sanctuary city n.— «Enforcing immigration law “really isn’t our job,” he said. “That’s the INS’s…This is a sanctuary city, and we have city policies we have to abide by.”» —“Hundreds line up to get consular ID cards” by Carol Ness San Francisco...
stick drink n.— «Want to try a stick drink? They can be quite good, you know. The term is, I believe, quite new—though the concept is not—and it’s used to describe drinks in which some of the ingredients are muddled. With a stick. Most people call...
m-banking n.— «In many countries, mobile phones are already used on a small scale for deposits and remittances. This could be scaled up to become the new bank architecture of the 21st century. The biggest potential for m-banking, as it is called...
ambulance-chasing n.— «Socially determined objectives must thus lead and direct this effort, not become relegated to “ambulance chasing,” following behind a series of technically compelling yet socially questionable discoveries, papers or patents...
futch adj.— «Apparently, there is a phenomenon that originated in San Francisco in which butch-identified women are wearing dresses. They call themselves futches. Similarly, I have heard lipstick butch. When she heard these two words uttered...
permie n.— «Permaculturists—they call themselves “permies”—had converged on Merritt from as far away as Texas and Missouri.…Permaculture is clearly more than a style of gardening for these folks; it’s a way of life. There are rival schools and...