shoot v.— «Lunch shooters took lunch orders for other brewery workers. Nobody knows how the term originated exactly. The term “shoot me a beer” was also used by beer bottlers. “Shoot” in brewery parlance is...
lunch shooter n.— «Lunch shooters are among the many jobs that have disappeared from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis. If they chose, beer bottlers at the Bevo plant could order lunch from a fellow worker who walked around the...
maconha n.— «Amidst the fray, no one dared whisper an obvious option: complete legalization of pot (maconha, in local parlance) and cocaine.» —“Brazil, Legalize Drugs, Now!” Love in Rio (Brazil) Apr. 25, 2004...
webswev n.— «Another group is trying to market a new word: webswev. It stands for “Web significantly watered down English verbosity.” It is the language used on Internet bulletin boards and chat lines that relies on...
187 n.— «She later added, the students in question write “187” about him. It’s street lingo for a homicide.» —“School Fights Lead to Arrest of Students” by Ryan Wolf KGBT-TV (Harlingen, Tex.) Apr...
eco-roof n.— «Hines argues that there are sound technical reasons to use an eco-roof. “A grass roof protects the roof membrane on flat roofs from extremes of temperature and also blocks ultra-violet light, which helps the membrane...