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Featherwood

Featherwood  n.— «Angela would tear herself away from the TV and finish opening the can, declaring herself “a skin bitch, a Featherwood.”» —by William Finnegan Cold New World , 1998. (source: Double-Tongued...

shim

shim  n.— «I don’t care too much for the shims (she and him at the same time) who ruin it for all the other self-respecting gays. Years ago, a dear friend of mine, who happens to be an O.G. (Original Gay) in the homosexual world, informed...

singletrack

singletrack  n.— «Mountain bikers are always hunting for something called singletrack. Like fresh powder for skiers or the perfect wave for surfers, singletrack is one part natural phenomenon, one part mystical experience and one part...

facening

facening  n.— «Otona No DS Kao Training, or Face Training, includes a camera that plugs into the Game Boy Advance slot on the Nintendo DS and videos your face as you play the game. The idea is what the Japanese call “facening,”...

person of pallor

person of pallor  n.— «Joshua and Andy were rejected because their racial group was overrepresented in the schools they wanted to attend, not because the school was closed to everyone who shared their skin color. Although they were persons...

heteropolitan

heteropolitan  n.— «But now the metrosexuals are being elbowed aside. Here come the heteropolitans: men perfectly at ease with themselves, fathers who prefer nights in with their families to nights out on the tiles; guys who prefer shorts...