When there’s no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? Some people apply acronyms like YOYO — “you’re on your own” — or CORN, for “Clean Out your Refrigerator...
Ian in Clyde, North Carolina, is puzzled when a colleague uses the term blue million, meaning “a large amount.” Along with words like zillion and gazillion, this expression functions as an indefinite hyperbolic numeral. Sometimes the...
junque bond n.— «My baseball team, my rinky-dink network that covers all of greater Atlanta, my boat and 60 zillion in junque bonds.» —“Hostile Raiders—Buying Everything With Nothing” by John Hinterberger Seattle...