black mulch n.— «Rows of black plastic stretch across the fields of eastern Hillsborough County. The plastic, affectionately called black mulch by farmers, marks where 8,000 acres of strawberry plants will soon blossom.» —“Who will...
puppet mouth n.— «“Your face has a lot of character,” he says. Uh-oh. In my book, character is another word for wrinkles. But when I ask him which wrinkles I should get rid of, he says, “I don’t see anything I find offensive...
hit-and-go pack n.— «As soon as he lands, he has the option of going right to his survival kit and unzipping what’s called a hit-and-go package that has some of the most important items in his survival kit, and immediately start his...
lead snowstorm n.— «The 4-inch by 5-inch film can be wrapped in a plastic bag and placed inside an animal that has been gutted. In the case of a questionable archery kill, troopers can put the film inside a gutted animal and shoot a...
nurdle n.— «I put down a nurdle (a precise measurement, somewhere between “a little” and “a skoshe”) of the green stuff, make a little crater in it and put in some Testors liquid cement.» —“Re: Plastic Model...
nurdle n.— «Beachcombers’ Alert! newsletter reports that at Moclips, Washington on July 12, 1997, numerous “whitish plastic pellets (nurdles)” were found. Nurdles? Does anyone whence this word came?» —“Law and Order in...