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weenus n. Equipment in women’s sizes can sometimes be harder to come by. Some women use newer forms of birth control to make their periods less frequent. Even urinating can become a problem. The military has disbursed portable contraptions the women affectionately call a weenus, for use on long truck drives. [English Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 3, 2006)

weeper n. Six inches of rain between Friday night and Sunday afternoon proved too much for track crews. Crews fought a day-long battle with the wet track and pit road from the rain and what are called weepers. Weepers are caused by water bubbling up through cracks in the asphalt from the over-saturated ground under the paving. By 4:30 p.m., despite periods of sunshine, the plug was pulled on Sunday’s race. [English] [full cite] (Sep. 13, 2009)

weeping tile n. Key components to this portion of the project, besides the 6 x 6 lumber, are a perforated four-inch drain pipe (also referred to as weeping tile), course gravel, 10-inch galvanized spikes, a 1/4 inch ship auger and a five-pound mallet. [English Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (Jul. 14, 2008)

weird stacking n. Ms. Reel and others had noticed a curious byproduct of the parking experiment, a phenomenon perhaps already studied by transportation specialists. She called it “weird stacking,” the notion that cars left on a street create unusual, annoying parking gaps that when taken together, can make a driver scream. [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 29, 2008)

weisure n. “Weisure,” Conley’s term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology. [English Employment Pastimes & Hobbies New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jan. 19, 2009)

weisure n. The line dividing work and leisure time is blurring right before our eyes, says one expert, and it’s creating a phenomenon called “weisure time.” Many who haven’t already abandoned the 9-to-5 workday for the 24-7 life of weisure probably will do so soon, according to New York University sociologist Dalton Conley, who coined the word. It’s the next step in the evolving work-life culture. “Increasingly, it’s not clear what constitutes work and what constitutes fun,” be it “in an office or at home or out in the street,” Conley said. Activities and social spaces are becoming work-play ambiguous, he says, as “all of these worlds that were once very distinct are now blurring together.” [English Employment Pastimes & Hobbies New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (May. 15, 2009)

welcome improver n. The lawsuit charges that through three reassessments, the former town assessor, Kathlyn Stanley, illegally raised her taxes to a level far above that of similar properties. It also charges that the town retaliated against her for challenging assessments. The suit says the town engaged in a practice sometimes called “welcome stranger” or “welcome improver,” targeting homes with new owners or that have been improved while leaving the assessments of similar homes unchanged. [English Government Houses & Housing Money & Finance] [full cite] (Dec. 21, 2008)

welcome stranger n. The lawsuit charges that through three reassessments, the former town assessor, Kathlyn Stanley, illegally raised her taxes to a level far above that of similar properties. It also charges that the town retaliated against her for challenging assessments. The suit says the town engaged in a practice sometimes called “welcome stranger” or “welcome improver,” targeting homes with new owners or that have been improved while leaving the assessments of similar homes unchanged. [English Government Houses & Housing Money & Finance] [full cite] (Dec. 26, 2008)

welfare check n. Because of the woman’s apparent haste in entering the building, the officer reportedly turned around and drove back to the convenience store to make a “welfare check,” a police term for making sure there were no problems that might need police intervention. [English Police] [full cite] (Mar. 25, 2005)

welfare wall n. Flaherty’s target is a situation often called “the welfare wall.” As a result of increased taxes and reduced income support from government programs, a typical single parent with one child who takes a low-income job can lose almost 80 cents of each dollar earned, according to a policy paper the finance minister released in November. In addition, the parent could also lose benefits such as subsidized housing and prescription drugs while at the same time being weighed down with new expenses arising from his or her job, the paper noted. “There are situations where somebody receiving social benefits will go to work and the net benefit for them will be $1.08 an hour.” [English Money & Finance] [full cite] (Mar. 1, 2007)

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