elephant n.— «Vale threw a party in Ulan Bator with samba dancers flown in from Brazil to mark the company’s arrival in Mongolia to search for another “elephant”—mining parlance for a big discovery.» —“Ivanhoe Seeks...
outstate n.— «He believes President Bush is the first sitting president to bring his own campaign to Duluth since Dwight Eisenhower. “People up here get tired of the ‘out’ terminology, as in ‘outstate.’ Being courted is always nice...
watermelon n.— «The keynote speaker, William H. Holms, presented a talk entitled, “Wimps, Weirdos and Watermelons,” in which he stated environmentalists were just a bunch of unemployed welfare-leeching Communists. He suggested...