gapologist n.— «As a student of gapology, I was both thrilled and puzzled by the sudden appearance of the gender gap.…As a gapologist, I enjoyed seeing the upstart science of fenestrology embarrassed. Still, things were...
double carry n.— «“In effect, what we had to do was make every bit of forward progress two times over, going back each time to collect the remainder of our supplies and bringing it back to where we had stopped for the day,” explains...
cannabis club n.— «Fowler was there to ask the council about its progress since May when it enacted a one-year moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries—cannabis clubs in popular parlance.» —“Cannabis advocate follows up on...
swarming n.— «Larger projects are built by breaking projects down into small pieces and assigning each subsection to an agile team (the method is sometimes called “swarming” in agile circles), with the overall progress...
farmer n.— «The macros for World of WarCraft, for example, control a high-level hunter and cleric. The hunter kills while the cleric automatically heals. Once they are fully loaded with gold and items, the “farmer” who’s...
Baltimore wrench n. a chisel and hammer; generally, as in additional forms given in citations, as a slang term a wrench is a tool used for a purpose other than that for which it was intended, especially when used as an implement of brute force...