pizza n.— «Wolski, alone in the right circle, one-timed a slap shot past Backstrom to the short side, after a saucer crossing pass from John-Michael Liles. In hockey parlance, Liles’ pass is known as a “pizza,” and...
biobrick n.— «Rob Carlson notes that the emerging biotechnology of using standardized, modular biological parts to assemble synthetic organisms (or “genetically engineered machines”) is already seeing its first intellectual...
shit up n.— «Assaults, when they happened, were generally of a relatively minor nature in comparison: grabbed arms perhaps, a shoulder-barge, the occasional slap, kick—or a favourite with the subversive prisoner, a “shit up,”...
slap tag n.— «Police seized adhesive tags used to spray graffiti on and stick to walls, referred to as “slap tags,” spray can tips, acrylic paints and etching tools in the man’s bedroom.» —“Vandal suspect...
manumatic adj.— «Ultimately, the automatic and manual survived as the two mainstays. Now we have the modern “manumatic,” a term meaning that you can use the console-mounted shift lever in both the normal PRNDL (Park, Reverse...
turkey slap n.— «The men were thrown off the program at the weekend after the footage showed Bric holding down Ms Halliwell while Cox rubbed his groin in her face in what is known as a “turkey slap”.» —“Bad publicity may...