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white space

white space  n.— «Just about everyone in the iSeries community agrees that the key to survival of the platform is growth in new business opportunities—the “white space” as the hardware vendors refer to it. Let’s hope that the...

Big Apple

Big Apple  n.— «The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There’s only one Big Apple. That’s New York. Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around...

chili-dip

chili-dip
 v.— «Encourage these guys to chili-dip shots to get on camera.» —“When It Comes to Golf, TV ‘Tells It Like It Ain’t’” by Jim Murray Los Angeles Times July 5, 1967. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

gap out

gap out  v.— «“Also can’t find much on gill mites in my books = what exactly are they?” “There is no such thing, that is why you can’t find it. I’m sure the store owner just gapped out for a second when telling about gill mites...

chipping

chipping  n.— «He was called on constantly to help out overmatched right tackle Grant Williams on pass protection, and when he did, Jackson slammed his 6-foot-2, 231-pound body into 49er pass rushers like a bone-jarring battering ram. In...

guitar

guitar  n.— «The police found that an AK-47, which was earlier referred to as “jhadoo” (broom), had been renamed “guitar.”» —“‘Kaan bole to’…Rs 1 cr in cash” by Somit Sen Times of...

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