foamer n.— «During a breakfast meeting with local leaders at the Muddy Waters Café, Peg Churchill told Clinton that canal enthusiasts sometimes call themselves “canal foamers.” That was news to Clinton, who predicted canal...
rolling music n.— «He was summoned to a meeting with police and TABC officials and told to beef up security, enforce a dress code restricting baggy clothes, jerseys, or gang-related attire, and to shun “rolling” music, a mixture of...
pluton n.— «If the ideas are approved at the general meeting of the IAU in Prague next week, schoolchildren will, in future, have to learn that the solar system has 12 planets: eight classical ones that dominate the system—Mercury, Venus...
baked in the cake adj.— «As a result, the futures market says a 25-basis-point hike in the federal-funds target, to 5%, at the May 10 meeting is baked in the cake.» —“Back to the Future” by Randall W...
Hooponopono n.— «Hawaiian groups clashing over what to do with artifacts buried in a Big Island cave failed to reach an agreement after meeting for months under an ancient mediation process. U-S District Judge David Ezra had the groups...
man-dress n.— «The fact that I had to dress up like an Iraqi to watch a meeting firsthand just goes to show that something’s wrong. What’s a gringo doing wearing a man-dress? Or jundee ameriki (american soldier) as they say in...