gombo n.— «In accepting bribes and payoffs, journalists themselves perpetuate corruption, and they have a term for it: gombo. The word is French for okra, a slippery plant substance that sticks to your fingers.» —“Cameroonian Journal: Greasing...
organ printing n.— «Equations usually found in physics textbooks are turning up in tissue-engineering labs, where they’re being used in a radical new process called organ printing.…Printing involves depositing layer after layer of cells into a...
pupil passport n.— «The rest of the substance of Mr Cameron’s announcement lies in the abrupt axing of education vouchers, or “pupil passports” as he called them when, a mere eight months ago, he extolled their virtues in the Tory manifesto...
heroic dose n. a quantity of a medical drug sufficient to endanger a person; (hence) a quantity of a recreational drug sufficient to achieve the maximum possible psychedelic or psychotropic effects; an excess of any substance or behavior. Editorial...
age compression n.— «There can scarcely have been a generation of adults that doesn’t complain that kids seem to be growing up earlier than ever. This time there seems to be some substance to the cliche. The marketers have even coined a term for...
fifi bag n.— «Actually, the instructions for such an organic liason originate witth the invention of the famous “fifi bag,” used since the first horny prisoner in some long ago jail cell discovered that a rubber glove, or baggie, or sheep’s...