master cleanse n.— «When Teron Beal, a songwriter and aspiring actor in Manhattan, was looking to drop weight quickly for a photo shoot, he didn’t double up on gym visits, gulp metabolic boosting pills or limit his diet to leafy greens...
holohoax n.— «When movement theorist Revilo Oliver died in 1994, Dickson performed master of ceremonies duties at a memorial symposium put on in his honor by the National Alliance, a leading neo-Nazi group. …Dickson’s involvement...
geoslavery n.— «Jerome Dobson, a University of Kansas professor and president of the American Geographical Society, coined the term “geoslavery” with colleague Peter Fisher in 2003. He defines it as a master exerting control...
purp n.— «“Wher’s y’r master, purp?”…The hount lifted his nose and howled dolefully.» —“The Sign of the Prophet” by James Ball Naylor Nebraska State Journal Feb. 16, 1902. (source: Double-Tongued...
hick-hop n.— «What makes Cowboy Troy a hard-sell for the mainstream is that he is country music’s first rapper, grand master of a new musical genre he dubs “hick-hop.”» —“Add a new term to the lexicon: ‘hick...
Globish n.— «They don’t know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800 languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that its inventor, Jean-Paul Nerrière, considers it a...