ponytail n.— «Band are demo-less and less than a dozen gigs old when swarmed by slavering ponytails from every major label.» —“Toronto Music Scene—06.30″ Usenet: tor.arts June 30, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued...
zot v.— «I keep remembering the scene from “Independence Day” where all those people who’d crowded to the top of a tall building to welcome the aliens were among the first to get zotted.» —“Aliens attack!” by...
colorscript n.— «Colorscripts are horizontal scene panels produced in a variety of mediums, from marker to pastel to paint and collage, which convey the animator’s vision for lighting, mood, and even costumes for a particular scene. In...
three plastic animals rule n.— «The Court held unconstitutional the nativity scene in Allegheny, which was tastefully displayed with a backdrop of greenery and poinsettias, but unaccompanied by secular signs of the season. Practitioners...
roadwitch n.— «Ted Dewan…has come up with the idea of “folk traffic calming.” This is where art installations meet road safety, a kind of sleeping policeman that’s been influenced by Damien Hirst. These type of...
ice cream truck n.— «We exited the plane and the scene was stark—soldiers, machine guns, maneuvering us quickly into what they called ice cream trucks—that looked just like that but were bullet and “IED” reinforced...