who laid the rail adv. phr.— «The animal struck out on a dead run down the turning row which split the ravine. My friend followed, and it was a race for who laid the rail, as they say in the country.» —New Orleans Times...
bumper n.— «Collier Hill’s first start was in a National Hunt Flat race—more commonly known as a “bumper”—designed for horses deemed too slow to win on the Flat en route to a career over jumps.» —“Bargain Buy Collier Hill...
social cleansing n.— «Noam Chomsky argues that “Mumia’s case is symbolic of something much broader…The US prison system is simply class and race war…Mumia and other prisoners are the kind of people that get assassinated...
O3 n.— «The distance is known in triathlon as the O3 race distance, or three times the Olympic distance that saw Triathlon debut as an Olympic sport in 2000 in Sydney.» —“Triathlon: Long Distance World Triathlon Championships Sunday...
confuzzle v.— «George Farson, who managed the Eastern League Holyoke Millers baseball team in 1978, invented a word one day. He said his team was “confuzzling.” That’s confusing and puzzling, with a dash of good ol’ boy mixed...
cotton curtain n. a political, social, and cultural divide, especially concerning race, between the American South and the rest of the country. Editorial Note: A similar term is Orange Curtain. Etymological Note: Patterned after Iron Curtain...