freight dog n.— «Cargo pilots—”freight dogs” as they sometimes call themselves—and safety advocates say that is part of the problem: The companies won’t put safety ahead of the bottom line.» —“Newspaper investigation...
boarding n.— «Another problem plaguing the ER is bed availability. Patients must be kept in an ER bed while waiting for one to open up on the surgical floor. This process, called “boarding,” makes ailing people in the ER lobby sit, or...
fusor n.— «Even the smallest planemos would tend to be spherical, conforming to our classical image of a planet. But clearly, not all planemos are planets. Marsden said planets might be defined as planemos that orbit a “fusor”—that is...
planemo n.— «The debate over the definition of planethood has been simmering for years—and it bubbled up again this week, thanks to new research into free-floating planemos, or planetary-mass objects.» —“Planet-Sized...
blue juice n.— «It’s not clear that this dog has a “problem” worth getting out the blue-juice for.» —“Re: My Friend’s Dog was Attacked” by Michael Mahler Usenet: rec.pets.dogs May 9, 1991. (source:...
backpacker n.— «I have no problem at all with mainstream HipHop. No wait, let me rephrase this, I have no problem with dope mainstream HipHop.…Ofcourse, I can’t speak for everyone on this newsgroup, or for every...