sharrow n.— «These Shared Lane stencils are an entirely new type of bike lane marking for New York City. They are modeled after San Francisco’s “Sharrows.”» —“Birth of a Class III Bike Route” by Aaron...
roach coach n.— «Mary Nelson’s vehicle is an example of what the city calls a mobile catering business, or what is described in the food code as an “itinerant restaurant.” In the slang of the trade, trucks like this are called...
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...
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...
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...
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...