MAWG n.— «Ms. Ritterskamp supportively chalked his bad luck up to being a middle-aged white guy, or MAWG in game show parlance. “They’re desperate for minorities and women,” she said. (Michael Davis, the executive producer of...
peoplerazzi n.— «Which brings us to “peoplerazzi”—the coming wave of regular people who one day will realize that in their hands they hold something far more powerful than a cellular telephone (and in many countries beyond the...
lucky sperm club n.— «Even if it could be demonstrated that ordinary people had less native ability than those selected for high position, that would no mean that they deserved to get less. Being a member of the “luck sperm...
hully-gully adj.— «None of us had the sense, the luck or the courage early enough to remove ourselves from the hully-gully of hour-by-hour daily coverage of our usual run of stories to concentrate—gamble might be the better word—upon the...
buzzard’s luck
n.— «Buzzard’s luck.…He can’t kill nothing, and nothing will die for him.» —by W.P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe Apr., 1982. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
buzzard’s luck n. bad luck. Editorial Note: This term refers specifically to carrion-feeding North American vultures that are called buzzards. The expression is often accompanied by the explanation that a buzzard “can’t kill nothing and...