frequent flyer n.— «Contestant #2 should have been named “Mr. Drug Seeker”—amazing how an hour after 2 Percocet’s, somebody’s pain, which had been at an “8,” was suddenly up to a “8.5.” Whatever. I...
yellow generation n.— «ters. In China. The place with the fastest-growing economy in the world. Do you think they give a rip about trade imbalance? Do you think these kids who call themselves the “yellow generation” look up to...
draw down v. phr.— «I guess if you live the life of a gunslinger, well, you always watch your back. You never know who might be drawin’ down on you.» —“The good and bad of being there” by Kevin Boland in Minneapolis...
Smallbany n.— «Even in piddling mid-sized cities like the one I grew up in—Albany, N.Y., affectionately known by many as “smallbany”—there was at least one or two hip spots where a musically curious kid could get lost in...
squick
v.— «Don’t get squicked (freaked out).» —“No Holes Barred” by Kristin Tillotson Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) Sept. 11, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Minnesota nice n.— «Minnesota Nice, as it is called, means that when the woman serving coffee at Caribou, the local doppelgänger of Starbucks, asks how you are doing, she really wants to know.» —“Comedian for Senator? Don’t...