tub n.— «Tagliani wasn’t hurt in the wreck, which happened in the warm-up for yesterday’s Molson Grand Prix of Toronto.…His team’s spare car—a “tub” as it’s known in the parlance—amounted to an empty shell. It was lacking vital components such as a...
party ball n. a five-gallon container of beer, one-third the size of a keg (in the U.S.). Editorial Note: According to numerous articles in the Washington Post, Party Ball was also the now outdated product name for “a lightweight plastic sphere that...
cold shell n.— «Two of the buildings with about 350,000 square feet are unfinished, or in what the industry calls “cold-shell” condition and would require additional investment of about $100 a square foot before they could be occupied.» —“Sale of...
box job n.— «Prosecutors have alleged Chapman, Flanagan, Jacobi and others created shell corporations and sold securities while hiding the fact that they controlled all the shares of stock—a scheme regulators refer to as a “box job.”» —“Mistrial...
cash shell n.— «After an outcry from advisers, it backed down on proposals that new cash shell companies must acquire a real business within a year of flotation.» —“Cash shells heading off to Ofex as deadline looms” by Stephen...
heroic dose n.— «At what Terence McKenna calls a “heroic dose’ (I love that phrase!) the focus is all outward, and the ego, that thin shell of self-delusion, is no more, and at this point the greater truths start rolling in like a bunch of insane...
