overboarded adj.— «Davis, he added, is a “professional director” who is a “regular Harbinger nominee” to other company’s boards. “Research indicates that Mr. Davis currently serves on the boards of 12 public...
Michigan 11-pointer n.— «Hunters in northern Indiana refer to them as Michigan 11-pointers—young bucks with nothing more than a couple parallel bones sticking out of their head. They are typically healthy and legal to shoot, but are they...
Texas bull’s eye n.— «The cluster itself may have been what is called a Texas Bull’s eye, where one shoots a number of rounds at the side of a barn and then draws a target over the tightest grouping, if there is one.» —“Maddening...
chuck-and-duck n.— «The Edison Sault power plant is an imposing, quarter-mile-long, turn-of-the-last-century stone structure built along the river that features nearly 40 turbine outflow chutes where salmon congregate on their upstream...
three-jack n.— «It was as inevitable as a Tom Watson three-jack.» —“Media and pro golfers growing farther apart” by Mike Bianchi Times-Union (Jacksonville, Florida) Mar. 26, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued...
homer n.— «Maybe it’s because I’m a “homer” as they say in sports coverage. And I hoped that part of my community—my area—could make the news and maybe get some more help and more-informed coverage down the road...