Big Mother n.— «If public interest in diet wanes, the program can be halted without undoing a tangle of law. The federal government has only one legitimate task: fulfilling its constitutional duties. Doing more it verges on becoming Big...
turker v.— «For fees ranging from dollars to single pennies per task, workers, who cheekily call themselves “turkers,” do tasks that may be rote, like matching a color to a photograph, but they can confound a computer...
broheem
n.— «Flek, R U a l33t H4X0r? No way you be more leet than my main broheem JeffK.» —“Re: Surfrider Blue water task force” Usenet: alt.surfing Mar. 1, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
spinksterinkdum Negro n.— «At Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., where King took over the pulpit in 1954, his brilliant predecessor Vernon Johns had often taken his complacent congregation to task for being too conservative...
cupcake v. to compete or win with little effort. Editorial Note: Usually transitive, especially in the form cupcake it. Thanks and credit go to Ben Zimmer for his research. Etymological Note: Ben Zimmer has suggested comparisons with other dessert...
sheeping n.— «Across Britain, 6.5 million animals—sheep, cows and pigs mainly—were eventually culled. “Sheeping” was the term the slaughtermen used to describe their grim, if well-paid, task.» —“Plague, foot and mouth...