Asbo n.— «The move would give Scotland’s local authorities, who would be able to apply for Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos), greater clout in trying to deal with unruly tenants.…It would be unprecedented for the police to apply direct to the...
pump head n.— «Clinton stands a good chance of fully rebounding from the bypass surgery, in which doctors replace clogged arteries to the heart with veins and arteries taken from elsewhere in the body. But many people who undergo the procedure…find...
fiending n.— «Throughout high school, I watched as many of my friends tried to balance going to class and fiending for the next hit. “Fiending” is just an expression my friends and I use to describe how crazed smokers get when they’re looking for a...
demobe v.— «But who sticks it out and who decides to “demobe”—slang for demobilize or, more simply, go home—is unpredictable, the drivers say.» —“Truckers of Iraq’s Pony Express Are Risking It All for a Paycheck” by James Glanz in Safwan, Iraq New...
lappy
n.— «After all the kvetching (I don’t know how to spell in Yiddish), this schmuck managed to turn a used lappy into a killer computing machine.» —“Buying Used Computers—Addendum” NonProphet Apr. 14, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
goon v. to act like a goon; to attack (someone) with undue or unprovoked violence. Also noun, gooning. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)