zoo-bombing n.— «A daring Portland ritual sent one woman to the hospital earlier this week and brought attention to a fad often referred to as “zoo bombing.” Zoo bombing is when cyclists barrel down a hill as fast as they can, like the...
cheerio n.— «At the edge of the burn there was a jumble of downed trees, brambles, and underbrush. Using an ax, Doug hacked his way through the more difficult sections. In the easier spots, the only morels seemed to be...
squ-oval adj.— «Pointy talons are also a big no-no—”squ-oval” is the new shape for nails, it suits most and it means—you’ve guessed it—a square tip with rounded edges.» —“Give your nails the edge with a varnishing...
nanorover n.— «Would the rover descend into the crater or just peer over the edge? Would it launch a much smaller tethered rover—a “nanorover” in the current Esa phraseology—or fire harpoons down into the dark ice...
zillionics n.— «The data volume is growing to such levels of “zillionics” that we can expect science to compile vast combinatorial libraries, to run combinatorial sweeps through possibility space (as Stephen Wolfram has done...
kiss and cry
n.— «I get to see her in that arena, sitting in Kiss and Cry, having her scores come up on the scoreboard.» —by Christine Brennan Inside Edge Jan. 8, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)