shlog n.— «It’s creamy, tastes like real chocolate (not squeezed-from-a-bottle sludge), and comes with a giant spoonful of the type of thick, homemade whipped cream my grandma refers to as “shlog.”» —“Hot Chocolate...
pant-load n.— «You can recognize notoriety by the three-name phenomenon. John Wilkes Booth, John Wayne Bobbitt, Mary Tyler Moore (just kidding). Shoot, it’s already happened to Harding’s pant-load of a bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt...
throw the house out through the window v. phr.— «SCT has thrown the house out through the window (as they say in Mexico) to procure amazing visual effects. The effort is entirely successful. Designers Carey Wong (set), Douglas N. Pasch...
Spaghetti Bowl n.— «A complex web of pipelines known as the “Spaghetti Bowl” transports liquid and gaseous materials between the plants.» —“Houston Booms On Oil, Mud” in Washington Hartford...
spaghetti bowl n.— «One of Washington’s most belabored cliches is “strange bedfellows,” as applied to people labeled as liberals or conservatives who come together, however briefly or accidentally, in the normal course of...
dinner bottle n.— «Yeti makes a potent nightcap, measuring 9.5 percent alcohol by volume (almost twice the 5 percent of mainstream American beers). It’s available in 22-ounce containers that beer aficionados fondly call “bomber” bottles...