post turtle n.— «Out here in the country, Bush and his buddies are referred to as “post turtles.” Those are turtles you might see on the top of a fence post. They don’t know how they got up there, they don’t know what...
bag hawk n.— «Samuel Hoffman, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, wrote, “Plastic bags trapped in trees and along fence lines are called bag hawks.“» —“Word Fugitives” by Barbara Wallraff The Atlantic July-Aug...
ghetto pass n.— «The first time I saw Latifah in person, I left my feminism and classical political theory class early so that I could hear her speak over the electric fence between a (white) feminism that many Harvard students and...
Nintendo slider n.— «“He’s got the Nintendo slider,” [Torii] Hunter said of [Jeff] Nelson. “I wasn’t trying to swing for the fence. I made contact and the ball went out. I don’t know how.”» —“M’s get...
gillage n.— «Gillage, for non-Filipinos, is Manila slang for “gilid ng village,” literally “beside/adjoining the village,” referring to the pocket of shanties that inevitably sprout outside the perimeter of an...