Tagsubstance

age compression

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...

fifi bag

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...

milkshake

milkshake  n.— «Van Clief’s comments came days after 17 people were indicted for an alleged plan to use a substance known in racetrack parlance as a “milkshake”—a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and sugar—to a racehorse in the...

spizzerinctum

spizzerinctum  n.— «For the explosive substance in the bomb hydrogen, he substituted knowledge, and for uranium, the fuse, spizzerinctum. This he defined as “energy ambition and the will to succeed.”» —“Publishers Told...

streetism

streetism  n.— «About sixty percent of the youth in the metropolis are unemployed due to lack of skills and the result is “streetism,” drug and substance abuse, immorality and armed robbery.» —“People Should Vote...

clear

clear  n.— «Montgomery reportedly testified Nov. 6, 2003, that in 2001, BALCO founder Victor Conte gave him weekly doses of human growth hormone and a substance called “the clear”—which Montgomery referred to as a “magic...