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liar’s loan

liar’s loan  n.— «You rarely hear anything about individual borrowers who tell little white lies, the ones who obtain so-called “liar loans,” but they’re just as prevalent, if not more so. A young New Jersey couple, “the...

Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson  n.— «To get them home quickly, he would need a little divine intervention, or at least a sympathetic ear at American Airlines.…Garcia placed a call to the Jim Wilson Desk, the pleasant name the airline has given the...

infartillery

infartillery  n.— «To combat the mortar-firing insurgents, Vuono’s soldiers have become what some soldiers call “infartillery”—artillery experts who can also use infantry skills to root out the enemy in urban warfare...

reef

reef
 v.— «I got my first grey hair yesterday. It was reefed without mercy from its root.» —“It’s time I was put out to greys” by Nicola Tallant Mirror Oct. 11, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

graveyard spiral

graveyard spiral  n.— «I don’t remember ever hearing of a single crash due to an accidental, recoverable spin. Pilots get killed in graveyard spirals…but they aren’t spins, and the root cause is not the airplane.» —“Re: American...

cornhole

cornhole  n.— «Cincinnati’s leisure sport par excellence has swept south and reared its head on the streets of Guatemala City. Cornhole is gaining momentum in Guatemala’s capital.» —“In corn-rich Guatemala, Cornhole is taking...

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