Today's slang word of the day is rewilding. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
the process of returning an area to its original wild state/flora/fauna etc..
-- "Oxford Word of the Year 2008: Hypermiling", Oxford University Press Blog, November 10 2008
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Today's slang word of the day is kick the can down the road. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
verb
"Kicking the can down the road" has been a favorite metaphor politicians have used to describe someone who is postponing a decision or avoiding an issue.
-- "'Rahmbonics' making a comeback", Politico, Carol E. Lee, October 11 2008
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Today's slang word of the day is manscara. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
But yesterday a high street store announced that it would start stocking makeup designed just for men.
'Guy-liner' and 'Manscara' to enhance the eyes of the male in your life, will appear in Superdrug this week.
-- "Introducing Guy-liner and Manscara - the new metrosexual make-up just for men", The Daily Mail, Dan Newling, 28th July 2008
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Today's slang word of the day is analog. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
adjective
This party is analog.
Revenge porn is difficult to prosecute because there are no statutes specifically outlawing the practice. So what happens in a revenge-porn case, in effect, is that analog laws are applied to a digital offense.
-- "Revenge Porn", Details Magazine, September 30 2008, Richard Morgan
Analog Laws in a Digital World: How State and Federal Governments are Using Existing Laws (and Creating New Ones) to Regulate the Internet
-- article title
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Today's slang word of the day is wrap rage. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
Impregnable packaging has incited such frustration among consumers that an industry term has been coined for it - "wrap rage." It has sent about 6,000 Americans each year to emergency rooms with injuries caused by trying to pry, stab and cut open their purchases, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
-- "Packages You Won't Need a Saw to Open", The New York Times, Brad Stone and Matt Richtel, November 14 2008
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Today's slang word of the day is Physics for Poets. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
The plethora of classes affectionately named "Physics for Poets," "Rocks for Jocks" and "Stars for Stoners" (the list goes on) reflects poorly on Princeton's commitment to producing well-rounded scholars.
-- "A failing system", The Daily Princetonian, staff, April 3 2006
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Today's slang word of the day is malamanteau. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
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It's not spoonerism. More like a portmanteau combined with a malapropism. So I'd go with malamanteau or a portmanpropism.
posted by ludwig_van at 3:31 PM on July 17, 2007 (link)
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Today's slang word of the day is neo-boho. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
Neo-boho naifs in Montparnasse take in a glamorous stranger who turns their lives upside down.
-- Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2002, p. 362.
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Today's slang word of the day is BC bud. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
But he had heard about how easy it was to cross the Canadian border -- only an hour north of Coeur D'Alene -- and bring back the popular, extremely potent marijuana growing in abundance in British Columbia and known, generically, as "B.C. Bud."
-- "Kid Cannabis", Rolling Stone, Mark Binelli, Oct 06 2005
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Today's slang word of the day is DBI. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
DBI refers to "Dirt Bag Index", and multiplies the number of tattoos with the number of missing teeth to give an estimate of the number of days since the patient last bathed.
-- "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003
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Today's slang word of the day is black gold. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
In any case, oil is surely on your mind these days. So the timing is right for TV's latest twist on tough-jobs-for-tough-guys: "Black Gold," which drills into the quest for oil in west Texas.
-- "The race for 'Black Gold': Oil in a day's work", The Seattle Times, Frazier Moore, June 15 2008
Composting is the storing of organic materials and over time these organic materials breakdown naturally by organisms. The result is what is called "black gold" because of the value of the nutrient-rich fantastic fertilizer.
-- "Compost - Going Green With Black Gold", ways2gogreen.com, Clay Miller
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