster

cutter and paster (plural cutters and pasters)

She's a great cutter and paster; she can get half the magazine done in a week.

The editor as cutter and paster has brought together an unpretentious assemblage of literary elements: a chronological survey of Latin (what is it? ' writings', or 'readings'? literature, history, apologetics? satire...

1959, American Comparative Literature Association et al, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, page 75:

(informal, journalism) An editor who cuts and pastes or copies and pastes text, stories, pictures, etc. to be published.


limbo set

Get the best actors you can find, make sure they know their lines, and rehearse them over and over again. Choose inexpensive “real” locations over limbo sets with limited props and borrowed furniture.

2012, Nick Iuppa, Terry Borst, Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches, page 180:

The room existed only as a still photograph, and the Actor playing old Adolf was in fact walking around on a limbo set. But it was all done in real time, and when Adolf rested his hands on the table, I would have sworn that it was all real.

2013, Robert Koster, The Budget Book for Film and Television, page 196:

(film, television) A nondescript set that does not represent any particular place.


negative cost

negative cost (countable and uncountable, plural negative costs)

(film) The net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion.


hard-ticket

a hard-ticket film

a hard-ticket movie

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


bin stick

(film, historical) A stick or rod on which strips of film can be hung during editing.


lower third

(television) A graphic overlay placed in the title-safe lower area of the screen.


spider box

(film, television) A unit for distributing power via cables to a number of lights.


gillygaloo

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


roundie

(historical, television) A television set with a round cathode ray tube.


catch and kill

non-disclosure agreement
non-disclosure agreement

(journalism) The media technique of suppressing a story by buying the exclusive rights to it, with a legally enforceable non-disclosure agreement, and then refusing to publish it.


metri causa

From Latin metrī causā (literally “for the sake of poetic metre”).


programme-maker

But there are, of course, TV programme-makers who see beyond the easy opportunities to show conflict and false jeopardy.

2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46:

(television, radio, British spelling) A person responsible for the creation of television or radio programmes.


linear television

Retronym for television, coined after the invention of streaming video

(broadcasting) Conventional television viewed at the same time as transmission.


type area

(printing) The useful area of a page of printed material without the margins.

版面

the useful area of a page of printed material without the margins


brown shower

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(slang, pornography) The act of a person defecating on another, usually for sexual stimulation of one or both persons.


subetheric

The Central AI instantly noted unusual fluctuations in the Subetheric Domain.

True reality is subetheric and not perceptible through our etheric senses, though we get hints of synchronicities (apparent coincidences mediated by nonlocal communication). Subetheric reality is, of course, nonmaterial.

2016, Dennis J. Parizek, Everyverse RPG Paranormality:

Gerda looked down on the wrecked radio—wrecked by her own fair hands—awaiting its reassembly into a subetheric radio set.

2018, Kenneth Bulmer, The Earth Gods Are Coming:

(science fiction) Relating to or involving the subether ("a fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel").


podcar

(science fiction) A small pod-like passenger vehicle.


plot armor

(colloquial, fiction, sometimes derogatory) A plot device wherein a fictional character or other entity repeatedly and inexplicably avoids harm or misfortune, due to their importance to the work's continued plot; the property of being prone to deus ex machina.


genship

There had been doubts that a genship crew would be able to handle a starship after five generations or so post departure, ...

2018, Wes Boyd, Destiny, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Second, genship endurance is still a het dependent plan. Maybe we can hack cryophase, just sleep for thousands of years on your ship, become space vampires. The breeders can keep breeding."

2016, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Contraction of generation ship.


talkgroup

(radio) A group of users communicating over one or more channels.


Nanabozho

(folklore) An Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero.


news report

(journalism, newspapers) An individual item of news.


monocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙩ (capital) or ꙩ (lowercase).


binocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙫ (capital) or ꙫ (lowercase).


double monocular O

en-noun

double monocular O (plural double monocular Os)

From being the doubled form of the monocular O (Ꙩ/ꙩ) letter.

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙭ (capital) or ꙭ (lowercase).


rotoartist

(film, television, video, special effects) A person who creates masks for frames, to crop in and out backgrounds and objects, frame-by-frame in video and film, for rotoscoping.

video; special effects; video; special effects


sadcom

Clipping of sad comedy, following romcom and sitcom.

But the emerging American comedy, whether it be animated or live-action, carries with it neither sincere escapism nor cynical nihilism. Consider them sadcoms — the raw, honest, surprisingly hopeful, long-gestating progeny of M*A*S*H.

