no-load n.— «No-Load The failure of a passenger to take a cab they ordered resulting in lost income for the driver and a delay in service for other passengers. It is frowned upon by the company. In Milwaukee and Chicago, this is also...
hogan n.— «No-Load The failure of a passenger to take a cab they ordered resulting in lost income for the driver and a delay in service for other passengers. It is frowned upon by the company. In Milwaukee and Chicago, this is also...
blogola n.— «An emailer writes that there should be a spiffy little word for blogger payola, like “blogola.” Maybe we could also do with a word for blog product placement, like maybe “product blogment...
circuit bending n.— «[Biff Uranus Blumfumgagne has] invented a few instruments, including the Bat-tar (a heavy bat-shaped electric guitar), the Therolin (a five-string electric violin with a theremin hiding inside), and the Mando-synth...
bicycling n.— «They call it ‘bicycling.’ It’s East St. Louis slang for the Election Day process whereby one will ‘bicycle’ from polling place to polling place, voting multiple times for extra cash. Election officials know who these voters...
noload n.— «Since it took me about ten minutes to get down there, I knew from the start that the probability of a noload was high. A noload, by the way, is cab parlance for wasting the cab driver’s time by taking a hike before the cab...