A dish-to-pass supper, common in Indiana, is the same as a pot-luck supper or a covered-dish supper, but the term nosh-you-want drew a red flag when Grant went to visit the Wikipedia page for potluck. It hadn’t appeared in any other form of print —...
racking n.— «Police point out that spray paint used in vandalism is usually shoplifted from stores, a practice known as “racking.”» —“Salem eyes spray-paint ban; new law would stop kids from buying cans” by Chris Cassidy Salem News (Beverly...
stowed out adj.— «It involved greater face-to-face discussions with local people. Sceptics said it wouldn’t work—because no one in the public would talk to “The Polis” either through fear or mistrust. In fact, when they went out on to the street on...

