heroic dose n.— «One drop of it was fully as efficient as curiosity in killing a cat.…An early nineteenth century pharmacopoeia lists a tobacco enema. About the same time the surgeon and anatomist, Sir Ashley Cooper, recommended...
half-past-six adj.— «The fairer elite (those who are descended from Europeans) are known as “the upper 10.” At the other extreme are the Portuguese-Eurasians with Malaccan roots who belong to the “half-past six” or...
extreme gardening n.— «Extreme gardening is when you rent a twenty-foot backhoe (amazingly, they require no license!) and buy a diamond sawblade and cut up the asphalt in your parking lot and dig it out with a CAT and have dirt put in and...
drylabbing n.— «This, arguably, begs the question and therefore may be seen by some as defending such practices as “trimming” (moving extreme data points closer to th mean) and “cooking” (selecting the best data)...
sheeting n.— «Using a technique called “sheeting,” I was supposed to get the thing to fly gentle figure 8s between 10 and 2 on an imaginary clock face in the sky. Instead, the kite was mimicking the dive-bombing actions of the...
bonk
v.— «Bonk…A state of extreme fatigue caused by overexertion and lack of blood sugar.» —by J.A. Cuddon Macmillan Dictionary of Sports and Games , 1979. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)