Jamie in Jacksonville, Florida, called himself a card, meaning funny or quick-witted, and his 19-year-old roommate wondered whether that meant a credit card or debit card. The expression likely grew out of playing-card metaphors such as sure card...
sweatbox n.— «What will happen when they do have to pay it back includes nonstop calls to them and their parents. Credit card collection agencies know how to harass, threaten and then sweet-talk cardholders who are late. They even have a term for...
Biltmore stick n.— «He wore a backpack with a G.P.S. receiver and carried, in one hand, a data collection unit resembling a portable credit card machine, and in the other, a strip of wood known as a Biltmore stick.…The Biltmore stick, for example...
skiing n.— «Democracy is not an excuse to gorge oneself on alcohol and drugs on Daddy’s credit card (countless posts at LNS reference “skiing” in bar restrooms, a euphemism for snorting cocaine) and then insult everyone who calls you out on it...
credit-card banging n.— «But in those early years, with credit-card numbers circulating among unscrupulous Web masters and affiliates, various frauds proliferated. Prime among them was “credit-card banging,” whereby a person subscribing to one site...
Costanza wallet n.— «Eliminating the need for a George Costanza wallet bursting with credit cards, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based vendor’s virtual payment system instead consolidates all that plastic into users’ Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones.» —“500...