spook by the door n.— «He claims Benjamin and Williams label white people who speak out against them as racists and any other black person who opposes them as a “spook by the door,” a pejorative term referring to a black person who spies...
ponytail n. an executive of a music recording company, especially a music label’s A&R (artists and repertory) representative. Editorial Note: This term is a metonym. A popular depiction of music label reps is of a past-his-prime man who wears a...
ponytail n.— «Band are demo-less and less than a dozen gigs old when swarmed by slavering ponytails from every major label.» —“Toronto Music Scene—06.30″ Usenet: tor.arts June 30, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued...
ponytail n.— «Squeezed past all those big label A&R ponytails to get airplay on Seattle’s KMTT 103.7 FM.» —“Susan Court News” by Neile Graham Usenet: fa.music.ecto Nov. 10, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued...
dominionist n.— «“Dominionists,” the pejorative label he used to describe the Christian right, threaten the very stability of American culture by, in his estimation, “imposing their moral agenda on the rest of us...
road to Damascus experience n.— «There are those who regard coming out as a “road to Damascus” experience, a single moment of recognition of one’s “true” self, a gestalt shift in which the label of the derided...