scarecrow n.— «The NYPD is using unmanned police cars on major highways as a deterrent to speeders, the Daily News has learned. The vacant vehicles—derisively referred to as scarecrows by some cops—were blasted by the city’s police union...
reef v.— «Babe Zaharias is a dark brown filly with a pauper’s life-time earnings. She stood in box No.76 reefing at the leads that held her head up and away from the straw.» —“Bold Ha Ha fails champion test” by Patrick...
truth window n.— «A truth window is a common thing that’s built into these rice straw buildings, because actually when they are covered with stucco it’s very difficult to tell, other than the very sort of soft look that the building has...
straw buyer n.— «An illegal land flip is a two-part transaction involving the transfer of a piece of real estate that is sold to a straw buyer for the fair market value, and then resold to an end buyer at an inflated value, often using...
straw sale n.— «The NRA has blocked efforts to end what’s called “straw sales”: Buying handguns in bulk so they can then be turned around and sold to people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to pass a background check...
straw contribution n.— «His solution was to have his employees and their spouses make contributions …under their own names, then reimburse them—a technique known as “straw contributions’ that is a felony under federal election...