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cut

cut  adj.— «Steroids changed Taylor’s personality as well as his body. In a matter of months, he developed a muscular 205-pound physique—”cut” in the teenaged parlance.» —“Family blames steroids for death” by...

spag

spag  n.— «Spag. That would be what folks at a meeting on tagging think will happen before long: Spammers will latch onto the emerging practice of tagging descriptive words onto Web site links, photos, songs, and other stuff on the Web...

handbags at dawn

handbags at dawn  n.— «Miss H. continued to be verbally abusive and to prevent any flared tempers from spilling over in the restaurant I asked her to step outside to discuss the matter further. On my part this was a risky maneuver, as If...

peoplization

peoplization  n.— «Either from external pressure or from internal inefficiency of the management privatization (“peoplization” as it is called in Sri Lanka) has become the order of the day, no matter whether thousands of...

DWT

DWT  n.— «How many times have we been stopped on the road for DWT (Driving While Teen-aged)? No matter what guise it appears under, the prevalent message is that teen-agers can’t be trusted.» —“Teenagers: The discounted...

cereal test

cereal test  n.— «Editors apply what is generically referred to in the newsroom as the “cereal test.” Photos that might upset a reader over breakfast are screened very carefully, and are used only if the subject matter or news...

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