firecrotch n.— «Jamie’s hair is kind of reddish too. What, Steve can’t find a brunette or even a bottle-blond in all of New York City? Ugh—he probably has some weird fetish.…“Firecrotch” was how my friend Jason explained the...
repot v.— «Mr. Cooley cited a theory of Ernest C. Arbuckle, a former chairman of Wells Fargo who continues to sit on its board. Mr. Arbuckle urges that “you should repot yourself every 10 years.”» —“Wells Fargo’s Ex-Chief...
jade berg n.— «On the bridge this morning Tim the second mate spotted a “jade” berg. These are quite rare and distinctive for their opaque jade colour. This one was smallish and rounded like river stone. While no one is really...
pimp v. (by senior medical personnel) to badger a student doctor with medical questions (as a teaching method). Editorial Note: The more common meanings of to pimp are well-defined elsewhere. Etymological Note: The theory posited in the 1997...
flow n.— «Winter’s approach and, with it, our deepening commitment to our work, is a good time to remind ourselves of the theory of “flow.” Coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,…flow is an optimum state, what we all want...
animanecrology n.— «There are many different theories as to what causes “zombification.”…Dr Peter Foree, professor of Animanecrology (a big word meaning the study of the living dead), notes that by far the most agreed upon theory is...