fright puppet n.— «To drive almost anywhere here this week is to run a gantlet of advertising for movies about killing.…A fright puppet from Universal’s “Dead Silence” peers menacingly from a construction-site wall by a children’s...
chicken head n.— «While cleaning the nut Mutt[0] had placed where the climb goes back into the corner, I’m thinking “Man, I’m glad I didn’t lead that pitch, very airy and a nasty fall onto plate sized chicken heads.”…We...
jollop n.— «Hard times and hard frost last night, and so she will have to be content with a jollop of new antifreeze.» —“BW Cert.” by David Hockin Usenet: uk.rec.waterways Oct. 25, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued...
scamdicapper n.— «Ex-football stars and head coaches have long shown an eagerness to sell their names to scamdicappers.… Typically, a star’s name is used to front boiler room scams of seasoned scamdicappers and con artists...
data Valdez n.— «Ted checks in on what people are calling the “data Valdez.”…Every couple of steps we take going forward,…we seem to get hit back by something horrible like “the call” or “the data...
New York rain
n.— «“New York rain” is the local term for water that drips, annoyingly, from air-conditioners onto passers-by.» —“Hard rain” in Hong Kong Economist Aug. 3, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)