nemesister n.— «All the skaters share an unmistakable bond. “We’re all friends, and we’re all in this together, but I’m gonna kick your a- Sunday night,” Sister Mary Jane explained. “We have a term for the relationship:...
rorikon n.— «Hagino was inspired to turn his relationship with the alleged victim from friendship to fiendship because of a “Rorikon,” the contracted Japanese word for “Lolita Complex,” the local parlance for...
bodyshopping n.— «Outsourcing proper is not quite as common as one might think—outsourcing is not simply a contractual relationship like buying and selling or simply engaging people services—something commonly known as...
GFE n.— «Is a one-hour fantasy relationship (i.e., the feeling that you really have a relationship—other than the physical and economic) part of the GFE? Is just pure sexual endulgement inconsistent with the experience?» —“GFE...
de-hyphenate v.— «In the patois of regional politics, the Washington deal “de-hyphenates” India and Pakistan, giving New Delhi a different relationship to Washington—as a power in its own right, not a weight to be balanced...
somaticizer n.— «Early after its inception in the mid-1940s, the Kaiser Permanente HMO in Northern California discovered that 60 percent of physician visits were by patients who had no physical disease. The relationship between emotional...