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...
Moa’s ark n.— «At stake is the future of “Moa’s Ark,” the name that English botanist David Bellamy coined for New Zealand and its unusual wildlife.» —“The return of saddlebacks (tïeke)” by Bernie...
monkeyfishing n.— «Once highly popular, a monkeyfishing angler uses a homemade device to send an electrical charge into the water. To escape the shocks, the fish swim to the surface where fishermen scoop the stunned fish out of the water...