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MTA

MTA  n.— «Look at all the models who turn to acting. They call it MTA—model-turned-actress. Like it’s something to be ashmed of. Geena Davis, Paulina Porizkova, Jessica Lange, Lauren Hutton.» —“Naomi Supermodel...

Jorge Arbusto

Jorge Arbusto  n.— «A Mãe Natureza dá uma mãozinha e ajuda a ridicularizar (ainda mais) o presidente Jorge Arbusto. Thank you Mother Nature.» —“Jorge Arbusto” by Single White Male Single White...

Urning

Urning  n.— «Karl Ulrichs was a civil servant in the small city-state of Hanover…As early as 1862 he had coined the word “Urning” to describe a male sexually attracted to other males, which he believed derived from a...

pipe

pipe  v.— «Jiggs Bluster may have piped quotes and gilded scum in his time, but in the long run Jimmy Breslin offered this city a gift: he made it clear that the true experts on life are not officials and academics, but those who live it...

swirl

swirl  n.— «My kids are really swirls. Chau, from New York City, adopted the term after hearing it in discussions about being a person of mixed-race origin while she was an undergrad at Wellesley.» —“Have A Swirly Asian Pacific...

konsentrasi

konsentrasi  n.— «This does not explain why the government itself introduced new words like Bajet, for ‘Budget’, into the Malay language, when the word Belanjawan was once commonly used. And thanks to political developments in the region...

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