bike-whacking n.— «During September’s Subaru Primal Quest, a 400-mile battle of wits with Washington state’s rugged North Cascade mountains and mazelike coastline, Kloser said two impossible-to-pedal mountain bike legs through tangles of...
spooty
adj.— «Finished the quest for sheep skins and it gives me a pair of spooty gloves i can’t use.» —“Blearg” by Seben The place that’s left when your heart gets ripped out (Walla Walla, Wash.) Nov. 11, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
emergy n.— «Nearly two decades ago, the plant owners used an unorthodox metric to assess the facility’s impact on nearby estuaries. Called “emergy,” which is shorthand for “embodied energy,” the metric provides managers with a way to quantify...
grand slam n.— «There obviously was a lot of bonding time in Welch’s quest to get his granddaughter’s wild turkey “grand slam,” as it’s known, on video.…Luckett has accomplished…the grand slam twice, along with a double slam (killing two of each...
double slam n.— «There obviously was a lot of bonding time in Welch’s quest to get his granddaughter’s wild turkey “grand slam,” as it’s known, on video.…Luckett has accomplished…the grand slam twice, along with a double slam (killing two of each...
royal slam n.— «There obviously was a lot of bonding time in Welch’s quest to get his granddaughter’s wild turkey “grand slam,” as it’s known, on video.…Luckett has accomplished…the grand slam twice, along with a double slam (killing two of each...