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way back n. I dare say that most people who are parents now never rode in a car seat as children. Many of us didn’t even use the car seat belts when riding around town. We scrambled to ride in the “way back” of the family station wagon. [English United States Automobiles & Transportation Colloquial] [full cite] (Oct. 7, 2007)

Wayne n. Then down to Manchester so Jack can look at how they are cracking down on neds—or Waynes as they’re called down there. [ Language English Place United Kingdom] [full cite] (Oct. 17, 2005)

waz adj. The team name Wazwagamafs comes from waz (Marine lingo for fantastic) and “wagamafs, (wives and girlfriends and mums and families/friends). [English United Kingdom Military Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 20, 2008)

we care chair n. Jail and prison employees call it… the “we care chair,” and the “be sweet chair.”…They are referring not to the electric chair, but to a restraining device that has led to many serious abuses, including torture and death. Belts and cuffs prevent the prisoner’s legs, arms, and torso from moving. [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Feb. 9, 2006)

we-be n. Washington civil servants are bracing for that personnel hurricane that sweeps through the federal bureaucracy every eight years or so, when a new administration places thousands of political appointees in all the top jobs—and some not-so-top jobs. These bureaucrats call themselves the “we-be’s”—as in, “We be there when you arrive, and we be there when you leave.” [English Government Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 13, 2008)

weadle v. Blow changed his name, and Douglas Wead didn’t, but soon he may want to, if current reactions keep up. To “weadle” may soon enter the lexicon as meaning betraying an unknowing party by recording words meant for a private discussion and unleashing them in the midst of complex public moments in the process of flogging one’s book. [English Politics] [full cite] (Feb. 26, 2005)

wealth-fare n. As Thomas reports, institutional bias in agencies such as the Veterans Administration has, in the more recent past, denied many black families the stability, the status and the tax advantages of home ownership. Those kinds of disadvantages have been passed down through generations of minority families, whose children didn’t have the unearned advantages of parent-paid college tuition, assistance with the down payment on a first home, cash gifts, interest-free or low-interest loans and the like—what Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro, co-authors of “Black Wealth/White Wealth,” refer to as “wealth-fare.” [English Money & Finance New or Nonce] [full cite] (Apr. 2, 2008)

wear it v. phr. Pierzynski flattened Barrett like a runaway Red Line train in a way that would have made Hunter proud.…In the parlance of the Sox’ clubhouse, Barrett just has to “wear it.” [English Baseball Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (May. 23, 2006)

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)

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