prank v.— «Most people born after about 1977 will know that “pranking” is when you call someone up on their mobile phone but hang up immediately afterwards. It’s entered the vernacular as a verb, for example, “I’ll prank...
smack shopping n.— «There are two ways to buy on Jellyfish.com. Customers can either search for a specific product and compare the deals offered by participating retailers or they can go “smack” shopping—the term for a group...
toyger n.— «Its hypnotic eyes and threatening stalk make the tiger one of the most captivating attractions at the Los Angeles Zoo. Judy Sugden was so captivated by the world’s largest feline that she became the first to breed domestic...
wood n.— «Rudy took Judy out for a stroll up Second Avenue, permitting the newspaper photographers to snap pictures all along the way. They were on the cover—the “wood,” in the argot—of the tabloids the next day, as Giuliani...
can count on no hands v. phr.— «The amount of business we’ve gotten from the World Soccer Cup you can count on no hands.…We have no business tied to that event at all.» —“It seems we’ve heard that song before: San Jose loses...
bulky n.— «In August 2003, the Miami bureau of the FBI made the startling decision to close its case on Posada. Subsequently, according to FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela, several boxes of evidence were removed from the bureau’s evidence...