D-girl n.— «The idea came from Kitty, a D-girl (or, in wicked Hooeywood parlance, “Development Slut”) from the TV division of Genius Nerd Films.» —“Running down Lunacy Lane with a D-girl” by Ms. Gonick San Francisco Chronicle (California) Sept. 3...
Hooeywood n.— «The idea came from Kitty, a D-girl (or, in wicked Hooeywood parlance, “Development Slut”) from the TV division of Genius Nerd Films.» —“Running down Lunacy Lane with a D-girl” by Ms. Gonick San Francisco Chronicle (California) Sept...
spin v.— «To keep the fewest people irate at any one time, Barsotti, who has been an agent for seven years, has rules: “Don’t make commitments early, don’t spin late.” Spin, at the track, means renege on a deal.» —“The Agent: The Need To Talk a...
mean-mugging n.— «Oakland is a town where “mean mugging,” the slang expression for looking at someone the wrong way, results in lethal exchanges of gunfire.» —“Decaying park reflects Oakland problems” by John Fall San Francisco Chronicle Aug. 15...
jibber n.— «Nearly a dozen businesses can be found hereabouts specializing in removable mouth jewelry, or (in the vernacular) fronts, or grills, or jibbers.» —“Mouth-bling market hitting a rocky spot” by David Lazarus San Francisco Chronicle Aug...
gooning v.— «He got his group off the ground by gooning leftists and militant workers on behalf of the San Francisco labor tops during the 1983 Greyhound strike.» —“Reformists Cover for Teamster Bureaucracy” Worker’s Vanguard (New York City) July...