young-old n.— «What’s to get hepped up and festive about when all I can see in front of me is a decades-long campaign of vigilantly keeping the forces of decrepitude at bay as I totter forward over the next 15 years into first the...
food insecurity n.— «There was a 15-percent increase between 1999 and 2002 in the number of U.S. households facing “food insecurity”—1.5 million families. Overall, this translates into more than 12 million families not knowing...
Eurabia n.— «The Egyptian-born writer Bat Yeor has for some years referred to the rise of a new “Eurabia” that is hostile in equal measure to the United States and Israel.» —“Eurabia?” by Niall...
Collyer n.— «Still today, New York City firefighters call junk-jammed apartments “Collyers.”» —“Hoarding hermits? A typist’s true tale” by Jeff Pearlman Newsday Nov. 3, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued...
Collyer n.— «When firemen are called out to jobs at rundown, junk-filled houses, they call it “doing a Collyer.”» —“Hoarding drives my boyfriend mad New York” by Zoe Heller Daily Telegraph (U.K...
flip v.— «It’s hard for me to feel sorry for guys that are driving three Mercedes and living in million-dollar homes and worrying about six or seven pounds because they have to ‘flip,’” Lukas said. (Flipping is racetrack parlance...