stork parking n.— «Zucca’s on Beckley Road has what is called “Stork Parking.” It designated a parking spot for mothers with children under age 1 about five years ago, when the store director’s wife was expecting and she found...
Katrina crud n.— «Harold “Buz” Olsen, the city’s community and economic development director, said between 40 and 80 patients a day visit the clinic for a variety of injuries and illnesses, including the nagging respiratory...
pony-tail n.— «Currently he’s working as creative director, A&R pony-tail and admin bitch for Capital Recordings.» —“Clinton Smiley” Obscure.co.nz (New Zealand) Jan. 16, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued...
chronomics n.— «I’ve been encouraged to think about time by the observations of Dr Michael Schluter, executive director of Britain’s Relationships Foundation. He’s coined the term “chronomics” for study of the laws governing...
scatter band n.— «They’re known as a “scatter band” for their lack of formation.…“What happened was, we had a band director who was fired in 1963,” says Amit Aggarwal, who plays tenor sax. When a graduate student...
tummystick n.— «What could easily have been a humiliating two-hour-and-15-minute episode of tummysticks-on-the-range in the hands of a lesser director and writers is saved through the sheer coldness of the combined one-two of Ang Lee and...