frosting
n.— «A growing number of thieves are making off with cars which have been left unattended with the engines running while the owners wait for the windscreens to defrost. The technique is known as “frosting,” and it’s becoming more common.» —“Frosting Tea Leaves” in U.K. CARkeys Dec. 21, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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...
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