bunny chow n.— «A bunny chow is simply a filling meal, where you cut bread into two halves. You then scoop out the soft part of the bread, you fill the space created with a variety of curries, and put back the soft part on top of the...
agremo n.— «The agremo’ of our Ambassador in Bangkok came after 4 months of sending his name from Kathmandu. Now, that he has been recalled again in such a short time, one doesn’t know how long the Thais are going to take to accept...
trunk rattler n.— «To many who’ve followed Allbangers’ career those questions linger like bass-line snaps, chord changes and hidden drum samples (“I love drums,” he says) in one of his “trunk rattlers...
slot-walking n.— «One of the guards, Marlene Brown, displayed her casino badge and began to explain the casino’s policy on abandoned tokens. The policy is not posted anywhere, but the gist of it is that such “slot-walking” is...
supreme v.— «The second technique you describe is called “supreming,” and the sections are called “supremes.” I usually do a bag of grapefruit all at once so that I can just scoop it from a jar rather than...
roll (someone) up v. phr.— «In the morning, I called a longtime friend, a Washington “source” I hadn’t spoken to in a while, and blew her cover wide open. In the parlance of the agency, I was “rolling her up...