scroogie adj.— «Scroogie. Something wrong with a job but the trouble has not been discovered.» —“Material for Trade, Slang and Jargon Dictionary: Sheet Metal Workers” in U.S. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. Lexicon of Trade Jargon , 1938-39. (source:...
goldberg
n.— «Goldberg. Cheap, complicated pieces of mechanism.» —“Material for Trade, Slang and Jargon Dictionary: Sheet Metal Workers” in U.S. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. Lexicon of Trade Jargon , 1938-39. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
bubble n.— «In NFL scouting parlance it is referred to as a “bubble.” You and I call it a butt or backside or rump. If you’re an NFL lineman, the bigger the bubble, the better, because it makes you tougher to move. Eagles defensive tackle Corey...
wheeling n.— «The best bill in the whole bunch is A-1660, a comprehensive measure the Senate passed last year. It covers all levels of government and eliminates the back-channel practice known as “wheeling,” which lets contributors skirt limits as...
poppy store n.— «Since moving into the neighborhood in 2002, Candi Brown said she’s noticed a lot more “poppy stores”—street slang for bodegas—have turned up on street corners. Some of these stores attract unsavory types. “You see guys hanging out...
burn notice n.— «Despite these qualms at lower levels, no written warning—or “burn notice,” in CIA parlance—about Curveball ever was issued, and administration officials repeatedly used his bogus claim that Iraq had mobile biological-weapons...
