bushing n.— «When you buy a car, you know how great it feels to drive off in a nice set of wheels, even if the car isn’t brand new. But what do you do if the car dealer calls you back days later and says you need to pay more money? It’s...
chuck-and-duck n.— «The Edison Sault power plant is an imposing, quarter-mile-long, turn-of-the-last-century stone structure built along the river that features nearly 40 turbine outflow chutes where salmon congregate on their upstream...
compassion club n.— «I hear that 30 pounds is about two days supply for the San Francisco Compassion Club, which supplies about 4,000 patients. I thought it sounded like a lot of pot until I heard that. Patients don’t just smoke once in a...
mocketing n.— «The “Cheat Death” ad in Rolling Stone last year began with “Dying is so dead” and went on to assert that the stuff “can help prevent premature aging, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, even...
glitching n.— «However, some cheating issues enter a grey area of acceptable behavior. I think “glitching,” a term for exploiting a game’s bugs, falls into one of those categories despite the fact that both professional gamers...
minidorm n.— «Now financial planners and accountants are recommending a wrinkle on the same idea—the minidorm. To use this tactic, says James Avedisian, a tax partner with accountants Coopers & Lybrand, “buy a house on campus...