fakenger n.— «It is difficult to tell the difference between a hipster and a messenger. Same bags, same pants, same too-small shirt, same studded belt; tats, piercings, alterna-hair: check. I know that messengers like to call the hipsters...
self-licking ice cream cone n.— «For grateful military leaders, there was merit in reinforcement for its own sake. One senior general compared the existing force to a “self-licking ice cream cone”—so small and weak that it...
sharrow n.— « Providing room for bicyclists to share on the road is always preferable to merely indicating that bicyclists may share a narrow lane. In Oakland, an appropriate application of a sharrow (shared lane arrow) exists on a one...
roach coach n.— «Mary Nelson’s vehicle is an example of what the city calls a mobile catering business, or what is described in the food code as an “itinerant restaurant.” In the slang of the trade, trucks like this are called...
vomit comet n.— «Chris had just ridden the new roller coaster four times in a row, but he insisted he was still seeing things straight. The coaster is part of perhaps the park’s weirdest section of all, called Paradise Pier. It’s a...
cloud n.— «He anticipates users will put their files on Fabrik—either on the Maxtor Fusion or “in the cloud,” as current parlance refers to online storage.» —“Personal memories can go in startup’s memory” by...