shorty n.— «They call it “the lot” or “the pen,” although it is also sarcastically referred to as “the cabby country club” or less charitably as “taxi driver purgatory.” From the air, it is...
cabby country club n.— «They call it “the lot” or “the pen,” although it is also sarcastically referred to as “the cabby country club” or less charitably as “taxi driver purgatory.” From the...
rubber ear n.— «There can be no greater put-down than a stand-up. A dissy, a rubber ear, or cold shoulder, only the names are changed to protect the guilty.…Can you imagine the stench in the streets if every guy or girl rubber...
busdown n.— «Hold up wait a minute mz b weezy don came up in it. Holl aback i love bow wow and 50 cent also but bow is my # 1 boo forever and always so all yall little busdown wannabes need to back dat azz away fa you get merked...
Mortaritaville n.— «The 45-soldier unit has spent the past 14 months guarding Camp Anaconda, the military’s largest support facility in Iraq, about 40 miles north of Baghdad. Soldiers call the place “Mortaritaville,” for the...
rake v.— «After almost a century in which anguish has accumulated like autumn leaves, New England wakes up this morning toasting a team that, in the current baseball parlance, really “rakes.”» —“Boston’s long wait finally...

