kill vehicle n.— «Mr. Ghoshroy’s assertions raise new questions about the Boeing Company’s military arm, the main contractor for the troubled $26 billion system of interceptor rockets now being installed in Alaska and California. The...
buzzard’s luck
n.— «Buzzard’s luck.…He can’t kill nothing, and nothing will die for him.» —by W.P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe Apr., 1982. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
buzzard’s luck n. bad luck. Editorial Note: This term refers specifically to carrion-feeding North American vultures that are called buzzards. The expression is often accompanied by the explanation that a buzzard “can’t kill nothing and...
buzzard’s luck n.— «Something called Buzzard’s Luck continues to plague the National League baseball team.…“Buzzard’s Luck is when you can’t kill anything and nothing will die.”» —“Houston plagued by ‘Buzzard...
twitcher n.— «Twitchers (also known as birders) spend months before the event scouting out the spots with the most abundant bird life—caged birds and road kill do not count—and their routes are a closely guarded secret.» —“Twitchers’...
splash mark n.— «In the gulf war, our vehicles got hit farely often. One tank had 4 splash marks on it’s frontal slope from HEAT rounds.» —“Oh, so a mech cant kill tanks eh?” by Absolut_Tempest Mechanized Propulsion...