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419 elections n. I recall that immediately after the polls last year, I had written a piece titled “Between 4/19 and 9/11” where I stated that the elections were as catastrophic in terms of its fraudulent nature (using the coincidence of date, April 19) as the September 11 (9/11) attack in United States. That was how the phrase, 419 elections, was coined and it has proved to be so apt now with the tribunal ruling that some people merely sat somewhere and wrote figures. [English Nigeria Politics] [full cite] (Dec. 24, 2004)

45 v. The Wildcats’ confidence has been growing every week. It started with a win over Fox, the No. 2 ranked team in Class B, when Thackerville 45’ed them (a term for the 45-point mercy rule used in 8-man football). [English Football Sports & Recreation New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 5, 2008)

499 mail n. Voters in the 8th Congressional District are getting thousands of pieces of official mail in the weeks leading up to the election from Dave Reichert’s Congressional office. The mail is “franked,” meaning Reichert pays no postage for sending the official mail to constituents. How can he do that when there is a ban on franked mass mailings within 90 days of an election? It’s not mass mail. Each of 130 different letters that have gone out since June go to no more than 499 people. And House rules in the franking manual define “mass mailing” as 500 or more pieces of mail. In the parlance of Capitol Hill, these are pieces of “499 mail.” House members can send out as much official mail as they like with no pre-election cut off as long as each letter goes to no more than 499 people. [English Politics] [full cite] (Nov. 7, 2006)

49er Taiwanese n. They are Taiwanese, multi-generational natives of the island formerly known as Formosa. They do not want to be confused with so-called “49er Taiwanese”—a reference to the Nationalist supporters who arrived after 1949 and maintained a strict hegemony in national politics for decades. [English] [full cite] (Apr. 3, 2005)

50-state car n. Many of the cars that are produced today are called 50-state cars: they don’t have an EPA version and a California version. In other words, the vehicle meets the strictest standard that’s out there, whether it’s EPA for a certain pollutant, or California for a certain pollutant, and then they sell the same vehicles in all 50 states. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Feb. 9, 2009)

50/50 girl n. He stands in the Hall of Flags in front of the young women selling charity raffle tickets—often called the “50-50 girls,” for the distribution of the raffle proceeds: half to the winner, half to charity. [English Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2009)

6,000-mile screwdriver n. Well, we don’t know yet. I mean, that is—and again, we’re not going to apply the 6,000-mile screwdriver on that. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

6,000-mile screwdriver n. Military command-and-control systems are said to provide commanders with six-thousand-mile screwdrivers. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

60-day murder n. In some neighborhoods, people refer to “misdemeanor murders,” or “60-day murders,” the length of time suspects can be held without charges. [Lousiana New Orleans English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Feb. 5, 2007)

7,000-mile screwdriver n. Senior military officers referred to it as “the 7,000-mile screwdriver.” That was their way of describing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s penchant for micromanaging aspects of the Iraq War that interested him. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

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