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

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train wreck n. When you lose two players like this, it should be a train wreck. So the Yankees, of course, lead the American league by eight games.…It is one of those things everybody says is a surprise. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. In Northern California, some areas are experiencing year-over-year price declines in housing prices. And last month, San Diego County was barely positive, registering a 0.4 percent price increase. “I’m torn between wondering if we are going to be alright or is this going to be a train wreck.” [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. Now with the inevitable train wreck approaching, younger people will be asked (required?) to pay ever larger payroll taxes to keep the system afloat, while at the same time defined benefit pensions are a thing of the past. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. There will be so many problems with the more than 100,000 paperless voting terminals to be used in the November presidential election that the fiasco will dwarf Florida’s hanging chad debacle of 2000. “We have a train wreck that’s definitely going to happen.” [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. They disrespect the principle of property (PoP)—and whenever one starts down that path, one is headed for a train wreck, both philosophically and economically. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. I think we’re headed for a train wreck on this energy problem given the demands that are going to flow out of eastern Europe. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. She’s totally cracked-out and Nasty. Thin, gray skin, toothless and long, white stringy hair. he’s always acting urgent, like she’s in a rush to get somewhere important. She’s probably only 35 year old, but with the effects of the drugs, she looks about 77.…From time to time, she gets on my bus and I’m always amazed that she’s still alive. She’s a train wreck, and of course, disturbing and gnarly as she looks. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

tulies n.pl. The dirt road might as well be called Old Rutted—it’s that rough—but McCullough doesn’t seem to mind. At 75, the snowy-haired scientist still loves driving his giant 4x4 into the wilderness—the “tulies,” as he calls them—and getting out to hike through the spiny desert. [English United States Colloquial] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2007)

two eyes and a wiggle n. In an act of both optimism and desire, millions of shad fry—so young and tiny they are often referred to as “two eyes and a wiggle”—have been released upstream on many area waterways where dams are being removed. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Colloquial] [full cite] (Jun. 4, 2007)

upstreeter n. For nearly four centuries they have lived in a section the Indians called Accabonac, now known as Springs or Bonac, north of the village that is the wealthy’s playground. They are known as Bonackers, an insular group who fishes and farms and serves the grand homes and summer businesses of the fancy folk they call “upstreeters.” [New York English Colloquial] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2007)

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