sack dance n.— «One day I came home to see, amid the rotted boards the contractor removed and was replacing, the bent carcasses of the gutters. After I was confident that no one could see me, I did an atavistic little sack dance around...
slab n.— «If you are a Houston m.c. of any note, you probably drive a “slab,” the local word for an enormous American car from the nineteen-seventies or eighties that has been overhauled and tricked out in high-gloss “candy paint...
Barbie drug n.— «A synthetic hormone that could solve your beauty and bedroom needs all at the same time.…“You could theoretically get tanned and have, certainly, a lot of erectile activity and you might actually start to lose...
auto chocolate n.— «They sell what are known here as “autos chocolates,” coined because these aging used cars are like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’ll get.…In 2001 the Mexican government offered an...
Texas strawberry n.— «Although he didn’t take any of these delicacies to Hawaii, he said, his “Texas strawberries,” otherwise known as jalapenos, left some of the islanders smoking.» —“Texas barbecue hit in...
paint with a tar brush v. phr.— «They are safe and we want our American customers to know that by no means should all Austrian wines be painted with the same tar brush.» —“Austrian wines in U.S. tested for safety” by Frank...