fast-food kidnapping n.— «Abductions for pay have become common occurrences over the past few years in desperately poor Haiti. Experts have taken to calling the phenomenon “fast-food kidnapping” or “kidnapping lite...
puddle phishing n.— «Websense Security Lab coined the term “puddle phishing” to describe the phenomenon of targeting customers of small financial institutions.» —“Phishing scams target smaller, targeted groups: Websense...
moonlight clan n.— «She and her overspending friends are creating a phenomenon now being discussed widely in the Chinese media. They have been dubbed “fu weng” (a coined Chinese word for “people in debt”...
dot condo n.— «I often refer to it as the dot-condo phenomenon because it’s a real deal—it’s not a bunch of hype. There is a huge new market for condos, but not as huge as all the projects they’re proposing.» —“Amid a condo boom...
cornflake redundancy syndrome n.— «Lawyer Jane Fraser looks at new legislation which aims to clamp down on the phenomenon of “cornflake redundancy syndrome”—a term coined to describe situations where employees first learn they...
sticky rice n.— «The young Office Ladies found the city’s gay men so cute, they latched on to their club scene. But now the ‘sticky rice girls’ have come unstuck.…A new phenomenon emerged: the okoge. The closest English translation...