camioneta n.— «Van services like this—known as camionetas, after the Spanish word for van—are part of a loose-knit network of cottage industries profiting from immigrant smuggling. As far back as the 1980s, camionetas traveled weekly...
mixto n.— «Low-cost gold tequila—also known as mixto because of the sugars and caramel coloring added to the fermented and distilled agave juice—has long been an institution for margaritas and shots.» —“Worth a shot” by...
full-gorilla adv.— «He was always the type of pitcher who went full-gorilla all the time.…He was always aggressive and went right after us.» —“Huisman closes book on past” by Michael Murphy Houston...
sabiki n.— «Sabiki is a Japanese word meaning “bait-catching rig” or “to catch bait fish”—at least that’s what the companies that a few years ago began importing the contraptions from across the Pacific say...
tiger team n.— «Administrator Michael Griffin said a new “tiger team” of engineers will seek solutions to the problem that brought down Columbia and continues to haunt the space agency.» —“NASA Chief Is Optimistic About...
profanitype n.— «By using it in his strip to some 300-plus newspapers (sometimes he renders it with asterisks, or “profanitype,” as he calls it), he hopes to sanitize the word and make it less taboo.» —“Out of the...