snipe n.— «Networks are also experimenting with something called snipes. Similar to ABC’s icons, snipes are visual effects that take place in the lower right hand corner of the screen during a show. Shows on TNT, for example, may include a visual...
moonball n.— «From the extreme to the subtle, there was Torben Ulrich, the bearded Danish eccentric who found himself playing Bill Hoepner in the 1953 Pacific Coast Tournament at the Berkeley Tennis Club. Hoepner was intensely annoying, known to...
Territory handshake n.— «In the film Australia, being filmed at Darwin’s Stokes Hill Wharf, screen veteran Bill Hunter’s character welcomes Nicole Kidman’s English aristocrat to the Territory with a pat on the bum. The cheeky pat, dubbed the...
chamcha n. a sycophant, toady, or hanger-on. Etymological Note: From the Hindi and Urdu word for ‘spoon.’ (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)