train n.— «The police call it the Neighborhood Enforcement Stabilization Task Force, a unit charged with aggressively enforcing quality-of-life crimes, but people in the neighborhood ominously refer to it as “the train...
salvage v.— «According to the task force report, 1,082 Filipinos were “extra-legally executed or salvaged (a euphemism for assassinations)” between 1975 and 1983. During the same period, 266 others “disappeared...
twidget n.— «As the Marines laughingly said, once they had become fans of the use of sensors, “If you want it done right, keep the ‘twidgets’ out of the field!”» —by Alex Lee Force Recon Command: 3D Force Recon...
wet wings n.pl.— «It holds the fuel in its wings, referred to as wet wings, and underneath its belly.» —“Gas pump in the sky” by Thomas A. Sloan in Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska Air Force Link June 14, 2004...
third-force marketing n.— «Essentially, what this “third-force marketing” does is encourage subscribers to spend more on their contracts by paying for calls made by third parties, who might not be able to afford them...
ERF v.— «Today he tells The Observer of repeated assaults by Camp Delta’s punishment squad, known as the Extreme Reaction Force or ERF…Rasul said they led to a new verb being coined by detainees: “to be ERFed.” That, he...