Jargon Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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age out v. phr. At least when it comes to the 9,000 children the government has taken into care on your behalf. They are children who have no one else capable of caring for them. So the government, acting for you, has stepped in to keep them safe and give them a chance. Until the minute they turn 19. Then they’re pretty much on their own.…A study released in 2005 found that about 60 per cent of the young people “aging out,” as it’s called, hadn’t finished high school. [English Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2006)

air ramp n. Peter Liepkalns stands beside air ramps, commonly known as organ pipes, which provide naturally-induced air to the gate leafs in the low level water pipes. [English Jargon] [full cite] (Jan. 1, 2007)

air-dropping n. Obey originally said House earmarks would be kept secret until they were inserted into the conference bill. By then, members cannot change them and can only vote up or down on the bill. Since the passage of earmarks is then all but a done deal, critics refer to it as “air-dropping.”…The “air-dropping” plans elicited howls that Democrats were reverting to the same cloak-and-dagger process that typified the practices of Cunningham and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who once referred to earmark-laden appropriations bills as “favor factories.” [English Politics Jargon New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jun. 12, 2007)

air-miss n. The incident has been called an “air-miss,” distinct from a “near-miss,” which in aviation parlance means the aircraft were on collision course. They did, however, come close enough to breach set norms of lateral and vertical separation. [English Aviation Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 18, 2007)

air-sparaging n. Drilling began in 1995 for wells to be used in a process, called air-sparaging, to clean out the coal tar contaminants. [English Jargon] [full cite] (Jan. 13, 2008)

all day adv. All day: the total number of orders of a particular item needed at that moment ("I need 5 salmon all day,” or “I need 3 Margaritas all day"). [English Food & Drink Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 27, 2007)

alpha n. What, exactly, do investors think they are buying when they hire investment managers such as hedge fund general partners? They would probably say something like “the ability to outperform the market”. In professional investor parlance, that is called “alpha”, or the excess returns that the general partner’s skill at active management provides. He knows from number crunching that Ford bonds would come back from the dead, or that nickel inventories were too high. [English Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (May. 17, 2004)

alpha roll n. During Cole’s testimony, Jones” attorney, Jack O’Hale, showed a video of a Baltimore police canine officer performing a technique called an “alpha roll.” The video shows the officer slamming a police dog on its back and then straddling it, and staring the dog in the eye. The intent is for the dog to realize that the officer is the boss. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Jargon] [full cite] (May. 5, 2008)

alter n. To send her back to prison might trigger her multiple personalities, or “alters,” as the psychiatrists call them. [English Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 5, 2007)

amber box n. Green box, blue box, amber box and de minimus—which refer to the various kinds of subsidies governments give to the farming community—are terms used quite frequently in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) parlance. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Politics] [full cite] (Nov. 28, 2005)

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