2015 September 3, Jenny Jaffe, “The Rise of the Sadcom”, in Vulture:

If 1990s sitcoms were characterised by sexually liberated pals cracking wise, and the 00s by docu-realist, workplace-based cringe comedy, this decade has been dominated by the sadcom, a strain of comedy-drama shuddering under the weight of personal hardship and the idea that actual jokes are largely unnecessary.

2019 August 13, Rachel Aroesti, “'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal?”, in The Guardian:


bind rune

We have also 2 uncommon Bind-runes here, the OL in SOL and the ER in HUILER.

1867, George Stephens, The Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, page 356:

(writing) A type of ligature formed by two or more runes; most commonly with two or three runes sharing one or more common vertical strokes, or with several runes arranged vertically with their vertical strokes joined end-to-end.


princess carry

princess carry (plural princess carries)

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Calque of Japanese お姫様だっこ (“o-hime-sama dakko”).

calque

Elize was being held in a princess carry, and while she found that embarrassing, now wasn't really the time to complain.

2020, Yukiya Murasaki, Altina the Sword Princess: Volume 4, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

“A princess carry?” “Yeah, well, how do I describe it? I put my arm under your knees and behind your back and carry you.

2021, Tsunehiko Watanabe, The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 4, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

“Oh! W-With a princess carry, then? Also known as a bridal carry?”

2019, Supana Onikage, Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 7, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

year unknown, Justin Miller, World Keeper: Advent, Justin Miller
So, I scooped her up in my arms in a... yes... in a princess carry, and jumped out the window ...

She noticed that Flora's complexion was off, but she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable at the novel sight of Rio holding Flora in a princess carry.

2020, Yuri Kitayama, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Volume 8, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:


princess carry

en-verb

princess carry (third-person singular simple present princess carries, present participle princess carrying, simple past and past participle princess carried)

princess carries (present singular third-person)
princess carrying (participle present)
princess carried (participle past)
princess carried (past)

Naturally, he was going to princess carry her back.

2017, Ryo Shirakome, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Volume 2, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction) To carry another person in a bridal carry.


nonserif

a nonserif typeface


Elon time

From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates.

(automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commercial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla, Inc.; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk.


warsuit

(science fiction) A suit equipped with technology for use in combat.


line crash

(typography) A situation where a diacritic above or below a base character extends into the area used by the preceding or following line of text.


mindfile

(sometimes science fiction) A digital database of a person's life, seen as a mechanism for preserving human knowledge or consciousness.


cyberconsciousness

en-noun

cyberconsciousness (usually uncountable, plural cyberconsciousnesses)

The emergence of mindfiles and cyberconsciousness suggests that technology is advancing the notion of mind beyond the human.

2015, Ilia Delio, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness:

Once a biological consciousness is copied into a cyberconsciousness, the possibilities for longevity skyrocket.

2019, Jacob Shatzer, Transhumanism and the Image of God, page 102:

(science fiction) The use of computer technology to replicate consciousness as in living individuals.


off camera

We have some of the best off-camera talent in the business.

(television, film) In or related to a role behind the cameras, e.g. in production, lighting, editing, etc.


biorg

Blend of biological + organism(?), modelled on cyborg, which is from cybernetic + organism.

In this case, the story concerns three pets who have gone missing—a dog named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate. These pets have been transformed by the US Air Force into computer-enhanced "biorgs," as part of an army of "efficient animal slaves" designed to take the place of humans […]

2018, David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life:

Biorgs are both cyborgs and companion animals, […] Vint's reading of the biorgs' speech underscores how the comic blurs the division between nature and culture as well as between human and non-human animals. The biorgs may not speak exactly like humans, but their speech communicates […] While canine biorgs' speech […]

2020, Sidney I. Dobrin, EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels, McFarland, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

Metaphorically a biorg witch with flowers in her hair, I am presently a doctoral student […]

2021, Florence Ashley, "'X' why? Gender Marks and Non-binary Transgender People", in Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez, Laura Carlson (editors), Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons, Springer Nature, pages 33-34

(neologism, science fiction, rare) A non-human animal cyborg.


fourth wall joke

fourth wall joke (plural fourth wall jokes)

(theater, film, television) A joke that intentionally draws attention to the illusion of separation between the audience and the fiction itself.


