meat glue n.— «Transglutaminase: Commonly known as meat glue, it is used to chemically bond proteins together.» —“Molecular Gastronomy ingredients” News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) May 14, 2008...
OLF n.— «Navy officials announced Tuesday that they were scrapping plans to build a remote airfield in Washington and Beaufort counties. Even longtime opponents were taken aback. Some had fought plans for the outlying landing...
parachuting n.— «Consequently, they engage in a dangerous practice—known as parachuting—whereby they defecate in plastic (lada) bags and throw them into the large uncovered drains which run through several sections of the community...
mental accounting n.— «Experts say, for example, that such people don’t fall prey to something called “mental accounting,” in which an individual creates imaginary boundaries between different “types” of money...
dog robber n.— «Another assignment was to be a “dog robber” which was a military term for a general aide to a superior officer who could be called upon to do a multitude of things.» —“Columnist salutes World War II veterans for...
multi-dadding n.— «Sadie Frost has done it. Ulrika Jonsson does it all the time. Paula Yates did it. And so have I. What we, and countless other women have done, is have children with more than one man. It is fraught, it is complicated...