yard sale n.— «I responded to her praise with a “face plant” and “yard sale”—falling flat while my skis and poles went in four directions. It might have hurt if we both hadn’t been laughing so hard.» —“A Turn For The Better After A Year Off The...
bang in v.— «All of us know people who, at one time or another, have banged in sick instead of going to the plant or the office in the morning even though there was nothing physically wrong with them.» —“On His Route To Happiness” by Mike...
shut in n.— «About 300,000 barrels a day of wellhead capacity, representing about 70 per cent of Western Canada’s potential production, is shut in—a figure that is bound to increase later this year with the commissioning of the Fort McMurray...
O n.— «He said some of the arrested youths claimed they didn’t know they were smoking heroin when they first started using. They claimed to have been misled by street-slang or myths spread by drug dealers. “Dealers refer to it as ‘O,’” Cloward said...
protein n.— «Every 10 seconds a new cow—in slaughterhouse vernacular, “proteins”—enters Swift’s Greeley plant. Blood-spattered workers carve through the swaying, 1,200-pound carcasses.» —“Farmlands Seen as Fertile for Terrorism” by Charles...
geosequestration n.— «Its plans are believed to include reducing greenhouse gases from the project by using geosequestration technology. The process involves pumping carbon dioxide underground into reservoirs that have been tested to ensure against...