Encyclopedia Galactica

Blend of Encyclopedia Britannica (“Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica”) + galactic

blend

(science fiction) A compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.


teen drama

More often than not, they employed this term when referencing various teen dramas that occurred between friends and classmates that required insider knowledge to decode. In other words, teens subtweet to talk behind someone else's back.

2014, danah boyd It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69)

Director George Tillman Jr. gets pulled in different directions, too, juggling teen drama and teachy diatribe.

2018, Bob Brown, Lives in the balance: The Hate U Give tackles important topics but offers hollow advice:

one place where age-appropriate casting is kind of necessary is in an intimate teen drama that hinges entirely on the raw-nerve energy of its youthful lead to sell his character’s manipulative, cruel, selfish behavior as sympathetic rather than horrifying.

2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:

(film, television) A drama based on teenagers, or set in a teenage environment.


flatplan

"Each country has a fixed amount of space on the flatplan and a limited amount of room on the page, so the skill of the compiler is to select the most relevant services and stations from the data.

2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65:

(publishing) A page plan of a publication that shows how the articles and advertisements are laid out.


cover price

Potter acknowledges that the £20.99 cover price for the print edition may seem quite high to some people.

(publishing) The price of a publication, such as a book, newspaper or magazine, traditionally shown on the cover.


hanahaki

From Japanese 花吐き病 (hanahaki-byō), from 花 (hana, “flower”) + 吐く (haku, “to vomit”). An invention of Matsuda Naoko (松田奈緒子) for her manga Hanahaki Otome (『花吐き乙女』).

The cascading emotions are
giving me hanahaki tonight, they're
beautiful but it's suffocating.

2019, Unzila Iftikhar, Before Your Eyes - Despite It All, You Still Rise, page 9:

It is familiar. In that most everyone is familiar with a coffee shop and thus understands the AU’s basic premise on sight. Unlike, say, Hanahaki fics.

2020, Katharine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to Ohio State University, page 27

However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.

2020, Ivy Wong, "The Cure for Hanahaki", English Literary Magazine (St. Paul's Co-Educational College, Hong Kong), page 22

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.


blooper reel

And, so, ladies and gentlemen, that concludes what I believe to be a fairly-plausible interpretation of the last ride of the German High Seas Fleet of 1918, had it actually occurred. In a sort of blooper reel, I will go over some of the things that occurred in a few of the wargames but we left out when collating the overall timeline.

2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 29:14 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04:

(film, television) A compilation of outtakes featuring amusing mistakes and mishaps that occurred during the making of a film or television show.


preantepenultima

[…] receiving the principal accent on the penultima, the word necessarily takes the secondary accent on the preantepenultima.

1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 337:

(poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.


ditto machine

From the name of the manufacturer, Ditto Corporation.

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

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

spirit duplicator
spirit duplicator#English

(US, historical, printing) Synonym of spirit duplicator


ypogegrammeni

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑπογεγραμμένη (hupogegramménē).

bor+

ὑπογεγραμμένη

(orthography) The Greek iota subscript, ͺ or ͅ.


jincan

(folklore) A poisonous gold-coloured silkworm or caterpillar in Chinese legend.


double-space

en-verb

double-space (third-person singular simple present double-spaces, present participle double-spacing, simple past and past participle double-spaced)

double-spaces (present singular third-person)
double-spacing (participle present)
double-spaced (participle past)
double-spaced (past)

(transitive, typography) To type (or format) text by leaving a blank line between each line of text.

(intransitive, typography) To type (or format) text with two spaces between consecutive sentences.


one-and-a-half-spaced

(typography) Formatted so that there is one half of a blank line between each line of text.


studio system

When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.

2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(film) A method of filmmaking wherein the production and distribution of films is dominated by a small number of large movie studios (the majors).


cinéma du look

From French cinéma du look, coined by French film critic Raphaël Bassan.

coin

Coordinate term: nouvelle vague

Ginette Vincendeau describes the cinéma du look as a typical example of ‘mainstream co-optation’ of ‘avant-garde, artisanal, or auteur’ cinema (1996: 14).

2008, Rosanna Maule, Beyond Auteurism: New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 90:

However, the 1980s also saw the development of cinéma du look, a “hip” movement in French film that features “cool,” sometimes surreal, cinematography, a high-speed montage style, and visual effects influenced by the technical virtuosity of advertising.

