feller buncher n.— «Along a 9.5-mile corridor between Buchanan and Millwood, a team of contractors was busy removing oaks, birches and other trees to create a quarter-mile clearing. In one clearing, a feller buncher—a kind of bulldozer...
trunk monkey n.—Gloss: a rear gunner in an armed vehicle, caravan, or convoy. Note: Used among military personnel and contractors in Iraq. It’s possible that the term derives from this advertisement from Suburban Auto Group, and others...
trunk-or-treating n.— «You go trick-or-treating when you go to people’s houses to get candy.…You go trunk-or-treating when you go to people’s cars to get candy, and that’s much better because you can go around the cars a million...
trunk rattler n.— «To many who’ve followed Allbangers’ career those questions linger like bass-line snaps, chord changes and hidden drum samples (“I love drums,” he says) in one of his “trunk rattlers...
dignitarian n.— «What’s rankism, or rankist behavior? It is hiring an intern and ignoring her all summer. Or pointlessly yelling at the receptionist about a manager who is late. Or a professor’s taking credit for a graduate student’s...
chestal adj. of or related to the chest or upper trunk of a person. Editorial Note: The phrases chestal region and chestal area are often euphemisms for a woman’s breasts. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)