Slang word of the day: ecohacking

Today's slang word of the day is ecohacking. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

ecohacking

noun - uncountable

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "Oxford Word of the Year 2008: Hypermiling", Oxford University Press Blog, November 10 2008

  Word was a semi-finalist in the New Oxford American Dictionary word of the year for 2008 selection.

notes

• See also hack.

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: hypermiler

Today's slang word of the day is hypermiler. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

hypermiler

noun

• a person who hypermiles.
  
  "Hypermiling" was the New Oxford American Dictionary word of the year for 2008.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "Oxford Word of the Year 2008: Hypermiling", Oxford University Press Blog, November 10 2008

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: gaslight

Today's slang word of the day is gaslight. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

gaslight

verb - transitive

• to slowly and methodically psychologically manipulate a person, with the goal of driving them insane.

  To celebrate major events in each other's lives, one of the traditions within the department was to gaslight a colleague.

origin

• From the 1938 play Gas Light. For more details, see the Wikipedia article for "Gaslighting".

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: pin one's ears back

Today's slang word of the day is pin one's ears back. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

pin one's ears back

verb - transitive

• to chastise.
• to defeat soundly.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "Sport: Advantage Kramer", Time, Sep 01, 1947

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: leg it

Today's slang word of the day is leg it. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

leg it

verb

• to run.

  Leg it - it's the police!

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "React to Contact", Lie To Me (TV, 2010)

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: tickle the ivories

Today's slang word of the day is tickle the ivories. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

tickle the ivories

verb

• to play the piano.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "Pianos to plunk down around NYC", Associated Press, Sara Kugler Frazier, June 21 2010

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

Slang word of the day: make (one's) bones

Today's slang word of the day is make (one's) bones. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

make (one's) bones

verb

• to earn a respected position in a field of work.

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "Movie review: 'Rachel Getting Married'", Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, October 9 2008

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)