tribrid n.— «The Kinesis K3 Charger is what’s known in the biz as a “tribrid,” a hybrid with three parts. It’s a solar charger, a wind generator and a plain battery charger.» —“Kinesis K3 Charger – Emergency 3-in-1...
sputter v.— «A thin gas of electrically charged particles called a plasma, the solar wind blows constantly from the surface of the sun at some 250 to 370 miles per second (about 400 to 600 kilometers/second). According to Slavin...
A recent article in The New Yorker magazine about the late writer David Foster Wallace has Martha musing about Wallace’s stem-winding sentences, and the word stem-winder.
cleanout n.— «Salvation comes in the form of large cleansing cool winds that sweep in from the northwest. But as luck would have it, Rochester is the last to benefit from Mother Nature’s air freshener. After pushing through Detroit Lakes...
price walk n.— «What’s the difference between the black Volkswagen CC I drove on the launch event in Tennessee and the black Volkswagen CC that I just recently drove for week here at home? Not a heck of a lot, really, unless you’re...
We’re continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008 with words related to automobiles.