double-dead adj.— «Have there been instances where you find —double dead meat— in the slaughterhouse? (Double dead is when an animal is already dead when brought to the slaughterhouse and the meat inspector has to pronounce that it will...
inerstrogen n.— «Tend to be female, hence the Washington Post-style neologism “inerstrogen” to describe the state of trying on five outfits, four hairstyles and three types of lipstick while in a tearing hurry.» —“Seven...
photodog n.— «Here’s the weird moment of the week. White House photographers, affectionately called “photodogs,” were called Wednesday to snap pictures of NASA’s Return to Flight space shuttle crew as they visited with the...
tin medal n.— «You can let your hair grow long, shove your sombrero on to the back of your head, strike your breast close to where you’ve pinned that tin medal you made yourself.» —“Medicine Man Gets Patriotic” Washington...
cantometrics n.— «Coining the term “cantometrics,” which he defined as meaning “song as a measure of society,” Lomax and his assistances analyzed music from Pygmy recordings to mainstream American pop through thirty-six parameters...
idolspize v.— «Whom do you idolspize?…It recently became clear to me that modern life has spawned a brand new emotion, that psychological sidewalk-crack between envy and idolatry that we often succeed in jumping over, but once in a...