corduroy n.— «For the next seven hours, John “Bish” Neuhauser and eight swing-shift co-workers chugged up and down assigned areas of this expansive Park City-area resort in snowcats. They pushed snow around and combed it into...
mobbing n.— «The students, all boys and football players, allegedly surrounded another student in a school hallway during lunch Nov. 20 and punched the student’s arms, chest and back as part of a practice some call “mobbing...
hilltopping n.— «Several fly species have landmark-based territoriality, especially for their mating swarms, and may return to the same tree by a lake year after year. Male Cuterebra flies, also called botflies, form mating groups on...
G-stroll n.— «Bailey, known as “Red,” Figueroa, known as “Ryda,” and Townsend, known as “Rel,” and two women started walking to the party at 446 N. Ninth St., stopping at Law’s mother’s home before they...
lake lettuce n.— «Some might refer to them as moss, pond scum or lake lettuce, which encompasses a wide array of aquatic growth.» —“Weed control curtails two fishing trips” by Steve Ford Courier &...
buster slash n.— «A patch from a Groom Lake unit shows the letter sigma with the “buster” slash running through it, as in the movie “Ghost Busters.”» —“Inside the Black Budget” by William J. Broad New York...