nanny visa n.— «The J-1 visa covers a range of temporary jobs in the U.S. including the “Au pair” category commonly known as the “nanny visa.” A “nanny visa” allows a young person to live with a host family and be paid a small wage to provide child...
whisker n.— «For example, to create “whiskers,” or the horizontal lines of discoloration that run across the thighs, Caitac made balloons that inflate and deflate, mimicking legs inside a pair of jeans, so employees can sand the denim by hand. For...
sunnies n.pl.— «She was wearing loose jeans, a sleeveless white shirt unbuttoned to her sternum and an even larger amount of gold jewelry than usual. “I keep changing my sunnies,” she said as she fished in her Birkin bag for another pair of...
dark house n.— «Some of my earliest outdoor memories where the times I spent seated next to my maternal grandmother in a tiny ice shanty situated on Black Lake near Onaway, Michigan. The interior of the structure was just large enough to allow a...
facial leakage n.— «Natural emotions are instantaneous, which makes them difficult to fake. When Auntie pops round at Christmas to give you your 18th pair of socks, you look pleased and surprised because anything else would be rude. But if you...
tuple n.— «A tuple is neither an exotic fungus nor an adults-only entertainment. Defined with misleading simplicity as “a series of typed values,” the tuple can be to distributed computing what a base pair is to a molecule of DNA: Tuples carry...
