Dover test n.— «Since Vietnam, you may or may not have heard about the “Dover test,” which a military official coined as the threshold for what Americans could take as acceptable losses to the country, to people, and to the...
watermelon n.— «We have one for the greens—”watermelons” (green on the outside, red on the inside, i.e. closet commies).» —“Fun With Political Hate Speech” by Dean Esmay Dean’s World Apr. 25, 2004...
mangel n.— «After asking around I finally figured out that “mangle” is the slang word widely used to mean barbecuing.» —“To ‘Mangle,’ or not to ‘Mangle’?” by David Treppenwitz (Israel) Apr. 28...
biking n. an (all-you-can-eat) food buffet or smorgasbord. Editorial Note: Rendered in Japanese as バイキング and usu. Romanized as baikingu. Etymological Note: From English Viking, referring to the Scandinavian origins...
biking n.— «“Biking” is one of many Japanese words that they’ve taken from English. It means “all-you-can-eat,” pretty much the same as “tabehodai,” the proper Japanese words for such culinary indulgence...
lunch shooter
n.— «Lunch shooters took lunch orders for other brewery workers.» —“Dead Lunch Shooters” Media Mayhem (St. Louis, Mo.) Apr. 27, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)