crawler n.— «Sever has witnessed the most pitiful on his repeated trips to assist the eradication effort. Many are street beggars who move their contorted bodies along on hands and knees. “The crawlers,” they are called...
frequent flier n.— «What the state has been doing is having the attendants at tollbooths try to take down license numbers of the cheaters (the state calls them frequent fliers). When a license appears three times, the state’s Department...
meteorwrong n.— «Every day, people mail Washington University geochemist Randy Korotev pictures and packages of rocks. They want him to say that their backyard nuggets are from out of this world—and, gram for gram, worth more than gold...
pay-or-waive n.— «In a nutshell, Washington’s I-933 says that when government regulation reduces a property’s value—or the potential value of uses of the property—the government should either pay the property owner for the...
skitch v.— «Skater pulled by car is hurt: An 11-year-old boy was critically injured in Arlington when he fell off his skateboard after letting go of a car that was towing him up a hill. Police Chief John Gray said the practice is called...
trigger list n.— «So Barney did some digging and found out he was on something called a trigger list. It’s a list compiled by the credit bureaus, in this case, of people applying for home loans. “The credit bureaus are sort of...