keyfabe n.— «HHH lost his push, and was pulled out of all the WWF’s summer PPV’s because of the infamous event at the Garden, i.e. the breaking of keyfabe.» —“Re: [INFO] Hack Notes – 12 June 1996″ by The...
purple adj.— «Operation Purple is the only summer camp program that focuses on helping kids deal with deployment-related issues and is open to children of personnel from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces (“purple” is a...
brix n.— «The grapes are picked when their brix (another French word referring to the sugar level in the grapes on the vine) registers at 12 to 14, which is always in the summer but varies in each area of the vineyards.» —“Good ‘n’...
sustrugi adj.— «Early in the season the ice is clean with no tonal shades, but as the summer progresses dust blowing over from the McMurdo Dry Valleys paints a subtle pattern the pilots call sustrugi.» —“Godzilla Ice” by...
burn off v.— «The summer season, used primarily to burn off reruns, failed series pilots and documentaries, is becoming more important as a possible springboard for freshman series that had modest ratings in the regular season...
cardinal n.— «This is turning into a difficult summer for the 13 chairmen of the House Appropriations subcommittees, the powerful legislators known reverentially on Capitol Hill as “the cardinals.”» —“In College of...