Beijing hack
n.— «Within a couple hours of our arrival, Elisa and I had already acquired what we referred to as the “Beijing hack.”…He warned that some of the games would have to be rescheduled because of pollution if Beijing did not, literally, clean up its act.» —“Red Lantern Diary: Seattleite’s Dispatches from Hong Kong” by Elizabeth Kain SeattlePI.com Nov. 16, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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