detailing n.— «Direct-to-physician activities accounted for the bulk of spending, with $5.3 billion spent on a practice called “detailing”—visits to physicians by pharmaceutical sales representatives in order to promote their...
backhaul n.— «Research firm GeoResults measures the market for the wholesale transport of communications traffic, or “backhaul” as it is called, at $2.8 billion in 2007, and projects the market to grow to $15.3 billion by 2011...
flake n. a (packed, firm, or cohesive) portion of animal fodder such as hay or straw, smaller than a bale and larger than a handful. Editorial Note: The size of a flake is not fixed, as you can see in the citations where it is variously explained as...
blue adj.— «Andrea Simon, 31, of the Northeastside, is the daughter of a black mother and a white, Jewish father. “What I call myself is a “blue,” for black and Jew,” said Simon, the owner of a marketing firm...
squawk box v. phr.— «A former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker on trial for selling access to his firm’s “squawk box’ denied allowing clients to eavesdrop on internal orders at the firm, though he said he believed they were entitled...
husband pillow n.— «Kristin implored me to take more Advil and to try using the “husband pillow.” Ahh, yes, the large firm upright pillow with the little wings that you lean backwards into. It supports your back and kind of...