leather and feather epic n.— «According to Montgomery, the joke in the native community is that every movie that comes out about Native Americans features roles that are, well, rather predictable. In other words, they might as well be...
ghost n.— «What was meant to be a day meeting the Iraqi people in one of Baghdad’s eastern neighborhoods abruptly turned into a long day of what the soldiers now refer to as “chasing the ghosts of small arms fire.” The troops...
reef v.— «I failed to understand it a bit later, when I hooked the bottom of the lake. To me, reefing and reefing and reefing on my Very Expensive graphite rod was fairly serious business. To her, it was a good belly laugh. Especially...
dinosaur wine n.— «Much of the money made in the oil business has been raked in by companies that had no direct interest in dinosaur wine.» —“Gates may have last laugh in break-up” by Bill Schadewald Triangle Business...
office wife n.— «To my mind, a private secretary is an “office wife” for some eight hours of a man’s day. She should give him subtle encouragement, approval, admiration, respect. She should laugh at his jokes, overlook his...
giggling gear other.— «“Giggling Gear”—This is a term used in playing a joke on an apprentice who will be sent to the stock room ostensibly to get a part for a machine [sic] being instructed to ask for a “giggling gear,”...