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lifecycle managed n. The new units will also be different because they will be “lifecycle managed,” which is the Army’s new buzzword for unit manning. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

straddler n. Alfred Lubrano’s “Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams” (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) examines the issues faced by those who carry their working-class upbringings into the middle class. Education brings these “Straddlers,” as he calls them, into a larger world, giving them access to safer, more intellectually stimulating jobs, but also divides them from their parents and the people with whom they grew up. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

straddler n. Alfred Lubrano looks at the issues facing “straddlers,” those who, like himself, carry their working-class upbringings into the middle class. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

un complet n. Each told the court they gave Cloutier “un complet”—fellatio and intercourse, in hooker parlance—at his Beauport home. (May. 5, 2004) [full citation…]

cagatinta n. La prensa amarilla venal y sus plumíferos cagatinta instigan matanzas y atropellos contra población. (May. 4, 2004) [full citation…]

tampon n. Grube found a message from the kid’s girlfriend that read “I need a tampon!” Since “tampon” is also slang for a big, fat joint, Grube immediately deduced that the kid was possibly a secret drug dealer! (May. 4, 2004) [full citation…]

fi n. Also, maybe I should keep a slang dictionary on hand for words like “crunk” and “fi.” (May. 4, 2004) [full citation…]

sorted adj. What was even worse was witnessing the constant denial by single gay men that their lives were anything other than FAB, GREAT, and in today’s kiddie parlance, HAPPY, SANE and SORTED. (May. 4, 2004) [full citation…]

igobe n. He has coined another phrase comparing what is happening within the Parliamentary Advocacy Forum (PAFO) to igobe (Runyankore-Rukiga for dogs on heat). “You see when dogs are in igobe, they cease reasoning. They sometimes move into the road, totally oblivious of traffic. These people are busy pulling each other into the road and the Movement bus is coming hooting. If they do not move out, it will obviously crush them. (May. 4, 2004) [full citation…]

konsentrasi n. This does not explain why the government itself introduced new words like Bajet, for ‘Budget’, into the Malay language, when the word Belanjawan was once commonly used. And thanks to political developments in the region, a host of other borrowed words like kroni (crony), nepotisme (nepotism) and even konsentrasi (concentration) have also been introduced. (May. 4, 2004) [full citation…]

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