raincoat crowd
n.— «Hey, it’s got Lindsay Lohan in it. Something for the raincoat crowd!» —“Herbie: Fully Loaded” by Elf M. Sternberg MegaZone’s Safety Valve (Worcester, Massachusetts) Mar. 12, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
steady ticket
n.— «I have what they call a steady ticket, so I’ve been going out to the same place now for almost a year.» —“Working in Worcester” by Mike Benedetti Worcester IMC May 11, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
alligator n.— «He picks up a piece of rubber and flings it aside. In an instant, he is back to the safety of the grassy side strip. Again, he gauges the traffic and leaps onto the road to grab an “alligator.”» —“Driven to aid motorists in...
bomber n.— «It’s not that the Old Bomber is on its last legs, you understand. Everything still works fine. Properly nurtured, this “85 Chevy could probably go another hundred thou before giving up the ghost. But the old dear wouldn’t win any beauty...
voodoo poll n.— «The telephone has made opinion polling vastly easier and faster. It has encouraged not only the carefully structured poll, which confronts a large random sample with a well-designed question, but what Robert Worcester, head of...
voodoo poll n.— «To test the system, I rang nine times in the two minutes given to register a “yes” vote (although I would not normally participate in such a “voodoo” poll).» —“Condon and the voodoo poll” by Robert M. Worcester Independent (London...