In Ireland you’ll find that some folks have an odd habit of gasping in mid-conversation. A Texan who lived in Dublin for years says he found this speech trait disconcerting. The hosts explain that this “pulmonic ingressive” is heard other places...
Wii knee n.— «It is being reported that people who picked up the habit of playing Wii games, innocently thinking that they are just playing some silly little sports game, are finding themselves with the fractures and sprains, that typically occur...
loser cruiser n.— «When a class goes on a field trip, they should take the bus. It might even help us wean ourselves from the recently acquired habit of chauffeuring kids everywhere they ever go. Is it any wonder they grow up to refer to the bus as...
snoutcast n.— «You see them everywhere, huddled together in doorways and outside buildings—whatever the weather, giving their lungs their nicotine “snack.” They are Britain’s smoking employees, now dubbed “snoutcasts.” Since a ban on smoking in...
meth bugs n.pl.— Note: Similar to cocaine bugs. «“The skin starts to dry out and becomes itchy and the user starts to hallucinate and thinks he has something crawling under his skin—what is commonly called meth bugs. Because he thinks something...
step on v. phr.— «Heroin often is white powder heroin, which in many cases has been “stepped on,”” or cut, so many times that the “high” is weak.…“Black tar” heroin…not surprisingly looks like black tar and is harder to “step on.”» —“Huntington’s...