bent n.— «On a bent you can just cruise along, if at a high rate of speed, and wave back at the cars.» —“Recumbent riding observations” by Jim Grippin Usenet: rec.bicycles Aug. 9, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued...
tin bender n.— «Mills was transferred in March 1943 to Norman, Okla., where she began training in sheet metal and welding. Her rate of pay was $96 a month. The Navy was training her to be an aviation metal smith, or “tin...
olf n.— «One olf is the emission rate of air pollutants from a standard person, i.e. from an average adult working in an office or similar non-industrial workplace, sedentary and in thermal comfort with a hygienic standard equivalent to 0...
voodoo poll n.— «The telephone has made opinion polling vastly easier and faster. It has encouraged not only the carefully structured poll, which confronts a large random sample with a well-designed question, but what Robert Worcester...
rate tart n.— «Credit card providers are considering withdrawing zero per cent deals, in a sign of their growing exasperation with “rate tarts” who switch cards as soon as they have to start paying interest on their borrowing...
mammone n.— «Italy: Mammone A description of the young men and women who won’t give up Mamma’s cooking. The number of them living at home has risen to nearly 50% in the past decade, perhaps the highest rate in Europe.» —“Parlez-Vous...