moose knuckle n.— «Everywhere you turned in 2001, it was lip gloss and glitter, moose-knuckle hot pants and sweetened vocals.» —“Pretty Vacant” by Serene Dominic, et al. Phoenix New Times (Ariz.) Jan. 3...
bleed the beast v. phr.— «In the polygamous community of Colorado City, a practice known as “bleeding the beast” is allegedly taking place. Activist for victims of Polygamy, Flora Jessop, who alerted authorities to the...
plewd n.— «Mort Walker of “Beetle Bailey” fame invented a cartoon vocabulary called Symbolia that we cartoonists make use of from time to time.…Plewds—the sweat droplets that appear around a character’s head when...
briffit n.— «Mort Walker of “Beetle Bailey” fame invented a cartoon vocabulary called Symbolia that we cartoonists make use of from time to time.…Briffit—the cloud of dust that appears when a comic character is running...
grawlix n.— «Mort Walker of “Beetle Bailey” fame invented a cartoon vocabulary called Symbolia that we cartoonists make use of from time to time. According to Mr. Walker, that little set of typographical symbols that stand for...
hundred-dollar hamburger n.— «One day Mascaro may have the controls as a group of those tenants fly off for a “$100 hamburger,” the term for flying to an outlying airport, such as Sedona or Payson, for lunch.» —“Airport’s...