Moonbats and wingnuts and sleepovers, oh my! Martha and Grant discuss political slang making the rounds during this election year. Also: Is it duct tape or duck tape? And what are you supposed to put in a jockey box?
Gabriel, near Baltimore, grew up in Utah and startled a Portland friend by asking him to put some papers in the jockey box. The term means a car’s glove compartment or glove box, and it turns up especially in Idaho and Utah, with some wider...
yo-yo skiing n.— «Last night, the bus driver asked us where we lived, which led to a lively conversation about skiing, his many ski visits to Snowmass (which he enjoyed), his condo at Snowbird in Utah and what he referred to as “yo-yo...
dink v.— «Jon Huntsman is the governor of Utah and is thought to be a possible running mate for McCain.…He also enjoys “dinking,” a term he coined for taking his kids to eat at greasy-spoon diners.» —“10 Things You...
poach v.— «Burton has committed $20,000 to a campaign for equal access for snowboarders. Earlier this month, he said he would award $5,000 to boarders who submit the best footage of themselves riding at resorts that prohibit them—a...
bump n.— «Dreger said data from the blowout, or “bump” as it is known in mining parlance, showed the initial motion of the earth was the same, though smaller in force, to the initial collapse. He said that analysis confirmed...