hook one up v. phr.— «Here was a case, they said of Pearson’s effort on the ironically named No Penalty, of something extremely fishy. Failing to give his mount every opportunity to win, in racing legalese. Hooking one up, in the parlance...
chummery n.— «PG accommodations, working people’s hostels, messes are fast making ways for what is known as called chummery, a new buzzword among host of urban professionals.…Most of such “mixed” apartments are owned...
show-up n.— «A “show-up” procedure involves the police taking a witness to the location of the suspect to give the witness an opportunity to make an identification.» —by Vincent G. Torpy in District Court of Appeal...
Afristocracy n.— «There’s been a huge gulf between the have-gots and the have-nots, what I call the Afristocrats, the black Afristocracy, the black professionals, the upper bourgeois black people who have had enormous opportunity and...
ghettocracy n.— «There’s been a huge gulf between the have-gots and the have-nots, what I call the Afristocrats, the black Afristocracy, the black professionals, the upper bourgeois black people who have had enormous opportunity and...
nanocast n.— «Jay Conrad Levinson, the guerrilla marketer guru, scents an opportunity in using the Net to distribute audio infomercials or “Nanocasts” as he calls them, though.» —“Liar, Liar. Seth Godin...