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

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backscatter n. Backscatter occurs when a spammer spoofs a legitimate e-mail address to send an unsolicited message to large distribution lists, causing the e-mail server to flood an unsuspecting e-mail address owner’s mailbox with hundreds or thousands of failed delivery messages or bounce backs. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2008)

bag drag n. The service is going one step further and getting rid of the No. 1 irritant for troops deployed to Hungary and the former Yugoslavia: The bag drag they experience when they deploy from their home base. [English Military Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 9, 2004)

bag drag n. For almost three years, the bulk of Balkan-peacekeeping troops have served in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Hungary. To arrive, most did the infamous “bag drag,” hauling mobility gear from airport to airport, often incurring excess-baggage costs, delays and weapons hassles. [English Military Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 9, 2004)

bag house n. Santee Cooper officials recently boasted that, because of the permitting process, they have found ways to further reduce mercury emissions using a method called a bag house. The bag house, which would be an addition to environmental control measures already in place, is a common name for a technology that uses engineered fabric filter material to screen mercury from emissions. [English Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2008)

bagging n. Emergency crews started working to resuscitate her, applying a bag valve mask, a hand-held device used to provide oxygen to patients who aren’t breathing adequately. Using the device is often called bagging the patient. “She was lifeless when I picked her up,” he said. “We started bagging her, and her eyes started opening up.” [English Medical Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 29, 2007)

baghouse n. Environmental protection laws have codes limiting water flows and particulate and smoke emissions from oil refineries and asphalt processing plants, and not only dust but sulfur dioxides, smoke and other emissions are rigorously controlled. Electrostatic precipitators, primary dust collectors using single or multiple cone cyclones, and secondary collection units consisting of fabric filter collectors commonly called “baghouses” are required equipment. [English Jargon] [full cite] (Jan. 27, 2008)

baked in adj. The key reason for the foreign inflow, says Chilton Thomson, a director of American Express Asset Management in London, is that “a good deal of the profit is already baked in the cake.” [English Business Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

baked in adj. Depending on the sentiment of the day, investors can think the worst case is already baked in, and another day think things can get even worse. [English Business Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

baked in adj. This is a merger that is accretive, substantially accretive, with revenue losses already baked in and with quite conservative cost synergies. [English Business Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

baked in adj. VMware created the market for x86 virtualization in 2001, but industry experts predict 2006 is the year when the technology will finally take off. For one thing, Intel and AMD are starting to roll out chips with virtualization capabilities baked in. [English Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

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