burp v.— «The firefighters have a technique called “burping the suit” that involves pulling open the neck of the Mustang, then crouching down to force excess air out of the suit. The technique prevents the suit from ballooning once they jump in the...
plan-overs n.pl. an excess of food cooked so as to have leftovers for future meals. Also planovers, plannedovers, planned-overs, and as adjective, planned-over, planover, plan-over. Editorial Note: Less often singular. (source: Double-Tongued...
nutrification n.— «The main concern is a process known as nutrification, whereby water bodies such as lakes and estuaries receive excess nutrients from a variety of sources (primarily agriculture, aquaculture and sewage) setting off a cascade of...
bomb peak n.— «The chemical record in stalagmites is so sensitive the scientists are even able to plot the presence of what is called the bomb peak—the presence of excess carbon 14 created by the global atmospheric nuclear tests of the 1950s and...
dump n.— «“We’ve had a lot of snow,” veteran weather observer Jim Markalunas told The Aspen Times, “but they’ve all been small increments, 4, 5 or 6 inches.” Markalunas, who has monitored Aspen’s weather since the mid-1950s, tracks the number of...
Ford Valdez n.— «Conservationists and environmentalists made the Excursion a poster-child for Detroit excess dubbing it the “Ford Valdez,” a reference to an Exxon oil tanker that ran aground in Alaska.» —“End of line for gas hog Ford Excursion” in...
