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bucket baby

bucket baby  n.— «“What is a Bucket Baby?” “A foal or calf or whatever that has not got a mother to nurse for whatever reason and it fed milk or milk replacer with a bucket instead of a bottle.”» —“Re: ’Bucket...

shack-wacky

shack-wacky
 adj.— «I’m going shack-wacky and must get away from here, even if it’s only for a day or so.» —by LaVonne Telshaw Camp Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse’s Memoir , 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

NIP

NIP  n.— «To hear some mothers tell it, there are still stores and restaurants hostile to women who nurse in public—or NIP, the shorthand used on breast-feeding Web sites.» —“The great New York breast-feeding test” by Tracy...

fire crotch

fire crotch  n.— «His wife, Ash, was no great lay—not like that nurse at the hospital, fire crotch, a hot little minkie with flaming red pubic hair and a very uninhibited appetite.» —by Chris Mooney Deviant Ways Oct. 3, 2000...

dust-off

dust-off  n.— «The first dust-off is already lifting off, heading back into combat for more casualties, while a second chopper comes in quickly to take its place.» —by Lynda Van Devanter Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army...

levo

levo  n.— «Julia and M.J. quickly assembled their weapons for the battle ahead: bags of fluid and lots of IV lines, blood pressure boosters called pressors, and epinephrine—”levo,” in nurse parlance—to counteract shock...