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...
truth-squad v.— «His last book was titled “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them,” and he spends enormous amounts of time on his three-hour radio show truth-squading and savaging various people on the right.» —“Comedian...
sandbox n.— «The sergeant isn’t excited about war in the desert, but he isn’t sure that peace in the desert is a whole lot safer.…He had just three days to do laundry and convalesce before heading back into the sandbox...