2011, Martha P. Nochimson, World on Film: An Introduction, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(film) A French film movement of the 1980s and 1990s, characterized by its spectacular visual style (“le look”).


hyperbeam

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"I'm not saying that, Vil. I only say what you hear me say and you haven't heard me say that. But, Vil, to get out we're depending on you. I can't call for help because I can't aim a hyperbeam without knowing where we are: I can't find out where we are because I can't pinpoint any stars—"

1972, Robert Silverberg, New Dimensions II: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 122:

"Unless that fellow was lying, they do have some combat-worthy units. And hyperbeams must be flying from end to end of their fleet."

1990, Isaac Asimov, The Diplomacy Guild, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Wasting no time, Crossfire aims her hyperbeam cannon and fires her spatial blast which engulfs Charlemagne and punches a hole in the ground.

2018, Xavier J. Fulwood, Knighthood: The Dangerous Adventures, Page Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:

(science fiction, video games, rare) An extraordinarily intense beam of any size (of energy or matter); a superbeam.


auteur theory

Popularized by American film critic Andrew Sarris (1928–2012).

The intense degree of controversy that surrounds a discussion of the auteur theory as formulated by Truffaut and that has affected every level of “movie talk” from cocktail party gatherings to doctoral reviews can be partly assuaged in considering Bazin's role in the evolution of the politique des auteurs.

1986, Aaron Sultanik, Film, a Modern Art, Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 83:

At this point, it is necessary to say something about the auteur theory since this has often been seen as a way of introducing the idea of the creative personality into the Hollywood cinema.

2019, Peter Wollen, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(film) The view of film as an art form with an original and personal stylistic vision, especially in contrast to collective authorship in the studio system.


prop gun

The only exception to this is in an extremely intimate theater where the audience can clearly see that a prop gun is being used. Other than that, there is no compelling reason to use a real gun on stage if the gun isn't fired.

2004, Technical Theater for Nontechnical People, page 196

At one point Ernest grabs a machine gun and fires it at Reggie but it's only a studio prop: Prop gun, prop girls. Everything phoney.

I became frightened that Neil would find a way to switch the prop gun for a real gun.

2007, Lessons in Becoming Myself, page 245

right, that's where Burke hid the prop gun after he put the real revolver in its place
..
Everyone on the set saw Burke practice taking the prop gun out of the drawer right before the first take. He got his fingerprints on it then. And since he was using the real gun when he convinced Dean that he was having trouble doing the scene, his fingerprints are on that, too.
right, that's where Burke hid the prop gun after he put the real revolver in its place
..
Everyone on the set saw Burke practice taking the prop gun out of the drawer right before the first take. He got his fingerprints on it then. And since he was using the real gun when he convinced Dean that he was having trouble doing the scene, his fingerprints are on that, too.

2007, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, page 353 (also page 1128 of the "Apple Turnover Murder Bundle" compiled in 2011)

It looked like Jeff was wielding a Beretta from where I sat, but of course, I knew it was only a harmless prop gun, designed to look lethal. He wouldn't be shooting real bullets. In fact, a prop gun wouldn't even take a real bullet.

Adora brandished the prop gun as if it were real.

“I woke up holding a prop gun.” She dipped into the pocket of the slicker, slid a pistol across the table. Prop gun my ass. How about a freaking Beretta 92FS?

David does not know that Derek keeps a loaded gun in the house, nor that Derek has neglected to bring the prop gun home for rehearsal. Seeing the real gun, David assumes it is the prop.

2012, Responsibility and Criminal Liability, page 70

She whipped the prop gun from beneath her towel. Only it wasn't a prop gun. The distraction of her sleek naked body didn't keep Jake from realizing a real lazgun had been substituted

Consider, for example, what happens if my friend only has a realistic-looking prop gun in her bag. If I didn't know it was a prop, seeing it would be very disturbing. However, once I learn that it's a prop, it is no longer disturbing.

2013, The First Sense, page 171 (also 2016 in Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferants, page 238)

The night of the shooting, what should have been a prop gun turned out to be real. Carlotta insisted she'd brought the prop gun and someone must have switched it.

2014, A Charm of Powerful Trouble, page 216

An amateur actor thinks an innocent bystander is another member of the cast and shoots him with what he thinks is a prop gun. Only it's the real thing

The gun is supposed to be a semi-automatic 9mm Beretta 92, but when Tony fires a single shot, the hammer stays down, the slide never recoils, and no casing is ever ejected. The gun is clearly a single-shot prop gun.

