toe popper n.— «The VC use anything and everything to build their devil’s devices. There were toe poppers—normally a single bullet no bigger than a pencil, set on top of a nail; step on it, and the bullet pushed down into the nail and...
rice bowl n.— «To be sure, there remain hotbeds—maybe “rice bowls” is more apt—of interest in IED and IPS in and out of the Navy.…Several government officials conclude that Secretary Danzig’s corporate approach cannot...
tin whisker n.— «Tin whiskers were first reported in 1951. They are single crystals of tin filaments, usually having diameters of 0.5 to 5µm and lengths up to a few millimeters.» —by Mordechay Schlesinger Modern...
road to Damascus experience n.— «There are those who regard coming out as a “road to Damascus” experience, a single moment of recognition of one’s “true” self, a gestalt shift in which the label of the derided...
wilv other.— «My argument was that the the whole sequence, “will have been…-ed” could be reduced to a single word, but it would have to be a new word. If it were merely instituted that “wilv,” for example...
UGRE n.— «Natick has gone back to the drawing board; it is now testing “unified ground rations express,” or U.G.R.E., which can feed 18 soldiers a hot meal out of a single disposable box.» —“K.P. With the Culinary...