blocktimer
n.— «Greg Sanchez pledged assistance to Cortes, even as he clarified the broadcaster is not a regular employe[e] of the station but a blocktimer, who buys airtime.» —“Task force formed to probe shooting of Cebu broadcaster” by Mars W. Mosqueda Jr. Manila Bulletin (Philippines) June 14, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
To grok something means “to understand it completely.” The word grok comes from a language spoken on the planet Mars—well, at least according to the science fiction writer who coined the term! Also, we know the meaning of the word...
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...