Katrina crud n.— «Harold “Buz” Olsen, the city’s community and economic development director, said between 40 and 80 patients a day visit the clinic for a variety of injuries and illnesses, including the nagging respiratory ailment locals have...
Suck n.— «The tagline for Sam Mendes’ war movie ”Jarhead” is ”Welcome to the Suck.” ”The Suck” in this case is happily not the movie. Like the film’s title, which is slang for a Marine grunt, ”the Suck” is Marine slang for Operation Desert Storm...
dirt Navy n.— «I’m not likely to end up back on a ship anytime soon (if ever).…You could say I’ve gone from the “blue-water” Navy to the “dirt” Navy—or the “sand” Navy in this case.» —“Looks like I’m goin’ to the Gulf for a Year…“ by An ex...
mobile-minium n.— «Brewer said she had been helping to arrange for evacuees to move into what are being called “mobile-miniums,” a sprucier name for what are commonly called trailers» —“Peace Corps Deployed to Gulf States” by Greg Simmons FOXnews...
John Wayne v.— «“We did it the old way. We John-Wayned it,” a firefighter mused using the term for hitting a door with your shoulder.» —“More vignettes from the Gulf Coast area” by Tony Gnoffo et al. in Kiln, Miss. Knight Ridder Sept. 2, 2005...
boots on the ground n.pl.— «“In the first Gulf War one in 100 ‘boots on the ground,’ as they call it, was a private contractor.” When the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003, one in 10 was a private contractor. “Today, as we speak and the U.S...