devil day n.— «Thursdays and Fridays are when F-1 inmates order and receive their week’s supply of snacks from the canteen. These are the tensest days, Les Farrar has learned in his seven months in the cage. Inmates call them devil days...
BAT n.— «Others are crammed into BATs (the soldiers’ acronym for Big-Assed Tents) where a couple hundred of them sleep in bunk beds and have no space at all.» —“Assignment: Kandahar” by Les Perreaux London Free...
megapolitan n.— «Suddenly we don’t have two cities in two states, separated by geography and a weak transportation link, U.S. Highway 71, that is commercially discouraging. Instead, we have the start of a functioning megapolitan corridor...
blue-sky v.— «He insisted he was merely “blue skying” the idea. He swore he had never used the report, which he had promoted while at NIAAA, to solicit loans from banks to build a private treatment center.» —“The...