heavy chalk n.— «Vegas has installed the San Antonio Spurs as prohibitive favorites, or “heavy chalk” in the industry parlance, to win their fourth title in eight years. The spread for Game 1 in San Antonio iniitally favored...
Brazil cost n.— «Brazilian companies can be very productive….They all face, however, what is known as the “Brazil cost” to do business, which is paid when they have to ship products through bad highways in most of the country (the...
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...
deal monkey n.— «This cynical world has produced contrition up and down the Street, but no one is about to pull out of the hustle. Each investment bank employs what are affectionately known as “deal monkeys,” whose job it is...
non-er n.— «As we annihilated team after team in my senior year, I did get to play quite a bit. Referred to as a “non-er” (short for non-athlete) by my teammates, I mostly played special teams, but some blowouts were so bad...
snuse n.— «As historians of the game know, sunflower seeds merely took over where smokeless tobacco, snuff—or “snuse” as it was called in the tiny Swede-dominated Iowa hamlet where I originated—left off. In those days, the boards on the...