blitz n.— «Shawn comes to Wall Street to play a type of chess called blitz, a game in which the ticking of a three-minute clock eliminates the ponderous pauses of traditional chess and transforms the game into a fevered, trash-talking...
stained-glass ceiling n.— «The Rev. Barbara Williams Riddle knows all about the stained-glass ceiling the psychological barrier that keeps women from the pulpit of large, upscale congregations.» —“The stained-glass...
eef v.— «Deke Dickerson, called a “rock mainstay” in an April 2003 article in Guitar Player Magazine, is an old “eefer” himself. He explains that eefin is a “sort of wheezing-in-rhythm thing that was popular amongst hillbillies. It goes...
oil spotted v.— «Steve McDonald (our Guitar Tech) got oil spotted. Oil spotting is when you leave someone. Steve ran in to use the phone and didn’t tell anyone so when the bus driver got there we had all been waiting for a while and just...
shot out adj.— «T-Bird was shot out. That’s a street term that means “lots of fun.” She was good people.» —“Body found riddled with stab wounds” by Ken Serrano in Perth Amboy, N.J. Home News...
gamma smile n.— «Hardly a line of David’s trading argot will be intelligible to ordinary mortals, being riddled with references to gamma smiles, 25 delta EUR calls, short vega books and the like.» —“How to go bust in a state of...