workout n.— «Tomlin was employed by a Columbia bank doing “workouts”—a term for taking a seized, failing business and making it profitable—and turned a failing workers’ dormitory in Hilton Head into successful vacation condominiums...
vision strip n.— «Indeed, during the 1970s, many districts, including San Diego Unified, began to construct new schools with no windows. Educators argued that windows prevented students from concentrating; architects of these schools...
cyclops mirror n.— «But he said the driver’s blindspot in front of the vehicle still extended to three ft and there was also a substantial loss of vision towards the front left of the truck. On the extra front facing mirrors, also...
colorscript n.— «Colorscripts are horizontal scene panels produced in a variety of mediums, from marker to pastel to paint and collage, which convey the animator’s vision for lighting, mood, and even costumes for a particular scene. In...
show-runner n.— «In TV parlance, the “show-runner” is the one person (sometimes more than one, but generally one) who is in charge of the creative vision of a show on a day to day basis.» —“TV Wake-Up Call for 9/20/05:...
cocaine bugs n.pl. a skin itch or the sensation that bugs are under one’s skin, caused by the hallucinatory effects of cocaine and its derivatives; formication. Editorial Note: Scotoma, mentioned in the first cite, is defined by WordNet as “an...