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fill the tree

fill the tree  v. phr.— «“Fill the tree”—This is Lott’s technique. Under Senate procedures, a bill may have only a finite number of amendments attached to it at one time. This is called the “amendment tree,” and the...

fill the tree

fill the tree  v. phr.— «Republicans wanted to offer as many as 20 amendments to the Senate version, in a procedure called “filling the tree,” which often is used to kill legislation by adding provisions unacceptable to bill’s...

FRRYYY

FRRYYY
 n.— «A Washington Post (frryyy) review of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, a handheld Linux device.» —“It Does Little and Not Very Well” by wiredog Slashdot Apr. 17, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

garbage head

garbage head  n.— «The may be hard-core heroin addicts or “garbage heads,” youths who take anything to get high, including hashish, cocanine, LSD, heoin, amphetamines and bartituates.» —“Good Head, No Habit” by...

trendmill

trendmill  n.— «I feared that commentators would immediately seize upon my Sunday piece as you did …here goes the press again, beating the war drums for the administration, one step on the “trendmill’ [sic] as you call it. But...