grits line n.— «Alexandria still has its Jefferson Davis Highway and Springfield its Robert E. Lee High School, but if last week’s election showed anything, it’s that Northern Virginia is not only different than the rest of the state, it is a...
gonch
n.— «Be sure to shake the sand out of your gonch afterward. It itches something fierce.» —“It’s Far Out!; The Best Single-Player Shooter Since Half-Life” by Steve Tilley Toronto Sun (Canada) Apr. 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
hand n.— «There may be fewer bananas around this year, following Cyclone Larry in Far North Queensland, but that doesn’t mean the quality of the fruit has dropped. That’s the consensus after the Ekka, when many “hands” (what shoppers usually refer...
paper airplane n.— «The Secretary of the Air Force, Verne Orr, has asserted that the Stealth plane, which Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger is seriously considering as the nation’s next long-range bomber, is “a paper airplane” that is far...
alligator economics n.— «One reason why the wage-earning middle class increasingly can’t afford California is that wages, adjusted for inflation, have been stagnant for two decades. In the same time, the percentage of income needed to pay for rent...
paquetería n.— «Known in Spanish as paqueterías, the courier services tap into the nostalgia market, filling an aching void between New York’s poorer immigrants, many not legal residents, and the people they left behind.» —“For Mom’s Cooking, 2,200...