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Victory Lap

A fifth-year senior? That term is so 2007. These days, college students just refer to that extra year of school as taking a victory lap. Grant shares this and other examples of campus slang collected by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill...

sliming

sliming  n.— «The path to Academy Award victory, however, is beset with many dangers, quite apart from the pressures of walking the red carpet. As Slumdog has grown to be more and more of an Oscar contender, the murky Hollywood art of...

smoothing

smoothing  n.— «Another employer victory was this: Congress made it clear that companies can meet the funding target by measuring assets over the past 24 months. This technique, known as “smoothing,” reduces the impact of this...

mibster

mibster  n.— «It was only the second time John Leffakis attended the national competition since becoming a mibster, another name for marbles players.» —“Allegheny mibsters seal Wildwood victory with a kiss” by Trudi...

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