accountant n.— «The taxi drivers are catching on fast too.…An “accountant” collects the fares, provides change and squares up the money angle of the trip. This frees the driver to do his job without endangering the lives of the...
soft-roader n.—Gloss: a sports utility vehicle styled to look like it is built for off-road driving but which is not really capable of it or suitable for it. «It will also probably share a platform with the next Suzuki SX4 junior soft...
tulies n.pl.—Gloss: the boondocks or the middle of nowhere. Note: Out in the tules/tules means “out in the boondocks” or “far away.” Encarta says that “to be in deep tules” is a Hispanic English expression meaning “to be in...
skiing n.— «“Ask my wife,” Ore said. He is famous for driving a doubledecker bus on two wheels—a technique called skiing—for 810 feet, a record featured on the cover of the “Guinness Book of World Records” in 1989...
smog v.— «Arthur Garcia had been driving the same small, 22-year-old truck to work and back for the last 12 years. But when it came time in May to get his pickup “smogged,” Californian slang for an emissions test, his local...
suicide lane n.— «Are we going to stand back and let the state build a three lane highway out of Maze Road with our money just to kill people? It will be only a suicide lane.…Who wants a three lane highway in these fast driving days...