stepwife n.— «In regard to what word your sister should use to describe her former husband’s new spouse, we have heard a few terms to describe that relationship: You used one of them, “wife-in-law.” We have also heard the term...
dog whistle n.— «The spot, which has no obvious reason to exist, is like a secret signal, a dog whistle blown on the thirtysomething frequency. Come back, MTV beckons, in a language it hasn’t spoken in years.» —“Has Mtv Sharpened Its...
DOUG-FM n.— «DOUG-FM is the new format for 93.1. The new motto is “We play everything,” which roughly translated means a collection of stale music from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and today (the reason the word “today” is...
clack n.— «She showed a display case full of “clack,” the company-stamped coinage and scrip that, for years, served as miners’ money.…”If there was a reason for the miner to get and spend real money, the company...
OG n.— «He had had his locker “kicked”—broken into—before, but usually managed to retrieve his possessions by appealing to gang members’ OGs, the older “Original Gangsters” who supervise the criminal conduct of...
Driving While Teen n. an offense said to be committed by teenaged automobile drivers who are pulled over by police for (ostensibly) no reason at all. Also DWT. Editorial Note: This, like the similar term DWB ‘driving while Black,’ is probably a play...