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red light fever

red light fever  n.— «The weather could have been better this past weekend, but many racers bundled up and braved the elements to try to win a little money. It seems everyone had red light fever. Four out of five finals at Coles County...

MAWG

MAWG  n.— «Middle aged white guy’s (MAWG’s) political catharsis, continued: enraged by seeming police tolerance of intimidation, and fuming about corporate welfare (both as manifested in the entirely unlikely community of Harvard, IL) MAWG...

sweep room

sweep room  n.— «Also at Lanphier, beginning Monday, administrators will make sweeps of the hallways when the bell rings at the beginning of the first morning class and the first afternoon class. Teachers will close their classroom doors...

rat

rat  n.— «Meanwhile, the Stinebakers make no attempt to conceal the fact that the Thunderbird—at least to some devout worshippers of domestic vehicles—is sort of a sacrilegious Frankenstein machine. Inside the Ford body sits a Chevrolet...

mouse

mouse  n.— «Meanwhile, the Stinebakers make no attempt to conceal the fact that the Thunderbird—at least to some devout worshippers of domestic vehicles—is sort of a sacrilegious Frankenstein machine. Inside the Ford body sits a Chevrolet...

transloading

transloading  n.— «“If you’re going to ship something less than 400 or 500 miles, it probably makes more sense to ship it on a truck,” Pitcher said, which is done by transloading. Transloading is the term for shipping products by...