vomit comet n.— «Chris had just ridden the new roller coaster four times in a row, but he insisted he was still seeing things straight. The coaster is part of perhaps the park’s weirdest section of all, called Paradise Pier. It’s a tribute to the...
cloud n.— «He anticipates users will put their files on Fabrik—either on the Maxtor Fusion or “in the cloud,” as current parlance refers to online storage.» —“Personal memories can go in startup’s memory” by Dan Fost San Francisco...
compost tea n.— «Spraying compost tea coats plants with a dense and diverse population of beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. A good tea can contain as many as 25,000 species of bacteria. Once on the leaves, compost tea suppresses...
hat-rack v.— «Replacing that stock was slowed last fall when canker, the disease most dangerous to citrus, was discovered in several Florida nurseries. Millions of seedlings had to be destroyed. Other trees damaged in 1983 were “hat-racked”—pruned...
nurdle n.— «Beachcombers’ Alert! newsletter reports that at Moclips, Washington on July 12, 1997, numerous “whitish plastic pellets (nurdles)” were found. Nurdles? Does anyone whence this word came?» —“Law and Order in Berkeley” by Leah Garchik San...
nurdle n.— «Casting aspersions on all the “nurdle” explanations that have gone before, E.R. McSwine explains, with an air of authority, that the word came from “nodule,” which was part of the original phrase, “Styrofoam packing nodules...