lawfare n.— «The Pentagon didn’t quite call it “lawfare,” but there it was, amid the bureaucratese of this year’s National Defense Strategy, a candid reference to the ill-intentioned use of international law and the courts to...
Mostly White College n.— «The Free Lance-Star rightly criticized the University of Mary Washington for its abysmal record of minority recruitment, especially among African-American students.…But there’s really not that much...
pharming n.— «Pharming is a short way of describing the process of…well, it’s difficult to distill into plain English, but the end result is that the perpetrators redirect people from legitimate Web sites to fake versions that...
Jesus year n.— «The show leaps at you—at 12:35 a.m., an ungodly hour for anyone past their Jesus year, age 33.» —“Late Night Raises The Burr” by Hank Stuever in L.A. Washington Post Mar. 14, 2005. (source:...
MSM n.— «With Dan Rather’s slow motion sacking reaching its not-so-thrilling climax last evening (I intended to watch, but got the TV schedule mixed up, and wasn’t all that disappointed to realize I’d missed it) everybody seems to be...
blackcent
n.— «To some, he’s the anti-Vanilla Ice, white with a blackcent.» —“Eminem Wins by a ‘Mile’” by Desson Howe Washington Post Nov. 8, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)