scatter hoarding n.— «Every year, the squirrels plant a forest of pecan trees for me. They observe a practice called “scatter hoarding.” That means they harvest nuts and such and bury them all over the place. That way, no single raid by a...
bike-wack v.— «“Bike-wack”…The competitors trekked through the trees to the second CP, another 12 km’s away, picked up their bikes at this remote drop point and mountain biked onward.» —“Hope Launches Western Canada...
endarkenment n.— «Yet there were also ominous signs of the days that Eric Burdon of the Animals refers to as “the endarkenment.” There was a series of rock-star drug busts, most notoriously the raid on Keith Richards”...
narcling n.— «“It’s rough stuff,” said John Donnelly, a lead instructor at the DEA training facility on the sprawling Marine base at Quantico. Donnelly got his start in the late 1980s busting meth labs in California’s Central Valley as a...
ram raiding n.— «All the locks and security systems in the world won’t prevent a deranged thief from smashing into your business with a 3,000-pound vehicle. This practice is known as “Ram Raiding” and involves smash-and...
drop-dead deadline n.— «More than 7,000 Americans already have fled the area and the U.S. was prepared to take another 3,000 out this weekend in what has been referred to as “drop-dead deadline” to leave the area...