Mart Brothers n.pl.— «How many vendors have gone to bed with the Mart Brothers and Ignored the general sporting goods trade?» —“Kmart’s future is another cloud over industry” Sporting Goods Business Feb. 1, 2002...
ringman n. an auctioneer’s assistant. Editorial Note: OED has a sense of ringman ‘a sporting man; a bookmaker’ to which this could be related via an original shared meaning of ‘a person who occupies or attends an enclosed area.’ (source: Double...
rainbow party n.— «As explained in a new paperback novel for teenagers from Simon & Schuster, rainbow parties are group oral sex parties in which each girl wears a different shade of lipstick, and each guy tries to emerge sporting...
wags n.pl.— «She’s got plenty of time to become as polished, pretty and vacant as the WAGs (wives and girlfriends) of the rest of the England squad – why make her clone up any faster than she needs to?» —“Telly gets a sporting...
levanton n.— «During the last 10 years, hundreds of people from Tijuana to Matamoros have been forcibly carted off by heavily armed men sometimes sporting police insignias and uniforms. They are the victims of a style of violence known in...
trout pout n.— «“It’s good to see Volvo has moved away from the boxy models of the past,” he said. He described the grille as a “trout pout.”» —“New v50 is a more sporting estate” Derby Evening...