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wear one v. phr. They expected someone to “wear one”—baseball parlance for getting plunked—after their pitchers hit seven Dodgers batters in their previous series, but took exemption to the 24-year-old’s timing. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (May. 2, 2005)

wear one v. phr. From Day One, you are taught how to send a message to the other team. You work on the beanball.…It’s totally barbaric, and it’s hard to explain, but it is crucial for your hitters to know that you will protect them if the other team starts hitting your guys. No one likes to talk about it, but it is something that has to be done. After you do it, the first guy to tell you thanks is the hitter on your team who had to wear one. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (May. 2, 2005)

wear one v. phr. Baltimore reliever Jorge Julio plunked Magglio Ordonez in the back. Now it was Colon’s turn.…“When the best player on your team keeps getting hit, whether it’s accidental or not, someone’s going to have to wear one.”…Colon’s decision to retaliate could help unify a team that’s already on the rise. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (May. 2, 2005)

wear one v. phr. Regardless if Unit hits someone or not, I say Schilling makes Sheffield “wear one” on his first at bat. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (May. 2, 2005)

wear-away n. The act would eliminate the uncertainty by making it clear that cash-balance plans don’t violate federal laws against age discrimination, Klein says. The measure also bars companies from freezing older workers’ benefits after a conversion—a practice known as “wear-away” that can sharply reduce their benefits. [English Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2006)

wearaway n. There has been a constant battle over freezing some older workers pension benefits since IBM ran afoul of its senior workers in 1999. That fight may be over as the U.S. Treasury has now issued a ruling that determined that no foul is committed when employers give pension options that delays what is known as “wearaway” (the effects of a freeze), but doesn’t eliminate it. [English Government Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 10, 2008)

weasel n. All heavy equipment experts, the men will supervise the disposition of bulldozers and “weasels” used in battling through to isolated ranchers and livestock. [English Jargon] [full cite] (May. 19, 2006)

weather war n. In the States, they have a name for the media’s increasingly demented obsession with meteorological phenomena: “weather wars.” Anyone who has watched a US reporter narrowly avoid being blown off a rain-lashed balcony in the course of noting that there might be a tornado on the way will know that it’s more than rough out there: it’s a veritable arms race. Forget good men and women risking life and limb that viewers may know storms are a’coming; these turns are backed up with hardware marginally less expensive than the star wars programme. Up and down the Gulf coast and across the great plain stations now actually run attack ads on each other’s forecasting capabilities. [English Environment Media] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2007)

weathervaning n. “During hurricanes, most construction companies allow their cranes to spin freely in the winds,” said Edmonson. “And I think that is dangerous.” That practice is known in the construction industry as weathervaning, allowing cranes to swing with the wind like weathervanes. [English Construction & Buildings Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2006)

webcest n. The word is “webcest”; its definition: “anything kind of deviant and/or disgusting that people do because of the Internet.” [English] [full cite] (Sep. 11, 2005)

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