Chattaboogie n.— «When my friends moved to Tennessee from Los Angeles a decade ago, they believed they were being exiled. Recently, one of them was offered a dream job elsewhere and decided to turn it down in order to stay in...
move-in n.— «It’s a refrain natives and newcomers—”move-ins” in county parlance—sing in different ways as they push the new economy, build businesses, dream of manufacturing centers that will allow the kids who grow up here to...
gold-collar job n.— «Laura Patrick’s dream is to create what the bio-tech industry calls gold-collar jobs—high-paying, high-tech positions.» —“Inventor profiles” Lansing State Journal (Mich.) Nov. 27, 2005...
vocationer n.— «The 18-month-old firm lets people try out their dream jobs—selling test runs in about 60 occupations.…So far, of 100 clients—the company calls them “vocationers”—one has actually made the leap and struck...
shorty n.— «They call it “the lot” or “the pen,” although it is also sarcastically referred to as “the cabby country club” or less charitably as “taxi driver purgatory.” From the air, it is...
cabby country club n.— «They call it “the lot” or “the pen,” although it is also sarcastically referred to as “the cabby country club” or less charitably as “taxi driver purgatory.” From the...