carbage n.— «Top Gear is here to ridicule the clueless by bringing you the best chavved-up motors and tasteless tat. Welcome, then, to Carbage. There are a few hundred dodgy modified cars to sift through, but we need more. If you spot any...
pillarboxed adj.— «Most people will watch a feature film letterboxed but if, in the future, you fork out the money for a 16:9 set Im sure you would be dissapointed if the picture was “pillarboxed.” The 14:9 is not squashed per...
walltop n.— «Five hours later I turned my laptop into a digital picture frame. Coined as a “walltop” by one of the first that was widely publicized (here), it is just a plain old laptop with the screen being displayed in a picture frame...
faithbooking n.— «An award-winning journalist and avid scrapbooker based in New Jersey, Sheridan said the writing is just as important as the pictures in “faithbooking,” as spiritual scrapbooking is sometimes called.» —“Local author:...
wood n.— «Rudy took Judy out for a stroll up Second Avenue, permitting the newspaper photographers to snap pictures all along the way. They were on the cover—the “wood,” in the argot—of the tabloids the next day, as Giuliani...
bullet catcher n.— «We don’t like to use the term “bodyguard.”…t’s an antiquated term and you have a picture of a muscle-bound guy in an ill-fitting suit who is sort of lumbering in the background. We have a term for those...