flame-o-gram n.— «Harrison said Tuesday he had seen the e-mail. “It’s what I call a flame-o-gram,” he said, adding that he does not expect to respond to it.» —“Woman Cheats Death at MCH” by Glenn Barr Mountain...
o-beer-time n.— Note: Seems to be similar to “beer o’clock” and “beer thirty,” which also mean “an instance of, or an occasion suitable for, drinking.” «It was already understood that the crowd in...
cock-o-meter n.— «I even have a name for such a device: a cock-o-meter. The idea being that it would process an image of your face, your hair and your clothes, and marry this information to the sort of car you’re driving. You’d then be...
featurephone n.— «It’s going to be narked at having to change its embedded (and very good) featurephone platform, and also possibly ditch its UIQ smartphone platform. I wonder if S-E is also going to have a good reason to be on Voda’s...
white box n.— «I think you have to consider that system builders—or white-box manufacturers, as they are commonly called—have often voiced frustration with Microsoft’s pricing policy toward them.…White boxes still make up a large...
nuke and pave v. phr.— «So I decided to install Tiger tonight on a couple of machines—an Install Over on my PowerBook (after using Carbon Copy Cloner to back it up—I’m crazed, not foolish), and a Nuke ‘N Pave on a spare SATA drive in my...