nifty-gifty n.— «“There’s a tremendous amount of potential to sell what I call the nifty-gifties,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for the NPD Group, a market research firm. “You have a captive audience, even with...
double-dead adj.— «Double-Dead Meat—refers to carcasses, parts thereof, of food animals or poultry that are already dead, but are still slaughtered and offered for sale to innocent market goers.» —“Ordinance No. 2005...
pinhook v.— «Although many of the weanlings are to be pinhooked, they brought yearling-style prices. Still, with the yearling market on the rise it’s possibly the time to take such risks. (Pinhooking means buying weanlings to be sold on...
blast n.— «How do you regulate a medium that is so fluid and so time critical? We cannot have the NASD take four days to approve a blast e-mail to all shareholders if the market expectation is “Yesterday I wanted it. Today is too...
blast n.— «That system called for entering a market slowly, studying all the angles, and then launching a clearly superior product with a huge advertising blast.» —“For P&G’s Rivals, the New Game Is to Beat the Leader, Not Copy...
white-label adj.— «Do not get too distracted with versions that may not have a large market at the moment, such as US customized versions or a “white label” version for US Web portals.» —by Michael A...