wizzo
n.— «His “wizzo” weapons system officer, Maj. Billy Wilhite, 36, of Monroe, La., said, “Nobody has ever shot at us before.”» —“Combat beginner says strike awesome” Tulsa Tribune (Okla.) Jan. 18, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
boots on the ground n.pl.— «Many American strategists now argue that even light, token US land forces—”getting US combat boots on the ground,” as General Warner puts it—would signal to an enemy that the US is physically guarding the area and can...
spadia n.— «He notes that some of the inserts that gave union mailers their biggest headaches on the new equipment—such as a Montgomery Ward product and the spadia on double Sunday comics sections—have been eliminated since the strike began...
gooning v.— «He got his group off the ground by gooning leftists and militant workers on behalf of the San Francisco labor tops during the 1983 Greyhound strike.» —“Reformists Cover for Teamster Bureaucracy” Worker’s Vanguard (New York City) July...
smile n.— «The pattern of implied volatilities form a “smile” shape, which is called a volatility smile. Most derivatives markets exhibit persistent patterns of volatilities varying by strike…In practice, either the term “volatility smile” or...