paper the record v. phr.— «The flurry of formal posturing reminds me of my lazy, hazy, crazy days as a practicing lawyer. We are witnessing a “papering of the record”— by the way, the legal world needs a new phrase to...
flake v.— «Prosecutors are now widening their investigating to include several other Brooklyn South vice officers for an old, but illegal police practice called “flaking.” Flaking is when false arrests are made in order to...
stoping n.— «Plutons have long been assumed to form commonly from large accumulations of magma that rise from the lower crust by a process known as stoping. In this process, chunks of a magma chamber’s roof break off and fall to the...
wall wiki n.— «For many of the 120 attendees, BarCamp Vancouver might have seemed an informal affair, with wall wikis—large sheets of paper—taped to the wall for graffiti and acronyms and a schedule hastily constructed on Saturday morning...
crown v.— «So they either a) have to hover, which means whatever bodily fluids they’re letting out are going to splash, or b) they’re coating the seat with toilet paper [also known as “crowning” the seat], or c) they’re wiping...
COW n.— «Doctors and nurses at Moses Cone Hospital refer to them as COWs—computers on wheels. Basically a wireless laptop on a cart, the computers are helping to save time and paper by letting doctors and nurses update charts and view X...