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 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 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 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 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...
mets n.— «There is no stage V. It was the worst of all news—”as bad as it can get,” confirmed the nurse at the Middlesex Hospital who rang to inform me that the CT scan had revealed mets (metastases, or spread) in my liver...