Jim Wilson n.— «To get them home quickly, he would need a little divine intervention, or at least a sympathetic ear at American Airlines.…Garcia placed a call to the Jim Wilson Desk, the pleasant name the airline has given the...
Johnny Jihad n.— «Until next time, stay safe, be happy and remember, Johnny Jihad is not hiding under your bed. He is living in a cave where he belongs.» —“Life During an I.R.R. deployment. (How we are handling the backdoor...
reach truck n.— «Here at the Basingstoke, Hampshire, headquarters of Linde Materials Handling, the UK leader in fork-lift trucks (or “reach trucks,” as they call them), Lambert listens.» —“Lots of comment from the FT’s...
chatter bump n.— «One of her most unusual assignments was to build a road with all the wrong bankings. She created a four-mile nightmare of incorrectly canted curves, chatter bumps, potholes and a hundred other hazards found on rural...
murder board n.— «The White House team handling his nomination as chief justice had not seen the statement in advance, and Judge Roberts had not rehearsed it before the “murder board” that helped prepare him for the...
top hatting n.— «The long-term goal of the unit is to be involved in the handling of crimes peculiar to the gambling industry as a whole. Examples of these would be late betting, top hatting, theft of credit cards from slot machines and...