queue-busting n.— «The company’s Micro Kiosks allow customers to check prices and can provide advertising and specific promotions. One Symbol portable product has let sales clerks at Apple stores ring up customers standing in line—a...
aerosol art n.— «Mr. Beer said his work is not gang related and he sees graffiti (or aerosol art as he calls it) as art, whereas the symbols and numbers done by gangs or bored teenagers is vandalism.» —“Pickering passes new graffiti...
whalejet n.— «As a supreme symbol of Europe’s prowess in aerospace, indeed in modern technology itself, the A 380 superjumbo jet, is melting down. No longer the embodiment of European cooperation and unity, its third announced delivery...
Hummer house n. an overly large single-family residence. Editorial Note: Synonyms are starter castle, faux chateau, and McMansion. Etymological Note: From the Hummer, a large fuel-inefficient sports utility vehicle often seen or used as a symbol of...
hool n.— «South Africa has no laws similar to Germany’s outlawing the display of racist symbols such as the swastika, but Fifa president Sepp Blatter has held the ultimate threat over the heads of the “hools,” as they call...
grawlix n.— «Mort Walker of “Beetle Bailey” fame invented a cartoon vocabulary called Symbolia that we cartoonists make use of from time to time. According to Mr. Walker, that little set of typographical symbols that stand for...