pencil top n.— «Most commercial companies over-prune palms leaving fronds with a V-shape referred to as a “hurricane cut.” Constant removal of these leaves will result in a condition referred to as “pencil top”...
Katrina cottage n.— «The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved more than $74 million for a state plan to build more than 400 alternative housing units, often known as Katrina cottages, for south Louisiana hurricane victims...
IGMFU n.— «They’re card-carrying members of the “ME Society.” Everything is for Me, and Screw You. My late father, only semi-jokingly, used to refer to it as the philosophy of “IGMFU,” as in “I Got Mine, F-U...
international residential tourism n.— «“For instance, while the number of British settlers in Turkey is around 8,000 according to EGM figures, what we estimate looking at the inflow and outflow of pensions in British is that this number...