foot facelift n.— «Dr. Oliver Zong is a New York podiatrist who has built his career around cosmetic foot surgery. He offers “toe tucks” to slim the pinky toe and “foot facelifts” to narrow and beautify the whole...
punk v.— «Clark isn’t fighting the transfer, and under the Oakland police union contract, there is little that can be done because Clark was bumped—or “punked” in the parlance of Oakland police officers—out of the North...
scraper n.— «I got rid of the dubbs on my white scraper cause they rubbed to much so i slapped on the 17″ wit vouges from my other scraper.» —“Ozzie’s Oldsmobile: ‘The Scraper’” by ozzie94 in Oakland, Calif...
janky adj.— «The two artists wear white, “janky-ass Tyvek” painter’s suits; they move quickly, transferring wooden panels and cement legs to the curb beneath the AC Transit sign. Within minutes, they are assembling the bench...
mean-mugging n.— «Oakland is a town where “mean mugging,” the slang expression for looking at someone the wrong way, results in lethal exchanges of gunfire.» —“Decaying park reflects Oakland problems” by John...
naco adj.— «Middle-class Mexicans, she said, tend to use a single adjective to dismiss all that is perhaps most real and most wonderful about Mexican culture, simply because it is dark-complexioned and simply because it springs from the...