rark up v. phr.— «The managing director of Koala Auto Services, Steve Taylor, said yesterday that he did not mind whether the Telecom aerial went on his roof. “Customers have been very supportive of our position, but we don’t want a split in the...
gay panic n.— «That makes The Hitcher, a first feature for both writer (Eric Red) and director (Robert Harmon), a slasher movie about gay panic, a nasty piece of homophobic angst for the age of AIDs.» —“Nasty piece of homophobic angst Logic takes a...
baked in adj.— «The key reason for the foreign inflow, says Chilton Thomson, a director of American Express Asset Management in London, is that “a good deal of the profit is already baked in the cake.”» —“American Bulls Are Running In Frankfurt” by...
blue canary n.— «Col. Rich Greenwood, UHP deputy director, said the troopers who arrive at an accident first are usually the ones in the most danger. He said the program will prevent those first-responding officers from becoming victims. “Officers...
Manhattan-henge n.— «“It’s almost eerie to look at the reflections of sunlight off the north side and south side of the street,” said Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. It was Tyson...
gymbot n.— «Last week when I mentioned to him that porn director Chi Chi LaRue once told me he calls gym bunnies “gymbots,” Smith cracks, “I’m too old to be a gym bunny and gymbot sounds like a gay android in the queer version of The Matrix...