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vomit comet

vomit comet  n.— «Discontinuance of the interurban service between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids comes as a bit of a shock to those alumni of Iowa who used to ride it. Various crops of students had different names for the...

hotwalking

hotwalking  n.— «“I really like it,” Noctor said earlier this week, after finishing her morning job, which is called hotwalking. “I have a lot of fun doing the hotwalking.” A hotwalker is someone who walks a horse to cool...

hotwalker

hotwalker  n.— «“I really like it,” Noctor said earlier this week, after finishing her morning job, which is called hotwalking. “I have a lot of fun doing the hotwalking.” A hotwalker is someone who walks a horse to cool...

upside-down

upside-down  adj.— «The right direction/wrong track figures, Congressional and presidential approval ratings and confidence measures are all “upside-down,” which pollster parlance for crappy.» —“Gas and Indecision” by...

elastic-banding

elastic-banding  n.— «My opponent, Knuckles, had a tendency to slow down when I was too far behind (it’s what’s called “elastic-banding’ in the industry), so while I did manage to win the race—over a massive track that took around...

demoflush

demoflush  n.— «It was at that time the resort bought into a method using wastewater flows to track visitors. The method known as demoflush, a weighted average of sewage generation per visitor, helped estimate the number of people in town...

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