This week’s slang quiz challenges a Seattle video game designer to pick out the correct slang terms from a mishmash of possible answers, including hammantaschen, party party, play pattycake, and get off. This is part of a complete episode.
window-dress v.— «Tuesday’s markets should also be influenced by the end of the third quarter. Fund managers usually try to “window dress”—Wall Street lingo for closing out positions—before they have to report their quarterly...
bluebird n.— «In sales lingo, bluebirds are those opportunities that fly in the window with the salesperson not having to lift a finger. In some sourcing deals I do, I get the opportunity to deliver bluebirds—at least get some vendors in...
Leo n.— «That dialogue is one of the elements that makes Under the Mud so fresh. Street lingo positively trips off the tongues of the characters. Idiotic males are variously termed “beauts’”blerts’”quilts” or...
whopper n.— «That dialogue is one of the elements that makes Under the Mud so fresh. Street lingo positively trips off the tongues of the characters. Idiotic males are variously termed “beauts’”blerts’”quilts” or...
blert n.— «That dialogue is one of the elements that makes Under the Mud so fresh. Street lingo positively trips off the tongues of the characters. Idiotic males are variously termed “beauts’”blerts’”quilts” or...