beat bag n.— «In 2000 he pleaded no contest in Superior Court to a charge of creating and selling a counterfeit substance, which in street parlance is a “beat bag.” The idea of a beat bag is to sell someone an innocuous substance by...
stack n.— «“With the new 60-plus, I thought maybe drugs wouldn’t be a big part, but it was worse than last year,” said Heffner, who was drug-tested Aug. 5 during the 2006 Canadian World Qualifier in Toronto. He said he had his eyes...
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...
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...
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...
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...