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Hispandering

Hispandering  n.—Gloss: pandering to Hispanics. «The Scrum pays close attention to the 2004 presidential race, noticing Dick Gephardt’s recent Hispandering proposal to “legalize undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United...

garbage time

garbage time  n.—Gloss: in American sports, “garbage time” refers to the remaining minutes of a game whose outcome is already apparent. «He is trailing in the polls. His numbers are static. Unless he does something now, right...

IOKIYAR

IOKIYAR  n.— «Americans abbreviate a lot, even when it’s sarcastic. Take IOKIYAR.The acronym stands for, “It’s OK If You’re A Republican.” It’s used to describe words or actions that would cause firestorms if the responsible people were...

poop-butt

poop-butt  n.— «A poop-butt mother-fucker in here dealin’ gets pushed aside, fucked over and stomped down.» —“Playing a Cold Game: Phases of a Ghetto Career” by Alan G. Sutter Drugs and Politics , 1977...

latte liberal

latte liberal  n.— «Mr. Rush’s district, the state’s most Democratic, was 65 percent black. And in 1999, it included not only Hyde Park, home of the University of Chicago, but several relatively affluent Irish-American neighborhoods. There...