sleepover n.— «A poll worker, election official, technician, or other person who had private access to a machine for as little as one minute could use these methods without detection. Poll workers often do have such access; for instance...
zero period n.— «The new schedule has seven 50-minute periods, and extends the school day by 15 minutes. Before, the high school day had six 55-minute periods, but many students took an extra class —- commonly called a “zero...
age out v. phr.— «At least when it comes to the 9,000 children the government has taken into care on your behalf. They are children who have no one else capable of caring for them. So the government, acting for you, has stepped in to keep...
leave everything on the field v. phr.— «First he held forth at length the press conference for long stretches, then spent three solid hours that evening at the CBS party at the Rose Bowl, glad-handing critics on the stadium turf and...
kotching n.— «Am liking it so much here at the moment, I don’t wanna be in a house next year. No more kotching in the buttercups or sitting on the roof or barbeques on the jetty.» —by missducky Phew for a minute there I lost...
ninety-minute bigot n.— «Rangers chairman David Murray has coined the term ’90-minute bigots’ to describe those fans who sing offensive songs during a match and then return to a normal life, working and socialising with Catholics...