2015, Scarface: The Ultimate Guide, page 51

"And put your gun away while you're at it. You look silly. And that looks like a prop gun."
Harvey threw it on the gravel.
"It is a prop gun, isn't it?"
"Does it matter?" Harvey said.
"If it were real and I could convince you to use it on me, it would matter. I'd rather be shot than jump."

The prop gun is so realistic looking, it may have inspired the killer to strike first.

“Marian,” Kelly said, perplexed, “it's a prop gun.” She was holding the weapon Carla had dropped to the floor. “This part where you're supposed to put the bullets in? It's solid. The holes are just painted on. And the trigger won't pull.”

Throughout the episode he pulls it out to demonstrate being prepared, only to find that his gun has been replaced by a plunger, a prop gun, a water gun, and a stapler.

It was just a prop gun. Someone must have switched it with a real gun
..
So you must have put a real gun where the prop gun was supposed to be.

“It's a prop gun,” he gasped. “I got it from the soap. It's just a prop. I swear.”

"And the gun wasn't a real gun. Want to know what it was? A prop. A movie prop."
"The missing gun from set?"
"The very same."
"How did an armed robber get his hands on the missing prop gun? It was somebody from the crew, was it?"

Hold on, that's not a prop! That's not a prop gun: Maxim – that's a real gun!

Who would think to check that a prop gun was actually a prop?

2019, Toccata System Complete Trilogy page 276

"Is that a real gun?" August reached for the gun.
I clamped my fingers on his arm. "No," I said. "Don't touch it. I fought the urge to vomit. The shocking sight of the bloody corpse had left me nauseous and light-headed.
He looked at me quizzically. "Surely it's only a prop gun."

The prop gun was a Colt replica with a wooden hand grip. Like any prop gun, it was a real-looking toy that did nothing.

Jill was goofing off with what she had every reason to believe was a prop gun and not the real thing. Call it irony.

Because you can't shoot me. Not with that prop gun.

Edgar pulled the trigger on what was supposed to be a prop gun, and killed Jackson almost instantly. The reporter of the article theorized the prop gun must have been switched with a real gun.

2021, The Long Shadow of Memory, page 42-43

(film, television) A replica of a real gun, incapable of firing projectiles (thus not actually a firearm) used in making a movie or television production.


hyperbomb

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The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called.

1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, World Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 33:

"He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell."

1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:

We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war.

2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston, →ISBN:

(rare, military, science fiction, video games) An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.


dry transfer

(typography, attributive) Transfer of premade letters from a sheet or letterset.


info-dumping

The info-dump is always a problem. Just at a basic practical level it is important that everyone addresses everyone else by name until at least the first death — in fact detective stories have as much trouble as alien planets, and there’s a very good example of (deliberate) bad info-dumping right at the start of The Real Inspector Hound where Mrs. Drudge answers the phone: ‘Hello? The drawing room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence one morning in early spring?’ […]

1997, “Sad/Not Sad”, in Paul Cornell, editor, Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground, Virgin Books, page 30:

Forget the obvious villainy of metal-haired space lady Madeleine Issigri and the incessant info-dumping of the ridiculously plummy General Hermack.

2003 June 4, Philip MacDonald, “The Space Pirates: Space Oddity”, in Doctor Who Magazine, number Special edition #4, page 68:

They came to unwind, to debrief their minds of the endless info-dumping that bombarded them at work, at home, in the media, in the street.

2004, David Murphy, “Overload”, in Lost Notes, Dublin: Aeon Press, page 43:

(literature) The act of presenting an info-dump.


sowlth

All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind.

(folklore) A kind of spirit in Irish folklore.


jovicline

From Jove + -cline. From Latin Jovi (“Jupiter”) (Iove, Iuppiter) + clino (“incline”) (gradient). Coined in reference to thermocline and halocline.

(planetology, radio astronomy, astrometeorology) The separation between two different depth layers of the planet Jupiter, where the microwave emission characteristics of the bands (light stripes) and belts (dark stripes) are reversed. Bands have low levels of microwave emissions compared to belts at the surface, while below the jovicline, they have higher emissions comparatively.


pocket piece

(broadcasting, slang) A compact summary of national television ratings produced by Nielsen Media Research.


slab serif

(typography) A kind of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs.


lost in time

Possibly a shortening of the phrase lost in the mists of time.

