stooper n.— «After suffering a back injury as an exercise rider, he spent five years supporting his family by rummaging through trashed betting slips tickets in hopes of finding neglected winners. The practice is called...
tabletop exercise n.— «Emergency services, voluntary agencies, utility companies, health authorities, the Environment Agency and the RAF simulated what they would do to help the area recover in the event of a major flood. Exercise...
Does one take preventive or preventative measures? A caller in Ocean Beach, California, who just graduated from an exercise science program wants to know which of these terms describes what she’s been studying. This is part of a complete...
suicide gown n.— «Across the way, about a dozen inmates are engaged in a “socialization” exercise. Some participants are chained to benches—”for civilian workers” safety,” as Hong explains it. Others sit...
power-pram v.— «Seriously, every Saturday on 24th Street it’s like a fucking baby fair—double strollers even, toddlers wearing outfits that cost more than one of my paychecks, mothers power-pramming, as they say in England, combining...
rumourtrage n.— «The latest market neologism is “rumourtrage,” which means disseminating a rumour and trading on it. The practice has been around since coconuts were first traded but the proliferation of hedge funds and, more...