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walla n. Gone are the days when actors would stand around muttering nonsense syllables, such as “walla walla,” to approximate conversation—hence the term “walla” to describe the effect.…“I might say to my group, “Now we’re going to just do a “walla bed.” [English Entertainment] [full cite] (Aug. 7, 2005)

walling n. NBC Nightly News noted that the memos provide “the fullest description yet of the techniques used by the CIA on roughly 30 detainees,” including “slapping, sleep deprivation, stress positions, nudity, something called “walling”—slamming detainees against a false wall, provided they wear a collar to minimize whiplash.” [English Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 20, 2009)

wallpaper n. ClearChannel just want’s you to keep the radio on for as long as possible. McDonaldsization makes each station attempt to sound the same always. Thus the stations adopt music that sounds the same as what listeners already are hearing. The buzzword is “wallpaper.” [English Media Music Jargon] [full cite] (May. 10, 2004)

wallpaper n. Morton began collecting stamps as a kid, deciding to specialize in stamps from a particular country. He settled for the Gold Coast, which later became Ghana, and that turned out to be a nightmare when the country turned Communist and issued what collectors refer to as “wallpaper,” he said. Wallpaper is stamps that aren’t used for postage but printed merely for collectors, thus generating revenue beyond the scope of mail postage. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 23, 2006)

walltop n. Five hours later I turned my laptop into a digital picture frame. Coined as a “walltop” by one of the first that was widely publicized (here), it is just a plain old laptop with the screen being displayed in a picture frame. [English Technology] [full cite] (Jun. 5, 2007)

wampus n. Wampus or cat-a-wampus. Also: Whampus—the panther. A mythical animal used as a bogie to frighten children. Ala. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jun. 13, 2005)

wang rang n. There is what club members affectionately call the “wang rang,” which has a protrusion between the two main wings, and the more popular “tri-blade” model, which has three wings. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Jan. 28, 2006)

wannarexia n. By now, we all know the symptoms: a refusal to eat or to acknowledge an unhealthy weight, combined with physical problems like heart palpitations, hair loss, and amenorrhea. It sounds like a nightmare—but for many young women, anorexia has become a hot new trend, so common that medical experts have coined a new name, ‘wannarexia,’ to describe the dangerous fad. [English Body Health New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 12, 2007)

wanr v. A busload of French media of all kinds were flown in along with the 13 DJs and bands, and were busy photographing, videoing, recording and interviewing the more outgoing of the local revellers as they danced, screamed, disrobed (shirts from male bodies and nothing more; this was not a “Show us your tits” Woodstock) and, in the local parlance, wanr-ed (rhymes with “bar’: “Wah-er”) until they could wanr no more. [English China Music] [full cite] (Jul. 2, 2005)

wantok n. Feuds can last months, even years, in a country in which allegiance to “wantok,” literally “one talk,” the pidgin English term for a person’s language group or tribe, is paramount. [English-based Creole Papua New Guinea] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2005)

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