compassion club n.— «I hear that 30 pounds is about two days supply for the San Francisco Compassion Club, which supplies about 4,000 patients. I thought it sounded like a lot of pot until I heard that. Patients don’t just smoke once in a...
bangernomics n.— «Others choose to avoid depreciation and buy a car that is at least five years old and drive it until it dies, a practice known as bangernomics in the UK.» —“New-car values go up in smoke” by Rob...
sideshowing n.— «But he also thinks the Stockton Police Department crossed a line when they impounded his truck from his driveway Saturday and accused him of “sideshowing”—a term used to describe a reckless display behind the...
inframince n.— «The back cover, a message built of collaged letters, demonstrates Duchamp’s notion of “inframince,” a neologism of his that, he stated, could not be defined, only illustrated: “When the tobacco smoke...
gone pecan
n.— «Mealworm walks up to the pond carefully, knowing if he falls in he’s a gone pecan.» —by Patty Friedmann Secondhand Smoke Sept., 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
deckle n.— «Though John Ross, head of the society’s contest-sanction committee, contends that “burnt ends come from whatever’s burnt,” be it beef or pork, the specialty derives from the point—also called the deckle or nose—the...