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[US] USA Today 12 Sept. 2A: His attorney calls him ‘a pitiful little jock-sniffer’ who enjoyed fraternizing with baseball stars [HDAS].
at jocksniffer (n.) under jock, n.1
[US] USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: Among other terms: ‘vague,’ as in ‘Can you vague that up?’ (sarcastically, be more precise); [...] and ‘freaksome,’ as in ‘That’s fairly freaksome’ (bizarre).
at freaksome (adj.) under freak, n.1
[US] USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: Among other terms: [...] ‘a happy,’ as in ‘Ice cream gives me a happy’ (pleasure); and ‘freaksome,’ as in ‘That’s fairly freaksome’ (bizarre).
at happy, n.
[US] USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: While Buffy hasn’t yet had a word achieve the breakout status of Seinfeld’s ‘yada, yada,’ or All in the Family’s ‘meathead,’ it is a rich source.
at meathead, n.
[US] USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: ‘Much’ means ‘a lot’ or ‘intensely’ -- as in ‘pathetic much’ or ‘sarcastic much’.
at much, adv.
[US] USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: Among other terms: ‘vague,’ as in ‘Can you vague that up?’ (sarcastically, be more precise); ‘a happy,’ as in ‘Ice cream gives me a happy’ (pleasure); and ‘freaksome,’ as in ‘That’s fairly freaksome’ (bizarre).
at vague, v.
[US] USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: Adams started watching the show two years ago, after hearing Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) say, ‘Love makes you do the wacky’ while he was channel-flipping.
at do the whacky (v.) under whacky, adj.
[US] USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: While Buffy hasn’t yet had a word achieve the breakout status of Seinfeld’s ‘yada, yada,’ or All in the Family’s ‘meathead,’ it is a rich source.
at yadda yadda (yadda), phr.
[US] USA Today 22 Feb. 🌐 But in the Southeast, few natural barriers limit growth. Unrelenting sprawl along Interstates 85 and 20 is creating a ‘string city’ that stretches 600 miles between Raleigh, N.C., and Birmingham, Ala.
at string city, n.
[US] USA Today 16 Feb. 🌐 Consider it fair warning. November is when we eat turkey, and Sweet November is pretty much a fat, juicy gobbler passed off as Valentine’s Day date bait.
at date bait (n.) under date, n.1
[US] USA Today 24 May 🌐 Online ‘mousetrapping’ leads to $1.9M fine. [...] An elusive Internet scam artist has been ordered to [...] stop a scheme that used thousands of misspelled Web addresses to trick Internet users into seeing adult advertisements.
at mousetrap, v.
[US] A. Bahal excerpt from Bunker 13 in USA Today 21 May 🌐 He thinks of guys like you as soft ass to regulate, show what a tough guy he is.
at soft-ass, adj.
[US] ‘Markets Report’ USA Today 6 Jan. 🌐 With the bulls out in full force in the telecom sector, even AT&T [T] was able to limit losses despite bad news. Ma Bell fell 0.7 percent to $27.48 after announcing a $1.54 billion charge and 3,500 job cuts.
at Ma Bell, n.
[US] USA Today 29 Dec. (Factiva) A1: Kids don’t have to drink entire bottles of goopy cough syrup to go ‘Robotripping’ or ‘Dexing.’ Pills such as Coricidin HBP Cough & Cold tablets – known as ‘Triple C’s’ – offer far more potent doses of DXM with less hassle.
at dex, v.
[US] USA Today 13 June 🌐 A teenager in Jan Sigerson’s office mentioned a ‘pharm party’ in February [...] ‘Pharm,’ it turned out, was short for pharmaceuticals. [...] It’s a culture with its own lingo: [...] collecting pills from the family medicine chest is called ‘pharming.’.
at pharm party, n.
[US] USA Today 10 Aug. 🌐 “Addy is slang for Adderall,” my 20-year old neighbor Morgan Austin tells me. Adderall is a prescription drug for ADHD but also is abused as a popular recreational drug among teens.
at addy, n.
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