chamcha n.— «Speaking in Urdu, the language of South-Asian Muslims, local Muslims who opposed the posse had taken to calling its members chumcha, or “spoons,” a cultural concept akin to being a lackey. For an American Muslim...
HoYay n.— «The TV-fan site www.televisionwithoutpity.com, on its Smallville pages, even casts a rainbow spotlight on Superman’s youth with a board devoted to the show’s alleged gay undertones or “HoYay!,” shorthand for...
con-con n.— «Proponents of the proposed constitutional convention on property taxes refer to it in shorthand speak as a con-con.» —“Codey’s down-to-earth, humorous speech matches the guy” by Bob Ingle Asbury Park...
IED v.— «“If they i.e.d. you in this thing, there won’t be enough of you left to package up and send home,” a Marine sergeant said earlier this week, as he showed embedded reporters to one of three open-backed Humvees assigned to a...
spange v.— «To spange: Shorthand street talk for that often-heard phrase, “Spare change?” says The Denver Post. Spangers have made it into a verb.» —“Social Studies” by Michael Kesterton Globe and...
haji n.— «It’s SO hot that if I wash my clothes in the Haji washing machine (that’s shorthand for anything bought locally, and by the way, “Haji,” Lloyd tells me, is not a pejorative term since it means “wise man.”...