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

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blue jacking n. At the age of 10 he sold newspapers in downtown Toledo.…They didn’t have a normal paper route like most kids, delivering to the same house every day in nice, quiet neighborhoods. This young boy and his friend, Louie, did what was known as blue jacking and their territory happened to be skid row. They carried a canvas sack filled with the Toledo Blade. The bag weighed almost as much as they did. They went form bar to bar. If they couldn’t sell a newspaper, they’d shine shoes. If that didn’t work, they’d dance to music on the jukebox hoping the drunks and semi-drunks on skid row would throw nickels and dimes at them. [English Media New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 9, 2008)

blue top n. It did issue a thinly detailed “blue top”—Pentagon slang for a press release—which says how much the budget request is. [English Media Military Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2006)

blute n. Blute. Fake clippings from a newspaper, used in big con games. [English Crime & Prisons Media] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2005)

blute n. What impressed me about the meeting was Dave’s discussion of The Johnson Family Blute, a newspaper even more restricted in its circulation than the White House Press Digest, for there was only one copy of each issue, that intended for Dave. He had met members of the Johnson mob some years ealier, and they had taken such an interest in his work that they developed the habit of communicating with him regularly, to bring him up to date on changes in the lingo.…After a long run the Blute expired when the family broke up during the dispersal of the mobs during World War II. [English Crime & Prisons Media] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2005)

blute n. Blute. A newspaper, especially fake clippings from a newspaper which are used in big-con games. [English Crime & Prisons Media] [full cite] (Feb. 2, 2006)

bodcast n. Even Playboy offers podcasts, or as they call it, “bodcasts.” [English Media Sex & Sexuality Technology] [full cite] (Feb. 11, 2006)

breakfast test n. Running such pictures would not pass that unshakable tenet of the newspaper business: The Breakfast Test. [English Media] [full cite] (Jan. 31, 2005)

breakfast-table test n. Rosenberg applies what he calls “the breakfast-table test” to any gruesome picture, titillating image or vulgar word. He doesn’t want to make people sick over their cornflakes. [English Media] [full cite] (Jan. 31, 2005)

brightener n. There have been newspaper stories of people who are trying to hoard large quantities of the old Coke. The stories have been played as “brighteners,’ cute features that illustrate how wacky folks can be. But every indication is that many, many Coke drinkers are deadly serious about trying to stash away bottles and cans of the old Coke so they will have it available to them. [English Media Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 4, 2008)

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