balayage n.— «The way to achieve sun-kissed summer colour this season is with the Balayage technique, a European paint-on colouring method. It creates worn-in, sun-kissed, highlights that mimic the way the sun lightens your hair. It adds masses of...
bumster n.— «None of the 100,000 tourists who sun themselves on Gambia’s glorious beaches each year can avoid the advances of the West African country’s notorious “bumsters.” This is a local term given to young unemployed men who hang around hotels...
tiger stripe n.— «Stretch marks, on the other hand, I’ve got lots more of.… (About 50% of the skin on my shoulders and the biceps side of my upper arms is stretch marks; overdoing it in the sun makes for a plethora of bright red stripes (the...
gonch
n.— «Today’s subject is gonch. Also known to many of you as underwear.» —“Postcard from Salt Lake” by Gary Mason Vancouver Sun (British Columbia, Canada) Feb. 9, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
shoobie n.— «I have become the very thing I despised growing up, the most vile of all human beings, a “shoobie.” If you’ve never heard the word before, it’s a derogatory term that locals at the Shore use to describe tourists. It dates back to the...
Manhattan solstice n.— « I’ve heard about a “Manhattan solstice,” when the sun supposedly lines up along the streets. Is it for real? When does it happen?…On May 28 and on July 13, the sun will fully illuminate every Manhattan cross street (not the...
