digiroid n. a test photograph taken with a cheap digital camera before a more expensive or complicated one is used. Editorial Note: Polaroid instant cameras, which offer cheap, self-developing pictures, have long been used in this way. Etymological...
taspo n.— «The Tobacco Institute of Japan and other organizations have announced plans to introduce ID cards for cigarette vending machines in 2008 in a bid to bar underage purchases. Under the system, ID cards embedded with integrated...
turk v.— «For fees ranging from dollars to single pennies per task, workers, who cheekily call themselves “turkers,” do tasks that may be rote, like matching a color to a photograph, but they can confound a computer. Conceived...
turker v.— «For fees ranging from dollars to single pennies per task, workers, who cheekily call themselves “turkers,” do tasks that may be rote, like matching a color to a photograph, but they can confound a computer...
mooby n.— «Before his weight loss, the film director was mocked by a tabloid newspaper after a photograph of him on a Caribbean beach showed his droopy chest, or “moobies”—a neologism for male boobs.» —“Super-slimmer Winner...
cliché-verre n.— «Photographer K.E. Duffin used a technique called cliché-verre to create her winning photograph called “Anatomy of a Hero.”» —“State’s Cultural Council rewards six Somerville...
