lifestyle center n.— «Lifestyle centers are developer parlance for open-air shopping centers laid out not in long strips, but compactly and with buildings mixed at various sites on a piece of land. They often have mixed architecture...
swivel chair job n. a desk job; a sinecure or patronage position; a rocking chair job. Editorial Note: Often derogatory, especially in the military. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
mud sale n.— «Thousands of new and used items ready for auction, from handmade furniture to groceries to livestock, spilled out of the town fire hall onto adjoining fields and under tents, while buyers from near and far—Amish, their close...
Verkehrsberuhigung n.— «Verkehrsberuhigung is German for “traffic calming,” a long-standing European practice of reducing speeding and cut-through traffic by using speed humps, street furniture, wild engineering and other...
mongo n.— «Besides furniture and bathroom, I crammed the section with a decor of “Mongo,” items workers selected from the waste flow, that they refused to put in the truck—art, religious figures, dolls. » —“Interview:...
mongo n.— «Other exhibits at the gallery were a 1,500-square-foot transparent map showing the locations of Sanitation Department offices; three piles of televisions on which videotapes of sanitation workers were shown, and an old...