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CBP n. By 1965, the Chorleywood bread process, or CBP as it was known, had become widespread. CBP requires the addition of a hard fat with a high melting point to give the bread structure. (May. 6, 2004) [full citation…]

shakalaka n. The songs do sound noticeably catchier whenever they leave Don Black’s drab English lyrics behind and lapse into whichever one of India’s innumerable languages coined the word shakalaka. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

booby Jacuzzi n. By gently warming her breast, her doctors unleashed the cell-killing compounds in the vicinity of the tumor without poisoning the rest of her body. All she had to do was lie face down on a padded table, her affected breast protruding through an opening into a tub of warm water. Then she blissed out to the music of Yanni while radio waves heated the breast to Jacuzzi temperature. “Most patients really enjoy the table,” says Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, the medical oncologist at Duke University who treated Link. Patients have even coined their own name for it—the “booby Jacuzzi.” (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

swirl n. My kids are really swirls. Chau, from New York City, adopted the term after hearing it in discussions about being a person of mixed-race origin while she was an undergrad at Wellesley. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

Caucapino n. Our children, however, are half-Filipino, half-Caucasian—or, as I like to call them, Caucapinos. (Hey, if Tiger Woods is Cablanasian, my kids can be Caucapinos). (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

Aspanic n. I’m Filipino American, born and raised on the backside of the Mission Playground at 19th and Guerrero. But since I’m Asian with a Spanish surname, I’ve coined my own category: Aspanic. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

wind farm n. Imagine you live in an area that is completely changed into an industrial region—and in the end, wind farms are industrial installations. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

disco effect n. Wind energy’s antagonists, meanwhile, are hoping that through petitioning, legal challenges, and political influence their voices will be heard. It is the local issues—the hum of the turbines, the flashing red lights on blades that creates a “disco effect”—that have most activists riled. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

asparagus field n. Hundreds of citizens’ groups have sprung up in Germany to battle “Verspargelung der Landschaft”—a new phrase in the German lexicon—meaning “the transformation of the German landscape into an asparagus field.” (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

Verspargelung der Landschaft n. Hundreds of citizens’ groups have sprung up in Germany to battle “Verspargelung der Landschaft”—a new phrase in the German lexicon—meaning “the transformation of the German landscape into an asparagus field.” (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

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