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hack-up n. Mr. Salazar had to visit…the Taxi and Limousine Commission center in Woodside, Queens, for his rate card, used car inspection and “hack-up,” the actual affixing of his new medallion to the hood of his car. (May. 27, 2004) [full citation…]

gurn v. Not that snogging was ever the agenda, as most people were gurning and too busy worshipping the stupid music. (May. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

top and tail v. The big surprise at the moment is the success of Seven’s The World Around Us on Sunday nights hosted by Lisa McCune. It’s really “topped and tailed” in TV parlance. She just reads some scripts in a studio in front of a flat that can take a digital graphic. An editor and producer “tops and tails” the segments and intros and the end. And off it goes to rate between 1.2 million and 1.6 million viewers on Sunday night. (May. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

homosocialism n. The militant environmentalist movement in America today is a new homosocialism, communism. What these people are is against private property nights. They are trying to attack capitalism and corporate America in the form of going after timber companies. (May. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

Cots adj. It has adopted a new phrase, Cots (commercial, off-the-shelf), to describe its more generic approach to its products. (May. 25, 2004) [full citation…]

mix-up n. While both he and Dr Blythe are believed to harbour ambitions of political leadership, Dr Davies’ are perhaps more credible. He is not perceived to be involved, in Jamaican parlance, in “mix-up.” Indeed, recently, during violence in his constituency over community “leadership transition”, Dr Davies spoke of the perpetrators of the violence as illiterate boys with guns‐not the kind of characterisation likely to endear him with the groups that traditionally bring in the votes. (May. 24, 2004) [full citation…]

rub a dub n. The sound was so powerful that it gave birth to an entire style of reggae meant for slow dancing called “rub a dub.” (May. 23, 2004) [full citation…]

lick over v. Countless Jamaican hits have been achieved by “licking over” or rerecording Studio One rhythm tracks, or riddims, as these instrumentals are known in reggae parlance. (May. 23, 2004) [full citation…]

punk v. He blamed the prevalence of violence on television, the availability of handguns, the outrage at being shown disrespect—or “punked,” as he called it. (May. 23, 2004) [full citation…]

scribble v. Gracefully folding a mixture of southern African languages and slang into her supple prose (“Scribble” is slang for “kill”; when her dad sees her growing fascination with K, he warns, “Curiosity scribbled the cat”), Fuller captures the rhythms and wounds of her subjects, cannily allowing the horror of their stories to speak for itself. (May. 23, 2004) [full citation…]

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