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pump head

pump head  n.— «Clinton stands a good chance of fully rebounding from the bypass surgery, in which doctors replace clogged arteries to the heart with veins and arteries taken from elsewhere in the body. But many people who undergo the...

fiending

fiending  n.— «Throughout high school, I watched as many of my friends tried to balance going to class and fiending for the next hit. “Fiending” is just an expression my friends and I use to describe how crazed smokers get when...

demobe

demobe  v.— «But who sticks it out and who decides to “demobe”—slang for demobilize or, more simply, go home—is unpredictable, the drivers say.» —“Truckers of Iraq’s Pony Express Are Risking It All for a...

lappy

lappy  n.— «After all the kvetching (I don’t know how to spell in Yiddish), this schmuck managed to turn a used lappy into a killer computing machine.» —“Buying Used Computers—Addendum” NonProphet Apr. 14, 2002...

goon

goon v. to act like a goon; to attack (someone) with undue or unprovoked violence. Also noun, gooning. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

receipt

receipt  n.— «In wrestling, there’s a thing called—they’re referred to as potatoes, is when you accidentally hurt somebody for real. And, you know, it—one potato’s OK, two potatoes is crossing the line, and the third one, you usually give...