(science fiction) Lost during time travel.


null-grav

(science fiction, attributive) Relating to, producing, or designed for a condition of zero gravity.


null-grav

en-noun

null-grav (countable and uncountable, plural null-gravs)


180-degree rule

(film) The filmmaking principle that the perspective of the camera should remain on one side of an imaginary line so that subjects maintain their spatial relationship.


OLD

Oxford Latin Dictionary
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(publishing, linguistics) Initialism of Oxford Latin Dictionary.


i'jam

(orthography) Dots used in modern Arabic script to distinguish between consonants with identical backbone (rasm) shapes.


claiming mark

But all I could do, all I wanted to do, was hold her tight against my chest and breathe in the scent of our union and the blood trickling from her new claiming mark.

2019, Nora Ash, Ragnarök Rising, unnumbered page:

He knew that I enjoyed discipline as much as I enjoyed feeling the nip of his teeth over the claiming mark.

2020, L. V. Lane, Omega Awakening, unnumbered page:

Once I give her my claiming mark, Roderick can't do anything to me.

2021, Vivian Murdoch, Dark Revolution, unnumbered page:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a scar or mark on a person's body signifying their permanent bond to another, typically the result of a bite.


claiming bite

“The neck, the chest, I've heard of men with claiming bites on their ass or thighs.”

2015, Ellis Leigh, Claiming Their Forever, unnumbered page:

In the full glow of the moon, I could just make out the dark bruise of my claiming bite on her neck.

2017, Steffanie Holmes, Wedding the Wolf, unnumbered page:

They wore matching wedding bands instead of claiming bites.

2021, Tanya Chris, Omega Revealed, unnumbered page:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a bite given by one person to another to form a permanent bond, typically leaving a scar or mark.


mating bite

“When the mating bites are exchanged, the two souls link. Then the werewolf can live as long as his vampire mate.”

2017, Cynthia Eden, Forbidden Bite, unnumbered page:

Once mated with another character, characters have the option of performing the “mating bite,” which irreversibly bonds the lovers to one another.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 10

He sucked a hickey along the side of Ash's throat, right where his mating bite would soon go.

2021, Marcy Jacks, Mating for Convenience, page 36:


mating mark

Especially not after seeing a mating mark on Wilder's shoulder.

2017, Rosa Swan, My Mate's Mark, unnumbered page:

As romance novels often end with a marriage, ABO fics will often end with the mating mark.

He wore no mating mark on his neck, but he often referred to us as his “pack.”

2019, Kallie Traylor, Divided We Fall, unnumbered page:


skypan

(film, television) A kind of large lamp with a parabolic reflector to diffuse the light.


hardsuit

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Armored hard-suits are sealable to protect the wearer from extremes of temperature and atmosphere. Standard equipment includes an onboard mini-frame and a communications, navigation, and sensing suite.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Body Armor Codex entry:

(science fiction) A powered exoskeleton.


I before E, except after C

Formed because of the rhyme between the names of the letters E and C, /iː/ and /siː/. The "rule" was invented in the 19th century.

(orthography, mnemonic) In English words that contain the letters I and E together, the I tends to come before the E (ie), except in cases when the two are preceded by the letter C, in which case the E comes before the I (cei).


hao siao

From Hokkien 嘐潲 (hau-siâu, “fake”). Compare Tagalog hawsyaw.

A Malacañang spokeswoman on Friday said the Bureau of Customs will not tolerate the involvement of media practitioners and "hao siao" (fake) journalists in smuggling, if true.

2011 September 23, Willard Cheng, Palace: Customs won't tolerate 'hao siao' journalists, ABS-CBN News:

On a list prepared by the BOC’s public information and assistance division and posted at the main Customs gate were the names of nearly 100 media people, including some said to be hao-siao.

2013 June 4, Jerry E. Esplanada, Who’s ‘hao-siao’ or legit journalist? BOC confused, Philippine Daily Inquirer:

15th Congress House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II said that there is a lot of resistance against FOI because of the fear it may be used by “hao-siao” or illegitimate media members to ruin politicians (Garcia, 2012).

2018, Ronald U. Mendoza, Edsel L. Beja, Jr., Julio C. Teehankee, Antonio G. M. La Vina, Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza, editors, Building Inclusive Democracies In Asean, World Scientific:

(Philippines, journalism, derogatory) pseudojournalists, not employed by a reputable news organization but who pass themselves off as journalists in order to cash in on the payoffs and bribes from news sources, particularly during elections.