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

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toad n. “There’s a toad!” she exclaimed, referring not to a warty amphibian but to a defunct Toys “R” Us (Toad: Temporary, Obsolete, Abandoned or Derelict site). [English United States Architecture Jargon Acronym] [full cite] (Jun. 17, 2004)

toe-in n. Gunsauls decided a closer extraction was necessary. He lifted off again, approached the children’s location and balanced the front tips of the helicopter’s landing skids against the sloping hillside what pilots refer to as a “toe-in.” [English Aviation Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 8, 2006)

toe-touch n. Visiting a scene just long enough to claim a dateline for an article based on somebody else’s uncredited reporting—let’s call it a “dateline toe-touch”—may not be as egregious as writing stories datelined Palestine, W.Va., without leaving your Brooklyn apartment, as Jayson Blair did. [English Media Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 15, 2004)

toe-touch n. You talk a lot about the practice back then of the ‘toe-touch’—someone reporting a story from their home desk and then traveling only briefly to the city where the story is set just to ‘get the dateline.’ You say editors ‘often’ ordered that to be done. [English Media Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 15, 2004)

toe-touch n. When a correspondent travels, it should be to report for the newspaper. If deadline constraints mean that the reporter will make no significant contribution to someone else;s work, we should skip the trip—the “toe touch” that serves only to justify a dateline artificially beneath the byline. [English Media Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 15, 2004)

tokophobia n. Psychiatrists have even coined a term, tokophobia, to describe the fear of the natural process of childbirth which can be overcome by Caesarean. [English Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 25, 2005)

tolling n. Pan said the government would formalize the abolition of tax exemptions next month for producers who import raw materials and export finished metal, a process known as “tolling.” [ Language English Register Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2005)

tombstone v. The company claims the machine has features which avoid problems usually associated with infra red technology such as heat damage to boards and components, solder balls and tombstoning. [ Language English Register Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 3, 2005)

top hat n. For Nitro, the Liberty platform got a stretch and a new body, or what the industry calls a top hat, as a quick and inexpensive change. Nitro is built on a 108.3-inch wheelbase and is 178.8 inches long overall, which makes it slightly larger than the Liberty at 104.3 inches and 174.4 inches respectively. [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 24, 2005)

top hat plan n. Many CEOs are at the same time receiving what are known as “supplemental executive retirement pensions,” often called “top hat” plans because they are reserved for a select group of managers who receive monster paychecks. [English Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 12, 2006)

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