push gift n.— «Add one more thing to the list of pre and post natal-do’s: purchasing your push gift. Today’s “push gift” is a thank-you to women for enduring pregnancy and “pushing” though labor. In England, men...
fireline cord n.— «Martie Schramm, a spokesman for the firefighting effort, said the explosive teams lay what’s called a fireline cord along areas where a 1999 storm left piles of dead wood. The cord blasts the wood into tiny shards and...
popcorn storm n.— «The storm was just a popcorn storm (pops up then leaves) so i go back to my field.» —“Stuck in a rut…“ by Beth Miller in Minnesota The life of an ole July 16, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued...
grow teeth v. phr.— «The 16th can change character daily. It can be relatively benign if there’s no wind blowing. But put a breeze in the golfer’s face and the 16th grows teeth. The lake and a big tree at the corner of the slight bend...
radio fox hunt n.— «This was a radio fox hunt, an event put on by the South East Metro Amateur Radio Club. Radio fox hunting—also known as transmitter hunting, T-hunting, bunny hunting or amateur radio direction finding—is a competition...
point cloud n.— «As part of their 3D laser scanning expertise, the company’s engineers are highly skilled in creating surface models from the 3D scan data which is also referred to as a “point cloud.”» —“GKS Opens Laser Scan...