flusher n.— «The Obama campaign’s New Media experts created a computer program that would allow a “flusher”—the term for a volunteer who rounds up nonvoters on Election Day—to know exactly who had, and had not, voted in real...
They were the last words Abraham Lincoln heard before John Wilkes Booth assassinated him: “Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside-out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap!” Booth knew that this line from the play Our American...
small wind n.— «While a county-funded wind-testing project is about to begin, the first three months of data from an unrelated wind project at farms near Deerfield and Blissfield was collected Thursday.…The program is focused on...
gumbander n.— Note: “Gum band” is a term for a rubberband that is common to Pittsburgh and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. «Instead, people who are now exploring start-up or self-employment opportunities find the prospect of...
take someone’s legs off v. phr.— «At home the former professional golfer wants to build a multi-million pound indoor golf facility in the region—a project he tried to develop five years ago only to have his planning application rejected...
suicide lane n.— «The project plans U-turns through median cuts at seven major intersections to replace the existing middle “suicide lane.”» —“Businesses gearing up to fight DOT plan for Memorial Drive...