boulevard stop n.— «A woman going through a boulevard stop can say she’s just learning to drive and was afraid she couldn’t get her car started again if it stopped.» —“The Union didn’t much care for Ol’ Billy Carlson” by...
bio-box n.— «He helped haul out bio-boxes in the wake of suicides and murders.» —“‘Aftermath’ is not for the fainthearted” by Terri Schlichenmeyer Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, Massachusetts) June 10, 2007...
complete knockdown n.— «Still, said J.D. Powers’ Dunne, Chinese carmakers might not encounter the same challenges penetrating the U.S. market from Tijuana that Honda and Toyota did in the 1980s when they had no local supplier base. These...
pinstripe patronage n.— «These legalized kickback practices were gradually whittled away by court decisions. The real money thereafter came not from lunch-bucket jobs but from what has come to be called “pinstripe patronage.”» —“Time...