fraudband n. low-quality broadband Internet service. Editorial Note: This term is especially common in Australia, although it has been repeatedly recoined throughout the Anglophone world. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
slingshot n.— «American Apparel is doing all this period, even what I call the slingshot—the suspender, low-cut leotard. What’s great about American Apparel is that they’ve retrained our eye to think that’s sexy again.» —“‘Xanadu’s’...
lopomo n.— «“Lopomos” is an acronym for “low-power modes.”… Lopomo energy is used to maintain digital clocks on microwave ovens and VCRs, save television channels in memory, and keep cell phones and rechargeable...
lopomo n.— « An increasing amount of electricity is used by equipment that is neither fully “on” nor fully “off.” We call these equipment states low power modes, or “lopomos.” “Standby” and “sleep” are the most familiar lopomos, but some...
lopomo n.— «Products that idle in what the industry calls low-power mode, or lopomo, consumed about 10 percent of total electricity in California homes, according to a 2002 study prepared for the California Energy Commission by the...
curve bender n.— «He had a pretty good start, weighing in an ounce shy of 9 pounds so you couldn’t call him a low-birth, high-growth “curve bender,” as they say in the cattle catalogs. He’s more of a high-birth, high-growth...