urban tumbleweed n.— «Word Fugitives sought an American equivalent for the Irish term witches’ knickers, which refers to “disposable plastic bags caught in trees.”…People on both coasts and in between submitted urban...
white pollution n.— «Like other countries, China is also suffering from “white pollution,” a term coined to describe the unsightly tumbleweed of plastic bags blowing around on our streets.» —“White pollution blights...
sacking out n.— «One of the main tools to getting the horse used to human touch is a technique called sacking-out. “It comes from an old term where they used to take a gunny-sack and rub it all over the horse,” he said...
Hargeisa flower n.— «Somaliland, a breakaway state in northwestern Somalia, outlawed plastic bags as well, although passing the law has not appeared to put much of a dent in the problem there. In local parlance, the plastic bags there are...
megarexia n.— «Men are now going to have plastic surgery, more of them are working out, there’s increasing steroid abuse, there’s megarexia (where men body build excessively).» —“Striking A Blow For Your Average Woman” by...
birth control glasses n.pl.— «Right now they’re both wearing Army-issue brown heavy plastic frames, which the soldiers call BCGs, birth control glasses, because they’re so ugly no woman would want to make a baby with a soldier wearing a...