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wreckovation

wreckovation  n.— «The wreckovation of St. Charles Borromeo, known in L.A. as “the church that Bob Hope built,” is apparently about to commence.» —“A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For…about fifty years” by...

zot

zot
 v.— «A real unpleasant zotting and frying sound of bugs being decommissioned just overhead.» —by David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again Feb. 1, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

wrap rage

wrap rage  n.— «Doyle has no solid statistics on injuries caused by our hassles with packaging, but they do exist in England. One study there shows that “wrap rage,” as it is called by the Brits, has been the cause of more than...

buyerwall

buyerwall  n.— «buyerwall, n., BYE-uhr-wal: The barrier separating the non-paying web surfer from a site’s premium content. e.g.—”I’d link to that asinine editorial in the Vancouver Province, but it’s behind the buyerwall...

Foblish

Foblish
 n.— «I wind up speaking pidgen Foblish to poppa.» —“Sure Thing” by Min Jung Kim BrainDump July 23, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

pocho

pocho n. an Americanized person or thing of Mexican origin, including Americanized Mexican Spanish. Also adj. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)