tip-on n.— «Bell Atlantic, which merged with GTE to form Verizon last summer, began offering what Verizon Information Services calls a “magnetic tip-on” on the front cover of the phone book about a year and a half ago...
ha la n.— «ha la—alexis p. and linda y.—boston, ma—1993—an expression for surprise. hawaiian pidgin for oh my gosh or no way! me: my cell phone bill was $200 this month. them: ha laaaa!» —“i want to have a word with...
nomadic intimacy n.— «Thus, one of the major social functions of cell phones is to provide a “nomadic intimacy”…by making it possible for people on the move to remain embedded in their personal social networks...
French hours n.— «We would get there at 6 a.m. and roll by 6:45. We did “French hours.” You don’t break for lunch, you just keep passing food all day. Colin’s confession at the end, that’s the ninth day of shooting—it’s the...
French hours n.— «During Phone Booth, no lunch breaks were taken because all of the staff agreed not to take lunch breaks (food was simply available for crew to grab and eat when they could) versus normal movies where there a very...
bahl gorms n.— «The “Boontling” Knox refers to is a sort of argot or private language valley locals developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries using the syntax of English but substituting parts for wholes or referring...