TagDouble-Tongued Dictionary

fog line

fog line  n.— «Resident Michael Reiskind noted that the Jamaicaway lacks edge-of-the-road striping—or “fog lines,” as he called them—on both shoulders of the road between Kelly Circle and Perkins Street. That means drivers have no visual...

conceptionmoon

conceptionmoon  n.— «A 2006 survey on BabyCenter.com, a Web site for new parents, showed that three quarters of 1,052 participants had taken “conceptionmoons,” or baby-making junkets, and 40 percent of those had been successful...

waste-face

waste-face  n.— «Dubbing it a “true lounge,” Head says Soho 7 is for the crowd that has matured past the waste-face Water Street scene and is looking for a nicer space to sip a drink.» —“Soho 7 a fashionable new addition...

Nigel

Nigel  n.— «That’s the kind of people these “Nigels”—the airline parlance for BA flight crews—are. They don’t panic because they’ve worked it all out beforehand.» —“Take notice of what Nigel does and you should be prepared...

burn

burn  v.— «“He said, ‘I burned the cracker that took my money,’” Blanding said. “That’s the street term for when you shoot somebody, you burn somebody.» —“Witnesses refuse to testify in murder trial” by Carolyn...

parachuting

parachuting  n.— «Consequently, they engage in a dangerous practice—known as parachuting—whereby they defecate in plastic (lada) bags and throw them into the large uncovered drains which run through several sections of the community...

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