joggle v.— «The world’s two fastest marathon “jogglers”—will face off in an epic battle for a new Guinness World Record at this year’s Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17. Kapral, 33, senior editor at the Toronto office of Westford, Mass...
joggler n.— «The world’s two fastest marathon “jogglers”—will face off in an epic battle for a new Guinness World Record at this year’s Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17. Kapral, 33, senior editor at the Toronto office of Westford, Mass...
bonk v. in bicycling, to become exhausted. Also bonk out and bonking, n. Editorial Note: Eric Partridge dates this term to the 1930s in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (8e, 1984), but no citations are given. Editor Paul Beale...
involuntary lateral arabesque n.— «The BBC has a tried-and-tested mechanism for removing editors who are deemed to have failed. It promotes them into utterly meaningless positions, a practice sometimes referred to as an “involuntary...
take ermine v. phr.— «The BBC has a tried-and-tested mechanism for removing editors who are deemed to have failed. It promotes them into utterly meaningless positions, a practice sometimes referred to as an “involuntary lateral...
preditor n.— «San Francisco’s KRON recently became the first major-market TV station in the US to supply much of its newsoom staff with laptops and digital video cameras, then train them to shoot, write, and produce stories on their own...