funk n.— «His biggest advantage, Mets Manager Willie Randolph said, is that Bradford brings “the funk.” His slider can start at a right-handed hitter’s knees and run across the plate. Or it can zip upward. His sinker...
chute dogger n.— «He’s a chute dogger—a term for steer wrestlers. When the gates open, he’ll try to drag the steer into the arena, then pile-drive it to the ground.» —“So You Wanna Be a Cowboy?” by Ben Paynter The...
slobber-knocker n.— «This series is gonna be a real slobber-knocker, one of those classic situations where good pitching is gonna have to rise to the occasion and cancel out good hitting.» —by David Wells Perfect I’m...
dancing lemons n.— «As the school trustees resume their hunt, it’s become increasingly obvious that this exercise is flawed. Perhaps fatally. With head- hunter Bill Attea on the case, we’re just asking for another crop of dancing lemons...
show pink v. phr.— «Unnamed dancers who are a party to the suit assert that full nudity (“showing pink,” in stripper parlance) and simulating sex acts are “essential” parts of their free expression.» —“The Big...
Big Pharma n.— «Big Pharma, as it is known, offered everything: the hopes and dreams we have of it; its vast, partly realized potential for good; and its pitch-dark underside, sustained by huge wealth, pathological secrecy, corruption and...