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showie

showie  n.— «Lew Osborne has been a travelling “showie” all his life, bringing four rides, including the Mega Drop, and 12 sideshow games to the Perth Royal Show that starts this weekend.…A showie is a person who travels...

rip track

rip track  n.— «The Rip Track, is railroad slang, for Repair Track. It really isn’t just one track but a series of tracks, that are refered to in the singular, rather than the plural term, for a particular place at the railroad, designed...

rip deal

rip deal  n.— «The most common scam, known as a “rip deal”, originated in France and has spread into Spain. It works like this: people posing as buyers contact you, pretending to be keen to buy quickly, without viewing, no questions asked...

press trap

press trap  n.— «Vircom, which recently published a report on a well-known spamming scheme called, “Pump and dump,” or “Hype and Dump Manipulation,” said spammers are now using a technique called a “Press Trap” to get people to read these...

five and fly

five and fly  n.— «People seemed to agree with the outspoken professor, whose campaign slogan, Five and Fly, became a state catch phrase (“You come here for five years, rip us off and fly away”).» —“An Ounce of Bronze in...