boat rash n.— «My CPA came to me last year and asked if there was anything I could come up with to protect his nice, expensive reels from getting beat up, or what I call “boat rash,” on sport boats.…He came up with a problem, and I solved it with...
five-and-fly n.— «Sox starter Neil Allen (3-0) did his part, shutting out California for five innings. But he gave up two runs in the sixth, and LaRussa brought in Gene Nelson. “I hope I’m not a “five-and-fly’ pitcher,” Allen said.» —“Fisk, James...
hully-gully adj. haphazard, disorganized, inconsistent, loosey-goosey. Also adverb, willy-nilly, pell-mell, helter-skelter, and noun, hustle and bustle, hurly-burly, hullabaloo. Editorial Note: This term is common in basketball and other sports...
double dead adj.— «“Double dead” would be an apt description of the PHIC strangulation moves on Philippine hospitals (on one hand withholding payment of PHIC claims and on the other, bleeding the hospitals dry for every last peso that can be...
declinologist n.— «Many liberal journalists are afflicted with a variation of Bush Derangemenet Syndrome: they look, and find, everywhere signs of America’s decline on the world stage. The French have a term for these thinkers: declinologists...
Chanukah bush n.— «Two of the brightest moments of the weekend’s viewing were Gertrude Berg’s account—on the Ed Sullivan show—of her father’s substitution of a “Chanukah bush” for a Christmas tree.» —“Fills Female Scrooge Parts” by Cynthia...