bag hawk n.— «Samuel Hoffman, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, wrote, “Plastic bags trapped in trees and along fence lines are called bag hawks.“» —“Word Fugitives” by Barbara Wallraff The Atlantic July-Aug...
urban tumbleweed n.— «Word Fugitives sought an American equivalent for the Irish term witches’ knickers, which refers to “disposable plastic bags caught in trees.”…People on both coasts and in between submitted urban...
shoppers’ kite n.— «R. Matthew Green, of West Kingston, Rhode Island, said that in his state “bags caught in trees, flapping in the wind, are called shoppers’ kites.“» —“Word Fugitives” by Barbara...
paper airplane n.— «So far, it’s only a paper airplane. But the Airbus A3XX has already generated a war of words commensurate with its size on both sides of the Atlantic between Boeing and its archrival.» —“Boeing, Airbus Battling...
pipe v.— «Jim Roberts’s research also established the likelihood of inaccuracies, plagiarism, piped quotes, and faked datelines in many other Blair stories. » —“My Times” by Howard Raines The Atlantic May, 2004...
juggler family n.— «It’s been attributed to Karen Kornbluh, director of the Work & Family Program of the New American Foundation in Washington…Writing in the Atlantic Monthly in an article titled “The Parent Trap,”...