Mexican beans n.pl.— «Two San Francisco newspaper reporters, citing 1,000 pages of documents and interviews with more than 200 people, alleged that baseball’s potential all-time career home run king bulked up on various amounts of...
nifty-gifty n.— «“There’s a tremendous amount of potential to sell what I call the nifty-gifties,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for the NPD Group, a market research firm. “You have a captive audience, even with...
fussy-cutting v.— «The term “fussy-cutting” has come into favor for describing the art of cutting out desired portions of a fabric, usually small areas, to create specific effects in a quilt.…Take time to look at fabrics...
plunking n.— «Another potential influence on the outcome may have been what’s known in election parlance as “plunking,” in which votes are not cast in a particular race. Though 20,941 voters went to the polls in Somerset County and...
dipstick survey n.— «The “dipstick” survey by the consultants also showed 93 per cent “awareness” of the new station among its potential listening audience.» —“Aberdeen’s NorthSound moves up the...
tro-tro n.— «Each tro-tro runs along specified routes with destinations yelled to potential passengers out the window by the driver’s assistant (or “mate”) and—in the case of loud street noise—the holler is accompanied by a...