cram-down n.— «The Winn-Dixie bankruptcy case is barreling toward the stage that bankruptcy lawyers affectionately call the cram-down. That’s when creditors, bankers, bondholders, vendors, landlords and stockholders wrestle over how much...
merlot-to-go law n.— «F.S. 564.09, commonly called the “merlot to go” law, became effective July 1, 2005. It allows a restaurant licensed to sell wine to permit patrons to take one unsealed bottle of wine for consumption off...
technoism n.— «“Because everyone else has it” reverberates as a familiar refrain on holiday wish lists. And that is definitely a symptom of “technoism,” a term Davis coined to describe purchases made to keep up rather...
coin shooter n.— «Dennis Ranney, for example, is known as a “coin shooter.”…People lose money. That’s what he likes about coin shooting.» —“Solitary stalker sniffs out his backyard booty” by Jeff...
on strip adj.— «On strip: This describes a prisoner who is ordered to serve time wearing only boxer shorts because he has done something wrong. As in, “They kept me on strip for five days.”» —“What the lingo...
jeffers n.— «Jeffers: An inmate term for snitches or brown-nosers. Jeffing is the verb. The origin of the term is unknown.» —“What the lingo means” by Adam C. Smith, Jo Becker St. Petersburg...