Panamax n.—Gloss: a cargo ship built to be small enough to go through the Panama Canal. «The Panama Canal is so important to world shipping that the trade has invented a word to describe ships that will fit through it. A...
Panamax n.—Gloss: a cargo ship built to be small enough to go through the Panama Canal. «The ships are bound for Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. (Very little Australian coal goes to China.) The bigger ones are called “Capies”...
Capie n.— «The ships are bound for Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. (Very little Australian coal goes to China.) The bigger ones are called “Capies” to distinguish them from the smaller Panamax ships that can fit through the...
Muzzie n.— «No thanks. I have very little respect for any woman who would cling to a belief that restricts herself to being a “2nd class citizen.” And I have even less respect for a man that would help them to do so. Eat more...
hotel reporting n.— «ABC’s Peter Jennings called it “hotel reporting.” We got it from China last June when many Western journalists, their freedom of movement severely restricted in Beijing, were forced to observe the...