gun-grabber n.— «Davis, 54, got a TNT-like retirement gift from one right-wing newspaper. Atop a story announcing that Davis was going, the paper’s headline cried, with utmost objectivity: “Chief Gun-Grabber Retires.”» —“Moonshine Buster...
gift trauma n.— «“Gift giving has lost its meaning because we’re way too focused on the reaction of the recipient instead of wanting to find a small, meaningful gift,” says Sunwolf, a communications professor at Santa Clara University in California...
caging n.— «Many people use many terms for this service. Some of them are: lock box operation, cashiering, scanning operation, caging operation, cash management, and OCR operation.» —“How to cut costs on gift processing” Fund Raising Management Jan...
returning the butter n.— «For a man to marry, he had to have land to grow bananas. Even the gifts he took to the bride’s parents had to include matooke. After the marriage, when the bride did what came to be called ‘returning the butter’, she took...
doosra n.— «Saqlain [Mushtaq], 22, who flicks his thumb and index finger across the seam while keeping his wrist action almost identical to his stock off break, has revolutionised his art with his “doosra”.…”The Urdu word for it is doosra, first is...
beshert n.— «I am sad today because my Mother’s Day gift from our beshert child’s birth country’s gift to us was a demand for yet another document, one we have sent many times… Beshert is yiddish for destiny or soul mate.» —“Mother’s Day: Bitter...