sero-sorting n.— «The practice is known as sero-sorting, which involves men choosing sex partners based on their common serostatus, a term that refers to the presence of antibodies to a particular infectious agent in the blood.» —“A...
serostatus n.— «The practice is known as sero-sorting, which involves men choosing sex partners based on their common serostatus, a term that refers to the presence of antibodies to a particular infectious agent in the blood...
Vanna White veto n.— «The power is the governor’s partial veto, which includes the unusual ability to take a bill and change its meaning by vetoing the individual letters of words. The result can be the creation of whole new words and a...
beep n.— «Now he lumbers toward the back of the batting cage to watch Rascals infielder Justin McKinley take his cuts off the ballclub’s manager, Randy Martz, a former Cubs hurler who does double duty during batting practice (or...
heartsink n.— «The patients that dismay me the most are the ones I see a lot whom I can’t help. We call them heartsink patients, for obvious reasons, and someone once reckoned that most partners in practice have about fifty heartsinks on...
looping
n.— «Looping is a practice which allows single-grade teachers to remain with the same class for a period of two or more years.» —by Jim Grant Looping Q & A Sept. 1, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)