flash-bang n.— «While the flash-bang, as they are called in the trade, looks, operates and explodes much like a grenade, it’s meant to cause shock, not damage, police said.» —“State trooper is injured by flash-bang...
Baghdad boils n.— «Sergeant Zachary Tyler brought back more than memories when he returned home after a year in Iraq recently. The Richmond man is suffering from leishmaniasis…, a skin disease soldiers call …quote...
beachcrosser n.— «So can we say a beachcrosser is someone who daringly blazes a trail in an exploratory way across new beaches? Well, no. Later she writes: “The first Maori to visit Australia were Tuki, a priest, and Huru, a...
chop n.— «A gay supply officer aboard a nuclear submarine based in Norfolk heard that Clinton was lifting the military’s ban on homosexuals.…”I thought the change was imminent, that it was just going to happen really quickly...
vinyl village n.— «“Vinyl villages” (a term I borrowed from a friend) line Cedar Road, where builders are more concerned with making money than making homes aesthetically appealing or by saving the trees that will take another...
throwing signs v. phr.— «Just outside El Paso County Jail, women show up daily to “throw signs” to their men, spied in silhouette at the long, narrow windows of their cells.…Being attuned to fringe communication, he was...