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alligator-arm n.pl. The Chargers sacked Jeff George six times, and, Harrison noted, “Tim Brown helped us out with a couple of alligator-arm catches.” Brown dropped several passes early in the game, and finished with just three catches for 18 yards. [English Football Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2006)

alpha kitty n. I’m an Alpha Kitty: brave, intuitive, fierce, passionate and…well, yes, weird.…We love fashion—but Alpha Kitties don’t wear muzzles. (Not even when they’re made of diamonds—that’s so 20th century, dahling.) Alpha Kitties must be heard. Are you an Alpha Kitty, too? Then…meow, you’re in the right place. I see a herd of stampeding Alpha Kitties painting the world with our unique points of view. Look out, world! Yes, some people should be scared. Oh, another thing about Alpha Kitties? We’re often planted in the wrong garden when we’re younger. We’re susceptible to being surrounded and underestimated by cookie-cutter people [English New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (May. 30, 2007)

alternadad n. Gen Xers, Y’s and young baby boomer dads have fueled the cool dad gear trend by taking a much more active role in parenting than their fathers. These “alternadads,” a term coined by author and blogger Neal Pollack, want to have it all—a prolonged adolescence, kids and cool stuff. [English Relationships Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 29, 2007)

aluminum boat n. The other bill amends the definition of drug paraphernalia to include all controlled substances, and adds “aluminum boats” to the list of paraphernalia. “Aluminum boat” is a term used to describe a folded, boat shaped piece of aluminum foil commonly used for smoking methamphetamines. [English Drugs Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 24, 2007)

ambulance chasing n. In 1977, Steven Weinberg, then two years shy of the Nobel Prize in Physics, decided to do a little of what some theorists call “ambulance chasing.” He heard a rumor, while spending a year at Stanford, that collisions at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory were spitting out weird triplets of particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons. Dr. Weinberg canceled reservations at a lodge in Yosemite National Park to spend the weekend with his colleague Benjamin Lee, trying to concoct a theory to explain the trimuons. But the only theory he and Dr. Lee could come up with was ugly. A few weeks later it turned out that the triplet effect wasn’t true. [English Science Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 24, 2007)

ambulance-chasing n. As a result, theorists haven’t been able to resist interpreting these statistically suspect results. It’s an activity that Neil Turok of Princeton University (himself a theorist) describes as “ambulance chasing—running after these experiments hoping one of them will disprove some theory.” [English Science Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2007)

ambulance-chasing n. “Clinical research and translational research is down 70% in the U.S.,” he tells me, laying out two primary explanations: First, he blames “the lobbies, restrictions, confidentiality problems, insurance companies regulating what needs to be done, what can be done, what cannot be done…the usual ambulance chasing that occurs.” [English Science Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2007)

ambulance-chasing n. Ambulance-chasing?…Some say that the division has become an “ambulance-chaser,” pursuing funding opportunities regardless of their relevance to the core work of the division. [English Science Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2007)

ambulance-chasing n. Gatehouse has accused the paper’s authors of conducting “a piece of ambulance-chasing research that is coming in on the coat-tails of the GM controversy.” [English Science Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2007)

ambulance-chasing n. Socially determined objectives must thus lead and direct this effort, not become relegated to “ambulance chasing,” following behind a series of technically compelling yet socially questionable discoveries, papers or patents. [English Science Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2007)

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