wash sale n.— «To tackle the problem, the European market set up a system that allowed market participants to simultaneously liquidate a Eurodollar position on the CME and rebuild the same one on Euronext.liffe. However, a CME rule...
sandbagging n.— «“Cars that catch fire,” he says, “will be allowed to continue at the officials’ discretion. Rollovers are okay. Now go out there and make good hits. No love taps, and no sandbagging.” What Todd calls...
SPOSH n.— «This definition includes land upon which “significant harm is being caused or there is a significant possibility of such harm being caused.” From this we get that friendly-sounding acronym SPOSH (significant...
broham
n.— «What harm can a game like doom be to a 15 year old, I mean really get a life broham.» —“Re: EVIG” by Circle Jerk Usenet: rec.games.video.3do Dec. 9, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
lawfare n.— «The Pentagon didn’t quite call it “lawfare,” but there it was, amid the bureaucratese of this year’s National Defense Strategy, a candid reference to the ill-intentioned use of international law and the courts to...
pirata n.— «Robles accused the media of siding with pirata drivers and giving the public “the false impression that the D.F. government wants to harm the poor. They (cab drivers) are portrayed as the victims.”» —“Media...