A South Carolina listener recalls that his father referred to the younger man’s girlfriend with a term that sounded like jing floogy or jing floogie. The word floogie has long been a synonym for floozy, a term applied to women, and often...
Ty in Nashville, Tennessee, has fond memories of his dad handing him what he called folding money. This term simply refers to bills, rather than coins. Other versions include folding dough, folding stuff, folding matter, folding green, folding...
kodakan v.— «The word Kodak itself is synonymous with photography. In the Philippines, the street lingo “kodakan” is often used as a generic term: to take a picture—though now, more often used as a whimsical statement.» —“The end of...
MP3Jing n.— «I need to look into repairing the headphone jack on my laptop. Without it, I can’t run monitors out from my MP3Jing software. That means no beatmixing.» —“Enjoying the silence” by The Angelus Aggregate of...
MP3Jing n. the live mixing or playing of recorded music in a dance club or other public space using a portable digital audio device such as an Apple iPod. Etymological Note: MP3 ‘MPEG audio layer 3, a digital compression format commonly used to...
MP3jing n.— «MP3Jing is just about extending that accessibility. I co-run a night called noWax at a bar in east London, where people DJ with iPods.» —“Clubs: Last night an MP3J saved my life” by Raj Panjwani The...