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doctor mosque

doctor mosque  n.— «Many of the mosques we see in the area now started off as what I call “doctor mosques.…What has happened is that many of the Middle Eastern immigrants who came into the United States would go to larger...

I-reporter

I-reporter  n.— «A steam pipe explosion during Midtown Manhattan’s rush hour Wednesday shattered New Yorkers’ nerves. Moments after the blast, I-Reporters sent photos and video showing a huge steam plume rising into the air...

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A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about language, on the air since 1998. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett delve into word histories, solve grammar disputes, give and answer quizzes, and take calls from listeners...

soft phone

soft phone  n.— «The new system will use phones known in the industry as “soft phones” because they are embedded in computers, and “everything is fully redundant, so if a line gets cut, there are no single points of failure in the system,”...

slingshot

slingshot  n.— «American Apparel is doing all this period, even what I call the slingshot—the suspender, low-cut leotard. What’s great about American Apparel is that they’ve retrained our eye to think that’s sexy again.» —“‘Xanadu’s’...

pickle park

pickle park  n.— «Unless you’re gay, you’re probably unaware of “pickle park,” a rest stop off the Long Island Expressway in Melville. It’s not officially known as pickle park, but that’s what the gay cognoscenti call the...

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